Monday, March 21, 2005

A Winter's Tale: "that which is lost"

"Hermione is chaste, Polixenes blameless, Camillo a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly begotten; and the king shall live without an heir if that which is lost be not found."

As she might have done
So much to my good comfort, as it is
Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,
Even with such life of majesty - warm life,
As now it coldly stands - when I first wooed her!
I am ashamed. Does not the stone rebuke me
For being more stone than it?...

Let be, let be.
Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already -

Oh sweet Paulina,
Make me to think so twenty years together!
No settled senses of the world can match
The pleasure of that madness. Let't alone.

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