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A chapel in PAULINA'S house.
[Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA, CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and
Attendants]
LEONTES
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O grave | and good | Pauli|na, the / great
com||fort
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That I | have had | of thee?
PAULINA
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What (sove|reign sir)
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I did | not well,| I meant | well: All my
services
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You have / paid home.| But that | you have /
vouchsafed
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(With your crowned | brother,| and these | your
con|tracted
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Heirs of | your king|doms) my / poor house | to
visit;
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It is | a sur|plus of | your grace,| which never
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My life | may last | to answer.
LEONTES
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O Pau|lina,
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We hon|or you | with troub|le: but | we came
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To see | the sta|tue of our | queen. Your |
gallery*
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Have we / passed through,| not with|out* much |
content
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In ma|ny sing|ularities;| but we / saw not
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That which | my daught|er came | to look | upon,
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The stat|ue of | her moth|er.
PAULINA
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As she lived | peerless,
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So her / dead like|ness I | do well | believe
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Excels | whatev|er yet | you looked | upon,
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Or hand | of man | hath done:| therefore | I keep
it
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Lonely,| apart.| But here | it is:| prepare
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To see | the life | as live|ly mocked,| as ever
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Still sleep mocked | death: behold, and say |'tis
well. ??
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I like | your sil|ence, it | the more shows off
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Your wond|er: but / yet speak,| first^you |(my
liege)
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Comes it not | something | near?
LEONTES
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Her | natural | posture.
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Chide me |(dear* stone)| that I | may say |
indeed
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Thou art | Hermi|one;| or rath|er, thou || art
she,
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In thy not | chiding:| for she | was as tend||er
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As in|fancy,| and grace.| But yet |(Paulin||a)
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Hermi|one | was not | so much^wrink|led,
noth||ing
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So age|d as / this seems.
POLIXENES
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Oh*, not | by much.
PAULINA
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So much | the more | our carv|er's ex|cellence,
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Which lets | go by | some six|teen years,| and
makes || her
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As she / lived now.
LEONTES
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As now | she might | have done,
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So much | to my / good com|fort, as | it is
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Now pierc/ing to my | soul. Oh, thus | she stood,
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Even with / such life | of maj|esty* /(warm life,
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As now | it cold|ly stands)| when first | I wooed
her.
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I am a|shamed: does | not the | stone re|buke me,
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For being | more* stone | than it?| Oh royal
piece:
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There's^mag|ic in | thy maj|esty,| which has
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My ev|ils conj|ured to | remem|brance; and
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From thy | admir|ing daught|er took | the
spirits,
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Standing | like stone / with thee.
PERDITA
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And give | me leave,
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And do | not say |'tis sup|ersti|tion, that
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I kneel,| and then | implore | her bles|sing.
La||dy,
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Dear | queen, that | ended when | I but | began,
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Give me that | hand of | yours to | kiss.
PAULINA
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O*,| patience:
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The stat|ue is | but new|ly fixed;| the col||or's
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Not | dry. \\
CAMILLO
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My lord,| your sor|row was / too sore | laid^on,
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Which six|teen* wint|ers can|not blow | away,
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So man|y sum|mers dry:| scarce any joy
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Did ev|er so | long live; no | sorrow,
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But killed | itself much^|sooner.
POLIXENES
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Dear my | brother,
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Let him | that was | the cause | of this,| have
power
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To take off so | much^grief | from you,| as he
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Will piece | up in | himself.
PAULINA
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Indeed | my lord,
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If I | had thought | the sight | of my poor |
image
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Would thus | have wrought | you (for | the stone
| is mine)
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I'd not | have showed | it.
LEONTES
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Do not | draw the | curtain.
PAULINA
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No long|er shall | you gaze | on it, lest | your
fan||cy
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May think | anon,| it moves.
LEONTES
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Let be,| let be:
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Would I were | dead, but | that me|thinks al|ready.
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(What was | he that | did make | it?) See |(my
lord)
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Would you | not^deem | it breathed?| And that /
those veins
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Did ver|ily / bear blood?
POLIXENES
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Master|ly done:
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The ve|ry life | seems^warm | upon | her lip.
LEONTES
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The fix|ture of | her eye | has mot|ion in it,
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As we | are mocked | with art.
PAULINA
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I'll draw | the curtain:
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My lord's | almost | so far | transport|ed, that
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He'll think | anon | it lives.
LEONTES
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O | sweet Pau|lina,
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Make me to | think so | twenty | years to|gether:
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No set|tled sens|es of | the world | can match
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The pleas|ure of / that mad|ness. Let | it alone.
PAULINA
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I am sor|ry (sir)| I have thus | far stirred /
you: but
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I could af|flict you | farther.
LEONTES
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Do Paul|ina:
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For this | afflic|tion has | a taste | as sweet
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As an|y cord|ial com|fort. Still | methinks
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There is | an air | comes from her.| What fine
chisel
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Could ever | yet cut^|breath? Let^|no man^|mock
me, ??
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For I | will kiss | her.
PAULINA
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Good | my lord,| forbear:
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The rud|diness | upon | her lip,| is wet;
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You'll mar | it, if | you kiss | it; stain | your
own
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With oil|y paint|ing: Shall | I draw | the
curt||ain.
LEONTES
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No:| not these twenty years.
PERDITA
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So long could I ????
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Stand by, a look|er on.
PAULINA
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Either | forbear,
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Quit pres/ently | the chap|el, or | resolve ||
you
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For more | amaze|ment: If | you can | behold it,
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I'll make | the stat|ue move | indeed;| descend,
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And take | you by | the hand:| but then | you'll
think
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(Which^I | protest | against)| I am as|sisted
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By wick|ed powers.
LEONTES
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What you | can make | her do,
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I am | content | to look | on: what | to speak,
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I am | content | to hear:| for 'tis | as eas||y
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To make | her speak,| as move.
PAULINA
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It is re|quired
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You || do a|wake your | faith: Then,| all stand
still:
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On: \\ || those that | think it | is
un|lawful | business
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I am | about,| let them | depart.
LEONTES
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Proceed:
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No foot | shall stir.
PAULINA
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Music;| awake | her: strike:
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'Tis time:| descend:| be stone | no more:|
approach:
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Strike^all | that look | upon | with marv|el:
Come:
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I'll fill | your grave | up: stir:| nay, come
away:
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Bequeath | to death | your numb|ness: (for / from
him,
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Dear life redeems | you) You | perceive | she
stirs:
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Start | not:| her act|ions shall | be ho|ly, as
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You hear | my spell | is law|ful: do | not shun |
her, (hex with prev)
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Until | you see | her die | again;| for then
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You kill | her doub|le: Nay,| present | your
hand:
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When she | was young,| you wooed | her: now,| in
age,
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Is she | become | the suit|or?
LEONTES
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Oh | she's warm:
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If this | be mag|ic, let | it be | an art
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Lawful | as eat|ing.
POLIXENES
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She | embrac|es him.
CAMILLO
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She hangs | about | his neck, \\
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If she | pertain | to life,| let her / speak too.
POLIXENES
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Aye, and | make it | manifest*| where she | has
lived,
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Or how | stolen from | the dead.
PAULINA
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That she is | living,
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Were it | but told | you, should | be hoot|ed at
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Like^an / old tale:| but it | appears | she
lives,
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Though yet | she speak | not. Mark a lit|tle
while:
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Please you | to int|erpose |(fair* mad|am) kneel,
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And pray your | mother's | blessing:| Turn good |
lady,
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Our Per|dita is | found.
HERMIONE
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You | gods look down,
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And from | your sac|red vials | pour your |
graces
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Upon | my daught|er's head:| Tell me |(mine own)
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Where hast | thou been | preserved?| Where
lived?| How found
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Thy fath|er's court?| For thou | shalt hear |
that I
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Knowing | by Pauli|na, that | the or|acle
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Gave^hope | thou wast | in be|ing, have |
preserved
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Myself,| to see | the is|sue. \\
PAULINA
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There's time | enough | for that, \\
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Lest they de|sire (u|pon this | push) to |
trouble
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Your joys,| with like | rela|tion. Go |
togeth||er
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You prec|ious win|ners all:| your ex|ulta||tion
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Partake | to eve|ry one:| I (an old turtle)
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Will wing | me to | some with|ered bough,| and
there
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My mate |(that's nev|er to | be found | again)
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Lament,| till I am | lost.
LEONTES
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O*| peace Paul|ina:
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Thou shouldst | a hus|band take | by my |
consent,
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As I | by thine | a wife.| This is | a match,
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And made | between us | by vows.| Thou hast /
found mine,
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But how,| is to be | questioned:| for I | saw her
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(As I thought)| dead: and | have (in | vain) said
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A prayer | upon her | grave. I'll | not seek far
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(For him,| I part|ly know | his mind)| to find ||
thee
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An hon|ora|ble hus|band. Come | Camillo,
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And take | her by | the hand:| whose worth, and
hone||sty
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Is rich|ly not|ed: and / here just|ified
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By us,| a pair | of kings.| Let's^from | this
place.
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What? Look upon | my broth|er: both | your
pard||ons,
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That ere | I put | between | your ho|ly looks
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My ill | suspi|cion: This | is your son-|in-law,
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And son | unto the | king, whom | heavens
di|recting
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Is troth-|plight to your | daughter.| Good
Paul|ina,
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Lead us | from hence,| where we | may leis|urely
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Each one demand,| an ans|wer to | his part
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Performed | in this / wide gap | of time, since
first
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We were | dissev|ered: hast|ily lead | away.
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