The Winters Tale
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
extent: 149329
format: text/plain
language: en
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source: winterstale.Z
subject: leontes
subject: camillo
subject: occasion
subject: whereon
subject: services
subject: foot
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: winters
subject: tale
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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sort title: Winters Tale, The
full text: THE WINTER'S TALE DRAMATIS PERSONAE LEONTES king of Sicilia. MAMILLIUS young prince of Sicilia. CAMILLO | | ANTIGONUS | | Four Lords of Sicilia. CLEOMENES | | DION | POLIXENES King of Bohemia. FLORIZEL Prince of Bohemia. ARCHIDAMUS a Lord of Bohemia. Old Shepherd reputed father of Perdita. (Shepherd:) Clown his son. AUTOLYCUS a rogue. A Mariner. (Mariner:) A Gaoler. (Gaoler:) HERMIONE queen to Leontes. PERDITA daughter to Leontes and Hermione. PAULINA wife to Antigonus. EMILIA a lady attending on Hermione, MOPSA | | Shepherdesses. DORCAS | Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, and Servants, Shepherds, and Shepherdesses. (First Lord:) (Gentleman:) (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) (Third Gentleman:) (First Lady:) (Second Lady:) (Officer:) (Servant:) (First Servant:) (Second Servant:) Time as Chorus. SCENE Sicilia, and Bohemia. THE WINTER'S TALE ACT I SCENE I Antechamber in LEONTES' palace. [Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS] ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. CAMILLO I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. ARCHIDAMUS Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed-- CAMILLO Beseech you,-- ARCHIDAMUS Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. CAMILLO You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. ARCHIDAMUS Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance. CAMILLO Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which c…