Reading The Winters Tale — William Shakespeare

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Leo.

To your owne bents dispose you: you’le be found,

Be you beneath the Sky: I am angling now,

(Though you perceiue me not how I giue Lyne)

Goe too, goe too.

How she holds vp the Neb? the Byll to him?

And armes her with the boldnesse of a Wife

To her allowing Husband. Gone already,

Ynch‑thick, knee‑deepe; ore head and eares a fork’d one.

Goe play (Boy) play: thy Mother playes, and I

Play too; but so disgrac’d a part, whose issue

Will hisse me to my Graue: Contempt and Clamor

Will be my Knell. Goe play (Boy) play, there haue been

(Or I am much deceiu’d) Cuckolds ere now,

And many a man there is (euen at this present,

Now, while I speake this) holds his Wife by th’Arme,

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