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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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Winter's Tale
[I, 2] |
Hermione |
92 |
To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:
But let him say so then, and let him go;
But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.
Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure
The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia
You take my lord, I'll give him my commission
To let him there a month behind the gest
Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,
I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind
What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?
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2 |
Winter's Tale
[I, 2] |
Camillo |
551 |
Swear his thought over
By each particular star in heaven and
By all their influences, you may as well
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon
As or by oath remove or counsel shake
The fabric of his folly, whose foundation
Is piled upon his faith and will continue
The standing of his body.
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3 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 3] |
Leontes |
1133 |
It shall be possible. Swear by this sword
Thou wilt perform my bidding.
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4 |
Winter's Tale
[II, 3] |
Antigonus |
1150 |
I swear to do this, though a present death
Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:
Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens
To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say
Casting their savageness aside have done
Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous
In more than this deed does require! And blessing
Against this cruelty fight on thy side,
Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!
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5 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Officer |
1344 |
You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,
That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have
Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought
The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd
Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,
You have not dared to break the holy seal
Nor read the secrets in't.
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6 |
Winter's Tale
[III, 2] |
Cleomenes |
1351 |
[with Dion] All this we swear.
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7 |
Winter's Tale
[IV, 4] |
Perdita |
2039 |
I'll swear for 'em.
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8 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 1] |
Paulina |
2905 |
Will you swear
Never to marry but by my free leave?
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9 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Third Gentleman |
3139 |
Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by
circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you
see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle
of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,
the letters of Antigonus found with it which they
know to be his character, the majesty of the
creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection
of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,
and many other evidences proclaim her with all
certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see
the meeting of the two kings?
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10 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Clown |
3264 |
Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou
art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.
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11 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Old Shepherd |
3266 |
You may say it, but not swear it.
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12 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Clown |
3267 |
Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and
franklins say it, I'll swear it.
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13 |
Winter's Tale
[V, 2] |
Clown |
3270 |
If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear
it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to
the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and
that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no
tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be
drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst
be a tall fellow of thy hands.
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