Pisanio. "Twas "His queen, his queen !" Imog. Senseless linen! happier therein than I! Pisanio. No, madam; for so long As he could make me with this eye, or ear, Imog. Thou shouldst have made him To after-eye him. Pisanio. Madam, so I did. Imog. I would have broke mine eye-strings, crack'd them, but To look upon him; till the diminution Of space, had pointed him sharp as my needle; The smallness of a gnat to air; and then Have turn'd mine eye and wept.-But, good Pisanio, When shall we hear from him? Pisanio. Be assur'd, madam, With his next vantage. Imog. I did not take my leave of him, but had Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him, How I would think on him, at certain hours, Such thoughts, and such; or I could make him swear Mine interest, and his honour; or have charg'd him, I am in heaven for him; or, ere I could Shakes all our buds from growing.-See, the queenThose things I bid you do, get them despatch'd. [Exit. Pisanio. Madam, I shall. Enter QUEEN, meeting CORNELius. [Exit. Queen. Now, master doctor; have you brought those drugs? Corn. Pleaseth your highness, ay: [Gives the QUEEN a Phial. But I beseech your grace, without offence, My conscience bids me ask, wherefore you have Thou ask'st me such a question: Have I not been I will try the forces Of these thy compounds, And apply Allayments to their act; and by them gather Their several virtues and effects. [Aside.] Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him Will I first work; he's for his master, And enemy to my son. Enter PISANIO. How now, Pisanio-Hark thee, a word. I know her spirit, And will not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn'd nature: Those, she has, No danger in what show of death it makes, With a most false effect; and I the truer, [Exit. Queen. Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think, in time She will not quench; and let instructions enter As great as is thy master: greater; for What shalt thou expect, To be depender on a thing that leans? Who cannot be new built; nor has no friends, [The QUEEN drops the Phial; PISANIO takes it up. Thou tak'st up Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour: Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how The case stands with her; do't as from thyself. To any shape of thy preferment, such As thoul't desire; and then myself, I chiefly, Think on my words. [Aside.] I have given him that, Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her Fare thee well, Pisanio; [Exit. Pisanio. And shall do ; But when to my good lord I prove untrue, [Exit. SCENE 11, Rome. An Apartment in PHILARIO's House. PHILARIO, with a Letter, IACHIMO, and LEWIS, discovered. Iach. Believe it, sir: I have seen him in Britain : he was then of à crescent note; expected to prove so worthy, as since he hath been allowed the name of: but I could then have looked on him without the help of admiration; though the catalogue of his endowments had been tabled by his side, and I to peruse him by items. Phil. You speak of him when he was less furnished, than now he is. Lewis. I have seen him in France; we had very many there, could behold the sun 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. Lewis. And then his banishment,— Iach. Ay, and the approbation of those, that weep this lamentable divorce, under her colours, are wonderfully to extend him; be it but to fortify her judg ment, which else an easy battery might lay flat, for taking a beggar without more quality. But how comes it, he is to sojourn with you? How creeps acquaintance? Phil. His father and I were soldiers together; to whom I have been often bound for no less than my life. Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained amongst you, as suits, with gentlemen of your knowing, to a stranger of his quality. Enter POSTHUMUS. -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 story him in his own hearing. Lewis. Sir, we have known together in Orleans. Post. Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies, which I will be ever to pay, and yet pay still. Lewis. 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 so mortal a purpose, as then each bore, upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Post. By your pardon, sir,-I was then a young traveller; but, upon my mended judgment, (if I of |