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Cymbeline (Folio 1, 1623)
386The Tragedy of Cymbeline.
2105Take, or lend. Hoa? No answer? Then Ile enter.
2106Best draw my Sword; and if mine Enemy
2108Such a Foe, good Heauens. Exit.
2109Scena Septima.
2110Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Aruiragus.
2113Will play the Cooke, and Seruant, 'tis our match:
2115But for the end it workes too. Come, our stomackes
2118Findes the Downe-pillow hard. Now peace be heere,
2120Gui. I am throughly weary.
2123Whil'st what we haue kill'd, be Cook'd.
2124Bel. Stay, come not in:
2126Heere were a Faiery.
2127Gui. What's the matter, Sir?
2128Bel. By Iupiter an Angell: or if not
2129An earthly Paragon. Behold Diuinenesse
2130No elder then a Boy.
2131Enter Imogen.
2133Before I enter'd heere, I call'd, and thought
2134To haue begg'd, or bought, what I haue took: good troth
2135I haue stolne nought, nor would not, though I had found
2138As I had made my Meale; and parted
2139With Pray'rs for the Prouider.
2140Gui. Money? Youth.
2141Aru. All Gold and Siluer rather turne to durt,
2142As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those
2143Who worship durty Gods.
2145Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should
2146Haue dyed, had I not made it.
2147Bel. Whether bound?
2148Imo. To Milford-Hauen.
2149Bel. What's your name?
2151Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford,
2153I am falne in this offence.
2154Bel. Prythee (faire youth)
2155Thinke vs no Churles: nor measure our good mindes
2156By this rude place we liue in. Well encounter'd,
2158Ere you depart; and thankes to stay, and eate it:
2159Boyes, bid him welcome.
2160Gui. Were you a woman, youth,
2162I bid for you, as I do buy.
2163Arui. Ile make't my Comfort
2164He is a man, Ile loue him as my Brother:
2165And such a welcome as I'ld giue to him
2169If Brothers: would it had bin so, that they
2170Had bin my Fathers Sonnes, then had my prize
2174Gui. Would I could free't.
2175Arui. Or I, what ere it be,
2176What paine it cost, what danger: Gods!
2177Bel. Hearke Boyes.
2178Imo. Great men
2179That had a Court no bigger then this Caue,
2180That did attend themselues, and had the vertue
2182That nothing-guift of differing Multitudes
2183Could not out-peere these twaine. Pardon me Gods,
2184I'ld change my sexe to be Companion with them,
2187Boyes wee'l go dresse our Hunt. Faire youth come in;
2189Wee'l mannerly demand thee of thy Story,
2190So farre as thou wilt speake it.
2191Gui. Pray draw neere.
2194Imo. Thankes Sir.
2196Scena Octaua.
2197Enter two Roman Senators, and Tribunes.
21981. Sen. This is the tenor of the Emperors Writ;
2200'Gainst the Pannonians, and Dalmatians,
2201And that the Legions now in Gallia, are
2202Full weake to vndertake our Warres against
2203The falne-off Britaines, that we do incite
2206For this immediate Leuy, he commands
22092. Sen. I.
2210Tri. Remaining now in Gallia?
2212Which I haue spoke of, whereunto your leuie
2214Will tye you to the numbers, and the time
2215Of their dispatch.
2217Actus Quartus. Scena Prima.
2218Enter Clotten alone.
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