Am that Belarius whom you fometime banish'd: Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes Having receiv'd the punishment before, The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd Crм. Thou weep'st, and speak'st. The fervice, that you three have done, is more BEL. Be pleas'd a while. This gentleman, whom I call Polydore, Moft worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius : Your younger princely fon; he, fir, was lapp'd Crм. Guiderius had Upon his neck a mole, a fanguine star; BEL. This is he; Who hath upon him ftill that natural stamp: Crм. O, what am I A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother IMO. No, my lord; I have got two worlds by't.-O my gentle brothers, Crм. Did you e'er meet? ARV. Ay, my good lord. GUI. And at first meeting lov'd; Continued fo, until we thought he died. COR. By the queen's dram fhe fwallow'd. Crм. O rare instinct! When shall I hear all through? This fierce abridgement Distinction should be rich in.-Where? how liv'd you? I know not how much more, fhould be demanded; LI And all the other by-dependencies, From chance to chance; but nor the time, nor place, And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye To fee this gracious season. Crм. All o'erjoy'd, Save these in bonds; let them be joyful too, For they fhall tafte our comfort, IMO. My good master, I will yet do you fervice. Luc. Happy be you! Crм. The forlorn foldier, that fo nobly fought, He would have well becom❜d this place, and grac'd The thankings of a king. POST. I am, fir, The foldier that did company these three In poor befeeming; 'twas a fitment for The purpose I then follow'd ;-That I was he, IACH. I am down again : [Kneeling. But now my heavy confcience finks my knee, That ever fwore her faith. PosT. Kneel not to me ; The power that I have on you, is to spare you; Crм. Nobly doom'd: We'll learn our freeness of a fon-in-law; ART. You holp us, fir, As you did mean indeed to be our brother; Joy'd are we, that you are. Post. Your fervant, princes.-Good my lord of Rome Call forth your foothfayer: As I flept, methought, Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd, Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows Of mine own kindred: when I wak'd, I found Luc. Philarmonus, SOOTH. Here, my good lord. Luc. Read, and declare the meaning. SOOTH. [Reads.] When as a lion's whelp fhall, to himself unknown, without feeking find, and be embraced by a piece of tender air; and when from a fiately cedar fhall be lopp'd branches, which, being dead many years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old flock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miferies, Britain be fortunate, and flourish in peace and plenty. Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The fit and apt conftruction of thy name, The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter, [To GYMBELINE. Unknown to you, unfought, were clipp'd about Crм. This hath some seeming. SOOTH. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, Perfonates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point Thy two fons forth: who, by Belarius ftolen, For many years thought dead, are now reviv'd, To the majestick cedar join'd; whose issue Promises Britain peace and plenty. Crм. Well, My peace we will begin :-And, Caius Lucius, Whom heavens, in justice, (both on her, and hers,) SOOTH. The fingers of the powers above do tune |