Imo. Sir, It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus. Cym. What!-art thou mad? Imo. Almost, sir; Heaven restore me!-'Would I were A neat-herd's daughter! and my Leonatus Our neighbor shepherd's son! And pen her up. Queen. 'Beseech your patience;-peace, Dear lady daughter, peace. Sweet sovereign, Out of your best advice.2 Cym. Nay, let her languish [Exit. A drop of blood a day; and, being aged, Die of this folly! Queen. Enter PISANIO. Fie!-you must give way; Here is your servant.-How now, sir? What news? Pis. My lord your son drew on my master. Ha! There might have been, played than fought, They were parted 1 "My worth is not half equal to his." Queen. I am very glad on't. Imo. Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part. To draw upon an exile!-O brave sir! I would they were in Afric both together; The goer back. Why came you from your master? Queen. Pis. I humbly thank your highness. Queen. Pray, walk a while. About some half hour hence, I pray you, speak with me; you shall, at least, [Exeunt. Enter CLOTEN and two Lords. 1 Lord. Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes out, air comes in; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent. Clo. If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it-Have I hurt him? 2 Lord. No, faith; not so much as his patience. [Aside. 1 Lord. Hurt him? his body's a passable carcass, if he be not hurt; it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt. 2 Lord. His steel was in debt; it went o' the backside the town. [Aside. Clo. The villain would not stand me. 2 Lord. No; but he fled forward still, toward your face. [Aside. 1 Lord. Stand you! You have land enough of your own; but he added to your having; gave you some ground. 2 Lord. As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies! [Aside. Clo. I would they had not come between us. 2 Lord. So would I, till you had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground. [Aside. Clo. And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me! 2 Lord. If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damned. 1 Lord. Sir, as I told you always, her her brain go not together. She's a good have seen small reflection of her wit.1 2 Lord. She shines not upon fools, lest tion should hurt her. Clo. Come, I'll to my chamber. been some hurt done! [Aside. beauty and sign, but I 'Would the reflec[Aside. there had 2 Lord. I wish not so; unless it had been the fall Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO. Imo. I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven, And question'dst every sail; if he should write, 1 "Her beauty and her sense are not equal." To understand the force of this idea, it should be remembered, that anciently almost every sign had a motto, or some attempt at a witticism underneath. Imo. Senseless linen! happier therein than I!— Pis. Imo. Thou shouldst have made him As little as a crow, or less, ere left To after-eye him. Pis. Madam, so I did. -Imo. I would have broke mine eye-strings; cracked them, but To look upon him; till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle ; The smallness of a gnat to air; and then Have turned mine eye, and wept.-But, good Pisanio, When shall we hear from him? Pis. With his next vantage.1 Be assured, madam, Imo. I did not take my leave of him, but had Most pretty things to say. Ere I could tell him, How I would think on him, at certain hours, Such thoughts, and such; or I could make him swear Mine interest, and his honor; or have charged him, To encounter me with orisons, for then 1 "Its loss would be as fatal as the loss of intended mercy to a condemned criminal." 2 The old copy reads, "his eye or ear." 3 The diminution of space is the diminution of which space is the cause. 4 Opportunity. I am in heaven for him; or ere I could Lady. Enter a Lady. The queen, madam, Desires your highness' company. Imo. Those things I bid you do, get them de spatched. I will attend the queen. Pis. Madam, I shall. [Exeunt. SCENE V. Rome. An Apartment in Philario's House. Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard. Iach. Believe it, sir. I have seen him in Britain; he was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy, as since he hath been allowed the name of; but I could then have looked on him without the help of admiration; though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by items. Phi. You speak of him when he was less furnished, than now he is, with that which makes 3 him both without and within. French. I have seen him in France; we had very many there, could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he. Iach. This matter of marrying his king's daughter, (wherein he must be weighed rather by her value, 1 i. e. "to meet me with reciprocal prayer, for then my solicitations ascend to heaven on his behalf." 2 This enumeration of persons is from the old copy; but the two last are mute characters. 3 i. e. accomplishes him. |