Reading The Winters Tale — William Shakespeare

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Gent. 3.

Wrackt the same instant of their Masters

death, and in the view of the

Shepheard: so that all the

Instruments which ayded to expose the Child,

were euen

then lost, when it was found. But oh the Noble Combat,

that 'twixt Ioy and Sorrow was fought in Paulina. Shee

had one Eye declin’d for the losse of her Husband,

ano

ther eleuated, that the Oracle was fulﬁll’d: Shee lifted the

Princesse from the Earth, and so locks her in embracing,

as if

shee would pin her to her heart, that shee might no

more be in danger

of loosing.

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