If these be they, I know not how to wish Bel. Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand Of his queen mother, which, for more probation, I can with ease produce. Cym. Guiderius had Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star: It was a mark of wonder. Bel. This is he; Who hath upon him still that natural stamp; O, what am I Cym. A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother Rejoic'd deliverance more:-Bless'd may you be, That after this strange starting from your orbs, You may reign in them now!-0 Imogen, Thou hast lost by this a kingdom. Imo. No, my lord; I have got two worlds by't.-O my gentle brother, Have we thus met? O never say hereafter, But I am truest speaker: you call'd me brother, When I was but your sister; I you brothers, When you were so indeed. Cym. Did you e'er meet? And at first meeting lov'd; Arv. Ay, my good lord. Continued so, until we thought he died. 24 Fierce is vehement, rapid. Hath to it circumstantial branches, which Distinction should be rich in25.- Where? how liv'd you? And when came you to serve our Roman captive? How parted with your brothers? how first met them? Why fled you from the court? and whither? These, And your three motives26 to the battle, with I know not how much more, should be demanded; And all the other by-dependancies, From chance to chance; but nor the time, nor place, And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye Cym. Imo. I will yet do you service. Luc. My good master, Happy be you! Cym. The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought, He would have well becom'd this place, and grac'd The thankings of a king. 25 i. e. which ought to be rendered distinct by an ample narrative. 26 Your three motives' means 'the motives of you three.' So in Romeo and Juliet, both our remedies' means the remedy for us both.' 21 Intergatories was frequently used for interrogatories, and consequently as a word of only five syllables. See vol. iii. p. 287, note 17. Thus in Novella, by Brome, Act ii. Sc. 1: ·-- Then you must answer To these intergatories." In The Merchant of Venice, near the end, it is also thus used:And charge us there upon intergatories.' The soldier that did company these three The purpose I then follow'd;-That I was he, Iach. I am down again: [Kneeling. But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee, As then your force did. Take that life, 'beseech you, Which I so often owe: but, your ring first; And here the bracelet of the truest princess, That ever swore her faith. Post. Kneel not to me; The power that I have on you, is to spare you; Cym. Pardon's the word to all. Arv. You holp us, sir, As you did mean indeed to be our brother; Post. Your servant, princes.-Good my lord of Call forth your soothsayer: As I slept, methought, Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows28 28 Spritely shows are groups of sprites, ghostly appearances. 29 A collection is a corollary, a consequence deduced from premises So in Davies's poem on The Immortality of the Soul : When she from sundry arts one skill doth draw; Gath'ring from divers sights one act of war; From many cases like one rule of law: These her collections, not the senses are. So the Queen in Hamlet says: 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 embraced 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, The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter, 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, To the majestic cedar join'd; whose issue Promises Britain peace and plenty. Well, Cym. 111 Her speech is nothing, Yet the unshaped use of it doth move Whose containing means the contents of which, 30 It should apparently be, By peace we will begin.' Soothsayer says, that the label promised to Britain The peace and plenty. To which Cymbeline replies, We will begin with peace, to fulfil the prophecy.' To pay our wonted tribute, from the which Whom heavens, in justice (both on her and hers), 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 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. 31 i. e. have laid most heavy hand on. Many such elliptical passages are found in Shakspeare. Thus in The Rape of Lucrece :Only he hath an eye to gaze on beauty, And dotes on whom he looks [on] gainst law and duty." So in The Winter's Tale : 111 The queen is spotless In that which you accuse her [of]," |