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Cymbeline (Folio 1, 1623)
1467Scena Secunda.
1468Enter Pisanio reading of a Letter.
1469Pis. How? of Adultery? Wherefore write you not
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1472Is falne into thy eare? What false Italian,
1473(As poysonous tongu'd, as handed) hath preuail'd
1474On thy too ready hearing? Disloyall? No.
1475She's punish'd for her Truth; and vndergoes
1478Thy mind to her, is now as lowe, as were
1479Thy Fortunes. How? That I should murther her,
1480Vpon the Loue, and Truth, and Vowes; which I
1481Haue made to thy command? I her? Her blood?
1483Let me be counted seruiceable. How looke I,
1485So much as this Fact comes to? Doo't: The Letter.
1486That I haue sent her, by her owne command,
1487Shall giue thee opportunitie. Oh damn'd paper,
1490So Virgin-like without? Loe here she comes.
1491Enter Imogen.
1492I am ignorant in what I am commanded.
1494Pis. Madam, heere is a Letter from my Lord.
1496Oh, learn'd indeed were that Astronomer
1497That knew the Starres, as I his Characters,
1498Heel'd lay the Future open. You good Gods,
1499Let what is heere contain'd, rellish of Loue,
1500Of my Lords health, of his content: yet not
1501That we two are asunder, let that grieue him;
1502Some griefes are medcinable, that is one of them,
1503For it doth physicke Loue, of his content,
1504All but in that. Good Wax, thy leaue: blest be
1506And men in dangerous Bondes pray not alike,
1508You claspe young Cupids Tables: good Newes Gods.
IVstice and your Fathers wrath (should he take me in his
1511rest of Creatures) would euen renew me with your eyes. Take
1512notice that I am in Cambria at Milford-Hauen: what your
1517He is at Milford-Hauen: Read, and tell me
1518How farre 'tis thither. If one of meane affaires
1519May plod it in a weeke, why may not I
1520Glide thither in a day? Then true Pisanio,
1522(Oh let me bate) but not like me: yet long'st
1523But in a fainter kinde. Oh not like me:
1528Tell me how Wales was made so happy, as
1530How we may steale from hence: and for the gap
1531That we shall make in Time, from our hence-going,
1534Weele talke of that heereafter. Prythee speake,
1535How many store of Miles may we well rid
1536Twixt houre, and houre?
1538Madam's enough for you: and too much too.
1539Imo. Why, one that rode to's Execution Man,
1541Where Horses haue bin nimbler then the Sands
1542That run i'th' Clocks behalfe. But this is Foolrie,
1544She'le home to her Father; and prouide me presently
1546A Franklins Huswife.
1549Nor what ensues but haue a Fog in them
1550That I cannot looke through. Away, I prythee,
1551Do as I bid thee: There's no more to say: