CYMBELINE. Уильям Шекспир

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       Which we call Mollis Aer, and Mollis Aer

       We terme it Mulier; which Mulier I diuine

       Is this most constant Wife, who euen now

       Answering the Letter of the Oracle,

       Vnknowne to you vnsought, were clipt about

       With this most tender Aire

       Cym. This hath some seeming Sooth. The lofty Cedar, Royall Cymbeline

       Personates thee: And thy lopt Branches, point

       Thy two Sonnes forth: who by Belarius stolne

       For many yeares thought dead, are now reuiu’d

       To the Maiesticke Cedar ioyn’d; whose Issue

       Promises Britaine, Peace and Plenty

       Cym. Well,

       My Peace we will begin: And Caius Lucius,

       Although the Victor, we submit to Caesar,

       And to the Romane Empire; promising

       To pay our wonted Tribute, from the which

       We were disswaded by our wicked Queene,

       Whom heauens in Iustice both on her, and hers,

       Haue laid most heauy hand

       Sooth. The fingers of the Powres aboue, do tune

       The harmony of this Peace: the Vision

       Which I made knowne to Lucius ere the stroke

       Of yet this scarse-cold-Battaile, at this instant

       Is full accomplish’d. For the Romaine Eagle

       From South to West, on wing soaring aloft

       Lessen’d her selfe, and in the Beames o’th’ Sun

       So vanish’d; which fore-shew’d our Princely Eagle

       Th’ Imperiall Caesar, should againe vnite

       His Fauour, with the Radiant Cymbeline,

       Which shines heere in the West

       Cym. Laud we the Gods,

       And let our crooked Smoakes climbe to their Nostrils

       From our blest Altars. Publish we this Peace

       To all our Subiects. Set we forward: Let

       A Roman, and a Brittish Ensigne waue

       Friendly together: so through Luds-Towne march,

       And in the Temple of great Iupiter

       Our Peace wee’l ratifie: Seale it with Feasts.

       Set on there: Neuer was a Warre did cease

       (Ere bloodie hands were wash’d) with such a Peace.

       Exeunt.

       THE END