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.
A Field, in the above Country, between
the British and Roman Camps. Enter Posthumus,
with a bloody Handkerchief.
Pos.
Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I wish'd note
Thou should'st be colour'd thus. You marry'd ones,
If each of you should take this course, how many
Must murther wives much better than themselves
For wrying but a little?—O Pisanio,
Every good servant does not all commands:
No bond, but to do just ones.—Gods, if you
Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never
Had liv'd to put on this: so had you saved
The noble Imogen to repent; and strook
Me, wretch, more worth your vengeance. But, alack,
You snatch some hence note for little faults; that's love,
To have them fall no more: you some permit
To second ills with ills, each elder worse;14Q1293
And make them dreaded, note to the doer's thrift.
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But Imogen is your own: Do your best note wills,
And make me blest to obey!—I am brought hither
Amongst the Italian gentry, and to fight
Against my lady's kingdom: 'Tis enough
That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress; peace,
I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,
Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me
Of these Italian weeds, and suit myself
As does a Britain peasant: so I'll fight
Against the part I come with; so I'll dye
For thee, o Imogen, even for whom my life
Is, every breath, a death: and thus, unknown,
Pity'd nor hated, to the face of peril
Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know
More valour in me than my habits show.
Gods, put the strength o'the Leonati in me!
To shame the guise o'the world, I will begin
The fashion, note less without, and more within.
[Exit.
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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