As you did mean indeed to be our brother; Post. Your servant, princes.-Good my lord of Rome, Call forth your soothsayer: As I slept, methought, Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back, Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows Make no collection of it; let him show Luc. Sooth. Here, my good lord. Philarmonus, Read, and declare the meaning. Sooth. [Reads.] When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown, without seeking find, and be embrac ed by a piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many years shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britain be fortunate, and flourish in peace and plenty. Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The fit and apt construction of thy name, Being Leo-natus, doth import so much : The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter, [To Cymbeline. Which we call mollis aer; and mollis aer We term it mulier: which mulier I divine, Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about Cym. This hath some seeming. Sooth. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point Thy two sons forth: who, by Belarius stolen, For many years thought dead, are now reviv'd, Cym. Sooth. The fingers of the powers above do tune His favour with the radiant Cymbeline, Cym. Laud we the gods; And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils From our bless'd altars! Publish we this peace To all our subjects. Set we forward: Let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together: so through Lud's town march :: Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.- Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace. [Exeunt. Vol. 6. K "Sed omnis loquendi elegantia, quamquam expolitur scientia literarum, tamen au- getur legendis oratoribus et portis. Cie: da Orat: 3.10. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Escalus, prince of Verona. Paris, a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince. Montague,heads of two houses, at variance with each Capulet, other. An old Man, uncle to Capulet. Romeo, son to Montague. Mercutio, kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo. Benvolio, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo. Tybalt, nephew to Lady Capulet. Friar Lawrence, a Franciscan. Friar John, of the same order. Sampson, Gregory, S servants to Capulet. Abram, servant to Montague. An Apothecary. Three Musicians. Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, Relations to both houses; Maskers, Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants. SCENE, Huring the greater part of the play, in Verona once in the fifth act at Mantua. |