Pisa. With his next vantage.* Be assur'd, 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 The she's of Italy should not betray Mine interest, and his honour; or have charged him, I am in heaven for him: or ere I could THE BASENESS OF FALSEHOOD TO A WIFE. Doubting things go ill, often hurts more Had I this cheek Iach. To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch, Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul To the oath of loyalty; this object, which Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye, Fixing it only here; should I (damn'd then,) Slaver with lips as common as the stairs, That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands Made hard with hourly falsehood (falsehood, as With labour;) then lie peeping in an eye, Base and unlustrous as the smoky light That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit, That all the plagues of hell should at one time Encounter such revolt. *Opportunity. † Meet me with reciprocal prayer. What you seem anxious to utter, and yet withhold. ACT II. SCENE. A Bedchamber; in one part of it a Trunk. Fold down the leaf where I have left: To bed! 1. [Sleeps. Iachimo from the Trunk. Iach. The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense Repairs itself by rest: Our Tarquin thus How dearly they do't.-Tis her breathing that The adornment of her bed;-The arras,‡ figures, ry, Ah, but some natural notes about her body, It was anciently the custom to strew chambers with rushes. tie. The white skin laced with blue veins. And be her sense but as a monument, end? To what Why should I write this down, that's riveted, Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here. 'Tis gold The Scene closes. Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up Their deer to the stand of the stealer; and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes, hangs both thief and true man: Is there no way for men to be, but women The nonpariel of this.-O vengeance, vengeance! *Modesty. Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd, Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought As chaste as unsun'd snow: Could I find out The woman's part in me! For there's no motion It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it, [her All faults that may be nam'd, nay that hell knows, They are not constant, but are changing still Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, ACT III. IMPATIENCE OF A WIFE TO MEET HER HUSBAND. O, for a horse with wings!-Hear'st thou, Pisanio? 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, (Who long'st like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,— 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,† * Modesty. Crowd one word on another, as fast as possible. To inherit such a haven: But first of all, How we may steal from hence; and, for the gap That we shall make in time, from our hence-going, And 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, Pisa. 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 She'll home to her father: and provide me, presenti Pisa. Madam, you're best consider. Imo. I see before me, man, nor here, nor here, Nor what ensues; but have a fog in them, That I cannot look through. Away, I pr'ythee; Do as I bid thee: There's no more to say; Accessible is none but Milford way. [Exeunt. SCENE. Wales. A mountainous Country, with a Cave. Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS. Bel. A goodly day not to keep ouse, with such Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys: This gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens; and bow you To morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs Are arch'd so high, that giants may jetf through And keep their impious turbands on, without Good morrow to the sun,-Hail, thou fair heaven! We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly der livers do. |