What is she, but a foul, contending rebel,
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ?
I am ashamed, that women are so simple
To offer war, where they should kneel for peace;
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth,
Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
But that our soft conditions and our hearts
Should well agree with our external parts?
Come, come, you froward and unable worms !
My mind hath been as big as one of yours ;
My heart as great; my reason, haply, more,
To bandy word for word, and frown for frown;
But now, I see, our lances are but straws;
Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare -
That seeming to be most, which we indeed least are.
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot;
And place your hands below your husband's foot.
In token of which duty, if he please,
My hand is ready; may it do him ease.
Pet. Why, there's a wench!— Come on, and kiss me,

Kate.
Luc. Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't.
Vin. 'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
Luc. But a harsh hearing when women are froward.

Pet. Come, Kate, we'll to bed. We three are married, but you two are sped. 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white;

[T. LUCENTIO. And, being a winner, God give you good night!

[Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATH. Hor. Now go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew. Luc. 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.

[Exeunt.

WIN T E R’S T A L E.

(71)

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

LEONTES, King of Sicilia.
MAMILLIUS, his Son.
CAMILLO,
ANTIGONUS,

Sicilian Lords.
CLEOMENES,
DION,
Another Sicilian Lord.
ROGERO, a Sicilian Gentleman.
An Attendant on the young Prince Mamillius.
Officers of a Court of Judicature.
POLIXENES, King of Bohemia.
FLORIZEL, his Son
ARCHIDAMUS, a Bohemian Lord.
A Mariner.
Jailer.
An old Shepherd, reputed Father of Perdita.
Clown, his Son.
Servant to the old Shepherd.
AUTOLYCUS, a Rogue.
Time, as Chorus.

HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes.
I'ERDITA, Daughter to Leontes and Hermione.
PAULINA, Wife to Antigonus.
EMILIA, a Lady,
Two other Ladies. attending the Queen.

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DORCAS,} Shepherdesses.

Lords, Ladies, and Attendants; satyrs for a Dance;

Shepherds, Shepherdesses, Guards, 8c.

SCENE, sometimes in Sicilia, sometimes in Bohemia.

SCENE I. Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes' Palace.

hemia,

what to

Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS. Archidamus. Ir you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bo

IF on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.

Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.

Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in our loves; for, indeed,

Cam. Beseech you, Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge; we cannot wită such magnificence—in so rare-I know not

say.

-We will give you sleepy drinks; that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.

Cam. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given Arch. Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs

as mine honesty puts it to utterance. Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.

were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot choose but branch now.

Since their more mature dignities royal necessities made separation of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attor. heyed, with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook

as over a vast; and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds: The Heavens continue their loves!

freely.

me, and

They

and

hands,

.

Arch. I think there is not in the world either malice, or matter, to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius; it is a gentleman of the greatest promise, that ever came into my note.

Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a gallant child; one that, indeed, physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh. They that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet their life, to see him a man.

Arch. Would they else be content to die?

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

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

[Exeunt.

SCENE II.

The same.

A Room of State in the Palace.

Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS,

CAMILLO, and Attendants.
Pol. Nine changes of the watery star have been
The shepherd's note, since we have left our throne
Without a burden. Time as long again
Would be filled up, my brother, with our thanks ;
And yet we should, for perpetuity,
Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher,
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply,
With one we-thank-you, many thousands more
That go before it.
Leon.

Stay your thanks awhile;
And pay them when you part.
Poi.

Sir, that's to-morrow.
I am questioned 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 staid
To tire your royalty.

Leon. We are tougher, brother,
Than you can put us to't.
Pol.

No longer stay.
Leon. One sevennight longer.
Pol.

Very sooth, to-morrow.
Leon. We'll part the time between 's then; and in that
I'll no gainsaying.
Pol.

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,