 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pages
...as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' th' two ? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' th 'sun. And bleat the one at th' other : what we chang'd, Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing,... | |
 | Francis Lathom - 1828 - 896 pages
...discontinued the subiect, and they returned together to the castle. CHAPTER VI. We are as tnrinn'd lambs I hat did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one to t'other ; what was changed Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing ; no, nor dream'd That... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 536 pages
...such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. , Pol. We were, fair queen, Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' th 'sun, And bleat the one at th' other : what we chang'd, Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1863 - 420 pages
...as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we chang'd Was innocence for innocence : we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 542 pages
...as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we chang'd 63 fees, ie those formerly " verily. White's text did not customary from... | |
 | Norman Rabkin - Poetry - 1981 - 176 pages
...of time, Leontes and Polixenes had spent a childhood like the childhood of Florizel and Perdita, "as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, /And bleat the one at th' other," and we become aware of a world in which time moves cyclically in a process of eternal... | |
 | Robert Bechtold Heilman - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 416 pages
...intuitively seeks the state which Polixenes attributes to Leontes and himself in their boyhood: We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. What we chang'd Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, no,... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Drama - 1992 - 396 pages
...the kings' childhood, the sexualized female body has already been assigned this role: Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th'other: what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence: we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor... | |
 | Avraham Oz - Drama - 1998 - 324 pages
...he talks of a paradisal state of innocence, an idyllic pastoral in which the boys are compared to: twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other. (The Winter's Tale, 1.2.67-68) There too the sameness of a pair of boys is the basis... | |
 | Leeds Barroll - Drama - 1998 - 440 pages
...characterizes both boyhood and the stage: Herm. Was not my lord The verier wag o' th' two? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other: what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence: we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor... | |
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We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' th' sun, And bleat the one at th' other: what we chang'd Was innocence for innocence: we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd That any did. Had we pursu'd that life. 
