This youth, howe'er distress'd, appears, he hath had Good ancestors. Arv. How angel-like he sings! Gui. But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters; And sauc'd our broths, as Juno had been sick, A smiling with a sigh as if the sigh Was that it was, for not being such a smile; With winds that sailors rail at. Gui. Í do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Arv. Grow, patience! And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine His perishing root, with the increasing vine! . Bel. It is great morning. Come; away.-Who's there? Enter CLOTEN. Clo. I cannot find those runagates; that villain VOL. IX. * Spurs are the roots of trees. H Hath mock'd me :-I am faint. Bel. Those runagates! Means he not us? I partly know him; 'tis I know 'tis he:We are held as outlaws:-Hence. Clo. [Exeunt BELARIUS and ARVIRAgus. That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers ? Gui. More slavish did I ne'er, than answering Clo. A thing Thou art a robber, A law-breaker, a villain: Yield thee, thief.: Gui. To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? Thy words, I grant, are bigger; for I wear not Clo. Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? Gui. No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather; he made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee, Clo. Thou precious varlet, My tailor made them not, Gui. Hence then, and thank The man that gave them thee: Thou art some fool; I am loath to beat thee. Clo. Cloten, thou villain.* Gui. Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name, I cannot tremble at it; were't toad, or adder, spider, "Twould move me sooner. Clo. To thy further fear, Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know Gui. Those that I reverence, those I fear; the wise : At fools I laugh, not fear them. Die the death: Clo. And on the gates of Lud's town set your heads: [Exeunt, fighting. Enter BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS. Bel. No company's abroad. Aro. None in the world: You did mistake him, sure. Bel. I cannot tell: Long is it since I saw him, But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice, 2 Countenance. 1 And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute, Twas very Cloten. Aro. In this place we left them: I wish my brother make good time with him, You say he is so fell. Bel. Re-enter GUIDERIUS, with CLOTEN's Head. Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none : My head, as I do his. Bel. Gui. I am perfect, head, What hast thou done? what: cut off one Cloten's Son to the queen, after his own report; Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer; and swore, Displace our heads, where (thank the gods!) they grow, And set them on Lud's town. Bel. We are all undone. Gui. Why, worthy father, what have we to lose, 3 I am well-informed what. 4 Conquer, subdue. For we do fear the law? What company Bel. No single soul Can we set eye on, but, in all safe reason, He must have some attendants. Though his humour From one bad thing to worse; not frenzy, not To bring him here alone: Although, perhaps, It may be heard at court, that such as we Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time May make some stronger head: the which he hearing, (As it is like him,) might break out, and swear He'd fetch us in; yet is't not probable To come alone, either he so undertaking, Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear, If we do fear this body hath a tail More perilous than the head. Let ordinance Aro. My brother hath done well. Bel. I had no mind To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness Did make my way long forth.? With his own sword, Gui. Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek Behind our rock; and let it to the sea, And tell the fishes, he's the queen's son, Cloten: 5 For, for because. [Exit. Change, alteration. 7 Did make my walk tedious. Care. |