Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed

Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she

In thy not chiding, for she was as tender

As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,

Hermione was not so [much] wrinkled, nothing

So aged as this seems.

Pol. O, not by much.

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Paul. So much the more our carver's excellence;

Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her