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Название: The Winter’s Tale

Автор: Уильям Шекспир

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Классическая проза

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isbn: 9780007535231

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       Archidamus

      Would they else be content to die?

       Camillo

      Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.

       Archidamus

If the King had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one. 40

       [Exeunt.]

       Scene II

       Sicilia. The palace of Leontes.

      [Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, CAMILLO, and Attendants.]

       Polixenes

      Nine changes of the wat’ry star hath been

      The shepherd’s note since we have left our throne

      Without a burden. Time as long again

      Would be fill’d up, my brother, with our thanks;

And yet we should for perpetuity 5

      Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher,

      Yet standing in rich place, I multiply

      With one ‘We thank you’ many thousands moe

      That go before it.

       Leontes

      Stay your thanks a while,

      And pay them when you part.

       Polixenes

Sir, that’s to-morrow. 10

      I am question’d by my fears of what may chance

      Or breed upon our absence, that may blow

      No sneaping winds at home, to make us say

      ‘This is put forth too truly’. Besides, I have stay’d

      To tire your royalty.

       Leontes

We are tougher, brother, 15

      Than you can put us to’t.

       Polixenes

      No longer stays.

       Leontes

      One sev’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’ th’ world, 20

      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 25

      To you a charge and trouble. To save both,

      Farewell, our brother.

       Leontes

      Tongue-tied, our Queen? Speak you.

       Hermione

      I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until

      You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,

Charge him too coldly. Tell him you are sure 30

      All in Bohemia’s well – this satisfaction

      The by-gone day proclaim’d. Say this to him,

      He’s beat from his best ward.

       Leontes

      Well said, Hermione.

       Hermione

      To tell he longs to see his son were strong;

But let him say so then, and let him go; 35

      But let him swear so, and he shall not stay;

      We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs.

      [To POLIXENES] Yet of your royal presence I’ll adventure

      The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia

You take my lord, I’ll give him my commission 40

      To let him there a month behind the gest

      Prefix’d for’s parting. – Yet, good deed, Leontes,

      I love thee not a jar o’ th’ clock behind

      What lady she her lord. – You’ll stay?

       Polixenes

      No, madam.

       Hermione

      Nay, but you will?

       Polixenes

I may not, verily. 45

       Hermione

      Verily!

      You put me off with limber vows; but I,

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