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It is your fault that I have lov'd Pofthumus:
You bred him as my play-fellow; he is

A man, worth any woman; over-buys me
Almost the sum he pays.

Cym. What? art thou mad?

Imo. Almoft, Sir; heav'n restore me: would I were A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus

Our neighbour-fhepherd's fon!

Enter Queen.

Cym. Thou foolish thing;

They were again together, you have done
Not after our command. Away with her,

And pen

her up.

Queen. Beseech your patience; peace,

Dear lady daughter, peace. Sweet fovereign,

Leave us t' our selves, and make your self some comfort
Out of your best advice.

Cym. Nay let her languish

A drop of blood a-day, and being aged

Die of this folly.

Enter Pifanio.

Queen. Fie, you must give way:

Here is your fervant. How now, Sir? what news?

Pif. My lord your fon, drew on my master.

Queen. Hah!

No harm, I truft, is done?

Pif. There might have been,

But that my mafter rather play'd than fought,
And had no help of anger: they were parted

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Queen. I'm very glad on't.

Imo. Your fon's my father's friend, he takes his part,
To draw upon an exile: O brave Sir!

I would they were in Africk both together,
My self by with a needle, that I might prick
The goer-back. Why came you from your master?
Pif. On his command; he would not suffer me
To bring him to the haven: left these notes
Of what commands I fhould be fubject to,
When't please you to employ me.

Queen. This hath been

Your faithful fervant: I dare lay mine honour
He will remain fo.

Pif. I humbly thank your highnefs.

Queen. Pray walk a while.

Imo. About fome half hour hence, pray speak with me;

You fhall, at least, go fee

my lord aboard.

For this time leave me.

I Lord.

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IR, I would advise you to fhift a fhirt; the violence of action hath made you reek as a facrifice.

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some as that you vent..

Clot. If my fhirt were bloody, then to shift it

Have I hurt him?

2 Lord. No faith: not fo much as his patience.

1 Lord. Hurt him? his body's a paffable carkass if he be not

hurt. It is a thorough-fare for steel if it be not hurt.

2 Lord. His steel was in debt, it went o'th' back-fide the town' Clot. The villain would not stand me.

2 Lord. No, but he fled forward still, toward your face.

1 Lord. Stand you? you have land enough of your own; but he added to your having, gave you some ground.

2 Lord. As many inches as you have oceans, puppies! [afide. Clot. I would they had not come between us.

2 Lord. So would I, 'till you had measur'd how long a fool you were upon the ground.

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Clot. And that she should love this fellow, and refuse me! 2 Lord. If it be a fin to make a true election, she's damn'd.

1 Lord. Sir, as I told you always, go not together. She's a good fign, flection of her wit.

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2 Lord. She shines not upon fools, left the reflection should hurt her.

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Clot. Come, I'll to my chamber: would there had been fome hurt done!

2 Lord. I wish not fo; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt.

Clot. You'll go with us?

1 Lord. I'll attend your Lordship.

Clot. Nay come, let's go together. 2 Lord. Well, my lord.

Imo.

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SCENE V.

Enter Imogen, and Pifanio.

Would thou grew'ft unto the fhores o'th' haven,
And questioned'st every fail: if he should write,

And I not have it, 'twere a paper loft.

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As offer'd mercy is. What was the last
That he spake with thee?

Pif. 'Twas, His queen, his queen!

Imo. Then wav'd his handkerchief?
Pif. And kiss'd it, madam.

Imo. Senseless linnen, happier therein than I:
And that was all?

Pif. No, madam; for fo long

As he could make me with his eye, or ear,
Distinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fit and ftirs of's mind
Could best exprefs how flow his foul fail'd on,
How swift his fhip.

Imo. Thou fhould'st have made him

As little as a crow, or lefs, ere left

To after-eye him.

Pif. Madam, fo I did.

Imo. I would have broke mine eye-ftrings; crackt'em, but
To look upon him; 'till the diminution

Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;

Nay follow'd him, 'till he had melted from

The smallness of a gnat, to air; and then

• Have turn'd mine eye, and wept ---- but, good Pifanio, When fhall we hear from him?

Pif. Be affur'd, madam,

With his next vantage.

Imo. I did not take my leave of him, but had
Moft pretty things to fay: ere I could tell him
How I would think on him at certain hours,

Such thoughts, and fuch; or I could make him swear,
The fhe's of Italy fhould not betray

Mine intereft, and his honour; or have charg'd him

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At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
T'encounter me with orifons, (for then

I am in heav'n for him) or ere I could
Give him that parting kifs which I had fet
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
And like the tyrannous breathing of the north,
Shakes all our buds from growing.

Enter a Lady.

Lady. The Queen, madam,

Defires your highness' company.

Imo. Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.

I will attend the Queen.

Pif. Madam, I fhall.

Iach.

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SCENE VI.

ROME.

Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a French man.

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ELIEVE it, Sir, I have seen him in Britain; he was than but crefcent, none expected him to prove fo wore thy as fince he hath been allowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him, without the help of admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his fide, and I to peruse him by Items.

Phil. You fpeak of him when he was lefs furnish'd than now he is, with that which makes him both without and within.

French. I have feen him in France; we had very many there could behold the fun with as firm eyes as he.

lach. This matter of marrying his king's daughter, (wherein he must be weighed rather by her value, than his own) words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.

French.

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