No Fear Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale: Act 4 Scene 4 Page 4

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To CAMILLO	To Camillo
You’re welcome, sir. Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs, 85For you there’s rosemary and rue; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long: Grace and remembrance be to you both, And welcome to our shearing!	You are welcome here, sir. Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Honored sirs, for you there are rosemary and rue Rosemary is an herb that symbolizes remembrance, while rue is an herb that symbolizes repentance and grace. rosemary and rue , which keep their appearance and scent all through the winter. May you both have grace and remembrance, and welcome to our shearing!
POLIXENES Shepherdess, 90A fair one are you—well you fit our ages With flowers of winter.	POLIXENES Fair shepherdess, since we are old, you do well to pair us with winter flowers Refers to the common metaphor comparing the stages of life to the seasons, with winter being old age. winter flowers .
PERDITA Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer’s death, nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest 95flowers o’ the season Are our carnations and streak’d gillyvors, Which some call nature’s bastards: of that kind Our rustic garden’s barren; and I care not To get slips of them.	PERDITA Sir, the year is growing old, with the summer not yet over and the winter not yet starting. The fairest flowers of this season are carnations and two-toned gillyflowers, which some call nature’s bastards. But we don’t have any of those flowers in our garden, and I don’t care to get any cuttings of them.
POLIXENES 100Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them?	POLIXENES Kind maiden, why do you reject them?
PERDITA For I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness shares With great creating nature.	PERDITA Because I’ve heard that their many colors are due as much to cross-breeding as to nature.