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Quotation from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
“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”
The Winter's Tale, Act 1, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling))
Polixenes describes his boyhood with Leontes as a paradise before the knowledge of evil, moments before that innocence is lost in jealousy.
Citation: "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" — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act 1, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling)). (id the-winters-tale-q2)
