winter's Tale, Ksiazki, Po angielsku

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Winter's Tale
By
William Shakespeare
Winter's Tale
Winter's Tale
Act 1
SCENE I. Antechamber in LEONTES' palace
Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS
ARCHIDAMUS
If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services
are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and
your Sicilia.
CAMILLO
I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation
which he justly owes him.
ARCHIDAMUS
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed--
CAMILLO
Beseech you,--
ARCHIDAMUS
Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence--in
so rare--I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses,
unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.
CAMILLO
You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.
ARCHIDAMUS
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to
utterance.
CAMILLO
Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia. They were trained together in their
childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot choose
but branch now. Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separation
of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally attorneyed with
interchange of gifts, letters, loving embassies; that they have seemed to be together,
though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of
opposed winds. The heavens continue their loves!
 ARCHIDAMUS
I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it. You have an
unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the greatest
promise that ever came into my note.
CAMILLO
I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it is a gallant child; one that indeed
physics the subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on crutches ere he was born
desire yet their life to see him a man.
ARCHIDAMUS
Would they else be content to die?
CAMILLO
Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should desire to live.
ARCHIDAMUS
If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches till he had one.
Exeunt
SCENE II. A room of state in the same
Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants
POLIXENES
Nine changes of the watery star hath been
The shepherd's note since we have left our throne
Without a burthen: time as long again
Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks;
And yet we should, for perpetuity,
Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply
With one 'We thank you' many thousands more
That go before it.
LEONTES
Stay your thanks a while;
And pay them when you part.
POLIXENES
Sir, that's to-morrow.
I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance
Or breed upon our absence; that may blow
No sneaping winds at home, to make us say
 'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd
To tire your royalty.
LEONTES
We are tougher, brother,
Than you can put us to't.
POLIXENES
No longer stay.
LEONTES
One seven-night longer.
POLIXENES
Very sooth, to-morrow.
LEONTES
We'll part the time between's then; and in that
I'll no gainsaying.
POLIXENES
Press me not, beseech you, so.
There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,
So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,
Were there necessity in your request, although
'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs
Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder
Were in your love a whip to me; my stay
To you a charge and trouble: to save both,
Farewell, our brother.
LEONTES
Tongue-tied, our queen? speak you.
HERMIONE
I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until
You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure
All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction
The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,
He's beat from his best ward.
LEONTES
Well said, Hermione.
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