CYMBELINE. Уильям Шекспир

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СКАЧАТЬ I would haue left it on the Boord, so soone

       As I had made my Meale; and parted

       With Pray’rs for the Prouider

       Gui. Money? Youth

       Aru. All Gold and Siluer rather turne to durt,

       As ‘tis no better reckon’d, but of those

       Who worship durty Gods

       Imo. I see you’re angry:

       Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should

       Haue dyed, had I not made it

       Bel. Whether bound?

       Imo. To Milford-Hauen

       Bel. What’s your name?

       Imo. Fidele Sir: I haue a Kinsman, who

       Is bound for Italy; he embark’d at Milford,

       To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,

       I am falne in this offence

       Bel. Prythee (faire youth)

       Thinke vs no Churles: nor measure our good mindes

       By this rude place we liue in. Well encounter’d,

       ‘Tis almost night, you shall haue better cheere

       Ere you depart; and thankes to stay, and eate it:

       Boyes, bid him welcome

       Gui. Were you a woman, youth,

       I should woo hard, but be your Groome in honesty:

       I bid for you, as I do buy

       Arui. Ile make’t my Comfort

       He is a man, Ile loue him as my Brother:

       And such a welcome as I’ld giue to him

       (After long absence) such is yours. Most welcome:

       Be sprightly, for you fall ‘mongst Friends

       Imo. ‘Mongst Friends?

       If Brothers: would it had bin so, that they

       Had bin my Fathers Sonnes, then had my prize

       Bin lesse, and so more equall ballasting

       To thee Posthumus

       Bel. He wrings at some distresse Gui. Would I could free’t

       Arui. Or I, what ere it be,

       What paine it cost, what danger: Gods!

       Bel. Hearke Boyes

       Imo. Great men

       That had a Court no bigger then this Caue,

       That did attend themselues, and had the vertue

       Which their owne Conscience seal’d them: laying by

       That nothing-guift of differing Multitudes

       Could not out-peere these twaine. Pardon me Gods,

       I’ld change my sexe to be Companion with them,

       Since Leonatus false

       Bel. It shall be so:

       Boyes wee’l go dresse our Hunt. Faire youth come in;

       Discourse is heauy, fasting: when we haue supp’d

       Wee’l mannerly demand thee of thy Story,

       So farre as thou wilt speake it

       Gui. Pray draw neere

       Arui. The Night to’th’ Owle,

       And Morne to th’ Larke lesse welcome

       Imo. Thankes Sir

       Arui. I pray draw neere.

       Exeunt.

      SCENE VIII.

       Enter two Roman Senators, and Tribunes.

       1.Sen. This is the tenor of the Emperors Writ;

       That since the common men are now in Action

       ‘Gainst the Pannonians, and Dalmatians,

       And that the Legions now in Gallia, are

       Full weake to vndertake our Warres against

       The falne-off Britaines, that we do incite

       The Gentry to this businesse. He creates

       Lucius Pro-Consull: and to you the Tribunes

       For this immediate Leuy, he commands

       His absolute Commission. Long liue Caesar

       Tri. Is Lucius Generall of the Forces?

       2.Sen. I

       Tri. Remaining now in Gallia?

       1.Sen. With those Legions

       Which I haue spoke of, whereunto your leuie

       Must be suppliant: the words of your Commission

       Will tye you to the numbers, and the time

       Of their dispatch

       Tri. We will discharge our duty.

       Exeunt.

ACT IV.

       Table of Contents

      SCENE I.

       Enter Clotten alone.

       Clot I am neere to’th’ place where they should meet, if Pisanio haue mapp’d it truely. How fit his Garments serue me? Why should his Mistris who was made by him that made the Taylor, not be fit too? The rather (sauing reuerence of the Word) for ‘tis saide a Womans fitnesse comes by fits: therein I must play the Workman, I dare speake it to my selfe, for it is not Vainglorie for a man, and his Glasse, to confer in his owne Chamber; I meane, the Lines of my body are as well drawne as his; no lesse young, more strong, not beneath him in Fortunes, beyond him in the aduantage of the time, aboue him in Birth, alike conuersant in generall seruices, and more remarkeable in single oppositions; yet this imperseuerant Thing loues him in СКАЧАТЬ