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Quotation from The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

“Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten; and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found”

William Shakespeare (spoken by The Oracle of Apollo, read by an Officer)

The Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling))

The oracle settles every factual question in the first half and sets the condition on which the second half turns.

Citation: "Hermione is chaste; Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten; and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is lost be not found" — William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act 3, Scene 2 (Project Gutenberg #1539 (modernised spelling)). (id the-winters-tale-q8)

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