Haven: what your own love will out of this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your, increasing in love, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.' O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio? 50 He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me May plod it in a week, why may not I Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio, Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st, O, let me bate, -but not like me-yet long'st, For mine's beyond beyond - say, and speak thick; Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing, 60 To inherit such a haven: but first of all, How we may steal from hence, and for the gap That we shall make in time, from our hence going And our return, to excuse : but first, how get hence: Why should excuse be born or ere begot? How many score of miles may we well ride 52. of mean affairs, concerned with common business. 56. bate, qualify (the statement 'long like me'). 58. speak thick, crowd the words together. 63. inherit, come by, pos sess. 67. or ere, ere. 'Why should the excuse be framed before its occasion?'-i.e. the 'getting hence.' Pis. One score 'twixt sun and sun, 70 Madam, 's enough for you: [Aside] and too much too. Imo. Why, one that rode to's execution, man, Could never go so slow: I have heard of riding Where horses have been nimbler than the sands foolery : Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say sently A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit A franklin's housewife. Pis. Madam, you 're best consider. Imo. I see before me, man: nor here, nor here, 80 Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them, That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee; Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say ; Accessible is none but Milford way. [Exeunt. SCENE III. Wales: a mountainous country with a cave. Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS, Bel. A goodly day not to keep house, with such Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you 2. Stoop, Hanmer's correction 75. run i the clock's behalf, do the clock's work (i.e. in the of Ff sleep. hour-glass). To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on, without Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven! We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly As prouder livers do. Gui. Hail, heaven! Arv. Hail, heaven! Bel. Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill; Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Con- When you above perceive me like a crow, And you may then revolve what tales I have told you Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war : Gui. Out of your proof you speak: we, poor 10 20 5. jet, strut. 23. bauble, Ff babe. Rowe's 16. This service, i.e. that of emendation. Hanmer, bribe. courts and princes. 17. allow'd, approved. 20. sharded, with scaly wing- plier of the 'unpaid-for silk,' who 25. gain the cap, receive obsequious salutations (from the sup case. 22. check, rebuke. nevertheless remains unpaid). 27. proof, experience. Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not What air 's from home. Haply this life is best, That have a sharper known; well corresponding A prison for a debtor, that not dares Arv. What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage Bel. How you speak! Did you but know the city's usuries And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court, Is certain falling, or so slippery that The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war, search, And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse, 29. What air's from home, what the air is like abroad. 34. prison for, Pope's emend ation of Ff prison or. 35. stride, overstep. 30 40 50 With Roman swords, and my report was once Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night, A storm or robbery, call it what you will, Gui. Uncertain favour! Bel. My fault being nothing-as I have told you oft 60 But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd The fore-end of my time. But up to the moun tains! This is not hunters' language: he that strikes How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature ! They think they are mine; and though train'd up thus meanly I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit 63. hangings, fruit. 73. fore-end, fore-part. 83. wherein they bow; Warburton's emendation of Ff whereon the Bow(e). |