Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb

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Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb Tales from Shakspeare — The Winter's Tale (1831)

Paulina replied, "So much the more the carver's excellence, who has made the statue as Hermione would have looked had she been living now. But let me draw the curtain, sire, lest presently you think it moves."
The king then said, "Do not draw the curtain! Would I were dead! See, Camillo, would you not think it breathed? Her eye seems to have motion in it." "I must draw the curtain, my liege," said Paulina. "You are so transported, you will persuade yourself the statue lives." "O, sweet Pauhna," said Leontes, "make me think so twenty years together!
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Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb Tales from Shakspeare — The Winter's Tale (1831)

The king was so disguised that it was impossible his son could know him; he therefore advanced near enough to hear the conversation. The simple yet elegant manner in which Perdita conversed with his son did not a little surprise Polixenes: he said to Camillo, "This is the prettiest lowborn lass I ever saw; nothing she does or says but looks like something greater than herself, too noble for this place."
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Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb Tales from Shakspeare — The Winter's Tale (1831)

Upon this, although Leontes had so long known the integrity and honourable principles of his friend Polixenes, as well as the excellent disposition of his virtuous queen, he was seized with an ungovernable jealousy. Every attention Hermione showed to Polixenes, though by her husband's particular desire, and merely to please him, increased the unfortunate king's jealousy; and from being a loving and a true friend, and the best and fondest of husbands, Leontes became suddenly a savage and inhuman monster.
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