LEONTES,
           King of Sicilia

    MAMILLIUS,
           his son,
         the young Prince of Sicilia

    CAMILLO,
              lord of Sicilia

    ANTIGONUS,
            lord of Sicilia

    CLEOMENES,
             lord of Sicilia

    DION,
            lord of Sicilia

    POLIXENES,
           King of Bohemia

    FLORIZEL,
           his son,
         Prince of Bohemia

    ARCHIDAMUS,
           a lord of Bohemia

    OLD SHEPHERD,
           reputed father of Perdita

    CLOWN,
           his son

    AUTOLYCUS,
           a rogue

   A MARINER

   A GAOLER

    TIME,
           as Chorus

    HERMIONE,
           Queen to Leontes

    PERDITA,
           daughter to Leontes and Hermione

    PAULINA,
           wife to Antigonus

    EMILIA,
           a lady
              attending on the Queen

    MOPSA,
             shepherdess

    DORCAS,
            shepherdess

    Other Lords,
           Gentlemen,
         Ladies,
           Officers,
         Servants,
           Shepherds,
         Shepherdesses

   SCENE:

    Sicilia and Bohemia
 
  ACT I. SCENE I. Sicilia. The
       palace of LEONTES

    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 overkind to Bohemia.

    They were train'd
           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 seem'd to be together,
           though absent;
        shook hands,
           as over a vast;
        and embrac'd 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