Identifier: comediesofwillia04shak (find matches)
Title: The comedies of William Shakespeare
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911
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Publisher: New York : Harper and brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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entking, my master, hath sent for me ; to whose feelingsorrows I might be some allay, or I oerween to thinkso, which is another spur to my departure. Pol. As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out therest of thy services by leaving me now. The need Ihave of thee thine own goodness hath made ; better notto have had thee than thus to want thee. Thou, hav-ing made me businesses which none without thee cansuflficiently manage, must either stay to execute themthyself, or take away with thee the very services thouhast done; which, if I have not enough considered (astoo much I cannot), to be more thankful to thee shallbe my study; and my profit therein, the heaping friend-ships. Of that fatal country, Sicilia, prithee speak nomore ; whose very naming punishes me with the remem-brance of that penitent, as thou callst him, and recon-ciled king, my brother, whose loss of his most preciousqueen and children is even now to be afresh lamented.Say to me, when sawst thou the Ri-ince Florizel, my ^---
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THE WINTERS TALE 209 son ? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not beinggracious, than they are in losing them when they haveapproved their virtues. Cam. Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince.What his happier affairs may be are to me unknown ;but I have missingly noted he is of late much retiredfrom court, and is less frequent to his princely exer-cises than formerly he hath appeared. Pol. I have considered so much, Camillo, and withsome care, so far, that I have eyes under my servicewhich look upon his removedness, from whom I havethis intelligence: That he is seldom from the house ofa most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that fromvery nothing, and beyond the imagination of his neigh-bors, is grown into an unspeakable estate. Cam. I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath adaughter of most rare note : the report of her is extend-ed more than can be thought to begin from such a cot-tage. Pol. Thats likewise part of my intelligence. But Ifear the angle that plucks our son

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