Author: William ShakespeareEditor: Hardin AasandPeer Reviewed
The Winter's Tale (Folio 1, 1623)
1144Actus Tertius. Scoena Prima. 1145Enter Cleomines and Dion. 1146Cleo. The Clymat's delicate, the Ayre mo
st sweet,
1147Fertile the I
sle, the Temple much
surpa
ssing
1148The common pray
se it beares.
1149Dion. I
shall report,
1150For mo
st it caught me, the Cele
stiall Habits,
1151(Me thinkes I
so
should terme them) and the reuerence
1152Of the graue Wearers. O, the Sacri
fice,
1153How ceremonious,
solemne, and vn-earthly
1154It was i'th' O
ffring?
1155Cleo. But of all, the bur
st 1156And the eare-dea
ff'ning Voyce o'th' Oracle,
1157Kin to
Ioues Thunder,
so
surpriz'd my Sence,
1159Dio. If th' euent o'th' Iourney
1160Proue as
succe
ssefull to the Queene (O be't
so)
1161As it hath beene to vs, rare, plea
sant,
speedie,
1162The time is worth the v
se on't.
1164Turne all to th' be
st: the
se Proclamations,
1165So forcing faults vpon
Hermione, 1167Dio. The violent carriage of it
1168Will cleare, or end the Bu
sine
sse, when the Oracle
1169(Thus by
Apollo's great Diuine
seal'd vp)
1170Shall the Contents di
scouer:
something rare
1171Euen then will ru
sh to knowledge. Goe: fre
sh Hor
ses,
1172And gracious be the i
ssue.
Exeunt.