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Edward Capell [1767], Mr William Shakespeare his comedies, histories, and tragedies, set out by himself in quarto, or by the Players his Fellows in folio, and now faithfully republish'd from those Editions in ten Volumes octavo; with an introduction: Whereunto will be added, in some other Volumes, notes, critical and explanatory, and a Body of Various Readings entire (Printed by Dryden Leach, for J. and R. Tonson [etc.], London) [word count] [S10601].

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SCENE I. The same. A Street in some Town. Enter Cleomenes, and Dion.

Cle.
The climate's delicate; the air most sweet;
Fertile the soil; ^note14Q0461 the temple much surpassing
The common praise it bears.

Dio.
I shall report,
For most it caught me, the celestial habits,
(Methinks, I so should term them) and the reverence
Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
How ceremonious, solemn, and unearthly,
It was i'the offering!

Cle.
But, of all, the burst
And the ear-deaf'ning voice o'the oracle,
Kin to Jove's thunder, so surpriz'd my sense,
That I was nothing.

Dio.
If the event o'the journey
Prove as successful to the queen,—O, be't so!—
As it hath been to us, rare, pleasant, speedy,
The use is worth the time ^note on't.

Cle.
Great Apollo
Turn all to the best! These proclamations,
So forcing faults upon Hermione,
I little like.

Dio.
The violent carriage of it
Will clear, or end, the business: When the oracle 14Q0462
(Thus † by Apollo's great divine seal'd up)
Shall the contents discover, something rare,
Even then, will rush to knowledge.—Go, fresh horses;—
And gracious be the issue! [Exeunt.
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