Haven what your own love will out of this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your, increasing in love, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.' O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio? 50 Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,- O, let me bate,—but not like me-yet long'st, For mine's beyond beyond-say, and speak thick; Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing, going And our return, to excuse but first, how get hence: Why should excuse be born or ere begot? We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak, 52. of mean affairs, concerned with common business. 56. bate, qualify (the statement 'long like me'). 58. speak thick, crowd the words together. 60 Pis. One score 'twixt sun and sun, 70 Madam, 's enough for you: [Aside] and too much too. Imo. Why, one that rode to 's execution, man, Could never go so slow: I have heard of riding wagers, Where horses have been nimbler than the sands That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery: Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say She'll home to her father: and provide me pre sently A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit A franklin's housewife. Pis. Madam, you're best consider. Imo. I see before me, man: nor here, nor here, 80 Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them, That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee; Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say; [Exeunt. SCENE III. Wales: a mountainous country Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS, Bel. A goodly day not to keep house, with such Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you 75. run the clock's behalf, do the clock's work (i.e. in the hour-glass). 2. Stoop, Hanmer's correction of Ff sleep. To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs Gui. Arv. Hail, heaven! Hail, heaven! Bel. Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill; Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider, When you above perceive me like a crow, That it is place which lessens and sets off: And you may then revolve what tales I have told you Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war: O, this life 5. jet, strut. 16. This service, i.e. that of courts and princes. 17. allow'd, approved. 20. sharded, with scaly wing case. 22. check, rebuke. ΤΟ 20 Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not What air's from home. Haply this life is best, That have a sharper known; well corresponding Arv. What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear Bel. How you speak! The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war, I' the name of fame and honour; which dies i' the search, And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph As record of fair act; nay, many times, Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse, 29. What air's from home, what the air is like abroad. 34. prison for, Pope's emend ation of Ff prison or. 35. stride, overstep. 30 40 50 With Roman swords, and my report was once Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one A storm or robbery, call it what you will, Gui. Uncertain favour! Bel. My fault being nothing—as I have told you oft 60 But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd More pious debts to heaven than in all The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains ! This is not hunters' language: he that strikes The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast; And we will fear no poison, which attends In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys. [Exeunt Guiderius and Arviragus. How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature! These boys know little they are sons to the king; 80 Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive. They think they are mine; and though train'd up thus meanly I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit 63. hangings, fruit. 73. fore-end, fore-part. 83. wherein they bow; Warburton's emendation of Ff whereon the Bow(e). |