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Another part of the field.
[Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord]
LORD
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Camst thou | from where | they made | the stand?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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I did,
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Though you | it seems | come from the | fliers.
LORD
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I did.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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No blame | be to / you sir,| for all | was lost,
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But that | the heav|ens fought:| the king |
himself
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Of his wings | desti|tute, the | army | broken,
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And but | the backs | of Brit|ons seen;| all
fly||ing
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Through a / straight lane,| the en|emy*
full-|hearted,
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Lolling | the tongue | with slaugh|tering:
hav|ing work
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More plen/tiful,| than tools | to do it: struck
down
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Some mor/tally,| some* slight|ly touched,| some*
fal||ling
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Mere|ly through fear,| that the / straight pass |
was dammed
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With dead|men*, hurt | behind,| and cow|ards
liv||ing
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To die | with length|ened shame.
LORD
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Where* was | this lane?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Close^by | the bat|tle, ditched,| and walled |
with turf,
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Which^gave | advant|age to | an ancient | soldier
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(An hon|est one | I war|rant) who | deserved
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So long | a breed|ing, as his / white beard |
came to,
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In doing | this for his | country.| Athwart | the
lane,
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He, with | two* strip|lings* (lads | more* like |
to run
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The count|ry base,| than to com|mit such |
slaughter,
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With fac|es fit | for masks,| or rath|er fair||er
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Than those | for pre|serva|tion cased,| or shame)
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Made good | the pas|sage, cried | to those | that
fled.
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Our Brit|ain's hearts | die fly/ing, not | our
men,
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To dark|ness fleet | souls that fly back|wards;
stand,
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Or we | are Rom|ans, and | will give | you that
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Like beasts,| which you / shun beast|ly, and |
may save
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But to look | back in frown: stand,| stand. These
three,
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Three* thous|and con|fident,| in act | as many:
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For three | perform|ers are | the file,| when all
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The rest | do noth|ing. With^this // word stand,
stand,
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Accom|moda|ted by | the place;| more* charm||ing
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With their / own nob|leness,| which could | have
turned
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A dis|taff, to | a lance,| gilded pale looks;
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Part* shame,| part* spirit | renewed,| that some
turned co||ward
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But | by examp|le (Oh | a sin | in war,
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Damned in | the first | begin|ners) gan | to look
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The way | that they / did, and | to grin | like
lions
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Upon | the pikes | of the hunt|ers. Then | began
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A stop | in the cha|ser; a | retire:| anon
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A rout,| confus|ion thick:| forthwith | they fly
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Chickens,| the way | which^they / stopped
eag|les: slaves
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The strides | they vic|tors made:| and now | our
cow||ards
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Like | fragments | in hard | voyag|es became
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The life | of the need:| having found | the
backdoor open
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Of the un|guarded | hearts: heavens, how | they
wound,
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Some* slain | before;| some* dy|ing; some | their
friends
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Oreborne | in the form|er wave,| ten chased by |
one,
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Are now | each one | the slaugh|ter-man | of
twen|ty: (hex with prev)
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Those that | would die | or ere | resist | are
grown
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The mort|al bugs | of the field.
LORD
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This was / strange chance:
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A nar|row lane,| an old | man, and two boys.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Nay, do | not wond|er at | it: you | are made
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Rather | to wond|er at | the things | you hear,
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Than to / work an|y. Will | you rhyme upon it,
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And vent | it for | a mocke|ry? Here | is one:
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Two boys, an old | man (twice a boy)| a lane,
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Preserved | the Brit|ons, was | the Rom|ans'
bane.
LORD
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Nay, be | not ang|ry sir.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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'Lack, to | what end?
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Who dares | not stand | his foe,| I'll be | his
friend:
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For if | he'll do,| as he | is made | to do,
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I know | he'll quick|ly fly | my friend|ship too.
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You have put | me in|to rhyme.
LORD
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Farewell,| you're an||gry.
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
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Still* going?| This is a | lord: Oh | noble |
misery
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To be | in the field,| and ask | what news | of
me:
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Today,| how ma/ny would have | given their |
honors
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To have saved | their car|casses?| Took^heel | to
do it,
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And yet died too.| I in mine | own woe charmed
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Could not | find^death,| where I | did hear | him
groan,
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Nor feel him where he struck. Being an ugly
monster, ????
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'Tis strange | he hides | him in fresh | cups,
soft beds,
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Sweet words;/ or hath | more min/isters | than we
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That draw | his knives | in the war.| Well I will
| find him:
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For being | now a | favorer | to the | Briton,
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No more | a Brit|on, I | have resumed | again
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The part | I came | in. Fight | I will | no more,
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But yield | me to | the ver|iest hind,| that
shall
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Once touch my | shoulder.| Great the | slaughter
is
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Here* made | by the Rom|an; great | the ans|wer
be
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Britons | must^take.| For me,| my rans|om's
death,
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On eith|er side | I come | to spend | my breath;
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Which neith|er here | I'll keep,| nor bear |
again,
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But end | it by | some means | for Im|ogen.
[Enter two British Captains and Soldiers]
FIRST CAPTAIN
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Great Jup/iter | be praised,| Lucius | is taken,
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'Tis thought | the old | man, and his | sons,
were | angels.
SECOND CAPTAIN
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There was | a fourth | man, in a | silly | habit,
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That gave | the affront | with them.
FIRST CAPTAIN
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So |'tis re|ported:
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But none | of 'em can | be found.| Stand,
who's^th|ere?
POSTHUMUS LEONATUS
A Roman, \\
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Who had not | now been | drooping | here, if |
seconds
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Had ans|wered him./
SECOND CAPTAIN
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Lay hands | on him:| a dog,
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A leg | of Rome | shall not | return | to tell
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What crows | have pecked | them here:| He brags |
his ser||vice
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As if | he were | of note:| bring him | to the
king.
[Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, Soldiers,
Attendants, and Roman Captives. The Captains present POSTHUMUS LEONATUS to
CYMBELINE, who delivers him over to a Jailer: then exeunt omnes]