Obrázky na stránke
PDF
ePub

We will not part from hence. Cefario, come,

For fo you shall be, while you are a man;
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orfino's miftrefs, and his fancy's queen.

[blocks in formation]

[Exeunt.

A great while ago the world begun,

With hey, ho, &c.

But that's all one, our play is done,

And we'll ftrive to please you every day.

[Exit.

THE

VILLE DE LYON

Biblioth, du Palais des Arts

F. Hayman inv

The WINTER'S TALE. Act IV. Sc.V.

H.Gravelot Sculpa

**

THE

********

WINTER'S

TALE.

[blocks in formation]

HERMIONE, Queen to LEONTES.

PERDITA, Daughter to LEONTES and HERMIONE.

PAULINA, Wife to ANTIGONUS.

EMILIA, Attendant on the Queen.

[blocks in formation]

Jailer, Shepherds, Shepherdeffes, and Attendants.

SCENE, partly in Sicilia, and partly in Bithynia. The plot taken from the old story-book of Doraftus and Faunia.

N. B. The country here call'd Bithynia bath in all former editions been printed Bohemia an inland kingdom fituated nearly in the centre of Europe, whereas many of the great incidents of the play turn upon its being a maritime country of which Polixenes was the king. This is a blunder, and an absurdity of which Shakespear in juftice ought not to be thought capable: and as he bath turn'd quite anew the story contain'd in the old paltry book of Doraftus and Faunia, changing most of the main circumstances and all the names of the perfons; it is probable be removed this impropriety, and placed the scene in Bithynia, which the ignorance and negligence of the first tranfcribers or printers might corrupt and bring back again to Bohemia by a less variation in the letters than they bave been guilty of in numberless other places of this work.

THE

« PredošláPokračovať »