Reading The Winters Tale — William Shakespeare

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Her.

More then Mistresse of,

Which comes to me in name of Fault, I must not

At all acknowledge. For Polixenes

(With whom I am accus’d) I doe confesse

I lou’d him, as in Honor he requir’d:

With such a kind of Loue, as might become

A Lady like me; with a Loue, euen such,

So, and no other, as your selfe commanded:

Which, not to haue done, I thinke had been in me

Both Disobedience, and Ingratitude

To you, and toward your Friend, whose Loue had spoke,

Euen since it could speake, from an Infant, freely,

That it was yours. Now for Conspiracie,

I know not how it tastes, though it be dish’d

For me to try how: All I know of it,

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