Arv. Thus did he answer me: yet faid, hereafter I might know more. Bel. To the field, to the field : We'll leave you for this time; go in, and rest. For Arv. We'll not be long away. Bel. Pray, be not fick, you must be our housewife. Imo. Well, or ill, I am bound to you. Bel. And fhalt be ever. [Exit Imogen. This youth, howe'er diftrefs'd, appears, he hath had Good ancestors. 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 fick, And he her dieter, Arv. Nobly he yokes A fmiling with a figh: as if the figh Was that it was, for not being fuch a smile The fmile mocking the figh, that it would fly With winds that failors rail at. Guid. I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Arv. Grow, patience! And let the ftinking elder, grief, ' untwine there? 'Spurs]-fibres. -Who's untwine]-from thy increafing vine-entwine his root with the vine, (patience) fo long as grief may laft; but let his baleful root perish, in the fame proportion as thine encreases. It is great morning.]-The morning's far advanced. P 3 Enter Enter Cloten. Clot. I cannot find thofe runagates; that villain Hath mock'd me:-I am faint. Bel. Thofe runagates! Means he not us? I partly know him; 'tis I know 'tis he:-We are held as outlaws:-Hence.. Let me alone with him. [Exeunt Belarius, and Arviragus. That fly me thus? fome villain mountaineers? I have heard of fuch.-What flave art thou? Guid. A thing More flavish did I ne'er, than answering A flave without a knock. Clot. Thou art a robber, A law-breaker, a villain: Yield thee, thief. Guid. To whom? to thee? What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger; for I wear not My dagger in my mouth. Say, what thou art; Clot. Thou villain bafe, Know'ft me not by my clothes? Guid. No, nor thy taylor, rascal, V Who is thy grandfather; he made those clothes, Clot. Thou precious varlet, My taylor made them not. 4. A flave]-Such abufive language otherwife than by a blow. Imo. Guid. Hence then, and thank The man that gave them thee. Thou art fome fool; Clot. Thou injurious thief, Hear but my name, and tremble. Guid. What's thy name? 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, W 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. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wife: At fools I laugh, not fear them. Clot. Die the death: When I have flain thee with my proper hand, I'll follow thofe that even, now fled hence, And on the gates of Lud's town fet your heads: [Fight, and exeunt. Enter Belarius, and Arviragus. 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 those 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. w mere]-utter. P 4 Arv. Arv. In this place we left them : I wish my brother make good time with him, Bel. Being scarce made up, I mean, to man, he had not apprehenfion Of roaring terrors: For the effect of judgment Re-enter Guiderius, with Cloten's head. Guid. This Cloten was a fool; an empty purse, There was no money in't: not Hercules Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none: Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne My head, as I do his. Bel. What haft thou done? Guid. I am 2 perfect, what: cut off one Cloten's head, Son to the queen, after his own report; Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer; and fwore, With his own fingle hand he'd take us in, Difplace our heads, where, thank the gods, they grow, And fet them on Lud's town. Bel. We are all undone. Guid. Why, worthy father, what have we to lose, But, that he fwore to take, our lives? The law Protects not us; Then why fhould we b be tender, * make good time with him,]-fucceed, come off with safety in this encounter. For the effect of judgment is oft the cause of fear,]-Apprehenfions of fear naturally refult from a judgment in weighing danger-defe& of judgment is oft the cure of fear. 2 perfect,]-well apprized. bte tender,]-endure patiently. 2 take us in,]-apprehend us. Bel, Bel. No fingle foul Can we fet eye on, but, in all safe reason, d He must have fome attendants. Though his humour To bring him here alone: Although, perhaps, It may Cave here, hunt here, are out-laws, and in time To come alone, either he fo undertaking, Or they fo fuffering: then on good ground we fear, More perilous than the head. Aru. Let ordinance Come as the gods forefay it: howfoe'er, My brother hath done well. Bel. I had no mind To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness Did make my way long forth. Guid. With his own fword, Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en Behind our rock; and let it to the fea, And tell the fishes, he's the queen's fon, Cloten: That's all I reck. Bel. I fear, 'twill be reveng'd: [Exit. 'Would, Polydore, thou had'st not done't! though valour Becomes thee well enough. a tail]-attendants on it. Let ordinance]-The will of the gods be done. • Did make my way long forth.]-Made me leave home with re luctances Aro. |