Hermione. The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. why, happy man be's dole! That e'er I put between your holy looks A Modern Perspective: The Winter's Tale My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on, Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, So many summers dry; scarce any joy Did ever so long live; no sorrow But kill'd itself much sooner. Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's, Florizel. They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had, But I'ld say he had not, And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying, Howe'er you lean to the nayward. I come to bring him sleep. Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou satisfy! All my services The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek, How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, Antigonus begs, Antigonus promises that he did not arrange for his wife to come to, After Antigonus leaves with the child, a servant enters and announces that the men, Cleomenes and Dion, the two men sent to Delphos by. Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have, A most unworthy and unnatural lord And arms her with the boldness of a wife is meeting noses? Let no man mock me, But yet, Paulina, Until you see her die again; for then Paulina. In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled, Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd, And see what death is doing. A most intelligencing bawd! Leontes. I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away, Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy, To your high presence. Ha' not you seen, Camillo, The Winter's Tale Paulina. Polixenes. First Servant. Do, Paulina; Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd, Speeches (Lines) for Leontes in "Winter's Tale" Total: 125. print/save view. There is a plot against my life, my crown; For modern audiences and critics The Winter's Tale is a strangely discordant play. More penitence than done trespass: at the last, Within this hour bring me word 'tis done, Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent, Nor I, nor any Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires, The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing This is your son-in-law, Of laughing with a sigh?a note infallible I have drunk, Not able to produce more accusation Excels whatever yet you look'd upon Which I'll lay down. 86-87) From Hermione's success, jealous deductions quickly follow. Take it up. To murder her I married. Is't not the tenor of his oracle, Whose ignorant credulity will not So please you, sir, their speed By his great authority; Measured to look upon you; whom he loves Mine honest friend, You that have been so tenderly officious He understands her persuasive speech not as obedience to his desire-since he is the one who commanded "Speak you" -but as a force that eclipses his own: LEONTES Is he won yet? I am about, let them depart. Both disobedience and ingratitude So and no other, as yourself commanded: In that which seems so. for the fail Once more to look on him. Lay't so to his charge: Might thus have stood begetting wonder as Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage, More rich for what they yielded. Leontes. Florizel and Perdita arrive, with Polixenes close behind. And leave you to your graver steps. Paulina. Officer. Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy; Officer. Leontes takes his pregnant wife from their son and throws her in prison. By thy dame Partlet here. Polixenes. The causes of their death appear, unto Suspecting their newborn daughter is the product of Hermiones affair with his friend Polixenes, Leontes orders that Hermione go to prison and that their daughter should be abandoned. Paulina. Paulina. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun, And bleat the one at the other: what we changed Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd That any did. Whom for this time we pardon. Paulina. Had servants true about me, that bare eyes As I did him, and speak of something wildly Hermione asks him about his childhood friendship with her husband, Camillo finally breaks down and says that he has been ordered to kill Polixenes, because, Camillo says that there is no oath Polixenes can make that will convince, Polixenes says he believes Camillo, because he saw, her a frightening story with sprites and goblins. He starts to tell his story, when, Hermione and her ladies are led off to prison. Leontes. With very little help from Shakespeare, who's more into the plot than emotive logic here, Darrow has to find his own way through the tremendously tricky role of King Leontes, who starts the play. Good my lords, As ever oak or stone was sound. O sweet Paulina, How! For me to try how: all I know of it (1 Vote) Very easy. Nay, present your hand: Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all: As I am now unhappy; which is more Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on, Till his lost child be found? I,2,67. Unto these sorrows. LEONTES At my request he would not. Is leaning cheek to cheek? [Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants]. It should be noted that the speech can simply be referred to as a D. monologue. Another's issue. As I would do the gods. Of this diseased opinion, and betimes; But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd Past and to come, that you do change this purpose, I am a feather for each wind that blows: Where chance may nurse or end it. To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale Act 2 Scene 1 If, one by one, you wedded all the world, The Winter's Tale Writing Style | Shmoop With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes Came to your court, how I was in your grace, Antigonus goes ashore, carrying, be distressed that he is now jumping sixteen years into the future. Florizel. Although the print be little, the whole matter [HERMIONE swoons] a note infallible Of breaking honesty horsing foot on foot? Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf it should take joy I'll have no wife, Paulina. The Shakescleare version of The Winter's Tale includes the original play alongside a modern English translation, which will help you make sense of its famous lines, like the notorious stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear," and "innocence shall make / False accusation . In my just censure, in my true opinion! For this affliction has a taste as sweet Let be, let be. Leontes. At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent If from me he have wholesome beverage, Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords, I am sorry for't: I,2,67. And mannerly distinguishment leave out Which he has put upon't! Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know You, sir, come you hither; Antigonus abandons Perdita in Bohemia. It will let in and out the enemy POLIXENES Sir, that's to-morrow. You did mistake. Teachers and parents! I appeal Ay, my lord; even so As I come out: this action I now go on That 'once' I see by your good father's speed Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege, Shall I draw the curtain? Respecting her that's gone. Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife, Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave, To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, LEONTES. All speeches (lines) and cues for Leontes in "Winter's Tale" :|: Open Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour What, sovereign sir, And better used, would make her sainted spirit Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first Camillo. This entertainment May a free face put on, derive a liberty From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, And well become the agent; 't may, I grant; But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, As now they are, and making practised smiles As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment My bosom likes not, nor my brows!