Speeches (Lines) for Perdita
in "Winter's Tale"
Total: 25

1

IV,4,1861

Sir, my gracious lord,
To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:...

2

IV,4,1874

Now Jove afford you cause!
To me the difference forges dread; your greatness...

3

IV,4,1895

O, but, sir,
Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis...

4

IV,4,1914

O lady Fortune,
Stand you auspicious!

5

IV,4,1937

[To POLIXENES] Sir, welcome:
It is my father's will I should take on me...

6

IV,4,1950

Sir, the year growing ancient,
Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth...

7

IV,4,1960

For I have heard it said
There is an art which in their piedness shares...

8

IV,4,1973

So it is.

9

IV,4,1976

I'll not put
The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;...

10

IV,4,1988

Out, alas!
You'd be so lean, that blasts of January...

11

IV,4,2010

No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;
Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,...

12

IV,4,2028

O Doricles,
Your praises are too large: but that your youth,...

13

IV,4,2039

I'll swear for 'em.

14

IV,4,2103

Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes.

15

IV,4,2107

Ay, good brother, or go about to think.

16

IV,4,2286

I cannot speak
So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:...

17

IV,4,2365

Even here undone!
I was not much afeard; for once or twice...

18

IV,4,2406

How often have I told you 'twould be thus!
How often said, my dignity would last...

19

IV,4,2527

One of these is true:
I think affliction may subdue the cheek,...

20

IV,4,2540

Your pardon, sir; for this
I'll blush you thanks.

21

IV,4,2586

Happy be you!
All that you speak shows fair.

22

IV,4,2624

I see the play so lies
That I must bear a part.

23

V,1,3066

O my poor father!
The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have...

24

V,3,3337

And give me leave,
And do not say 'tis superstition, that...

25

V,3,3389

So long could I
Stand by, a looker on.