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THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare

Dramatis Personae.
LEONTES, King of Sicilia. MAMILLIUS, his son. CAMILLO,
Sicilian Lord. ANTIGONUS, Sicilian Lord. CLEOMENES, Sicilian
Lord. DION, Sicilian Lord. Other Sicilian Lords. Sicilian Gentlemen.
Officers of a Court of Judicature. POLIXENES, King of Bohemia.
FLORIZEL, his son. ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord. A Mariner.
Gaoler. An Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita. CLOWN, his son.
Servant to the Old Shepherd. AUTOLYCUS, a rogue. TIME, as
Chorus.
HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes. PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and
Hermione. PAULINA, wife to Antigonus. EMILIA, a lady attending on
the Queen. Other Ladies, attending on the Queen. MOPSA,
shepherdess. DORCAS, shepherdess.
Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; Satyrs for a Dance; Shepherds,
Shepherdesses, Guards, &c.
SCENE: Sometimes in Sicilia; sometimes in Bohemia.

ACT I.
SCENE I. Sicilia. An 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 overkind to Bohemia. They
were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them
then such an affection which cannot choose but branch now. Since their
more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their
society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally
attorneyed with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they
have seemed to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast;
and embraced as it were from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens
continue their loves!
ARCHIDAMUS. I think there is not in the world either malice or
matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young
Prince Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever
came into my note.
CAMILLO. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a
gallant child; one that indeed physics the subject, makes old hearts
fresh: