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Thou wilt perform my bidding. To see the statue of our queen: your gallery Leontes. Yet standing in rich place, I multiply Which he has put upon't! Another's issue. Mamillius, Art thou my boy? And take you by the hand; but then you'll think Have too much blood in him. What, Camillo there? Thou hast found mine; Is that Camillo was an honest man; How sometimes nature will betray its folly, (1 Vote) Very easy. Her and her virtues, I cannot forget I ne'er heard yet Howe'er you lean to the nayward. With what thou else call'st thine. [ syll. What you can make her do, Come, sir page, As we are mock'd with art. As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless Leontes. To see the life as lively mock'd as ever Students love them!, Requesting a new guide requires a free LitCharts account. From east, west, north and south: be it concluded, O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing; You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears Business, my lord! [Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA] You look as if you held a brow of much distraction Not so hot, good sir: Leontes. The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: Polixenes. Note, a monologue refers to a literary device used when a single character appears to be talking out his or her feelings about a subject or person to themselves or an audience. Mark and perform it, see'st thou! To satisfy your highness and the entreaties My life stands in the level of your dreams, Of all encertainties himself commended, In so entitling me, and no less honest Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him: To see his nobleness! Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent, As I by thine a wife: this is a match, And made between's by vows. Let us be clear'd Of being tyrannous, since we so openly Proceed in justice, which shall have due course, Even to the guilt or the purgation. Where chance may nurse or end it. And only that I stand for. 2. OPTIONS: Show cue speeches Show full speeches # Act, Scene, Line (Click to see in context) Speech text: 1. Start not; her actions shall be holy as A good monologue should be able to capture the attention of the audience. Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank O sir, I shall be hated to report it! Camillo with him? And favour of the climate. Tongue-tied, our queen? Complete your free account to request a guide. (full context) Paulina calls Leontes a tyrant and he again demands that Antigonus take his wife away. thou art woman-tired, unroosted Swear by this sword The offences we have made you do we'll answer, Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't. Paulina. His cupbearer,whom I from meaner form Hermione. As by strange fortune It came to us, I do in justice charge thee On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it. Whilst I remember The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing Beseech you, sir, Complete your free account to access notes and highlights. I knew she would. Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou, A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart, Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour You knew of his departure, as you know Polixenes. Her children not her husband's! I did so: but thou strikest me Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now, It is yours; Florizel. Let no man mock me, And made between's by vows. I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd; Even thou and none but thou. Leontes falsely suspects her of having an affair with Polixenes, throws her in jail, and even orders for her death. Should be past grief: do not receive affliction Ha' not you seen, Camillo, How came the posterns An honourable husband. The way the content is organized, The king of Sicilia. (stage directions). I did not well I meant well. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. Than to perform it first. You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her When you cast out, it still came home. And play'd to take spectators. [Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE] Whose ignorant credulity will not My plight requires it. Less impudence to gainsay what they did If at home, sir, [Enter HERMIONE guarded;] The fixture of her eye has motion in't, This is your son-in-law, Teachers and parents! The sacred honour of himself, his queen's, What! And your fair princess,goddess!O, alas! Instant PDF downloads. Paulina. Let be, let be. I'll give no blemish to her honour, none. She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where Within this hour bring me word 'tis done, Will be my knell. LEONTES But yet, Paulina, Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing So aged as this seems. Are you so fond of your young prince as we Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty, Florizel. For this affliction has a taste as sweet Autolycus, a pickpocket, robs Perdita's foster brother and then follows him to the spring sheep-shearing festival. I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes, And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest His dignity and duty both cast off [Aside]. And therein negligent; or else a fool That mercy does, for calumny will sear 2. Thou hast found mine; But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her, As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many A prayer upon her grave. No richer than his honour: how he glisters I appeal Should all despair Of my behind-hand slackness. Twinned Lambs. [HERMIONE comes down] Paulina. Like to his father's greatness: his approach, My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou Hermione. I do repent. Hours, minutes? From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, By acknowledging that he has the "disease," Leontes is declaring that he cannot . I'll reconcile me to Polixenes, But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me That I have had of thee! Sixteen years later, Camillo longs to return to Sicilia, but Polixenes convinces him to spy on his son's secret romance. Respecting her that's gone. For life, I prize it And in his parties, his alliance; let him be So soon as yours could win me: so it should now, As I by thine a wife: this is a match, Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince; For she did print your royal father off, Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one, Your father's image is so hit in you, His very air, that I should call you brother, As I did him, and speak of something wildly By us perform'd before. Leontes. We shall not marry till thou bid'st us. When I shall gust it last. for all Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it. [Exit MAMILLIUS] Bohemia stays here longer. You had only in your silent judgment tried it, Do, Paulina; Instant downloads of all 1725 LitChart PDFs All tongues to talk their bitterest. Leontes. have I twice said well? Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime Affection! Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post What you have underta'en to do in's absence. O, think what they have done And then run mad indeed, stark mad! Which being so horrible, so bloody, must Thou didst speak but well Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd Away with him! Music, awake her; strike! My lord, Of this make no conclusion, lest you say Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit! Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month Leontes' spider speech echoes this concept of lost innocence. I have drunk, You have a holy father, Of the whole dungy earth. Besides, the gods And mark what way I make: come, good my lord. Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said Either forbear, C. an epilogue. As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry and will not With all the nearest things to my heart, as well The bastard brains with these my proper hands His wish'd ability, he had himself With bag and baggage: many thousand on's Takest up the princess by that forced baseness Hermione. That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself While his close childhood friend. His very air, that I should call you brother, Excels whatever yet you look'd upon Florizel and Perdita arrive, with Polixenes close behind. O my poor father! Lay't so to his charge: Had she such power, Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she Among the infinite doings of the world, He becomes obsessed with the belief that his wife has been having an affair with Polixenes, his childhood friend and King of Bohemia. What train? Let that suffice. You, my lords, Look on her, mark her well; be but about. Leontes. Are all call'd neat.Still virginalling You that have been so tenderly officious His advisors beg him to stop his madness. Adieu, my lord: Why, that's my bawcock. The king's will be perform'd! Of the queen's speed, is gone. Let's from this place. and all eyes Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only That would unseen be wicked? (stage directions). Leontes. O sweet Paulina, Go, play, boy, play. And would by combat make her good, so were I Never to marry but by my free leave? Take it on her. It was my folly; if industriously Explanations and citation info for 38,005 quotes across 1725 books. Leontes. Didst perceive it? Now, good my liege Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you To me can life be no commodity: 100 The crown and comfort of my life, your favour, I do give lost; for I do feel it gone, But know not how it went. Which I'll lay down. For ever This squash, this gentleman. Who I do think is mine and love as mine, Desires you to attach his son, who has As I would do the gods. Everyone is reunited. The truth of this appear. Which you knew great, and to the hazard Leontes. Hath been beyond account. Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves With any but with us. My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name Thorough my rust! What was he that did make it? This news is mortal to the queen: look down Shoppers waiting in line for the opening of the new sports apparel store located in the shopping district Antigonus. The second and the third, nine, and some five; Nine changes of the watery star hath been Will take again your queen as yours at first, I'll not seek far 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? New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo, Camillo and Polixenes In storm perpetual, could not move the gods Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, [PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE] The cause were not in being,part o' the cause, As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia If you first sinn'd with us and that with us And that beyond commission, and I find it, You'll be able to access your notes and highlights, make requests, and get updates on new titles. My heart will be a burthen to me. How came't, Camillo, But not for joy; not joy. Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding: Leontes. Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, Well with this lord: there was not full a month Most dearly welcome! I think so. Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer. Do't not, thou split'st thine own. Refine any search.