Quotation by Shakespeare

There might you have beheld one joy crown another, so and in such manner that it seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their joy waded in tears.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. 3rd Gentleman, in The Winter's Tale, act 5, sc. 2, l. 43-6.

On the reconciliation of Leontes and Polixenes.
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