title: The Winter's Tale (The Pelican Shakespeare)
author:  William Shakespeare 
description: The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century.
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  Winter’s Tale 
   
  A Play By 
   
  William Shakespeare 
   
  
  ACT I 
  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