1 Lord. I'll attend Your Lordship. Clot. Nay, come, let's go together.

2 Lord. Well, my Lord, ou l 3131 975 l 1001 [Exeunt

SCENE, Imogen's Apartments. NA

then adora sred bloow Ind Enter Imogen, and Pifaniod mo

mid nogu doof of Would, thou grew ft unto the shores o'th' ha

Paper

And question'd'it every fail: if he fhould write sa adT
And I not have it, 'twere a loftim bu s
evsH
As offer'd mercy is, What was the last
That he spake with thee?n weed a lled nedW
Pif. 'Twas, "His Queen, his Queens a
Imo. Then way'd his handkerchief?
Pif. And kiss'd it, Madam.

Imo. Senfeless linnen, happier therein than Long foM

And that

was all?

Pif. No, Madam; (6) for fo long as 23

As he could make me with this eye, or caro aede an7 Diftinguish him from others, he did keep

The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief or ZA Still waving, as the fits and stirs

(6)

ftirs of's mind

av 10 ( mid not nevesd ai nil for fo long

As he could make me with his Eye or Earneq jed mid svi Diftinguish him from others,] But how could Pofthumus make him felf diftinguish'd by his Ear to Pifanie? By his Tongue he might, to the other's Ear: and this was certainly Shakespeare's Intention. We must therefore read, as Mr. Warburton hinted to me;

As he could make me with this Eye, or Ear,
Diftinguish him from others

The Expreffion is Sexins, as the Greeks termes it TheParty (peaking points to the Part fpoken of. So Polonius in Hamlet 10Y 200 Take This from This, if This be otherwife.

i. e take my Head from my Neck; Both which Polonus poi whilft he speaks: So, Hector to Eneas, in Virgil

Ge. Certum hifce oculis egomet vidi, Softrata.

And a Multitude of Inftances might be quoted to prove this Ulage.

Could best express how flow his foul fail'd on, how

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How fwift his fhip.
Imo. Thou fhould't have made him
As little as a crow, or lefs, ére left

To after-eye him.
Pif. Madam, fo I did. negom

Imo. I would have broke mine eye-strings; crackt 'em, butini bua nggon

To look upon him; 'till

Of space had pointed him

hardon

as my needle,

Nay, follow'd him, 'till he had melted from
The smallness of a gnat, to air; and then
Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.

fanio,

When shall we hear from him?

Pif. Be afflur'd, Madam,

With his next vantage.

But, good Piz

Imo. I did not take my leave of him, but had 置 Moft pretty things to fay: ere I could tell him, How I would think on him, at

certain hours, Such thoughts, and fuch; or, I could make him fwear, The She's of Italy fhould not betray

2

Mine intereft, and his honour, or have charg'd him,
At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, 2
T'encounter me with orifons; (for then

I am in heaven for him ;) or ere I could

Give him that parting kifs, which I had fet
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my Father;
And, like the tyrannous breathing of the North,
Shakes all our buds from growing,

Defires your Highnes company.

Imo. Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.

I will attend the Queen, ta

Pif. Madam, I fhall, ta

[Exeunt.

SCENE changes to Rome.

Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a French man.

Lach. BElieve it, Sir, I have feen him in Britaine 3

he was then of a crefcent Note; expected to prove fo worthy, as fince he hath been allowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him, without the help of admiration; though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his fide, and I to peruse him by Items.

Phil. You speak of him when he was lefs furnish'd, than now he is, with That which makes him both without and within.

French. I have feen him in France; we had very many there, could behold the fun with as firm eyes as

he.

Iach. This matter of marrying his King's Daughter, (wherein he must be weighed rather by her value, than his own) words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.

French. And then his banishment.

Iach. Ay, and the approbation of thofe, that weep this lamentable divorce under her colours, are wonderfully to extend him; be it but to fortifie her judgment, which elfe an eafie battery might lay flat, for taking a beggar without more quality. But how comes it, he is to fojourn with you? how creeps acquaintance.?

Phil. His father and I were foldiers together, to whom I have been often bound for no lefs than my life.

Enter Pofthumus.

Here comes the Britain. Let him be fo entertained amongst you, as fuits with Gentlemen of your knowing, to a ftranger of his quality, I beseech you all, be better known to this Gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend of mine. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than ftory him in his own hearing. French.

French. Sir, we have been known together in Or

leans.

Poft. Since when I have been debtor to you for courtefies, which I will be ever to pay, and yet pay ftilla d pol sved f

French. Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness; I was glad I did atone my Countryman and you; it had been pity, you should have been put together with fo mortal a purpose, as then each bore, upon importance of fo flight and trivial a nature.tag

Poft. By your pardon, Sir, I was then a young traveller rather fhun'd to go even with what I heard, r than in my every action to be guided by others experiences; but upon my mended judgment, (if I offend vnot to fay, it is mended,), my quarrel was not altogether flight

French. Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of fwords and by fuch two, that would by all likelyshood have confounded one the other, or have faln both.brary I

Iach. Can we with manners ask, what was the difference?

T

French. I think; Safely was a contention in pu blick, which may without contradiction fuffer the report. It was much like an argument that fell out laft night, where each of us fell in praife of our Country fus 25 miftreffes: This Gentleman at that time vouching, (and upon warrant of bloody affirmation,) his to be more fair, virtuous, wife, chaft, conftant, qualified, and less attemptable t than any the rareft of our Ladies in France ou to bored arch 26 sved J. Iach. That Lady is not now living; or this Gentleman's opinion, byorn out. this,

Poft. She holds her virtue ftill, and I my mind. Tack! You must not fo far prefer her, 'fore ours) of Italy ucy to mohmɔ daru nul as uoy ligions Poft. Being fo far proyok'd, as I was in Frange, I would abate her nothing tho I profefs my felf her adorer, not her friend. dom & as woy of Lube etvalorod neque of and How 241A a vom

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Tach.

Iach. As fair, and as good, a kind of hand-in-hand comparison, had been fomething too fair and too good for any Lady in Britany. If the went before others I have feen, as that diamond of yours out-lufters many I have beheld, I could not believe, the excelled many; but I have not feen the most precious diamond that is, nor you the Lady.

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Poft. I prais'd her, as I rated her; fo do I my ftone. Iach. What do you esteem it at?

Poft. More than the world enjoys.

Iach. Either your unparagon'd Miftress is dead, or fhe's out-priz'd by a trifle..

Poft. You are mistaken; the one may be fold or given, if there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit for the gift. The other is not a thing for fale, and only the gift of the Gods.

Jach. Which the Gods have given you:

Poft. Which, by their graces, I will keep.

Fach. You may wear her in title yours; but, you know, ftrange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your ring may be ftoln too; fo of your brace of unprizeable eftimations, the one is but frail and the other cafual. A cunning thief, or a that-way-accomplish'd courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and laft.

Poft. Your Italy contains none fo accomplish'd a Courtier to convince the honour of my mistress; if in the holding or lofs of that, you-term her frail; I do nothing doubt, you have ftore of thieves, notwithstanding I fear not my ring.

Phil. Let us leave here, Gentlemen.

Poft. Sir, with all my heart. This worthy Signior, I thank him, makes no ftranger of me; we are familiar at firft.

Iach. With five times fo much converfation, I fhould get ground of your fair Miftrefs; make her go back, even to the yielding: had I admittance, and opportunity to friend.

Poft. No, no.