Nor what enfues, but have a fog in ken [Exeunt SCENE changes to a Foreft with a Cave, in Wales. Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS. Bel. A goodly day! not to keep house, with fuch Whofe roof's as low as ours: fee, boys! this gate Inftructs you how to adore the Heavens; and bows you To morning's holy office. Gates of monarchs Guid. Hail, Heaven! Arv. Hail, Heaven ! Bel. Now for our mountain fport: up to yond hill: [der, Your legs are young: I'll tread thefe flats. Confi- ther fee prefent events, nor confequences; but am in a mist of fortune, and refolved to proceed on the project deter mined. In ken means, a profpect within fight, before my eyes. So, afterwards, in this play; -Milford, LO When from the mountain top Pifanio fhewed thee, A Thou waft within a ken.. So, in 2 Henry IV. For, lo! within a ken our army lyes. And in That fervice is not fervice, fo being done, Have never winged from view o' th' neft; nor know That have a fharper known: well correfponding. Aro. What fhould we fpeak of, When we are old as you? when we shall bear Bel. How you speak! Did you but know the city's ufuries, And felt them knowingly; the art o' th' court, The fear's as bad as falling; the toil of war; A pain, that only feems to feek out danger As record of fair act; nay, many time [fearch, Dothill deferve, by doing well: what's worse, Muft curt'fy at the cenfure :-----Oh, boys, this story The world may read in me: my body's marked Guid. Uncertain favour! Bel. My fault being nothing, as I have told you oft, But that two villains (whofe falfe oaths prevailed Followed my banishment; and these twenty years, The fore-end of my time.----But, up to the moun tains! This is not hunter's language; he that strikes And we will fear no poison, which attends - I'll meet you in the valleys. [Exeunt Guid, and Arvir. How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature! They think they're mine; though trained up thus meanly (31) I' th' cave, there, on the brow, their thoughts do hit The roof of palaces; and nature prompts them, (31) though trained up thus meanly Here in the cave, wherein their thoughts do hit Thus Mr Pope; but the fentence breaks off imperfectly. I' th' cave, whereon the bow their thoughts do hit, &c. Mr Rowe faw this likewife was faulty; and therefore amended it thus; l' th' cave, where, on the bow, their thoughts do hit, &c. I think it should be only with the alteration of one letter, and the addition of another; I' th' cave, there on the brow.. And fo the grammar and syntax of the fentence is compleat. We call the arching of a cavern, or overhanging of a hill, metaphorically, the brow; and in like manner the Greeks and Latins ufed oppus, and fupercilium. (32) This Polydore,] Though the name be feveral times writ thus in the old books, I am perfuaded it is not as the Author intended. It is a compound purely Greek, without the turn or foundation of a British name. The first time this name is mentioned in both the old Folios, it is written Paladour, as I have reformed the text; because this, as well as Cadwal, is of the British caft. What pala in the first name, or wal in the other, may fignify, I am not deep enough in Cambrian to know; but dour, or dhür, means profiuens aqua, as câd does caput. VOL. X. The warlike feats I've done, his fpirits fly out And thus I fet my foot on's neck"----even then The princely blood flows on his cheek, he fweats, Strains his young nerves, and puts himself in pofture That acts my words----The younger brother Cadwall, (Once, Arviragus,) in as like a figure Strikes life into my speech, and thews much more At three and two years old, I ftole these babes; Thou refteft me of my lands. Euriphile, Thou waft their nurse; they take thee for their mother, And every day do honour to thy grave; Myfelf Belarius, that am Morgan called, They take for natural father. The game's up. Enter PISAN10 and IMOGEN. [Exit. Imo. Thou toldest me, when we came from horse, the place Was near at hand. Ne'er longed my mother fo To fee me first, as I have now----Pifanio, Where is Pofthumus? What is in thy mind, "That makes thee ftare thus? wherefore breaks that figh From the inward of thee? one, but painted thus, |