The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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MAMILLIUS. Yes, if you will, my lord. LEONTES. Thou want'st a rough pash, and the shoots that I have, To be full like me:--yet they say we are Almost as like as eggs; women say so, That will say anything: but were they false As o'er-dy'd blacks, as wind, as waters,--false As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes No bourn 'twixt his and mine; yet were it true To say this boy were like me.--Come, sir page, Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain! Most dear'st! my collop!--Can thy dam?--may't be? Affection! thy intention stabs the centre: Thou dost make possible things not so held, Communicat'st with dreams;--how can this be?-- With what's unreal thou co-active art, And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,-- And that beyond commission; and I find it,-- And that to the infection of my brains And hardening of my brows. POLIXENES. What means Sicilia? HERMIONE. He something seems unsettled. |
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