...masquerade plays, the disguised king of Bohemia tells the disguised Perdita: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.91 Heldris proclaims no such elegant synthesis, but in Silence the story itself is often wiser...

...that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...nature - change it rather - but The art itself is nature.29 In Cj/mbeline, perhaps Pisanio best illustrates nature. He comes nearer than anyone else...

...over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. (4.4.89-97) Both characters link themselves to nature: Edmund links himself and nature and bastardy...

...Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark...nature, change it rather; but The art itself is nature. PERDITA. So it is. POLIXENES. Then make your garden rich in gillyflowers, And do not call them bastards....

...play's protagonists, Polixenes, king of Bohemia, says of grafting: "You see, sweet maid, we marry/A gentler scion to the wildest stock/ And make conceive...nobler race. This is an art/ Which does mend nature." He concludes, in perfectly circular form, that "the art itself is nature."59 Where, then, does the...

...that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...change it, rather — but The art itself is nature. 4.4.89-97 As the gardener of his own nature, man has the opportunity to tend it according to the laws...

...art. Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark...change it rather — but The art itself is nature. From Shakespeare, we could finally learn that human culture and the rest of nature have no "relationship"...

...over that art Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...Nature — change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.42 Polixenes here equates art — or artifice — with nature insofar as nature and art both...