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Clot, If my fhirt were bloody, then to shift it Have I hurt him?

2 Lord. No, faith: Not fo much as his patience.

[Afide. 1 Lord. Hurt him? his body's a paffable carcaís, if he be not hurt. It is a thorough-fare for fteel, if it be not hurt.

2 Lord. His fteel was in debt, it went o'th' backfide the town. [Afide.

Clot. The villain would not ftand me.

2 Lord. No, but he fled forward. ftill, toward your

face.

[Afide. 1 Lord. Stand you? you have land enough of your own; but he added to your Having, gave you fome ground.

2 Lord. As many inches as you have oceans, puppies! [Afide. Clot. I would, they had not come between us. 2 Lord. So would I, 'till you had measur'd how long a fool you were upon the ground.

Afide

Clot. And that the fhould love this fellow, and refufe me!

2 Lord. If it be a fin to make a true election, she's damn'd. [Afide.

1 Lord. Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain go not together. She's a good fign, but I I have feen fmall reflection of her wit.

2 Lord. She fhines not upon fools, left the reflection fhould hurt her.

[Afide. Clot. Come, I'll to my chamber: 'would, there had been fome hurt done!

2 Lord. I with not fo; unless it had been the fall of

an afs, which is no great hurt.

Clet. You'll go with us?

1 Lord. I'll attend your Lordship.
Clot. Nay, come, let's go together.
2 Lord. Well, my Lord.

[Afide.

[Exeunt.

SCENE,

Imo.

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SCENE, Imogen's Apartments.

Enter Imogen, and Pifanio.

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Would, thou grew'ft unto the fhores o'th' haven, And question'ft, every fail: if he fhould write, And I not have it, 'twere a paper loft

As offer'd mercy is. What was the last
That he fpake with thee?!

Pif. 'Twas, "His Queen, his Queen!"
Imo. Then wav'd his handkerchief?
Pif. And kiss'd it, Madam.

Imo. Senfelefs linen, happier therein than I!
And that was all?

Pif. No, Madam; (3) for fo long

As he could make me with this eye, or ear,'
Diftinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fits and ftirs of's mind

Could beft exprefs how flow his foul fail'd on,
How fwift his fhip.

Imo. Thou fhouldft have made him

As little as a crow, or lefs, ere left

To after-eve him.

Pif. Madam, so I did.

Imo. I would have broke mine eye-firings; crackt 'em, but

To look upon him; 'till the dimunition

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for fo long

As he could make me with his Eye or Ear

Diftinguifh bim from others,] But how could Pofbumus make himself diftinguifh'd by his Ear to Pifanio? by his Tongue he might, to the other's Ear; and this was certainly Shakespear's Intention. We must therefore read, as Mr. Warburten hinted to me;

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

The Expreffion is delexas, as the Greeks term it: The Party speaking points to the Party spoken of.

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Of space had pointed him fharp as my needle;
Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from
The fmalinefs of a gnat, to air; and then
Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.-But,.good Pifanio,
When fhall we hear from him?

Rif., Be affur'd, Madam,

With his next.vantage.

Imo. I did not take my leave of him, but had Mofe 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

Mine intereft, and his honour; or have charg'd him,
At the fixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
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.

Enter a Lady.

Lady. The Queen, Madam, Defires your Highnefs' company.

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

I will attend the Queen.

Pif. Madam, I shall.

Lach.

SCENE changes to Rome.

[Exeunt.

Enter Philario, Iachimo, and a Frenchman.

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Elieve it, Sir, I have feen him in Britaine; he was then of a crefcent note; expected to prove fo worthy, as fince he has 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 perufe 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 weigh'd 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 wonder-. fully to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgment, which elfe an eafy 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 less than my life.

Enter Pofthumus.

Here comes the Briton. Let him be fo entertained amongst you, as fuits with gehtlemen of your know. ing, to a ftranger of his quality. I befecch 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. Sir, we have been known together in Orleans.

Poft. Since when I have been debtor to you for courtefies, which I will be ever to pay, and yet pay ANI.

French. Sir, you over-rate my poor kindness; I was glad I did attone 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 slight, and trivial a naturę.

Poft.

Poft. By your pardon, Sir, I was then a young traveller; rather fhun'd to go even with what I heard, than in my every action to be guided by others' experiences; but upon my mended judgment, (if I offend not 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 likelihood have confounded one the other, or have fall'n both.

lach. Can we with manners afk, what was the difference ?

French. Safely, I think; 'twas a contention in publick, which may without contradiction fuffer the report. It was much like an argument that fell out last night, where each of us fell in praife of our country miftreffes: This Gentleman at that time vouching, (and upon warrant of bloody affirmation,) his to be more fair, virtuous, wife, chafte, conftant, qualified, and lefs attemptable than any of the rareft of our ladies in France.

Iach. That Lady is not now living; or this Gentleman's opinion, by this, worn out.

Pa, She holds her virtue ftill, and I my mind. Iach. You must not fo far prefer her, 'fore ours of Italy.

Poft. Being fo far provoked, as I was in France, I would abate her nothing; tho' I profefs myself her adorer, not her friend.

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

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

Poft. More than the world enjoys.

lach,

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