Let it be granted, you have seen all this, (and praise 30 Of that most delicate lodging: By my life,
Be given to your remembrance) the defcription

Iach. If you feek

For further fatisfying, under her breaft,

(Worthy the preffing) lies a mole, right proud

I kiss'd it; and it gave me present hunger

Of what is in her chamber, nothing saves

The wager you have laid.

To feed again, though full. You do remember
This ftain upon her?

Iach. Then, if you can, [Pulling out the bracelet.

Poft. Ay, and it doth confirm

Were there no more but it.

To that your diamond; I'll keep them.

Poft. Jove!

Iach. Will you hear more?

[turns;

Be pale; I beg but leave to air this jewel: See!- 35 Another stain, as big as hell can hold,

And now 'tis up again: It must be married

Once more let me behold it: Is it that

[Gives the ring. 50 The government of patience! - You have won :

It is a basilifk unto mine eye,
Kills me to look on't: - Let there be no honour,

Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance;

love,

Where there's another man: The vows of women 55
Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,
Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing:-
O, above measure falfe!

Phil. Have patience, fir,

1 i. e. fo near to fpeech. The Italians call a portrait, when the likeness is remarkable, a speaking picture. 2 The meaning is this: The fculptor was as nature, but as nature dumb; he gave every thing that nature gives, but breath and motion. In breath is included speech. 3 i. e. the token; the visible proof.

And

The non-pareil of this. - Oh vengeance, vengeance!
Me of my lawful pleasure the restrain'd,
And pray'd me, oft, forbearance: did it with

[her

Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought 10 Why, hers, in part, or all; but, rather, all:

As chafte as unsunn'd snow: - O, all the devils!

Cry'd, oh!' and mounted: found no oppofition 15 Detest them, curse them:--Yet 'tis greater skill
But what he look'd for should oppose, and the
Should-from encounter guard. Could I find out

OW fay, what would Augustus Cæfar with us? [yet Luc. When Julius Cæfar (whose remembrance Lives in men's eyes; and will to ears, and tongues, Be theme, and hearing ever) was in this Britain, And conquer'd it, Caffibelan, thine uncle, (Famous in Cæfar's praises, no whit lefs Than in his feats deserving it) for him,

And his succession, granted Rome a tribute,

Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately 40 with a blanket, or put the moon in his pocket, we It left untender'd.

With sands, that will not bear your enemies' boats, 55 Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed, But fuck them up to the top-mast. A kind of

* i. e. unscquainted with the nature of our boisterous feas.

Thyself domestic officers) thine enemy :
Receive it from me then:-War, and confufion,
In Cæfar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look

Pis. Madam, here is letter from my lord.

Imo. Who? thy lord? that is my lord? Leo

L

natus?

For fury not to be refifted: -Thus defy'd,

O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer,

I thank thee for myself.

Cym. Thou art welcome, Caius.

Thy Cæfar knighted me; my youth I spent
Much under him: of him I gather'd honour;

Which he, to feek of me again, perforce,

5 That knew the stars, as I his characters;
He'd lay the future open. You good gods,
Let what is here contain'd relish of love,
Of my lord's health, of his content, -yet not,
That we two are asunder, let that grieve him!

Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect, 10 (Some griefs are medicinable; that is one of them,

That the Pannonians and Dalmatians, for

For it doth phyfic love 6)-of his content,

Their liberties, are now in arms: a precedent
Which not to read, would shew the Britons cold;
So Cæfar shall not find them.

All but in that! Good wax, thy leave:-Bleft be You bees, that make these locks of counsel! Lovers,

Luc. Let proof fpeak.

15 And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike;
Though forfeiters you cast in prifon, yet
You clasp young Cupid's tables 7. Good news,
gods!
[Reading.
Justice, and your father's wrath, should he

end.

Luc. So, fir.

[mine:

II.

to me, as you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me with your eyes. Take notice, that I am in Cambria, at Milford-Haven: What your own love will, out of this, advise you, fol[Exsunt. 25 low. So, he wishes you all happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your, increasing in love,

Clot. His majesty bids you welcome. Make paftime with us a day, or two, or longer: If you seek us afterwards in other terms, you shall find us in our falt-water girdle: if you beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in the adventure, our 2016 take me in his dominion, could not be so cruel

crows shall fare the better for you; and there's an

Cym. I know your master's pleasure, and he All the remain is, welcome.

SCENE

Another Room.

Enter Pifanio.

Pif. How! of adultery? Wherefore write you 30

not

What monsters her accuse?-Leonatus!

O master! what a strange infection

Is fallen into thy ear? What false Italian

LEONATUS POSTHUMUS."
O, for a horfe with wings! Hear'st thou, Pi-
fanio?

He is at Milford-Haven: Read, and tell me
How far 'tis thither. if one of mean affairs
May plod it in a week, why may not I
Glide thither in a day?-Then, true Pisanio,

(As poisonous tongu'd, as handed) hath prevail'd 35 (Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'ft

On thy too ready hearing? - Disloyal? No:
She's punish'd for her truth; and undergoes,
More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults
As would take in 3 some virtue. O my master!
Thy mind to her is now as low, as were
Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her
Upon the love, and truth, and vows, which I
Have made to thy command? I, her?-her

blood?

If it be so to do good service, never
Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,
That I should feem to lack humanity,

So much as this fact comes to? Do't: The letter
[Reading.

That I have fent her, by her own command,
Shall give thee opportunity: '-O damn'd paper!
Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble!
Art thou a feodary 4 for this act, and look'ft
So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
Enter Imogen.
I am ignorant in what I am commanded 5.
Imo. How now, Pifanio?

O, let me 'bate, but not like me: yet long'ft,-
But in a fainter kind:-O, not like me;
For mine's beyond, beyond,) say, and speak thick,
(Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,
40 To the finothering of the sense) how far it is

To this fame bleffed Milford: And, by the way,
Tell me how Wales was made so happy, as
To inherit fuch a haven: But, first of all,
How we may steal from hence; and, for the gap

45 That we shall make in time, from our hence-going
'Till our return, to excuse:-but first, how get
hence:

Why should excuse be born or e'er begot? We'll talk of that hereafter. Pr'ythee, speak, 50 How many score of miles may we well ride 'Twixt hour and hour?

Pif. One fcore, 'twixt fun and fun, Madam's, enough for you; and too much too

Imo. Why, one that rode to his execution, man, 55 Could never go so sflow; I have heard of riding Where horfes have been nimbler than the fands

wagers,

3 To

At utterance means to keep at the extremity of defiance. 2 i. e. I am well informed. take in a town is to conquer it. 4 A feodary is one who holds his eftate under the tenure of fuit and fervice to a superior lord. 5 i. e. I am unpractifed in the arts of murder. That is, grief for absence keeps love in health and vigour. 7 The meaning is, that the bees are not bleft by the man who forfeiting a bond is fent to prifon, as they are by the lover for whom they perform the more

pleasing office of sealing letters.

That That run i' the clock's behalf: -But this is fool

ery:

Go, bid my woman feign a fickness; fay

She'll home to her father: and provide me, presently,

A riding fuit; no costlier than would fit
A franklin's housewife 2.

Pif. Madam, you're best confider.
Imo. I see before me, man, nor here, nor here,

Nor what ensues; but have a fog in them,

A cell of ignorance; travelling abed;
A prifon for a debtor, that not dares
To ftride a limit 8.

Arv. What should we fpeak of,

5 When we are as old as you? When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
In this our pinching cave, shall we difcourse
The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing:
We are beastly; fubtle as the fox, for prey;

That I cannot look through 3. Away, I pr'ythee; 10 Like warlike as the wolf, for what we eat:
Do as I bid thee: There's no more to say;
Acceffible is none but Milford way.

[Excunt.

Changes to a Forest in Wales, with a Cave.

Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus.

Bel. A goodly day not to keep house, with fuch Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys: This gate

Our valour is, to chace what flies; our cage
We make a quire, as doth the prifon'd bird,
And fing our bondage freely.
Bel. How you speak!

15 Did you but know the city's ufuries,
And felt them knowingly: the art o' the court,
As hard to leave, as keep; whose top to climb
Is certain falling, or fo flippery, that
The fear's as bad as falling: the toil of the war,

Instructs you how to adore the heavens; and bows 20 A pain that only feems to feek out danger

I' the name of fame, and honour; which diesi' the fearch;

Are arch'd fo high, that giants may jet through

And keep their impious turbands 4 on, without

And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph,
As record of fair act; nay, many times,

Good morrow to the sun.-Hail, thou fair heaven! 25 Doth ill deferve by doing well; what's worfe,

We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly

Muft curt'fy at the cenfure:-O, boys, this story

As prouder livers do.

Guid. Hail, heaven!

Arv. Hail, heaven!

The world may read in me: My body's mark'd
With Roman swords; and my report was once
First with the best of note: Cymbeline lov'd me;

Was not far off: Then was I as a tree,
Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but, in one night
A ftorm, or robbery, call it what you will,
Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,

35 And left me bare to weather.
Guid. Uncertain favour!

Bel. Now for our mountain sport: Up to yon hill, 30 And when a foldier was the theme, my name Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Confider, When you above perceive me like a crow, That it is place, which lessens, and fets off. And you may then revolve what tales I have told you, Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war: This fervice is not service, so being done, But being fo allow'd: To apprehend thus, Draws us a profit from all things we fee: And often, to our comfort, shall we find The sharded 5 beetle in a fafer hold Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life Is nobler, than attending for a check; Richer, than doing nothing for a babe 7; Prouder, than ruftling in unpaid-for filk:

[oft) Bel. My fault being nothing (as I have told you But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline, 401 was confederate with the Romans: fo, Follow'd my banishment; and, these twenty years, This rock, and thefe demesnes, have been my

world:

Where I have liv'd at honest freedom; pay'd

Such gain the cap of him, that makes them fine, 45 More pious debts to heaven, than in all [tains; Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours.

The fore-end of my time. But, up to the moun-
This is not hunters' language: He, that ftrikes
The venifon first, shall be the lord' the feaft;
To him the other two shall minifter;

Guid. Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfiedg'd, [know not Have never wing'd from view o' the nest; nor What air's from home. Haply, this life is best, 50 And we will fear no poison, which attends If quiet life be best; sweeter to you, That have a sharper known; well corresponding

With your ftiff age: but, unto us, it is

In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys. [Exeunt Guid. and Are. How hard it is, to hide the fparks of nature!

This fantastical expreffion means no more than fand in an hour-glass, used to measure time. A franklin is literally a freeholder, with a small eftate, neither villain nor vaffal. 3 That is, "I can fee neither one way nor other, before me nor behind me, but all the ways are covered with an impenetrable fog." + The idea of a giant was, among the readers of romances, who were almost all the readers of those times, always confounded with that of a Saracen. 5 i. e. the beetle whose wings are enclofed within two dry busks or shards. 6 Check may mean in this place a reproof; but it rather seems to fignify command, controul. 7 Dr. Johnson fufpects, that the right reading of this passage is as follows: "Richer than doing nothing for a brabe." Brabium is a badge of honour, or the enfign of an honour, or any thing worn as a mark of dignity. The word is found (he adds) in Holyoak's Dictionary, who terms it a reward; and that Cooper, in his Thefaurus, defines it to be a prize, or reward for any game. & To overpass his bound.

Thefe

2

These boys know little, they are fons to the king;
Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.

They think, they are mine: and, though train'd

up thus meanly

And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing
The most disdain'd of fortune.

Imogen reads.

Thy mistress, Pifanio, bath play'd the ftrumpet in I' the cave, wherein they bow 1, their thoughts do hit 5 my bed; the teftimonies whereof lie bleeding in me. The roofs of palaces; and nature prompts them, In fimple and low things, to prince it, much Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore, The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, whom The king his father call'd Guiderius,-Jove! When on my three-foot stool I fit, and tell The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out Into my story: say, Thus mine enemy fell; And thus I fet my foot on bis neck; even then

I speak not out of weak furmises; but from proof as strong as my grief, and as certain as I expect my revenge. That part, thou, Pifanio, must alt for me, if thy faith le not tainted with the breach of bers. 10 Let thine own bands take arvay ber life: I shall give thee opportunity at Milford-Haven: she bath my letter for the purpose: Where, if thou fear to Strike, and to make me certain it is done, thou art the pandar to ber dishonour, and equally to me disloyal.

The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats, 15 Pif. What shall I need to draw my sword?

Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in posture

the paper

That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,

(Cnce, Arviragus) in as like a figure,

Hath cut her throat already. - No, 'tis slander;
Whose edge is 'tharper than the sword; whose

Strikes life into my speech, and shews much more

tongue

His own conceiving. Hark! the game is rouz'd! - 20 Out-venoms all the worms 3 of Nile; whose breath

Myfelf, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,

They take for natural father. The game is up. 30 And cry myfelf awake? that's falfe to his bed?

To break it with a fearful dream of him,

i

[Exit.

Is it?

Pif. Alas, good lady!

Was near at hand: - Ne'er long'd my mother fo

To fee me first, as I have now: Pifanio! Man! 40 I must be ript:-to pieces with me!-0,

i. e. Thus meanly brought up. Yet in this very cave, which is so Tow that they must bow or bend in entering it, yet are their thoughts so exalted, &c.

poifons. rank.

2 This is another allufion to Italian

3 Serpents and dragons by the old writers were called worms. 4 Perfons of highest $ That is, Some jay of Italy, made by art the creature, not of nature, but of painting. In this sense painting may be not improperly termed her mother.

Thy