POLIXENES, king of Bohemia. FLORIZEL, prince of Bohemia. ARCHIDAMUS, a Lord of Bohemia. Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita. AUTOLYCUS, a rogue. A Mariner. A Gaoler. HERMIONE, queen to Leontes. PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione. PAULINA, wife to Antigonus. EMILIA, a lady attending on Hermione. Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers and Servants, Shepherds and Shepherdesses. Time, as Chorus. SCENE: Partly in Sicilia, and partly in Bohemia.] Monument to Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon, donated by Lord Ronald Gower. It is Lord Gower's own work and a valuable tribute to the poet's memory THE WINTERS TALE Actus Primus. Scœna Prima. [Antechamber in Leontes' palace.] Enter Camillo and Archidamus. Arch. F you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now | onfoot, you shall see (as I have said) great dif- | ference betwixt our Bohemia, and your Sicilia. | Cam. I thinke, this comming Summer, the King of Sicilia meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation, which hee justly owes him. 10 Arch. Wherein our Entertainment shall shame us: we will be justified in our Loves: for indeed Cam. 'Beseech you Arch. Verely I speake it in the freedome of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare I know not what to say-Wee will give you sleepie Drinkes, that your Sences (un-intelligent of our insufficience) may, though they cannot prayse us, as little ac cuse us. Cam. You pay a great deale to deare, for what's given freely. 21 Arch. 'Beleeve me, I speake as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honestie puts it to utterance. |