For this immediate levy, he commends First Tri. Remaining now in Gallia ? First Sen. Ay. With those legions Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy Must be supplyant: the words of your commission Will tie you to the numbers and the time Of their dispatch. First Tri. We will discharge our duty. [Exeunt. ΤΟ SCENE I. ACT IV. Wales: near the cave of Belarius. Enter CLOTEN. Clo. I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the rather-saving reverence of the word-for 'tis said a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must play the workman. I dare speak it to myself—for it is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber-I mean, the lines of my body are as well drawn as his; 10 no less young, more strong, not beneath him in 9. commends, delivers. Warburton's emendation of Ff commands. 14. supplyant, auxiliary. fortunes, beyond him in the advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike conversant in general services, and more remarkable in single oppositions yet this imperseverant thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is! Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy shoulders, shall within this hour be off; thy mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before thy face and all this done, spurn her home to her 20 father; who may haply be a little angry for my so rough usage; but my mother, having power of his testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is the very description of their meeting-place; and the fellow dares not deceive me. [Exit. SCENE II. Before the cave of Belarius. Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, Guiderius, Bel. [To Imogen] You are not well: remain We'll come to you after hunting. Imo. So man and man should be; But clay and clay differs in dignity, But not so citizen a wanton as To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me ; Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me To one not sociable: I Since I can reason of it. am not very sick, Pray you, trust me here: I'll rob none but myself; and let me die, Stealing so poorly. Gui. I love thee; I have spoke it: How much the quantity, the weight as much, Bel. What! how! how! Bel. [Aside] O noble strain! 'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn. 10 20 (cf. As You Like It, ii. 7. 75). 10. journal, daily, habitual. 14. reason, discourse. Arv. Brother, farewell. 30 You health. So please you, sir. Gods, Imo. I wish ye sport. Arv. Imo. [Aside] These are kind creatures. what lies I have heard! Our courtiers say all's savage but at court: The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish I am sick still; heart-sick. I'll now taste of thy drug. Gui. Pisanio, [Swallows some. I could not stir him: He said he was gentle, but unfortunate; Arv. Thus did he answer me: yet said, here after I might know more. Bel. To the field, to the field We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest. 40 had Good ancestors. Arv. How angel-like he sings! Gui. But his neat cookery! he cut our roots In characters, And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick And he her dieter. Arv. Nobly he yokes 35. imperious, imperial. 50 A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh With winds that sailors rail at. Gui. I do note That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Arv. Grow, patience! And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine His perishing root with the increasing vine ! Enter CLOTEN. 60 Clo. I cannot find those runagates; that villain Hath mock'd me. I am faint. Bel. 'Those runagates!' Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush. I saw him not these many years, and yet I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence! Gui. He is but one: you and my brother search What companies are near: pray you, away; Clo. [Exeunt Belarius and Arviragus. That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers ? 58. spurs, branching roots of a tree. 60. vine, i.e. patience; untwine with is constructed as if it were the negative of the verb A thing twine with; cf. v. 122 below. ༡༠ 61. great morning, broad day (grand jour). 71. mountaineers, savages. |