Foundations fly the wretched: fuch, I mean, Where they should be reliev'd. Two beggars told me, I could not mifs my way: Will poor folk lye, thee, My hunger's gone; but even before, I was At point to fink for food.-But what is this? Here is a path to it: 'Tis fome favage hold: As I had made my meal; and parted Av. All gold and filver rather turn to dirt! As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of thofe Who worship dirty gods, Imo. I fee, you are angry: Know, if you kill me for my fault, I fhould Imo. Fidele, fir: I have a kinfman, who' Bel. Pr'ythee, fair youth, I were beft not call; I dare not call: yet famine, enter. Best draw my fword; and if mine enemy But fear the fword like me, he'll fcarcely look on't. Are mafter of the feaft: Cadwal, and I, Guid. I am throughly weary. [tite. Arv. I am weak with toil, yet ftrong in appeGuid. There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll brouze on that, Whilft what we have kill'd be cook'd. Think us no churls; nor measure our good minds By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd! Boys, we'll go drefs our hunt.-Fair youth, come in: Guid. Pray, draw near. [lark, lefs welcome. Arv. The night to the owl, and morn to the 3 Dr. Johnson suspects 2 Civil, for human creature. that, after the words, if favage, a line is loft, and propofes to read the paffage thus: Ho! who's here? If any thing that's civil, take or lend, If favage, Speak. If you are civilifed and peaceable, take a price for what I want, or lend it for a future recompence: if you are rough inhospitable inhabitants of the mountain, Speak, that I may know my ftate. fering may here be applied in a fenfe equivalent to the many-headed rabble. Nan 4 A Dif Imo. AM near to the place where they should meet, Immo. So man and man fhould be; Guid. Go you to hunting, I'll abide with birs. ཐ To feem to die, ere fick: So please you, leave me; Guid. I love thee; I have spoke it : Bel. What? how? how? A fano bave mapp'd it truly. How fit his garments ferve me! Why fhould his miftrefs, who was made by him that made the taylor, not be fit too? the rather (faving reverence of the word) for, 'tis faid, a woman's fitnefs comes by fits. Therein I must play the workman. I dare fpeak it to myself, (for it is not vain-glory, for a man and his glafs to confer; in his own chamber, I mean) the lines of my body are as well drawn as his; no lefs young, more ftrong, not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike converfant in general fervices, and more remarkable in fingle oppofifitions: yet this imperfeverant 2 thing loves him in my defpight. What mortality is! Pofthumus, thy head, which is now growing upon thy fhoulders, fhall within this hour be off; thy mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before thy face and all this done, fpurn her home to her father; who may, haply, be a little angry for my fo rough ufage: but my mother, having power O worthinefs of nature! breed of greatnefs! of his teftinefs, fhall turn all into my commenda Cowards father cowards, and bafe things fire bafe: tions. My horfe is ty'd up fafe: Out, fword, and Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace. to a fore purpote! Fortune, put them into my I am not their father; yet who this thould be, hand! This is the very defcription of their meet-Doth miracle itself, lov'd before me. ing place; and the fellow dates not deceive me. 'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn. [Exit. Enter Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Imogen. Bel. You are not well: remain here in the cave; We'll come to you after hunting. Arv. Brother, ftay here: Are we not brothers ? Av. If it be fin to fay fo, fir, I yoke me Bel. O noble strain ! Av. Brother, farewel. Imo. I with ye sport. Are. You health. -So please you, fir. Imo. [Afide.] Thefe are kind creatures. Gods, Our courtiers fay, all's favage, but at court: [To Imogen. The imperious feas breed monfters; for the dish, 1 i. e. he comman is the commiffion to be given to you. 2-Imperfeverant means no more than perfeverant. 3 That is, Keep your daily courfe uninterrupted: if the stated plan of life is once broken, nothing follows but confusion. Arv. Thus did he answer me : yet faid, hereafter Who is thy grandfather; he made those clothes, I might know more. Bel. To the field, to the field :---- For you must be our housewife. Imo. Well, or ill, I am bound to you. Bel. And fhalt be ever. Which, as it feems, make thee. Clot. Thou precious varlet, My taylor made them not. Guid. Hence then, and thank The man that gave them thee. Thou art fome fool; Clot. Thou injurious thief, [Exit Imogen. Hear but my name, and tremble. This youth, howe'er diftrefs'd, appears, he hath had Arv. How angel-like he fings! Guid. But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters; And fauc'd our broths, as Juno had been sick, Arv. Nobly he yokes A fmiling with a figh: as if the figh Was that it was, for not being fuch a smile; Guid. I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Av. Grow, patience! And let the ftinking elder, grief, untwine Enter Cloten. Clot. I cannot find those runagates; that villain Bel. Thofe runagates! Means he not us?—I partly know him; 'tis Clot. Cloten, thou villain. Guid. Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name, I cannot tremble at it; were it toad, adder, spider, 'Twould move me fooner. Clot. To thy further fear, Nay, to thy mere confufion, thou shalt know I am fon to the queen. Guid. I am forry for 't; not feeming So worthy as thy birth. Clot. Art not afeard? Guid. Thofe that I reverence, thofe I fear; the wife : At fools I laugh, not fear them. Clot. Die the death: When I have flain thee with my proper hand, Bel. No company's abroad. Arv. None in the world: You did mistake him, fure. Bel. I cannot tell: Long is it fince I faw him, But time hath nothing blurr'd thofe lines of favour Which then he wore; the fnatches in his voice, And burst of speaking, were as his: I am abfolute, 'Twas very Cloten. I know 'tis he:- -We are held as outlaws:-I Hence. Guid. He is but one: You and my brother fearch [Exeunt Belarius, and Arviragus. Clot. Soft! What are you More flavish did I ne'er, than anfwering Clot. Thou art a robber, A law-breaker, a villain: Yield thee, thief. Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? 1 Stir for move. Arv. In this place we left them: wish my brother make good time with him, You fay he is fo fell. Bel. Being fcarce made up, I mean, to man, he had not apprehenfion Bel. What haft thou done? Guid. I am perfect, what 5: cut off one Cloten's head, Son to the queen, after his own report; 3 Spurs, an old 5. e. well informed, what, 2 Gentle implies well born, of birth above the vulgar. Difplace our heads, where thank the gods they grow, I'd let a parish of fuch Clotens blood, Bel. We are all undone. Guid. Why, worthy father, what have we to lofe, But, that he fwore to take, our lives? The law Protects not us; Then why fhould we be tender, To let an arrogant piece of fleth threat us? Play judge, and executioner, all himself? For we do fear the law? What company Discover you abroad? Bel. No fingle foul Can we fet eye on, but, in all fafe reason, (As it is like him) might break out, and swear He'd fetch us in; yet is 't not probable To come alone, either he fo undertaking, And praife myself for charity. Bel. O thou goddess, [Exit. Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'ft Guid. Where's my brother? I have fent Cloten's clot-pole down the stream, Bel. My ingenious inftrument! Hark, Polydore, it founds! But what occafion Or they fo fuffering: then on good ground we fear, Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark! If we do fear this body hath a tail More perilous than the head. Arv. Let ordinance Guid. Is he at home? Bel. He went hence even now. Guid. What does he mean? fince death of my For is here used in the sense of becrufe. 2 That is, The only notion he had of honour was the fashion, which was perpetually changing. 3 i. c. Fidele's ficknels made my walk forth from the cave tedious. 4 i. e. fuch purfuit of vengeance as fell within any poffibility of oppofition. 5 A crare is a fmall trading veffel, called in the Latin of the middle ages crayera. The word often occurs ia Holished. 6 The meaning is, Jove knows, what man thou might't have made, but I know thou didelt." Not Guid. Why, he but fleeps: If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed; With female fairies will his tomb be haunted, And worms will not come to thee. Whilft fummer lafts, and 1 live here, Fidele, Guid. Pr'ythee, have done; And do not play in wench-like words with that Arv. Say, where shall's lay him ? Guid. By good Euriphile, our mother. And let us, Polydore, though now our voices Guid. Cadwal, (That angel of the world) doth make diftinction Of place 'twixt high and low. Our foe was princely; And though you took his life, as being our foe, Yet bury him as a prince. Guid. Pray you, fetch him hither. Therfites' body is as good as Ajax, When neither are alive. Arv. If you'll go fetch him, Guid. Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east; My father hath a reafon for 't. Guid. Come on then, and remove him, SON G. Guid. Fear no more the beat o' the fun, Thou thy worldly task baft done, Thou art paft the tyrant's froke; To thee the reed is as the oak: Re-enter Belarius, with the body of Cloten. him down. Bel. Here's a few flowers; but about midnight, more: [night, The herbs, that have on them cold dew o' the Are frewings fitt'ft for graves.-Upon their faces:-You were as flowers, now wither'd; even fo These herb'lets thall, which we upon you strow.➡ Come on, away: apart upon our knees. The ground, that gave them first, has them again: Their pleasure here is patt, fo is their pain. [Exe. Imogen, awaking. Imo. Yes, fir, to Milford-Haven; Which is the way? I thank you. By yon bufh?--Pray, how far thither? 'Ods pittikins!. can it be fix miles yet? I have gone all night :-'Faith, I'll lie down and Пеер, But, foft! no bedfellow :-O, gods and goddeffes ! We'll fay our fong the whilft.-Brother, begin. [Seeing the body. [Exit Belarius. These flowers are like the pleasures of the world; Clouted brogues are fhoes ftrengthened with clout or hob-nails. In fome parts of England, thin plates of iron called clouts are likewife fixed to the fhoes of ploughmen. 2 The ruddock is the Ted-breaft, to which bird the office of covering the dead is afcribed. 3 Paid is here used for pu nijhed. 4 Meaning, that reverence, or due regard to fubordination, is the power which keeps peace and order in the world. 5 To confign to thee, is to feal the fame contrail with thee, i. e. add their names to thine upon the register of death. 6 This diminutive adjuration is derived from Ged's my pity. |