This is not strong enough to be believ'd Of one persuaded well of— POST. Never talk on 't; She hath been colted by him. IACH. If you seek POST. Ay, and it doth confirm Another stain, as big as hell can hold, Were there no more but it. IACH. Will you hear more? POST. Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns; Once, and a million! IACH. POST. I'll be sworn,— No swearing. If you will swear you have not done 't, you lie; And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny Thou hast made me cuckold. IACH. I'll deny nothing. POST. O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal! I will go there, and do 't; i' the court; before Her father:-I'll do something PHI. [Exit. POST. Is there no way for men to be, but women Must be half-workers? We are all bastards; And that most venerable man, which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her It is the woman's part: Be it lying, note it, All faults that may be nam'd, nay, that hell knows, For ev'n to vice They are not constant, but are changing still Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, [Exit ACT III. SCENE I.-Britain. A Room of State in Cymbeline's Palace. Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, and Lords, at one door; and at another, CAIUS LUCIUS and Attendants. CYм. Now say, what would Augustus Cæsar with us? QUEEN. Shall be so ever. CLO. And, to kill the marvel, There be many Cæsars, Ere such another Julius. Britain is A world by itself; and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses. QUEEN. That opportunity, Which then they had to take from us, to resume We have again.-Remember, sir, my liege, The kings your ancestors; together with The natural bravery of your isle, which stands As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in With rocks unscaleable, and roaring waters; With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats, But suck them up to the top-mast. A kind of conquest Of came, and saw, and overcame: with shame The fam'd Cassibelan, who was once at point (0, giglot fortune!) to master Cæsar's sword, Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright, And Britons strut with courage. CLO. Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: Our kingdom is stronger than it was at that time; and, as I said, there is no more such Cæsars: other of them may have crooked noses; but to owe such straight arms, none. CYм. Son, let your mother end. CLO. We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as Cassibelan: I do not say I am one; but I have a hand.Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If Cæsar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute for light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now. CYM. You must know, Till the injurious Romans did extort This tribute from us, we were free: Cæsar's ambition, The sides o' the world,) against all colour, here Ordain'd our laws; (whose use the sword of Cæsar Though Rome be therefore angry;) Mulmutius made our laws, His brows within a golden crown, and call'd Luc. I am sorry, Cymbeline, That I am to pronounce Augustus Cæsar Receive it from me, then :-War, and confusion, I thank thee for myself. CYM. Thou art welcome, Caius. Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent Much under him; of him I gather'd honour; 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 Palace. Enter PISANIO, reading a Letter. [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 Let me be counted serviceable. How look I, So much as this fact comes to ?-Do 't: The letter That I have sent her, by her own command |