Which does mend nature, change it rather: but

The art itself is nature.

Perdita. So it is.[[71]]

Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gilly-flowers,

And do not call them bastards.

Perdita. I’ll not put

The dibble in earth, to set one slip of them;[[71]]

No more than, were I painted, I would wish

This youth should say, ‘twere well; and only therefore

Desire to breed by me.—Here’s flowers for you;