To send them to you, only for this night; I must aboard to-morrow. Imo. O, no, no. lach. Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word, By length'ning my return. From Gallia I cross'd the seas on purpose, and on promise To see your grace.. Imo. I thank you for your pains; But not away to-morrow? Lach. O, I must madam : Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please Imo. I will write. Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept, $10 [Excunt. ACT II. SCENE 1. CYMBELINE's Palace. Enter CLOTEN, and two Lords. Cloten. WAS there ever man had such luck! when I kiss'd the jack upon an up-cast, to be hit away! I had an hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrow'd borrow'd my oaths of him, and might not spend them at my pleasure. 1 Lord. What got he by that? You have broke his pate with your bowl. 2 Lord. If his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have run all out. [Aside. Clot. When a gentleman is dispos'd to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths: Ha? 12 2 Lord. No, my lord; nor crop the ears of them. [Aside. Clot. Whoreson dog!-I give him satisfaction? 'Would, he had been one of my rank ! [Aside. 2 Lord. To have smelt like a fool. Clot. I am not vex'd more at any thing in the earth -A pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am; they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my mother: every jack-slave hath his belly full of fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that no body can match. 22 2 Lord. You are a cock and a capon too; and you crow, cock, with your comb on. Clot. Sayest thou? [Aside. 1 Lord. It is not fit, your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to. Clot. No, I know that: but it is fit, I should commit offence to my inferiors. 2 Lord. Ay, it is fit for your lordship only. 30 Clot. Why, so I say. 1 Lord. Did you hear of a stranger, that's come to court to-night. D Clot. Clot. A stranger! and I not know on't! 2 Lord. He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it not. [Aside. 1 Lord. There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of Leonatus' friends. Clot. Leonatus! a banish'd rascal; and he's another, whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger? 1 Lord. One of your lordship's pages. 41 Clot. Is it fit, I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in't? 1 Lord. You cannot derogate, my lord. Clot. Not easily, I think. 2 Lord. You are a fool granted; therefore your issues being foolish, do not derogate. [Aside. Clot. Come, I'll go see this Italian: What I have lost to-day at bowls, I'll win to-night of him. Come, go. 2 Lord. I'll attend your lordship. 51 [Exeunt CLOTEN, and first Lord. That such a crafty devil as his mother Should yield the world this ass! a woman, that Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act 60 Of Of the divorce he'd make! The heavens hold firm [Exit. SCENE II. A Bed-Chamber; in one Part of it a Trunk. IMOGEN reading in her Bed; a Lady attending. Imo. Who's there? my woman Helen? Lady. Please you, madam. Imo, What hour is it? Lady. Almost midnight, madam. 70 Imo. I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak : Fold down the leaf where I have left: To bed: Take not away the taper, leave it burning; And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock, I pr'ythee, call me. Sleep hath seiz'd me wholly. [Exit Lady. To your protection I commend me, gods! Guard me, beseech you! [Sleeps. [IACHIMO, from the Trunk. lach. The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense Repairs itself by rest: Our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd Dij 80 The The chastity he wounded.-Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed! fresh lily! How dearly they do't!-'Tis her breathing that 90 The adornment of her bed ;-The arras, figures? Why, such, and such :-And the contents o' the story Ah, but some natural notes about her body O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her! Thus in a chapel lying l. 100 -Come off, come off ;- As slippery, as the Gordian knot was hard!- |