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The Winter's Tale
  

READ STUDY GUIDE: Act III, Scenes i-ii

Section 6:
ACT III, SCENE I Sicilia. A Street in some Town.
 
[Enter CLEOMENES and DION.]
CLEOMENES.:
The climate's delicate; the air most sweet;
Fertile the isle; the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.
DION.:
I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits,—
Methinks I so should term them,—and the reverence
Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
How ceremonious, solemn, and unearthly,
It was i' the offering!
CLEOMENES.:
But of all, the burst
And the ear-deaf'ning voice o' the oracle,
Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense
That I was nothing.
DION.:
If the event o' the journey
Prove as successful to the queen,—O, be't so!—
As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
The time is worth the use on't.
CLEOMENES.:
Great Apollo
Turn all to th' best! These proclamations,
So forcing faults upon Hermione,
I little like.
DION.:
The violent carriage of it
Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,—
Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,—
Shall the contents discover, something rare
Even then will rush to knowledge.—Go,—fresh horses;—
And gracious be the issue!
[Exeunt.]
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