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Wales: a mountainous country with a cave.
[Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS following]
BELARIUS
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A good|ly day,| not to keep house | with such,
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Whose roof's | as low as | ours: Stoop boys,|
this^gate
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Instructs | you how | to adore | the heavens;|
and bows || you
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To a morn|ing's ho|ly office.| the gates | of
mon||archs
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Are arched | so high | that gi|ants may / jet
through
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And keep | their imp|ious turb|ans on,| without
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Good* mor|row to | the sun.| Hail thou | fair*
heaven,
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We house | in the rock,| yet use | thee not | so
hard||ly
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As proud|er liv|ers do.
GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS
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Hail | heaven.
BELARIUS
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Now for | our mount|ain sport,| up to | yond hill
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Your legs | are young:| I'll tread | these
flats.| Consi||der,
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When | you above | perceive | me like | a crow,
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That it | is place,| which les|sens, and / sets
off.
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And you may | then re|volve what | tales, I have
| told you
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Of courts,| of prin|ces; of | the tricks | in
war.
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This serv|ice, is / not serv|ice; so | being
done,
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But being | so al|lowed. To | appre|hend thus,
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Draws us a | profit | from all | things we see;
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And of|ten to | our com|fort, shall | we find
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The shar|ded beet|le, in | a saf|er hold
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Than is the // full-winged eag|le. Oh | this
life,
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Is nob|ler, than | attend|ing for | a check:
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Richer,| than do|ing noth|ing for | a bauble,
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Prouder,| than rust|ling in / unpaid-|for silk:
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Such gain the cap | of him,| that makes |'em
fine,
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Yet keeps | his book | uncrossed:| no life | to
ours.
GUIDERIUS
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Out of | your proof | you speak:| we poor |
unfledged,
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Have never | winged from | view of the | nest,
nor | know not
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What air's | from home.| Haply | this life | is
best,
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(If qui|et life | be best)| sweeter | to you
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That have | a sharp|er known.| Well
corre|sponding
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With your / stiff age;| but un|to us,| it is
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A cell | of ig|norance:| travelling | a bed,
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A pris|on, or | a debt|or, that / not dares
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To stride | a lim|it.
ARVIRAGUS
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What | should we / speak of
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When we | are old | as you?| When we | shall hear
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The rain | and wind | beat^dark | Decem|ber? How
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In this | our pinch|ing cave,| shall we |
discourse
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The free|zing hours | away?| We have
seen^|nothing:
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We are | beastly;| subtle as | the fox | for
prey,
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Like^war|like^as | the wolf,| for what | we eat:
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Our val|or is | to chase | what flies:| our cage
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We make | a quire,| as doth | the pris|oned bird,
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And sing | our bon|dage free|ly.
BELARIUS
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How | you speak.
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Did you | but know | the cit|y's us|uries,
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And felt | them know|ingly:| the art | of the
court,
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As hard | to leave,| as keep:| whose top | to
climb
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Is cert|ain fal|ling: or | so slip|pery, that
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The fear's | as bad as | falling.| The toil | of
the war,
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A pain | that on|ly seems | to seek |
out^dan||ger
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In the name | of fame,| and honor,| which^dies |
in the search, ??
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And hath | as oft | a sland|erous ep|itaph,
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As rec|ord of fair | act. Nay, ma|ny times,
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Doth^ill | deserve,| by do|ing well:|
what's^worse
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Must curts/ey at the | censure.| Oh* boys,| this
sto||ry
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The world | may read | in me:| my bod|y's marked
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With Rom|an swords;| and my | report,| was once
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First with the | best of | note: Cym/beline*|
loved me,
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And when | a sol|dier was | the theme,| my name
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Was not | far^off:| then was | I as | a tree
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Whose boughs | did bend | with fruit:| but in /
one night,
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A storm | or rob|bery (call | it what | you will)
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Shook down my mel|low hang|ings: nay | my leaves,
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And left | me bare | to weath|er.
GUIDERIUS
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Uncert|ain fa||vor.
BELARIUS
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My fault | being noth|ing (as | I have told | you
oft)
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But that / two vil|lains, whose / false oaths |
prevailed
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Before | my per|fect honor,| swore to |
Cymbeline*
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I was | confed|erate with | the Rom|ans: so
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Followed | my ban|ishment,| and this twen|ty
years,
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This rock,| and these | domains,| have been | my
world,
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Where I | have lived | at hon|est free|dom, paid
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More* pi|ous debts | to heav|en, than | in all
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The fore-|end of my | time. But,| up to the |
mountains,
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This is | not hunt|ers' lang|uage: he | that
strikes
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The ven|ison first,| shall be | the lord | of the
feast,
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To him | the oth|er two | shall min|ister,
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And we | will fear | no pois|on, which | attends
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In place | of great|er state.
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I'll meet | you in the | valleys. (tri with
prev)
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How hard / it is to | hide the | sparks of |
nature?
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These^boys | know lit/tle they | are sons | to
the king,
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Nor Cymb|eline | dreams that | they are | alive.
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They think | they are mine,| and though trained
up | thus mean||ly
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In the cave | wherein | they bow,| their thoughts
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The roofs | of pal|aces,| and na|ture prompts ||
them
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In simp|le and / low things,| to prince | it,
much
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Beyond | the trick | of oth|ers. This |
Polidore*,
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The heir | of Cym|beline | and Brit|ain, who
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The king | his fath|er called | Guider|ius. Jove,
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When on my | three-foot stool | I sit,| and tell
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The warlike feats | I have done,| his spirits |
fly^out
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Into my | story:| say* thus | mine en|emy* fell,
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And thus | I set | my foot | on his neck,|
eene^then
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The prince|ly blood | flows in | his cheek,| he
sweats,
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Strains his | young nerves, and puts | himself |
in pos||ture
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That acts | my words.| The young|er broth|er
Cad||wal,
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Once | Arvi|ragus, in | as like | a fig||ure,
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Strikes | life *into | my speech | and shows |
much^more
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His own | conceiv|ing. Hark,| the game | is
roused,
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Oh Cym|beline,| heaven and | my con|science knows
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Thou didst | unjust|ly ban|ish me:| whereon
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At three,| and two | years^old,| I stole |
these^babes;
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Thinking | to bar | thee of | succes|sion, as
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Thou refts | me of | my lands.| Euri|phile,
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Thou wast their | nurse, they | took thee | for
their | mother,
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And eve|ry day | do hon|or to | her grave:
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Myself | Belar|ius, that | am Morg|an called
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They take | for na|tural fath|er. The / game is
up.
[Exit]