So please you entertain me. Luc. The boy hath taught us manly duties: Let us As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: SCENE III. A Room in Cymbeline's Palace. Enter CYMBELINE, Lords, and PISANIO. Cym. Again; and bring me word, how 'tis with her. A fever with the absence of her son; A madness, of which her life's in danger :-Heavens, When fearful wars point at me; her son gone, Pis. 6 ness, arm him.] That is, Take him up in your arms, Hold me your loyal servant. 1 Lord. For Cloten, There wants no diligence in seeking him, And will, no doubt, be found. Cym. We'll slip you for a season; but our jealousy Does yet depend. 1 Lord. The time's troublesome: [TO PISANIO. So please your majesty, Are landed on your coast; with a supply Cym. Now for the counsel of my son, and queen!I am amaz'd with matter.7 1 Lord. Good my liege, Your preparation can affront no less Than what you hear of: come more, for more you're ready: The want is, but to put those powers in motion, Cym. Let's withdraw: [Exeunt. Pis. I heard no letter from my master, since I wrote him, Imogen was slain: 'Tis strange: Nor hear I from my mistress, who did promise To yield me often tidings; Neither know I What is betid to Cloten; but remain 7 I am amaz'd with matter.] i. e. confounded by a variety of business. Your preparation can affront, &c.] Your forces are able to face such an army as we hear the enemy will bring against us. Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work: Wherein I am false, I am honest; not true, to be true. These present wars shall find I love my country, Even to the note o'the king,' or I'll fall in them. All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd: Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steer'd. [Exit. SCENE IV. Before the Cave. Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS. Gui. The noise is round about us. Bel. Let us from it. Arv. What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it From action and adventure? Gui. Nay, what hope Have we in hiding us? this way, the Romans During their use, and slay us after. Sons, Bel. We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us. To the king's party there's no going: newness Of Cloten's death (we being not known, not muster'd Among the bands) may drive us to a render Where we have liv'd; and so extort from us 9 to the note o'the king,] I will so distinguish myself, the king shall remark my valour. revolts-] i. e. revolters. a render Where we have liv'd;] An account of our place of abode. This dialogue is a just representation of the superfluous caution of an old man. That when they hear the Roman horses neigh, That they will waste their time upon our note, Bel. O, I am known Of many in the army: many years, Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him From my remembrance. And, besides, the king Gui. Than be so, Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army: Arv. By this sun that shines, Did see man die? scarce ever look'd on blood, A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel their quarter'd fires,] Quarter'd fires, I believe, ineans no more than fires in the respective quarters of the Roman army. STEEVENS. Nor iron on his heel? I am asham'd To look upon the holy sun, to have Gui. Arv. So say I; Amen. Bel. No reason I, since on your lives you set So slight a valuation, should reserve My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys: If in your country wars you chance to die, That is my bed too, lads, and there I'll lie: Lead, lead.—The time seems long; their blood thinks scorn, Till it fly out, and show them princes born. [Aside. [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. A Field between the British and Roman Camps. Enter POSTHUMUS, with a bloody Handkerchief. Post. Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I wish'd bloody handkerchief] The bloody token of Imogen's death, which Pisanio in the foregoing Act determined to send. 5 Yea, bloody cloth, &c.] This is a soliloquy of nature, uttered when the effervescence of a mind agitated and perturbed, spontaneously and inadvertently discharges itself in words. The speech throughout all its tenor, if the last conceit be excepted, seems to issue warm from the heart. He first condemns his own violence; |