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I that please some, try all: both joy and terror Of good, and bade: that makes, and unfolds error, Now take upon me (in the name of Time) To use my wings: Impute it not a crime To me, or my swift passage, that I slide Over sixteen years, and leave the growth untried Of that wide gap, since it is in my pour To overthrow Law, and in one self-borne hour To plant, and overwhelm Custom. Let me pass The same I am, ere ancientest Order was, Or what is now received. I witness to The times that brought them in, so shall I do To the freshest things now reigning, and make stale The glistering of this present, as my Tale Now seems to it: your patience this allowing, I turn my glass, and give my Scene such growing As you had slept between: Leontes leaving the effects of his found jealousy's, so grieving That he shuts up himself. Imagine me (Gentle Spectators) that I now may be In fair Bohemia, and remember well, I mentioned a son of the Kings, which Florizell I now name to you: and with speed so pace To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace Equal with wondering. What of her ensues I list not prophesy: but let Times news Be known when it's brought forth. A shepherd's daugh ter And what to her adheres, which follows after, Is the argument of Time: of this allow, If ever you have spent time worse, ere now: If never, yet that Time himself does say, He wishes earnestly, you never may.
Plot summary
Plot — The Winter's Tale
Polixenes of Bohemia is coming to the end of a nine-month stay at the Sicilian court of Leontes, his childhood playmate. Leontes cannot persuade him to extend his stay, but the pregnant queen, Hermione, has more success. Leontes conceives a suspicion that Polixenes and Hermione have committed adultery, and that her unborn child is a bastard. He commands Camillo to poison Polixenes, but instead Camillo warns the intended victim and escapes with him to Bohemia. Leontes arrests Hermione and sends to the oracle of Apollo for confirmation of her adultery. She gives birth to a daughter in prison, and Paulina hopes to bring Leontes to his senses by showing him the baby; instead, he orders her husband, Antigonus, to take it out of his dominions and abandon it. Hermione is tried for adultery and treason. The oracle, when read, exonerates her and foretells that, unless the lost be found, Leontes will have no heir. Leontes refuses to believe it, whereupon his son Mamillius, who fell sick when his mother was arrested, dies. Hermione collapses in court and is later reported dead. Antigonus abandons the baby on the coast of Bohemia, and is eaten by a bear. The child, Perdita, is found and adopted by an old shepherd. Sixteen years pass. The penitent Leontes, still mourning Hermione, attempts to recall Camillo to Sicily, but Polixenes will not let him go. Worried by rumours that Prince Florizel is courting a shepherd’s daughter, Polixenes attends the sheep-shearing feast in disguise. When it becomes clear that Florizel intends to marry Perdita without consulting his father, Polixenes intervenes and threatens awful reprisals. Camillo helps Florizel and Perdita to abscond to Sicily, knowing that Polixenes will follow them, enabling him to return home at last. Leontes welcomes the newcomers, who include not only the Bohemian royal family but also the old shepherd, who produces the objects found with baby Perdita; these establish her identity as Leontes’ long-lost daughter. The two kings are reconciled, and Polixenes withdraws his objection to his son’s marriage. The court visits a newly sculpted statue of Hermione in Paulina’s chapel. It turns out to be Hermione herself, still alive and awaiting the return of her daughter.