The Winter’s Tale. Уильям Шекспир

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      Thoughts that would thick my blood.

       Leontes

      So stands this squire

      Offic’d with me. We two will walk, my lord,

      And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,

      How thou lov’st us show in our brother’s welcome;

Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap;

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      Next to thyself and my young rover, he’s

      Apparent to my heart.

       Hermione

      If you would seek us,

      We are yours i’ th’ garden. Shall’s attend you there?

       Leontes

      To your own bents dispose you; you’ll be found,

Be you beneath the sky. [Aside] I am angling now,

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      Though you perceive me not how I give line.

      Go to, go to!

      How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!

      And arms her with the boldness of a wife

      To her allowing husband!

      [Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants.]

Gone already!

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      Inch-thick, knee-deep, o’er head and ears a fork’d one!

      Go, play, boy, play; thy mother plays, and I

      Play too; but so disgrac’d a part, whose issue

      Will hiss me to my grave. Contempt and clamour

Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play. There have been,

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      Or I am much deceiv’d, cuckolds ere now;

      And many a man there is, even at this present,

      Now while I speak this, holds his wife by th’ arm

      That little thinks she has been sluic’d in’s absence,

And his pond fish’d by his next neighbour, by

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      Sir Smile, his neighbour. Nay, there’s comfort in’t,

      Whiles other men have gates and those gates open’d,

      As mine, against their will. Should all despair

      That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind

Would hang themselves. Physic for’t there’s none;

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      It is a bawdy planet, that will strike

      Where ’tis predominant; and ’tis pow’rful, think it,

      From east, west, north, and south. Be it concluded,

      No barricado for a belly. Know’t,

It will let in and out the enemy

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      With bag and baggage. Many thousand on’s

      Have the disease, and feel’t not. How now, boy!

       Mamillius

      I am like you, they say.

       Leontes

      Why, that’s some comfort.

      What! Camillo there?

       Camillo

Ay, my good lord.

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       Leontes

      Go play, Mamillius; thou’rt an honest man.

      [Exit MAMILLIUS.]

      Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.

       Camillo

      You had much ado to make his anchor hold;

      When you cast out, it still came home.

       Leontes

      Didst note it?

       Camillo

He would not stay at your petitions; made

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      His business more material.

       Leontes

      Didst perceive it?

      [Aside] They’re here with me already; whisp’ring, rounding,

      ‘Sicilia is a so-forth’. ’Tis far gone

      When I shall gust it last. – How came’t, Camillo,

      That he did stay?

       Camillo

At the good Queen’s entreaty.

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       Leontes

      ‘At the Queen’s’ be’t. ‘Good’ should be pertinent;

      But so it is, it is not. Was this taken

      By any understanding pate but thine?

      For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in

More than the common blocks. Not noted, is’t,

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      But of the finer natures, by some severals

      Of head-piece extraordinary? Lower messes

      Perchance are to this business purblind? Say.

       Camillo

      Business, my lord? I think most understand

      Bohemia stays here longer.

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