To the Majesticke Cedar joyn'd; whose Issue
Promises Britaine, Peace and Plenty.

Cym. Well,

My Peace we will begin: And Caius Lucius,
Although the Victor, we submit to Cæsar,
And to the Romane Empire; promising

To pay our wonted Tribute, from the which
We were disswaded by our wicked Queene,

Whom heavens in Justice both on her, and hers, 550
Have laid most heavy hand.

Sooth. The fingers of the Powres above, do tune
The harmony of this Peace: the Vision

Which I made knowne to Lucius ere the stroke
Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant
Is full accomplish'd. For the Romaine Eagle
From South to West, on wing soaring aloft
Lessen'd her selfe, and in the Beames o'th'Sun
So vanish'd; which fore-shew'd our Princely Eagle
Th'Imperial Cæsar, should againe unite

His Favour, with the Radiant Cymbeline,
Which shines heere in the West.

Cym. Laud we the Gods,

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And let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils From our blest Altars. Publish we this Peace

To all our Subjects. Set we forward: Let

A Roman, and a Brittish Ensigne wave

Friendly together: so through Luds-Towne march,
And in the Temple of great Jupiter

Our Peace wee'l ratifie: Seale it with Feasts.
Set on there: Never was a Warre did cease

570

(Ere bloodie hands were wash'd) with such a Peace.

Exeunt.

FINIS.

555. yet this: this yet-3-4F.

THE WINTERS TALE

POLIXENES, king of Bohemia.

FLORIZEL, prince of Bohemia.

ARCHIDAMUS, a Lord of Bohemia.

Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita.
Clown, his son.

AUTOLYCUS, a rogue.

A Mariner.

A Gaoler.

HERMIONE, queen to Leontes.

PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione.

PAULINA, wife to Antigonus.

EMILIA, a lady attending on Hermione.

MOPSA,

DORCAS,

Shepherdesses.

Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers and Servants, Shepherds and Shepherdesses.

Time, as Chorus.

SCENE: Partly in Sicilia, and partly in Bohemia.]

Monument to Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon, donated by Lord Ronald Gower. It is Lord Gower's own work and a valuable tribute to the poet's memory