Pif. There might have been,

But that my maffer 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 jfhould be subject 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 highness.

Queen. Pray walk a while.

Imo. About fome half hour hence, pray fpeak with

me;

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

For this time leave me.

[Exeunt.

Enter Cloten, and two Lords.

1 Lord. SIR, I would advise you to fhift 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. Clot. If my fhirt were bloody, then to shift itHave I hurt him?

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

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2 Lord. His fteel was in debt, it went o'th' back-fide the town.

Glot.

Clot. The villain would not stand me.

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

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

own;

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 meafur'd how long a fool you were upon the ground. [afide. Clot. And that the fhould love this fellow, and refufe me!

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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 fign, but have feen fmall 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 wifh not fo; unless it had been the fall of an afs, which is no great hurt.

Clot. You'll go with us?

iLord. I'll attend your Lordfhip. Clot. Nay come, let's go together. 2 Lord. Well, my lord.

SCENE V.

Enter Imogen, and Pifanio.

[afide.

[Exeunt.

Imo. I Would thou grew'ft unto the fhores o'th' haven, And queftioned'ft every fail: if he should writes

And I not have it, 'twere a paper loft

As offer'd mercy is. What was the laft

That he fpake with thee?

Pif. "Twas, His queen, his queen t

Imo. Then wav'd his handkerchief?

Pif. And kifs'd it, madam.

Imo. Senfeless 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,
Diftinguifh 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 beft exprefs how flow his foul fail'd on,
How fwift his fhip.

Imo. Thou fhould't have made him

As little as a crow, or lefs, ere left

To after-eye him.

Pif. Madam, fo I did.

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

To look upon him; 'till the diminution

Of space had pointed him fharp 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

Pifanio,

When fhall we hear from him?

Pif. Be affur'd, madam,

With his next vantage.

but, good

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
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

Enter a Lady.

Lady. The Queen, madam, Defires your highness" company.

Imo. Thofe things I bid you do, get them difpatch'd. I will attend the Queen,

Pif. Madam, I fhall.

[Exeunt.

Iach.

SCENE VI.

ROME.

Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a French man.

Elieve it, Sir, I have feen him in Britain

him to prove fo worthy as fince he hath been al lowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him, without the help of admiration, though the ca talogue 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 furnifh'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 values than his own) words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.

French. And then his banishment

Tach. 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 cafie battery might lay flat, for taking a beggar without more quality. But how comes it he is to fojourn with you how creeps acquaintance?

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 Britain. Let him be fo entertained amongst you, as fuits with gentlemen of your knowing, to a ftranger of his quality. I beseech you all be better known to this gentleman, whom I commend to you as a noble friend of mine. How wor thy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than tory him in his own hearing.

French. Sir, we have been known together in Or beans.

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

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

Poft. By your pardon, Sir, I was then a young tra veller; rather fhun'd to go even with what I heard, than in my every action to be guided by other expe riences; but upon my mended judgment, (if I offend not to fay it is mended,) my quarrel was not altoge ther flight.

French. Faith yes, to be put to the arbitrement of fwords; and by fuch two, that would by all likelyhood have confounded one the other, or have faln both,

fach. Can we with manners ask what was the difference?

French. Safely, I think; 'twas a contention in pu blick, which may without contradiction fuffer the re port. It was much like an argument that fell out laft hight, where each of us fell in praife of our country-miftreffes. This gentleman at that time' voucliing, and upon warrant of bloody affirmation, his to

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