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[Enter Time, the Chorus]
TIME
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I* that | please^some,| try^all:| both joy | and
ter|ror
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Of good,| and bad:| that makes,| and
un|folds^er|ror, (hex with prev)
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Now take upon | me (in | the name | of Time)
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To use | my wings:| Impute | it not | a crime
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To me,| or my / swift pas|sage, that | I slide
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Ore six|teen^years,| and leave | the growth |
untried
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Of that / wide gap,| since it | is in | my power
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To orethrow law,| and in one | self-born hour
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To plant,| and orewhelm cust|om. Let | me pass
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The same | I am,| ere an|cientst^ord|er was,
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Or what | is now | received.| I wit|ness to
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The times | that brought | them in,| so shall | I
do
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To the fresh|est things | now* reign|ing, and /
make stale
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The glis|tering | of this pres|ent, as | my tale
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Now seems | to it: Your | patience | this
al|lowing,
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I turn | my glass,| and give | my scene |
such^growing
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As you | had slept | between:| Leon|tes leav||ing
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The effects | of his fond | jealou|sies, so |
grieving
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That he / shuts up | himself.| Imag|ine me
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(Gentle | specta/tors) that | I now | may be
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In fair | Bohem|ia, and | remem|ber well,
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I ment|ioned a son | of the king's,| which
Flo|rizel
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I now | name to | you: and | with speed | so pace
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To speak | of Per|dita,| now grown in grace
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Equal | with wonde|ring. What | of her | ensues
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I list | not proph|ecy:| but let Time's news
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Be known | when 'tis | brought forth. A
shep|herd's daught||er
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And what | to her ad|heres, which^|follows |
after,
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Is the arg|ument | of Time.| Of this | allow,
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If ever | you have | spent time worse,| ere now:
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If nev|er, yet | that Time | himself | doth^say,
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He wish|es earn|estly,| you nev|er may.
[Exit]