The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
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To tire your royalty.
LEONTES. We are tougher, brother, Than you can put us to't. POLIXENES. No longer stay. LEONTES. One seven-night longer. POLIXENES. Very sooth, to-morrow. LEONTES. We'll part the time between 's then: and in that I'll no gainsaying. POLIXENES. Press me not, beseech you, so, There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world, So soon as yours, could win me: so it should now, Were there necessity in your request, although 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder, Were, in your love a whip to me; my stay To you a charge and trouble: to save both, Farewell, our brother. |
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