The line "You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely" is uttered by the king's counselor Camillo.
Act IV of this play sees a king argue that art is needed to "mend nature," an aesthetic position his daughter rejects by stating that "were [she] painted" with make-up, she wouldn't want her prince to choose her to "breed by" for that reason. A dispute between the shepherdesses Mopsa and Dorcas leads a clown to exclaim "Is there no manners left among maids?" That dispute is partly based on the shepherdesses' desire to publish some ballads, one of which is advertised as "very true, and but a month old." The line "You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely" is uttered by the king's counselor Camillo. The work contains an erroneous reference to the "seacoast of Bohemia," and sees Antigonus leaves a bag of gold with the princess, before we hear the stage direction "Exit, pursued by a bear." FTP, name this play in which Leontes is reunited with his wife Hermione and daughter Perdita.
Act IV of this play sees a king argue that art is needed to "mend nature," an aesthetic position his daughter rejects by stating that "were [she] painted" with make-up, she wouldn't want her prince to choose her to "breed by" for that reason.
The {Winter’s Tale}