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A Room in Cymbeline's Palace.
Enter INNOGEN and PISANIO.
Innogen I would thou grew'st unto the shores o'th' haven,
And questioned'st every sail. If he should write
And I not have it, 'twere a paper lost,
As offered mercy is. What was the last
That he spake to thee?
Pisanio It was: His queen, his queen!
Innogen Then waved his handkerchief?
Pisanio And kissed it, madam.
Innogen Senseless linen, happier therein than I!
And that was all?
Pisanio No, madam; for so long
As he could make me with this eye or ear
Distinguish him from others, he did keep
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
Still waving, as the fits and stirs of's mind
Could best express how slow his soul sailed on,
How swift his ship.
Innogen Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.
Pisanio Madam, so I did.
Innogen I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but
To look upon him till the diminution
Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
Nay, followed him till he had melted from
The smallness of a gnat to air; and then
Have turned mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
When shall we hear from him?
Pisanio Be assured, madam,
With his next vantage.
Innogen 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
The shes of Italy should not betray
Mine interest and his honour; or have charged him,
At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
T' encounter me with orisons, for then
I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
Give him that parting kiss which I had set
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
And like the tyrannous breathing of the north,
Shakes all our buds from growing.
Enter A LADY.
Lady The queen, madam,
Desires your highness' company.
Innogen Those things I bid you do, get them dispatched.
I will attend the queen.
Pisanio Madam, I shall.
[Exeunt.