The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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Too hot, too hot!
To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. I have _tremor cordis_ on me;--my heart dances; But not for joy,--not joy.--This entertainment May a free face put on; derive a liberty From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, And well become the agent:'t may, I grant: But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, As now they are; and making practis'd smiles As in a looking-glass; and then to sigh, as 'twere The mort o' the deer: O, that is entertainment My bosom likes not, nor my brows,--Mamillius, Art thou my boy? MAMILLIUS. Ay, my good lord. LEONTES. I' fecks! Why, that's my bawcock. What! hast smutch'd thy nose?-- They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain, We must be neat;--not neat, but cleanly, captain: And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf, Are all call'd neat.-- [Observing POLIXENES and HERMIONE] Still virginalling Upon his palm?--How now, you wanton calf! Art thou my calf? |
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