CAMILLO It is in mine authority to command
The keys of all the posterns: please your highness
To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.
[Exeunt]
THE WINTER'S TALE
ACT II
SCENE I A room in LEONTES' palace.
[Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies]
HERMIONE Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
'Tis past enduring.
First Lady Come, my gracious lord,
Shall I be your playfellow?
MAMILLIUS No, I'll none of you.
First Lady Why, my sweet lord?
MAMILLIUS You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if
I were a baby still. I love you better.
Second Lady And why so, my lord?
MAMILLIUS Not for because
Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
Become some women best, so that there be not
Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
Or a half-moon made with a pen.
Second Lady Who taught you this?
MAMILLIUS I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now
What colour are your eyebrows?
First Lady Blue, my lord.
MAMILLIUS Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose
That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.
First Lady Hark ye;
The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall
Present our services to a fine new prince
One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,
If we would have you.
Second Lady She is spread of late
Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!
HERMIONE What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now
I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,
And tell 's a tale.
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