Cymbeline

1 Enter Imogen and Pisanio.
2 IMOGEN.
3 I would thou grew’st unto the shores o’ th’ haven,
4 And questioned’st every sail; if he should write,
5 And I not have it, ’twere a paper lost,
6 As offer’d mercy is. What was the last
7 That he spake to thee?
8 PISANIO.
9 It was: his queen, his queen!
10 IMOGEN.
11 Then wav’d his handkerchief?
12 PISANIO.
13 And kiss’d it, madam.
14 IMOGEN.
15 Senseless linen, happier therein than I!
16 And that was all?
17 PISANIO.
18 No, madam; for so long
19 As he could make me with his eye, or ear
20 Distinguish him from others, he did keep
21 The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
22 Still waving, as the fits and stirs of’s mind
23 Could best express how slow his soul sail’d on,
24 How swift his ship.
25 IMOGEN.
26 Thou shouldst have made him
27 As little as a crow, or less, ere left
28 To after-eye him.
29 PISANIO.
30 Madam, so I did.
31 IMOGEN.
32 I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack’d them but
33 To look upon him, till the diminution
34 Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
35 Nay, followed him till he had melted from
36 The smallness of a gnat to air, and then
37 Have turn’d mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
38 When shall we hear from him?
39 PISANIO.
40 Be assur’d, madam,
41 With his next vantage.
42 IMOGEN.
43 I did not take my leave of him, but had
44 Most pretty things to say. Ere I could tell him
45 How I would think on him at certain hours
46 Such thoughts and such; or I could make him swear
47 The shes of Italy should not betray
48 Mine interest and his honour; or have charg’d him,
49 At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
50 T’ encounter me with orisons, for then
51 I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
52 Give him that parting kiss which I had set
53 Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
54 And like the tyrannous breathing of the north
55 Shakes all our buds from growing.
56 Enter a Lady.
57 LADY.
58 The Queen, madam,
59 Desires your Highness’ company.
60 IMOGEN.
61 Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch’d.
62 I will attend the Queen.
63 PISANIO.
64 Madam, I shall.
65 [_Exeunt._]