Which, not to read, would show the Britons cold: Luc. Let proof speak. Clo. His majesty bids you welcome. Make pastime with us a day, or two, or longer: If you seek us afterwards in other terms, you shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in the adventure, our crows shall fare the better for you; and there's an end. Luc. So, sir. Cym. I know your master's pleasure, and he mine: All the remain is, welcome. SCENE II. Another Room in the Same. Enter PISANIO. [Exeunt. Pis. How! of adultery? Wherefore write you not What monster's her accuser?-Leonatus! O, master! what a strange infection Is fallen into thy ear? What false Italian Upon the love, and truth, and vows, which I Let me be counted serviceable. How look I, So much as this fact comes to? Do't: The letter [Reading. That I have sent her, by her own command Enter IMOGEN. I am ignorant in what I am commanded. Imo. How now, Pisanio? Pis. Madam, here is a letter from my lord. Imo. Who? thy lord? that is my lord? Leonatus? O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer, That knew the stars, as I his characters; He'd lay the future open.-You good gods, 1 Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods! [Reads. Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as you, O the dearest of creatures, would not even renew me with your eyes. Take notice, that I am in Cambria, at MilfordHaven: What your own love will, out of this, advise you, follow. So, he wishes you all happiness, that remains loyal to his row, and your, increasing in love, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS. O, for a horse with wings!-Hear'st thou, Pisanio? May plod it in a week, why may not I Glide thither in a day?—Then, true Pisanio, (Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,O, let me 'bate,-but not like me:-yet long'st,But in a fainter kind:-O, not like me; For mine's beyond beyond,) say, and speak thick, How we may steal from hence; and, for the gap Why should excuse be born or e'er begot? Pis. One score, 'twixt sun and sun, Madam,'s enough for you; and too much too. Imo. Why, one that rode to his 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 29:. -But this is foolery : Go, bid my woman feign a sickness; say She'll home to her father: and provide me, presently, A riding suit; no costlier than would fit A franklin's housewife 30. Pis. Madam, you're best consider. Imo. I see before me, man, nor here, nor here, That I cannot look through 31. Away, I pr'ythee; SCENE III. [Exeunt. Wales. A mountainous Country, with a Cave. Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS. 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 To morning's holy office: The gates of monarchs Gui. Aro. Hail, heaven! Hail, heaven! Bel. Now, for our mountain sport: Up to yon 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: Such gain the cap of him, that makes them fine, Gui. Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledg'd, |