..." There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature. Pal. Say there be ; Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature...sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stoch ; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art, Which does mend...

...in its most deliberate craftsmanship, he points out, is no more than a self-realization of nature: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry...

...question would seem to be some forbidden degree of consanguinity. In Polixenes' statement to Perdita, You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (4.4.92^95) (which names the convention of grafting as what marriage is, marriage of different stocks...

...passage in The Winter's Tale, when Perdita and Polixenes debate the value of hybrids and of "marrying a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race"— an image, ironic in the dramatic context, drawn from an ordinary Shakespearean association of grafting...

...passage in The Winter's Tale, when Perdita and Polixenes debate the value of hybrids and of "marrying a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind. By bud of nobler race"—an image, ironic in the dramatic context, drawn from an ordinary Shakespearean association...

...heard it said There is an art, which in their piedness shares With great creating Nature. POLIXENHS: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we...

...Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over that art 90 (Which you say adds to nature) is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gender scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race.85...

...an opening and incorporation that links it with the famous images of grafting from The Winter's Tale ("we marry / A gentler scion to the wildest stock,...conceive a bark of baser kind / By bud of nobler race," IV.iv.92-95). Despite his best efforts to prevent it, Bertram's noble family expands just enough to...

...heard it said There is an art which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature. Polixenes. Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry...

...has implied that hybrids should be fostered because they result in "conceptions" that are desirable: we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And...conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (92-95) But he acts as if the opposite were true. When Florizel proposes to "contract" a marriage to...