The Winter's Tale

"What we changd Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamd That any did."

"Leontes: Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokst To better purpose. Hermione: Never? Leontes: Never, but once. Hermione: What! have I twice said well? when wast before?"

"Camillo: You pay a great deal too dear for whats given freely. Archidamus: Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honesty puts it to utterance."

"We were, fair queen, Two lads that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal."

"Of this make no conclusion, lest you say Your queen and I are devils: yet, go on; The offences we have made you do, well answer, If you first sinnd with us, and that with us You did continue fault, and that you slippd not With any but with us."

"My last good deed was to entreat his stay; What was my first? it has an elder sister, Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace! But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Nay, let me havet; I long."

"You may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon, As, or by oath remove, or counsel shake The fabric of his folly, whose foundation Is pild upon his faith, and will continue The standing of his body."

"They say we are Almost as like as eggs."

"This jealousy Is for a precious creature; as shes rare, Must it be great; and, as his persons mighty, Must it be violent: and as he does conceive He is dishonourd by a man which ever Professd to him, why, his revenges must In that be made more bitter. Fear oershades me."

"There’s some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords, I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are — the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities — but I have That honourable grief lodg’d here, which burns Worse than tears drown. Beseech you all, my lords, With thoughts so qualified as your charities Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so The king’s will be perform’d!"

"I am sure tis safer to Avoid whats grown than question how tis born."

"Apollos angry; and the heavens themselves Do strike at my injustice."