There lie thy part. [Striking her: she falls. O, gentlemen, help! Pis. 229 Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus! To death with mortal joy. How fares my mistress? Cym. Pis. Lady, The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if That box I gave you was not thought by me A precious thing: I had it from the queen. Cym. New matter still? Imo. Cor. It poison'd me. 240 O gods! I left out one thing which the queen confess'd, Which must approve thee honest: If Pisanio' Have' said she 'given his mistress that confection Which I gave him for cordial, she is served As I would serve a rat.' 250 Cym. Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it? There was our error. My boys, This is, sure, Fidele. 260 Gui. from you? Upon my lady's missing, came to me Marry, the gods forfend! I would not thy good deeds should from my lips Pluck a hard sentence: prithee, valiant youth, Deny't again. Gui. I have spoke it, and I did it. 200 Cym. He was a prince. Gui. A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke za With language that would make me spurn the sea, If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head; And am right glad he is not standing here To tell this tale of mine. In that he spake too far. Cym. And thou shalt die for 't. Bel. We will die all three: 310 But I will prove that two on's are as good As I have given out him. My sons, I must, For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech, Though, haply, well for you. Your danger's ours. Thou hadst, great king, a subject who Was call'd Belarius. Arv. Gui. And our good his. Bel. Have at it then, by leave. What of him? he is He it is that hath Сут. A banish'd traitor. Bel. Assumed this age; indeed a banish'd man ; I know not how a traitor. Cym. Take him hence: The whole world shall not save him. Bel. 320 Not too hot: First pay me for the nursing of thy sons; Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd 359 Be pleased awhile. This gentleman, whom I call Polydore, Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius: This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus, Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand Of his queen mother, which for more probation I can with ease produce. Cym. Guiderius had Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star; It was a mark of wonder. O, what, am I Cym. A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother 369 Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be, That, after this strange starting from your orbs, No, my lord: Will serve our long inter'gatories. Imo. You are my father too, and did relieve Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows Sooth. Here, my good lord. Luc. Read, and declare the meaning. Sooth. [Reads] When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.' Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The fit and apt construction of thy name, Being Leo-natus, doth import so much. [To Cymbeline] The piece of tender air, virtuous daughter, thy Before the palace of Antioch. To glad your ear, and please your eyes. On ember-eves and holy-ales; I tell you what mine authors say: Bad child; worse father! to entice his own 10 The Daughter of Antiochus. A Bawd. Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates, Fishermen, and Messengers. DIANA. GOWER, as Chorus. SCENE: Dispersedly in various countries. So for her many a wight did die, As yon grim looks do testify. 40 What now ensues, to the judgement of your eye I give, my cause who best can justify. [Exit. SCENE I. Antioch. A room in the palace. Enter ANTIOCHUS, PRINCE PERICLES, and followers. Ant. Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received Music. Enter the Daughter of Antiochus. 20 Per. See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king Of every virtue gives renown to men! Her face the book of praises, where is read Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath Could never be her mild companion. You gods that made me man, and sway in love, That have inflamed desire in my breast 30 To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree, Or die in the adventure, be my helps, As I am son and servant to your will, To compass such a boundless happiness! Ant. Prince Pericles, 20 Per. That would be son to great Antiochus. Ant. Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard: 30 Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view That without covering, save yon field of stars, 40 Per. Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught My frail mortality to know itself, And by those fearful objects to prepare This body, like to them, to what I must; For death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life 's but breath, to trust it error. I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe, Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did; So I bequeath a happy peace to you And all good men, as every prince should do; My riches to the earth from whence they came; But my unspotted fire of love to you. 50 [To the daughter of Antiochus. Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus. Ant. Scorning advice, read the conclusion, Why cloud they not their sights perpetually, [Takes hold of the hand of the Princess. But being play'd upon before your time, Ant. Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life, Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd By man's oppression; and the poor worm duth die for't. Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's ther will; And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth il? It is enough you know; and it is fit, What being more known grows worse, to smo ther it. All love the womb that their first being bred, Then give my tongue like leave to love my head Ant. [Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head. he has found the meaning: II: But I will gloze with him.-Young prince of Tyre. 120 13 Then were it certain you were not so bad Re-enter ANTIOCHUS. 140 Ant. He hath found the meaning, for which we mean To have his head. He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy, And therefore instantly this prince must die; |