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Oxford: 139

T. AND G. SHRIMPTON.

1869.

·f.l.

CYMBELINE, ACT IV. SCENE 2.

BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS.

Enter ARVIRAGUS bearing IMOGEN, as dead.

Bel. Look, here he comes,

Arv.

Gui.

Bel.

Arv.

Gui.

Arv.

And brings the dire occasion in his arms
Of what we blame him for.

The bird is dead
That we have made so much on. I had rather
Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,
To have turned my leaping time into a crutch,
Than have seen this.

O sweetest, fairest lily!
My brother wears thee not the one half so well
As when thou grew'st thyself.

O melancholy!
Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find
The ooze, to shew what coast thy sluggish crare
Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing,
Jove knows what man thou might'st have made;
but I,

Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.-
How found you him?

Stark, as you see;
Thus smiling, as some fly had tickled slumber,
Not as death's dart, being laughed at; his right

cheek

Reposing on a cushion.

Where ?

O' the floor:

His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept

and put

IDEM GRÆCE REDDITUM.

Β. ΗΝΙΔ ̓ ὅδε στείχει, φορέει δέ τε χερσὶ τὸ δεινὸν ὦ θ ̓ ἕνεκεν τόδ' ἔρεξε, τὸ μεμφόμεθ'.

A.

Γ.

οἴχεται ἄμμι τώρνεον, ᾧ τοσσῆνον ἐτερπόμεθ'· αἴθε γὰρ αὐτὸς ἐξ ἑκκαιδεκέτους πρὶν ἐς ἑξήκοντα ^ περάσας τῷ χλοερῶ γόνατος βάκτρον τριτόβαμον ἀμείβεν ὤφελον, ἢ τόδ' ἰδεῖν.

αἲ αἲ σέθεν, ὦ φίλον ἄνθος, λευκότερόν τε κρίνοιο καὶ ἅδιον· ὡς πολὺ μᾶλλον αὐτὸ φύον καλὸν ἦσθ ̓ ἤ μευ περικεῖσαι ἀδελφῷ. Β. ἃ λύπα βαθυφροντί, τεῶ τίς πώ ποκα βύσσω ἵκετο δὴ στάθμᾳ πειρώμενος, ἢ θίγε πηλῶ ; τίς ποκ' ἐφεῦρ ̓ ὅθι τὶν ῥάϊστ ̓ ἄρα θήσεται ὅρμον ὁ βλαχρὰ σχεδία; μάκαρ ὦ τέκος, οἶδε μὲν ὁ Ζεὺς

Α.

ποῖον ἐς ἄνδρ ̓ ἀπέβας κεν· ἐγὼν δὲ τόσον μόνον
οἶδα,

ἔξοχος ὢν παιδῶν στυγερᾷ κατετάκεο λυπᾷ.
εἰπὲ δὲ, πως εὑρές μιν;

ἀνειμένον, ὡς καὶ ὁρῆσθα, αὔτως μειδιόωντα· ἔφας δέ κε μυίᾳ ἐν ὕπνοις κνισθῆμεν, μηδ ̓ ὧν θανάτω βέλει, οἷς ἐγέλαξε· τὴν δ ̓ αὖ δεξιτερὰν κλίνθη γένυν ἐς ποτίκρανον. Γ. πῇ γὰρ δῆτα κυρεῖ;

Α.

κατακείμενος, αὐτῷ ἐπ ̓ οὔδει, ὧδε περιπλέκτοισι βραχίοσιν· αὐτὰρ ἐγών γα

* Cf. ὀκτωκαιδεκέτης ἢ ἐννεακαίδεχ ̓ ὁ γάμβρος.—Theoc. 15. 129.

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