Leave us t' our felves, and make your self some comfort beft advice.

Out of your

Cym. Nay, let her languifh

A drop of blood a-day; and, being aged,

Die of this folly.

Enter Pifanio.

Queen. Fie, you must give way:

[Exit.

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
By gentlemen at hand.

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 felf by with a needle, that I might prick

The goer-back. Why came you from your mafter? Pif. On his command; he would not fuffer me

To bring him to the haven: left these notes

Of what commands I should be subject to,
When't pleas'd you to employ me.

Queen. This hath been

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

Pif. I humbly thank your Highness..

Queen. Pray, walk a while.

Imo. About fome half hour hence, pray you, speak

with me ;

You fhall, at least, go fee my Lord aboard.

For this time leave me.

Enter Cloten, and two Lords,

[Exeunt

1 Lord. Sir, I would advise you to shift a fhirt; the violence of action hath made you reek as a facrifice. Where air comes out, air comes in: there's none abroad fo wholfome as That you vent.

Clat.

Clot. If my fhirt were bloody, then to shift itHave I hurt him?

2 Lord. No, faith: Not fo much as his patience.

[Afide 1 Lord. Hurt him? his body's a paffable carkafs, if he be not hurt. It is a thorough-fare for fteel, if it be not hurt.

2 Lord. His fteel was in debt, it went o'th' backfide the town.. [Afide

Clot. The villain would not stand me.

2 Lord. No, but he fled forward ftill, toward your

face.

[Afide. 1 Lord, Stand you? you have land enough of your own; but he added to your Having, gave you fome round.

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.

[Afide. Clot. And that the fhould love this fellow, and refufe me!

2 Lord. If it be a fin to make a true election, fhe's damn'd. [Afide..

1 Lord. Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together. She's a good Sign, but I have seen small reflection of her wit.

2 Lord. She fhines not upon fools, left the reflection fhould hurt her.

[Afide.. 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 afs, 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:.

[Afide.

[Exeunt.

SCENE

SCENE, Imogen's Apartments.

Enter Imogen, and Pifanio.

Would, thou grew'ft unto the fhores o' th' ha

ven,

And question'd'ft every fail: if he should write,
And I not have it, 'twere a paper loft
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?
Pis. And kifs'd it, Madam.

Imo. Senfelefs linen, happier therein than I!
And that was all?

Pif. No, Madam; (3) for fo long

As he could make me with this eye, or ear,
Diftinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fies and ftirs of's mind

Could beft express how flow his foul fail'd on,
How swift his ship.

Imo. Thou fhould'st have made him

As little as a crow, or leís, ere left

To after-eye him.

Pij. Madam, fo I did.

Imo. I would have broke mine eye-ftrings; crackt 'em, but

To look upon him; 'till the dimunition

(3)

for fo long

As be could make me with his Eye or Ear

Diftinguifh bim from others,] But how could Pofibumus make himself diftinguish'd by his Ear to Pifanio? By his Tongue he might, to the other's Ear: and this was certainly Shakespeare's Intention. We must therefore read, as Mr. Warburton hinted to me;

As he could make me with this Eye, or Ear,
Diftinguish bim from others.

The Expreffion is delitos, as the Greeks term it. The Party
Speaking points to the Party spoken of,

Of

Offpace had pointed him fharp as my needle ;
Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from
The fmallness of a gnat, to air; and then
Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.---

fanio,

When shall we hear from him?

Pif. Be affur'd, Madam,

With his next vantage.

-But, good Pi

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 fwear,
The She's of Italy should not betray

Mine intereft, and his honour; or have charg'd him,
At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
T'encounter me with Orifons; (for then

I am in heaven for him ;) or ere I could
Give him that parting kiss, 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. Thofe things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.

I will attend the Queen.

Pif. Madam, I fhall.

SCENE changes to Rome.

[Exeunt.

Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a French man.

Jach. Believe

he was then of a crefcent Note; expected to prove fo worthy, as fince he has 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 perufe 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.

Iach. This matter of marrying his King's Daughter, (wherein he must be weigh'd rather by her value, than his own) words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the

matter.

French. And then his banishment

Iach. Ay, and the approbation of those, that weep this lamentable divorce under her colours, are wonderfully to extend him; be it but to fortifie her Judg ment, which elfe an eafie battery might lay flat, for taking a beggar without more quality. But how comes it, he is to fojourn with you? how creeps acquain

tance ?

Phil. His father and I were foldiers together, to whom I have been often bound for no less than my life.

Enter Pofthumus.

Here comes the Briton. Let him be fo entertained amongst you, as fuits with Gentlemen of your knowing, to a ftranger of his quality. I befeech you all, be better known to this Gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend of mine. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather, than story him in his own hearing.

French. Sir, we have been known together in Orleans.

Poft. Since when I have been debtor to you for courtefies, which I will be ever to pay, and yet pay ftill.

French. Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness; I was glad I did atone my Countryman and you; it had been pity, you should have been put together with fo mortal a purpose, as then each bore, upon importance of so flight and trivial a nature.

Poft.