{"id":4385,"date":"2015-02-12T06:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4385"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T13:33:25","slug":"the-winters-tale-act-3-scene-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=4385","title":{"rendered":"The Winter’s Tale: Act 3, Scene 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Winter’s Tale.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hermione<\/strong><\/p>\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Jolly Abraham<\/a>)\u00a0 (and Miriam Laube<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Click here to open a scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here to open up First Folio Version\u00a0version<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0Since what I am to say must be but that<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Which contradicts my accusation and<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0The testimony on my part no other<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0To say ‘not guilty:’ mine integrity<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,<\/li>\n
  7. \u00a0Be so received. But thus: if powers divine<\/li>\n
  8. Behold our human actions, as they do,<\/li>\n
  9. I doubt not then but innocence shall make<\/li>\n
  10. False accusation blush and tyranny<\/li>\n
  11. Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,<\/li>\n
  12. Who least will seem to do so, my past life<\/li>\n
  13. Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,<\/li>\n
  14. As I am now unhappy; which is more<\/li>\n
  15. Than history can pattern, though devised<\/li>\n
  16. And play’d to take spectators. For behold me<\/li>\n
  17. A fellow of the royal bed, which owe<\/li>\n
  18. A moiety of the throne a great king’s daughter,<\/li>\n
  19. The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing<\/li>\n
  20. To prate and talk for life and honour ‘fore<\/li>\n
  21. Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it<\/li>\n
  22. As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,<\/li>\n
  23. ‘Tis a derivative from me to mine,<\/li>\n
  24. And only that I stand for. I appeal<\/li>\n
  25. To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes<\/li>\n
  26. Came to your court, how I was in your grace,<\/li>\n
  27. How merited to be so; since he came,<\/li>\n
  28. With what encounter so uncurrent I<\/li>\n
  29. Have strain’d to appear thus: if one jot beyond<\/li>\n
  30. The bound of honour, or in act or will<\/li>\n
  31. That way inclining, harden’d be the hearts<\/li>\n
  32. Of all that hear me, and my near’st of kin<\/li>\n
  33. Cry fie upon my grave!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The\u00a0Winter’s Tale.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 3, Scene 2. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Hermione (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Jolly Abraham)\u00a0 (and Miriam Laube.) Click here to open a scanned version. Click here to open up First Folio Version\u00a0version \u00a0Since what I am to say must be but that \u00a0Which contradicts my accusation and \u00a0The testimony on my<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\n","aioseo_head_json":{"title":"The Winter\u2019s Tale: Act 3, Scene 2 | The State of Shakespeare","description":"The Winter's Tale. 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