Winter's Tale

Homelessness, wild creatures, protecting innocents .. ... Come poor babe Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens To be thy nurses. Wolves and bears, they say, Casting their savageness aside, have done Like offices of pity ... - And blessing Against this cruelty fight on thy side. Poor thing, condemned to loss. The Winter's Tale, by William Shakespeare Act II Scene 3 Antigonus Antigonus, instructed by the temporarily insane king Leontes to abandon the infant princess Perdita in the wilderness. Antigonus is soon after devoured by a bear. Perdita is rescued by a shepherd.