It is your fault that I have lov'd Pofthumus: A man, worth any woman; over-buys me Cym. What? art thou mad? Imo. Almoft, Sir; heav'n restore me: would I were A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus Our neighbour-fhepherd's fon! Enter Queen. Cym. Thou foolish thing; They were again together, you have done And pen her up. Queen. Beseech your patience; peace, Dear lady daughter, peace. Sweet fovereign, Leave us t' our selves, and make your self some comfort Cym. Nay let her languish A drop of blood a-day, and being aged Die of this folly. Enter Pifanio. Queen. Fie, you must give way: Here is your fervant. How now, Sir? what news? Pif. My lord your fon, drew on my master. Queen. Hah! No harm, I truft, is done? Pif. There might have been, But that my mafter rather play'd than fought, [Exit. By By gentlemen at hand. Queen. I'm very glad on't. Imo. Your fon's my father's friend, he takes his part, I would they were in Africk both together, Queen. This hath been Your faithful fervant: I dare lay mine honour Pif. I humbly thank your highnefs. Queen. Pray walk a while. Imo. About fome half hour hence, pray speak with me; ་ You fhall, at least, go fee my lord aboard. For this time leave me. I Lord. [Exeunt. IR, I would advise you to fhift a fhirt; the violence of action hath made you reek as a facrifice. Where air comes out, air comes in: there's none abroad fo whol some as that you vent.. Clot. If my fhirt were bloody, then to shift it Have I hurt him? 2 Lord. No faith: not fo much as his patience. 1 Lord. Hurt him? his body's a paffable carkass if he be not hurt. It is a thorough-fare for steel if it be not hurt. 2 Lord. His steel was in debt, it went o'th' back-fide the town' Clot. The villain would not stand me. 2 Lord. No, but he fled forward still, toward your face. 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! [afide. Clot. I would they had not come between us. 2 Lord. So would I, 'till you had measur'd how long a fool you were upon the ground. [afide. Clot. And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me! 2 Lord. If it be a fin to make a true election, she's damn'd. 1 Lord. Sir, as I told you always, go not together. She's a good fign, flection of her wit. [a fide. her beauty and her brain but I have seen small re 2 Lord. She shines not upon fools, left the reflection should hurt her. [afide. Clot. Come, I'll to my chamber: would there had been fome hurt done! 2 Lord. I wish not fo; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt. Clot. You'll go with us? 1 Lord. I'll attend your Lordship. Clot. Nay come, let's go together. 2 Lord. Well, my lord. Imo. I SCENE V. Enter Imogen, and Pifanio. Would thou grew'ft unto the fhores o'th' haven, And I not have it, 'twere a paper loft. R 2 [afide. [Exeunt. As As offer'd mercy is. What was the last Pif. 'Twas, His queen, his queen! Imo. Then wav'd his handkerchief? Imo. Senseless linnen, happier therein than I: Pif. No, madam; for fo long As he could make me with his eye, or ear, Imo. Thou fhould'st have made him As little as a crow, or lefs, ere left To after-eye him. Pif. Madam, fo I did. Imo. I would have broke mine eye-ftrings; crackt'em, but Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle; Nay follow'd him, 'till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat, to air; and then • Have turn'd mine eye, and wept ---- but, good Pifanio, When fhall we hear from him? Pif. Be affur'd, madam, With his next vantage. Imo. I did not take my leave of him, but had Such thoughts, and fuch; or I could make him swear, Mine intereft, and his honour; or have charg'd him At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, I am in heav'n for him) or ere I could Enter a Lady. Lady. The Queen, madam, Defires your highness' company. Imo. Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd. I will attend the Queen. Pif. Madam, I fhall. Iach. B SCENE VI. ROME. Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a French man. [Exeunt. ELIEVE it, Sir, I have seen him in Britain; he was than but crefcent, none expected him to prove fo wore thy as fince he hath been allowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him, without the help of admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his fide, and I to peruse him by Items. Phil. You fpeak of him when he was lefs furnish'd than now he is, with that which makes him both without and within. French. I have feen him in France; we had very many there could behold the fun with as firm eyes as he. lach. This matter of marrying his king's daughter, (wherein he must be weighed rather by her value, than his own) words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter. French. |