Cym. Thou weep'ft, and speak'ft: The fervice, that you three have done, is more Bel. Be pleas'd a while This gentleman, whom I call Paladour, Cym. Guiderius had Upon his neck a mole, a fanguine ftar; Bel. This is he; Who hath upon him still that natʼral stamp: Cym. Oh, what am I A mother to the birth of three! ne'er mother Rejoic'd deliverance more; bleft may you be, Imo. No, my Lord: I've got two worlds by't. Oh, my gentle brothers, But I am trueft fpeaker. You call'd me brother, When ye were fo, indeed. Cym. Did you e'er meet? Arv. Ay, my good Lord. Guid. And at first meeting lov'd; Continued fo, until we thought he died. Cym. O rare instinct! When fhall I hear all through? this fierce abridgment Hath to it circumftantial branches, which Diftinction Distinction should be rich in.-Where? how liv'd you? I know not how much more, fhould be demanded; From chance to chance: but not the time, nor place, And fhe, like harmless lightning, throws her eye Thou art my brother; fo we'll hold thee ever. [To Bel. Imo. You are my father too, and did relieve me, To fee this gracious feafon! Cym. All o'er-joy'd, Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too, For they fhall taste our comfort. Ime. My good mafter, I will yet do you fervice. Luc. Happy be you! Cym. The forlorn foldier, that fo nobly fought, He would have well becom❜d this place, and grac'd (31) Why fled you from the Court, and whether thefe ?] By a ftrange Negligence, in all the Editions, this Paffage is ftark Nonfenfe. One Part of the mistake made is in the Word, whether; and another, is, in the falfe Pointing. It must be rectified thus ; Why fled you from the Court? and whither? Thefe, &c. The King is afking his Daughter, how she has lived fince her Elopement from the Court; when she enter'd herfelf in Lucius's Service; how fhe met with her Brothers, or parted from them why the fled from the Court, and to what Place: And having enumerated fo many Particulars, he ftops fhort, and cries, "All thefe circumstances, and the Motives of Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus to the Battle, together with a Number more of Occurrences by the bye, I want to be refolved in." 4 The The thankings of a King. The foldier, that did company these three, Iach. I am down again: But now my heavy confcience finks my knee, [Kneels. And then force did. Take that life, 'befeech you, your Which I fo often owe: but, your ring first; And here the bracelet of the truest Princess, Poft. Kneel not to me: The power, that I have on you, is to fpare you: Cym. Nobly doom'd: We'll learn our freeness of a fon-in-law; Pardon's the word to all. Arv. You help'd us, Sir, As you did mean, indeed, to be our brother; Joy'd are we, that you are. Poft. Your fervant, Princes. Good my Lord of Rome, Call forth your Soothsayer. As I flept, methought, Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd, Appear'd to me, with other fprightly fhews Of mine own kindred. When I wak'd, I found Is fo from fenfe in hardness, that I can Luc. Philarmonus, Sooth. Here, my good Lord. Luc. Read, and declare the meaning. W [Reads.] WHEN as a lion's whelp fhall, to himself unknown, without feeking find, and be embrac'd by a piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar fhall be lopt branches, which, being dead many years, fhall after revive, be be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then shall Polthumus end his miferies, Britaine be fortunate, and flourish in peace and plenty. Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter, Which we call Mollis Aer; and Mollis Aer Unknown to you, unfought, were clipt about Cym. This has fome feeming. [To Cymb. Sooth. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, Cym. My peace we will begin, and, Caius Lucius, To pay our wonted tribute, from the which Sooth. The fingers of the Powers above do tune His favour with the radiant Cymbeline, Which fhines here in the west. Cym. Laud we the Gods! And let the crooked smokes climb to their Noftrils Friendly together; fo through Lud's town march: Our Peace we'll ratify. Seal it with feasts. Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with fuch a Peace. [Exeunt omnes. TROILUS |