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seeking finde, and bee embrac’d by a peece of tender Ayre: And when from a stately Cedar shall be lopt branches, which being dead many yeares, shall after reuiue, bee ioynted to the old Stocke, and freshly grow, then shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britaine be fortunate, and flourish in Peace and Plentie. ‘Tis still a Dreame: or else such stuffe as Madmen Tongue, and braine not: either both, or nothing Or senselesse speaking, or a speaking such As sense cannot vntye. Be what it is,
The Action of my life is like it, which Ile keepe If but for simpathy.
Enter Gaoler.

Gao. Come Sir, are you ready for death? Post. Ouer-roasted rather: ready long ago

Gao. Hanging is the word, Sir, if you bee readie for that, you are well Cook’d

Post. So if I proue a good repast to the Spectators, the dish payes the shot

Gao. A heauy reckoning for you Sir: But the comfort is you shall be called to no more payments, fear no more Tauerne Bils, which are often the sadnesse of parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in faint for want of meate, depart reeling with too much drinke: sorrie that you haue payed too much, and sorry that you are payed too much: Purse and Braine, both empty: the Brain the heauier, for being too light; the Purse too light, being drawne of heauinesse. Oh, of this contradiction you shall now be quit: Oh the charity of a penny Cord, it summes vp thousands in a trice: you haue no true Debitor, and Creditor but it: of what’s past, is, and to come, the discharge: your necke (Sir) is Pen, Booke, and Counters; so the Acquittance followes

Post. I am merrier to dye, then thou art to liue

Gao. Indeed Sir, he that sleepes, feeles not the Tooth-Ache: but a man that were to sleepe your sleepe, and a Hangman to helpe him to bed, I think he would change places with his Officer: for, look you Sir, you know not which way you shall go

Post. Yes indeed do I, fellow

Gao. Your death has eyes in’s head then: I haue not seene him so pictur’d: you must either bee directed by some that take vpon them to know, or to take vpon your selfe that which I am sure you do not know: or iump the after-enquiry on your owne perill: and how you shall speed in your iournies end, I thinke you’l neuer returne to tell one

Post. I tell thee, Fellow, there are none want eyes, to direct them the way I am going, but such as winke, and will not vse them

Gao. What an infinite mocke is this, that a man shold haue the best vse of eyes, to see the way of blindnesse: I am sure hanging’s the way of winking.
Enter a Messenger.

Mes. Knocke off his Manacles, bring your Prisoner to the King

Post. Thou bring’st good newes, I am call’d to bee made free

Gao. Ile be hang’d then

Post. Thou shalt be then freer then a Gaoler; no bolts for the dead

Gao. Vnlesse a man would marry a Gallowes, & beget yong Gibbets, I neuer saw one so prone: yet on my Conscience, there are verier Knaues desire to liue, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that dye against their willes; so should I, if I were one. I would we were all of one minde, and one minde good: O there were desolation of Gaolers and Galowses: I speake against my present profit, but my wish hath a preferment in’t.

Exeunt.

Scena Quinta.

Enter Cymbeline, Bellarius, Guiderius, Aruiragus, Pisanio, and Lords.

Cym. Stand by my side you, whom the Gods haue made Preseruers of my Throne: woe is my heart, That the poore Souldier that so richly fought, Whose ragges, sham’d gilded Armes, whose naked brest Stept before Targes of proofe, cannot be found: He shall be happy that can finde him, if Our Grace can make him so

Bel. I neuer saw
Such Noble fury in so poore a Thing; Such precious deeds, in one that promist nought But beggery, and poore lookes

Cym. No tydings of him?
Pisa. He hath bin search’d among the dead, & liuing; But no trace of him

Cym. To my greefe, I am
The heyre of his Reward, which I will adde To you (the Liuer, Heart, and Braine of Britaine) By whom (I grant) she liues. ‘Tis now the time To aske of whence you are. Report it

Bel. Sir,
In Cambria are we borne, and Gentlemen: Further to boast, were neyther true, nor modest, Vnlesse I adde, we are honest

Cym. Bow your knees:
Arise my Knights o’th’ Battell, I create you Companions to our person, and will fit you With Dignities becomming your estates.
Enter Cornelius and Ladies.

There’s businesse in these faces: why so sadly Greet you our Victory? you looke like Romaines, And not o’th’ Court of Britaine

Corn. Hayle great King,
To sowre your happinesse, I must report The Queene is dead

Cym. Who worse then a Physitian
Would this report become? But I consider, By Med’cine life may be prolong’d, yet death Will seize the Doctor too. How ended she? Cor. With horror, madly dying, like her life, Which (being cruell to the world) concluded Most cruell to her selfe. What she confest, I will report, so please you. These her Women Can trip me, if I erre, who with wet cheekes Were present when she finish’d

Cym. Prythee say

Cor. First, she confest she neuer lou’d you: onely Affected Greatnesse got by you: not you: Married your Royalty, was wife to your place: Abhorr’d your person

Cym. She alone knew this:
And but she spoke it dying, I would not Beleeue her lips in opening it. Proceed

Corn. Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to loue With such integrity, she did confesse
Was as a Scorpion to her sight, whose life (But that her flight preuented it) she had Tane off by poyson

Cym. O most delicate Fiend!
Who is’t can reade a Woman? Is there more? Corn. More Sir, and worse. She did confesse she had For you a mortall Minerall, which being tooke, Should by the minute feede on life, and ling’ring, By inches waste you. In which time, she purpos’d By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to Orecome you with her shew; and in time
(When she had fitted you with her craft, to worke Her Sonne into th’ adoption of the Crowne: But fayling of her end by his strange absence, Grew shamelesse desperate, open’d (in despight Of Heauen, and Men) her purposes: repented The euils she hatch’d, were not effected: so Dispayring, dyed

Cym. Heard you all this, her Women? La. We did, so please your Highnesse

Cym. Mine eyes
Were not in fault, for she was beautifull: Mine eares that heare her flattery, nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had beene vicious To haue mistrusted her: yet (Oh my Daughter) That it was folly in me, thou mayst say, And proue it in thy feeling. Heauen mend all. Enter Lucius, Iachimo, and other Roman prisoners, Leonatus behind, and
Imogen.

Thou comm’st not Caius now for Tribute, that The Britaines haue rac’d out, though with the losse Of many a bold one: whose Kinsmen haue made suite That their good soules may be appeas’d, with slaughter Of you their Captiues, which our selfe haue granted, So thinke of your estate

Luc. Consider Sir, the chance of Warre, the day Was yours by accident: had it gone with vs, We should not when the blood was cool, haue threatend Our Prisoners with the Sword. But since the Gods Will haue it thus, that nothing but our liues May be call’d ransome, let it come: Sufficeth, A Roman, with a Romans heart can suffer: Augustus liues to thinke on’t: and so much For my peculiar care. This one thing onely I will entreate, my Boy (a Britaine borne) Let him be ransom’d: Neuer Master had
A Page so kinde, so duteous, diligent, So tender ouer his occasions, true,
So feate, so Nurse-like: let his vertue ioyne With my request, which Ile make bold your Highnesse Cannot deny: he hath done no Britaine harme, Though he haue seru’d a Roman. Saue him (Sir) And spare no blood beside

Cym. I haue surely seene him:
His fauour is familiar to me: Boy,
Thou hast look’d thy selfe into my grace, And art mine owne. I know not why, wherefore, To say, liue boy: ne’re thanke thy Master, liue; And aske of Cymbeline what Boone thou wilt, Fitting my bounty, and thy state, Ile giue it: Yea, though thou do demand a Prisoner
The Noblest tane

Imo. I humbly thanke your Highnesse

Luc. I do not bid thee begge my life, good Lad, And yet I know thou wilt

Imo. No, no, alacke,
There’s other worke in hand: I see a thing Bitter to me, as death: your life, good Master, Must shuffle for it selfe

Luc. The Boy disdaines me,
He leaues me, scornes me: briefely dye their ioyes, That place them on the truth of Gyrles, and Boyes. Why stands he so perplext?
Cym. What would’st thou Boy?
I loue thee more, and more: thinke more and more What’s best to aske. Know’st him thou look’st on? speak Wilt haue him liue? Is he thy Kin? thy Friend? Imo. He is a Romane, no more kin to me, Then I to your Highnesse, who being born your vassaile Am something neerer

Cym. Wherefore ey’st him so?
Imo. Ile tell you (Sir) in priuate, if you please To giue me hearing

Cym. I, with all my heart,
And lend my best attention. What’s thy name? Imo. Fidele Sir

Cym. Thou’rt my good youth: my Page Ile be thy Master: walke with me: speake freely

Bel. Is not this Boy reuiu’d from death? Arui. One Sand another
Not more resembles that sweet Rosie Lad: Who dyed, and was Fidele: what thinke you? Gui. The same dead thing aliue

Bel. Peace, peace, see further: he eyes vs not, forbeare Creatures may be alike: were’t he, I am sure He would haue spoke to vs

Gui. But we see him dead

Bel. Be silent: let’s see further

Pisa. It is my Mistris:
Since she is liuing, let the time run on, To good, or bad

Cym. Come, stand thou by our side,
Make thy demand alowd. Sir, step you forth, Giue answer to this Boy, and do it freely, Or by our Greatnesse, and the grace of it (Which is our Honor) bitter torture shall Winnow the truth from falshood. One speake to him

Imo. My boone is, that this Gentleman may render Of whom he had this Ring

Post. What’s that to him?
Cym. That Diamond vpon your Finger, say How came it yours?
Iach. Thou’lt torture me to leaue vnspoken, that Which to be spoke, wou’d torture thee

Cym. How? me?
Iach. I am glad to be constrain’d to vtter that Which torments me to conceale. By Villany I got this Ring: ’twas Leonatus Iewell,
Whom thou did’st banish: and which more may greeue thee, As it doth me: a Nobler Sir, ne’re liu’d ‘Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou heare more my Lord? Cym. All that belongs to this

Iach. That Paragon, thy daughter,
For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits Quaile to remember. Giue me leaue, I faint

Cym. My Daughter? what of hir? Renew thy strength I had rather thou should’st liue, while Nature will, Then dye ere I heare more: striue man, and speake

Iach. Vpon a time, vnhappy was the clocke That strooke the houre: it was in Rome, accurst The Mansion where: ’twas at a Feast, oh would Our Viands had bin poyson’d (or at least Those which I heau’d to head:) the good Posthumus, (What should I say? he was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Among’st the rar’st of good ones) sitting sadly, Hearing vs praise our Loues of Italy
For Beauty, that made barren the swell’d boast Of him that best could speake: for Feature, laming The Shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerua, Postures, beyond breefe Nature. For Condition, A shop of all the qualities, that man
Loues woman for, besides that hooke of Wiuing, Fairenesse, which strikes the eye

Cym. I stand on fire. Come to the matter

Iach. All too soone I shall,
Vnlesse thou would’st greeue quickly. This Posthumus, Most like a Noble Lord, in loue, and one That had a Royall Louer, tooke his hint, And (not dispraising whom we prais’d, therein He was as calme as vertue) he began
His Mistris picture, which, by his tongue, being made, And then a minde put in’t, either our bragges Were crak’d of Kitchin-Trulles, or his description Prou’d vs vnspeaking sottes

Cym. Nay, nay, to’th’ purpose

Iach. Your daughters Chastity, (there it beginnes) He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreames, And she alone, were cold: Whereat, I wretch Made scruple of his praise, and wager’d with him Peeces of Gold, ‘gainst this, which then he wore Vpon his honour’d finger) to attaine
In suite the place of’s bed, and winne this Ring By hers, and mine Adultery: he (true Knight) No lesser of her Honour confident
Then I did truly finde her, stakes this Ring, And would so, had it beene a Carbuncle
Of Phoebus Wheele; and might so safely, had it Bin all the worth of’s Carre. Away to Britaine Poste I in this designe: Well may you (Sir) Remember me at Court, where I was taught Of your chaste Daughter, the wide difference ‘Twixt Amorous, and Villanous. Being thus quench’d Of hope, not longing; mine Italian braine, Gan in your duller Britaine operate
Most vildely: for my vantage excellent. And to be breefe, my practise so preuayl’d That I return’d with simular proofe enough, To make the Noble Leonatus mad,
By wounding his beleefe in her Renowne, With Tokens thus, and thus: auerring notes Of Chamber-hanging, Pictures, this her Bracelet (Oh cunning how I got) nay some markes
Of secret on her person, that he could not But thinke her bond of Chastity quite crack’d, I hauing ‘tane the forfeyt. Whereupon,
Me thinkes I see him now

Post. I so thou do’st,
Italian Fiend. Aye me, most credulous Foole, Egregious murtherer, Theefe, any thing
That’s due to all the Villaines past, in being To come. Oh giue me Cord, or knife, or poyson, Some vpright Iusticer. Thou King, send out For Torturors ingenious: it is I
That all th’ abhorred things o’th’ earth amend By being worse then they. I am Posthumus, That kill’d thy Daughter: Villain-like, I lye, That caus’d a lesser villaine then my selfe, A sacrilegious Theefe to doo’t. The Temple Of Vertue was she; yea, and she her selfe. Spit, and throw stones, cast myre vpon me, set The dogges o’th’ street to bay me: euery villaine Be call’d Posthumus Leonatus, and
Be villany lesse then ’twas. Oh Imogen! My Queene, my life, my wife: oh Imogen,
Imogen, Imogen

Imo. Peace my Lord, heare, heare

Post. Shall’s haue a play of this?
Thou scornfull Page, there lye thy part

Pis. Oh Gentlemen, helpe,
Mine and your Mistris: Oh my Lord Posthumus, You ne’re kill’d Imogen till now: helpe, helpe, Mine honour’d Lady

Cym. Does the world go round?
Posth. How comes these staggers on mee? Pisa. Wake my Mistris

Cym. If this be so, the Gods do meane to strike me To death, with mortall ioy

Pisa. How fares my Mistris?
Imo. Oh get thee from my sight,
Thou gau’st me poyson: dangerous Fellow hence, Breath not where Princes are

Cym. The tune of Imogen

Pisa. Lady, the Gods throw stones of sulpher on me, if That box I gaue you, was not thought by mee A precious thing, I had it from the Queene

Cym. New matter still

Imo. It poyson’d me

Corn. Oh Gods!
I left out one thing which the Queene confest, Which must approue thee honest. If Pasanio Haue (said she) giuen his Mistris that Confection Which I gaue him for Cordiall, she is seru’d, As I would serue a Rat

Cym. What’s this, Cornelius?
Corn. The Queene (Sir) very oft importun’d me To temper poysons for her, still pretending The satisfaction of her knowledge, onely In killing Creatures vilde, as Cats and Dogges Of no esteeme. I dreading, that her purpose Was of more danger, did compound for her A certaine stuffe, which being tane, would cease The present powre of life, but in short time, All Offices of Nature, should againe
Do their due Functions. Haue you tane of it? Imo. Most like I did, for I was dead

Bel. My Boyes, there was our error

Gui. This is sure Fidele

Imo. Why did you throw your wedded Lady fro[m] you? Thinke that you are vpon a Rocke, and now Throw me againe

Post. Hang there like fruite, my soule, Till the Tree dye

Cym. How now, my Flesh? my Childe?
What, mak’st thou me a dullard in this Act? Wilt thou not speake to me?
Imo. Your blessing, Sir

Bel. Though you did loue this youth, I blame ye not, You had a motiue for’t

Cym. My teares that fall
Proue holy-water on thee; Imogen,
Thy Mothers dead

Imo. I am sorry for’t, my Lord

Cym. Oh, she was naught; and long of her it was That we meet heere so strangely: but her Sonne Is gone, we know not how, nor where

Pisa. My Lord,
Now feare is from me, Ile speake troth. Lord Cloten Vpon my Ladies missing, came to me
With his Sword drawne, foam’d at the mouth, and swore If I discouer’d not which way she was gone, It was my instant death. By accident,
I had a feigned Letter of my Masters Then in my pocket, which directed him
To seeke her on the Mountaines neere to Milford, Where in a frenzie, in my Masters Garments (Which he inforc’d from me) away he postes With vnchaste purpose, and with oath to violate My Ladies honor, what became of him,
I further know not

Gui. Let me end the Story: I slew him there

Cym. Marry, the Gods forefend.
I would not thy good deeds, should from my lips Plucke a hard sentence: Prythee valiant youth Deny’t againe

Gui. I haue spoke it, and I did it

Cym. He was a Prince

Gui. A most inciuill one. The wrongs he did mee Were nothing Prince-like; for he did prouoke me With Language that would make me spurne the Sea, If it could so roare to me. I cut off’s head, And am right glad he is not standing heere To tell this tale of mine

Cym. I am sorrow for thee:
By thine owne tongue thou art condemn’d, and must Endure our Law: Thou’rt dead

Imo. That headlesse man I thought had bin my Lord Cym. Binde the Offender,
And take him from our presence

Bel. Stay, Sir King.
This man is better then the man he slew, As well descended as thy selfe, and hath More of thee merited, then a Band of Clotens Had euer scarre for. Let his Armes alone, They were not borne for bondage

Cym. Why old Soldier:
Wilt thou vndoo the worth thou art vnpayd for By tasting of our wrath? How of descent
As good as we?
Arui. In that he spake too farre

Cym. And thou shalt dye for’t

Bel. We will dye all three,
But I will proue that two one’s are as good As I haue giuen out him. My Sonnes, I must For mine owne part, vnfold a dangerous speech, Though haply well for you

Arui. Your danger’s ours

Guid. And our good his

Bel. Haue at it then, by leaue
Thou hadd’st (great King) a Subiect, who Was call’d Belarius

Cym. What of him? He is a banish’d Traitor

Bel. He it is, that hath
Assum’d this age: indeed a banish’d man, I know not how, a Traitor

Cym. Take him hence,
The whole world shall not saue him

Bel. Not too hot;
First pay me for the Nursing of thy Sonnes, And let it be confiscate all, so soone
As I haue receyu’d it

Cym. Nursing of my Sonnes?
Bel. I am too blunt, and sawcy: heere’s my knee: Ere I arise, I will preferre my Sonnes,
Then spare not the old Father. Mighty Sir, These two young Gentlemen that call me Father, And thinke they are my Sonnes, are none of mine, They are the yssue of your Loynes, my Liege, And blood of your begetting

Cym. How? my Issue

Bel. So sure as you, your Fathers: I (old Morgan) Am that Belarius, whom you sometime banish’d: Your pleasure was my neere offence, my punishment It selfe, and all my Treason that I suffer’d, Was all the harme I did. These gentle Princes (For such, and so they are) these twenty yeares Haue I train’d vp; those Arts they haue, as I Could put into them. My breeding was (Sir) As your Highnesse knowes: Their Nurse Euriphile (Whom for the Theft I wedded) stole these Children Vpon my Banishment: I moou’d her too’t,
Hauing receyu’d the punishment before For that which I did then. Beaten for Loyaltie, Excited me to Treason. Their deere losse, The more of you ’twas felt, the more it shap’d Vnto my end of stealing them. But gracious Sir, Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I must loose Two of the sweet’st Companions in the World. The benediction of these couering Heauens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthie To in-lay Heauen with Starres

Cym. Thou weep’st, and speak’st:
The Seruice that you three haue done, is more Vnlike, then this thou tell’st. I lost my Children, If these be they, I know not how to wish A payre of worthier Sonnes

Bel. Be pleas’d awhile;
This Gentleman, whom I call Polidore, Most worthy Prince, as yours, is true Guiderius: This Gentleman, my Cadwall, Aruiragus.
Your yonger Princely Son, he Sir, was lapt In a most curious Mantle, wrought by th’ hand Of his Queene Mother, which for more probation I can with ease produce

Cym. Guiderius had
Vpon his necke a Mole, a sanguine Starre, It was a marke of wonder

Bel. This is he,
Who hath vpon him still that naturall stampe: It was wise Natures end, in the donation To be his euidence now

Cym. Oh, what am I
A Mother to the byrth of three? Nere Mother Reioyc’d deliuerance more: Blest, pray you be, That after this strange starting from your Orbes, You may reigne in them now: Oh Imogen,
Thou hast lost by this a Kingdome

Imo. No, my Lord:
I haue got two Worlds by’t. Oh my gentle Brothers, Haue we thus met? Oh neuer say heereafter But I am truest speaker. You call’d me Brother When I was but your Sister: I you Brothers, When we were so indeed

Cym. Did you ere meete?
Arui. I my good Lord

Gui. And at first meeting lou’d,
Continew’d so, vntill we thought he dyed

Corn. By the Queenes Dramme she swallow’d

Cym. O rare instinct!
When shall I heare all through? This fierce abridgment, Hath to it Circumstantiall branches, which Distinction should be rich in. Where? how liu’d you? And when came you to serue our Romane Captiue? How parted with your Brother? How first met them? Why fled you from the Court? And whether these? And your three motiues to the Battaile? with I know not how much more should be demanded, And all the other by-dependances
From chance to chance? But nor the Time, nor Place Will serue our long Interrogatories. See, Posthumus Anchors vpon Imogen;
And she (like harmlesse Lightning) throwes her eye On him: her Brothers, Me: her Master hitting Each obiect with a Ioy: the Counter-change Is seuerally in all. Let’s quit this ground, And smoake the Temple with our Sacrifices. Thou art my Brother, so wee’l hold thee euer

Imo. You are my Father too, and did releeue me: To see this gracious season

Cym. All ore-ioy’d
Saue these in bonds, let them be ioyfull too, For they shall taste our Comfort

Imo. My good Master, I will yet do you seruice

Luc. Happy be you

Cym. The forlorne Souldier, that so Nobly fought He would haue well becom’d this place, and grac’d The thankings of a King

Post. I am Sir
The Souldier that did company these three In poore beseeming: ’twas a fitment for
The purpose I then follow’d. That I was he, Speake Iachimo, I had you downe, and might Haue made you finish

Iach. I am downe againe:
But now my heauie Conscience sinkes my knee, As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you Which I so often owe: but your Ring first, And heere the Bracelet of the truest Princesse That euer swore the Faith

Post. Kneele not to me:
The powre that I haue on you, is to spare you: The malice towards you, to forgiue you. Liue And deale with others better

Cym. Nobly doom’d:
Wee’l learne our Freenesse of a Sonne-in-Law: Pardon’s the word to all

Arui. You holpe vs Sir,
As you did meane indeed to be our Brother, Ioy’d are we, that you are

Post. Your Seruant Princes. Good my Lord of Rome Call forth your Sooth-sayer: As I slept, me thought Great Iupiter vpon his Eagle back’d
Appear’d to me, with other sprightly shewes Of mine owne Kindred. When I wak’d, I found This Labell on my bosome; whose containing Is so from sense in hardnesse, that I can Make no Collection of it. Let him shew
His skill in the construction

Luc. Philarmonus

Sooth. Heere, my good Lord

Luc. Read, and declare the meaning.

Reades.

When as a Lyons whelpe, shall to himselfe vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac’d by a peece of tender Ayre: And when from a stately Cedar shall be lopt branches, which being dead many yeares, shall after reuiue, bee ioynted to the old Stocke, and freshly grow, then shall Posthumus end his miseries, Britaine be fortunate, and flourish in Peace and Plentie. Thou Leonatus art the Lyons Whelpe,
The fit and apt Construction of thy name Being Leonatus, doth import so much:
The peece of tender Ayre, thy vertuous Daughter, 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.

FINIS. THE TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE.