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WINTER'S TALK

ACT THE HRST.

SCENE I.

Sicilla. An Antechamber in Leontes' Palace*

Enier Camillo and Archijdamus.

Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemiai on the like occasion whereon my ser*' Vices ard now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, ^6at difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.

Cam, I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.

Arch, Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be justified in pur loves : for, indiaed, — Cam, 'Beseech you,

Arch, Verily, 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.

Cam, You pay a great deal too dear, for what'«  given freely,

jirc^. Believe me, I speak as my undetBitoaSiTk^

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