The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
page 52 of 136 (38%)
page 52 of 136 (38%)
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But what your Iealousies awake) I tell you
'Tis Rigor, and not Law. Your Honors all, I doe referre me to the Oracle: Apollo be my Iudge Lord. This your request Is altogether iust: therefore bring forth (And in Apollo's Name) his Oracle Her. The Emperor of Russia was my Father. Oh that he were aliue, and here beholding His Daughters Tryall: that he did but see The flatnesse of my miserie; yet with eyes Of Pitty, not Reuenge Officer. You here shal sweare vpon this Sword of Iustice, That you (Cleomines and Dion) haue Been both at Delphos, and from thence haue brought This seal'd-vp Oracle, by the Hand deliuer'd Of great Apollo's Priest; and that since then, You haue not dar'd to breake the holy Seale, Nor read the Secrets in't Cleo. Dio. All this we sweare Leo. Breake vp the Seales, and read Officer. Hermione is chast, Polixenes blamelesse, Camillo a true Subiect, Leontes a iealous Tyrant, his innocent Babe truly begotten, and the King shall liue without an Heire, if that |
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