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Act IScene IAntechamber in Leontes’ palaceEnter Camillo and ArchidamusArchidamusIf you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.CamilloI think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.ArchidamusWherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed—CamilloBeseech you,—ArchidamusVerily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare—I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.CamilloYou pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely.ArchidamusBelieve me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.CamilloSicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot choose but branch now. Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attorneyed with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves!ArchidamusI think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note.CamilloI very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to see him a man.ArchidamusWould they else be content to die?CamilloYes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.ArchidamusIf the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one.Exeunt
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William Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene II
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