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ACT II IT

Scene I IT

Enter Hermione, Mamillius (and) Ladies.

HERMIONE
Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,
’Tis past enduring.

FIRST LADY
Come, my gracious lord,
Shall I be your play-fellow?

MAMILLIUS

No, I’ll none of you.

FIRST LADY

Why, my sweet lord?

MAMILLIUS
You’ll kiss me hard, and speak to me as if [5]
I were a baby still. I love you better.

SECOND LADY
And why so, my lord?

MAMILLIUS
Not 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, [10]
Or a half-moon, made with a pen.