No Fear Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale: Act 2 Scene 1

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A room in LEONTES’ palace.	A room in LEONTES’s palace.
Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies	HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies enter.
HERMIONE Take the boy to you: he so troubles me, ‘Tis past enduring.	HERMIONE Take the boy. He is such a pest I can’t take it anymore.
FIRST LADY Come, my gracious lord, Shall I be your playfellow?	FIRST LADY Come with me, my gracious lord. Shall I play with you?
MAMILLIUS 5No, I’ll none of you.	MAMILLIUS No, I don’t want anything to do with you.
FIRST LADY Why, my sweet lord?	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.	MAMILLIUS You’ll kiss me too hard and talk baby talk to me. (to Second Lady) I love you better.
SECOND LADY And why so, my lord?	SECOND LADY Why is that, my lord?
MAMILLIUS 10Not 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.	MAMILLIUS Not because your eyebrows are blacker, though they say that black eyebrows suit some women best, as long as there isn’t too much hair and they are shaped like a semicircle, or drawn like a half-moon.
SECOND LADY 15Who taught you this?	SECOND LADY Who taught you that?
MAMILLIUS I learnt it out of women’s faces. Pray now What colour are your eyebrows?	MAMILLIUS I learned it from looking at women’s faces. Tell me, what color are your eyebrows?
FIRST LADY Blue, my lord.	FIRST LADY Blue, my lord.
MAMILLIUS Nay, that’s a mock: I have seen a lady’s nose 20That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.	MAMILLIUS No, you’re joking. I’ve seen a lady’s nose that was 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, 25If we would have you.	FIRST LADY Listen: your mother the queen is getting rounder by the day. We’ll be serving a fine new prince one day soon, and then you’ll want to play with us, if we’ll let you.