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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Winter's Tale
[I, 2]

Leontes

232

No, in good earnest.
How sometimes nature will betray its folly,
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime
To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines
Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil
Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,
In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,
Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:
How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,
This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,
Will you take eggs for money?

2

Winter's Tale
[IV, 3]

Autolycus

1787

I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel
ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon
me.

3

Winter's Tale
[IV, 3]

Clown

1804

Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.

4

Winter's Tale
[IV, 3]

Autolycus

1805

No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have
a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,
unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or
any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you;
that kills my heart.

5

Winter's Tale
[IV, 4]

Servant

2072

O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the
door, you would never dance again after a tabour and
pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings
several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he
utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's
ears grew to his tunes.

6

Winter's Tale
[IV, 4]

Clown

2121

If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take
no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it
will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.

7

Winter's Tale
[IV, 4]

Clown

2138

Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way
and lost all my money?