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Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,
and ARVIRAGUS.
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Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,
and ARVIRAGUS.
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GUIDERIUS
The noise is round about us.
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GUIDERIUS
The noise is round about us.
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BELARIUS
Let us from it.
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BELARIUS
Let us from it.
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AVIRAGUS
What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?
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AVIRAGUS
What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?
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GUIDERIUS
5
Nay, what hope
Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
Must or for Britons slay us or receive us
For barbarous and unnatural revolts
During their use, and slay us after.
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GUIDERIUS
Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
Must or for Britons slay us or receive us
For barbarous and unnatural revolts
During their use, and slay us after.
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BELARIUS
10
Sons,
We’ll higher to the mountains, there secure us.
To the King’s party there’s no going. Newness
Of Cloten’s death—we being not known, not mustered
Among the bands—may drive us to a render
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Where we have lived, and so extort from ’s that
Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Drawn on with torture.
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BELARIUS
We’ll higher to the mountains, there secure us.
To the King’s party there’s no going. Newness
Of Cloten’s death—we being not known, not mustered
Among the bands—may drive us to a render
Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Drawn on with torture.
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GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you
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Nor satisfying us.
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GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you
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AVIRAGUS
It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quartered fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloyed importantly as now,
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That they will waste their time upon our note,
To know from whence we are.
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AVIRAGUS
It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quartered fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloyed importantly as now,
To know from whence we are.
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BELARIUS
O, I am known
Of many in the army. Many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see not wore him
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From my remembrance. And besides, the King
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
35
But to be still hot summer’s tanlings and
The shrinking slaves of winter.
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BELARIUS
O, I am known
Of many in the army. Many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see not wore him
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
The shrinking slaves of winter.
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GUIDERIUS
Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th’ army.
I and my brother are not known; yourself
40
So out of thought, and thereto so o’ergrown,
Cannot be questioned.
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GUIDERIUS
Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th’ army.
I and my brother are not known; yourself
Cannot be questioned.
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AVIRAGUS
By this sun that shines,
I’ll thither. What thing is ’t that I never
Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood
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But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!
Never bestrid a horse save one that had
A rider like myself, who ne’er wore rowel
Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
To look upon the holy sun, to have
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The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
So long a poor unknown.
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AVIRAGUS
By this sun that shines,
I’ll thither. What thing is ’t that I never
Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood
Never bestrid a horse save one that had
A rider like myself, who ne’er wore rowel
Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
To look upon the holy sun, to have
So long a poor unknown.
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GUIDERIUS
By heavens, I’ll go!
If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
I’ll take the better care, but if you will not,
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The hazard therefore due fall on me by
The hands of Romans.
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GUIDERIUS
By heavens, I’ll go!
If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
I’ll take the better care, but if you will not,
The hands of Romans.
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AVIRAGUS
So say I. Amen.
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AVIRAGUS
So say I. Amen.
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BELARIUS
No reason I—since of your lives you set
So slight a valuation—should reserve
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My cracked one to more care. Have with you, boys!
If in your country wars you chance to die,
That is my bed, too, lads, and there I’ll lie.
Lead, lead.
Aside. The time seems long; their
blood thinks scorn
65
Till it fly out and show them princes born.
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BELARIUS
No reason I—since of your lives you set
So slight a valuation—should reserve
If in your country wars you chance to die,
That is my bed, too, lads, and there I’ll lie.
Lead, lead.
Aside. The time seems long; their
blood thinks scorn
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They exit.
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They exit.
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,
and ARVIRAGUS.
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Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,
and ARVIRAGUS.
|
|
GUIDERIUS
The noise is round about us.
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GUIDERIUS
The noise is round about us.
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BELARIUS
Let us from it.
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BELARIUS
Let us from it.
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AVIRAGUS
What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?
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AVIRAGUS
What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it
From action and adventure?
|
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GUIDERIUS
5
Nay, what hope
Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
Must or for Britons slay us or receive us
For barbarous and unnatural revolts
During their use, and slay us after.
|
GUIDERIUS
Have we in hiding us? This way the Romans
Must or for Britons slay us or receive us
For barbarous and unnatural revolts
During their use, and slay us after.
|
|
BELARIUS
10
Sons,
We’ll higher to the mountains, there secure us.
To the King’s party there’s no going. Newness
Of Cloten’s death—we being not known, not mustered
Among the bands—may drive us to a render
15
Where we have lived, and so extort from ’s that
Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Drawn on with torture.
|
BELARIUS
We’ll higher to the mountains, there secure us.
To the King’s party there’s no going. Newness
Of Cloten’s death—we being not known, not mustered
Among the bands—may drive us to a render
Which we have done, whose answer would be death
Drawn on with torture.
|
|
GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you
20
Nor satisfying us.
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GUIDERIUS
This is, sir, a doubt
In such a time nothing becoming you
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|
AVIRAGUS
It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quartered fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloyed importantly as now,
25
That they will waste their time upon our note,
To know from whence we are.
|
AVIRAGUS
It is not likely
That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,
Behold their quartered fires, have both their eyes
And ears so cloyed importantly as now,
To know from whence we are.
|
|
BELARIUS
O, I am known
Of many in the army. Many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see not wore him
30
From my remembrance. And besides, the King
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
35
But to be still hot summer’s tanlings and
The shrinking slaves of winter.
|
BELARIUS
O, I am known
Of many in the army. Many years,
Though Cloten then but young, you see not wore him
Hath not deserved my service nor your loves,
Who find in my exile the want of breeding,
The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless
To have the courtesy your cradle promised,
The shrinking slaves of winter.
|
|
GUIDERIUS
Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th’ army.
I and my brother are not known; yourself
40
So out of thought, and thereto so o’ergrown,
Cannot be questioned.
|
GUIDERIUS
Than be so
Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to th’ army.
I and my brother are not known; yourself
Cannot be questioned.
|
|
AVIRAGUS
By this sun that shines,
I’ll thither. What thing is ’t that I never
Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood
45
But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!
Never bestrid a horse save one that had
A rider like myself, who ne’er wore rowel
Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
To look upon the holy sun, to have
50
The benefit of his blest beams, remaining
So long a poor unknown.
|
AVIRAGUS
By this sun that shines,
I’ll thither. What thing is ’t that I never
Did see man die, scarce ever looked on blood
Never bestrid a horse save one that had
A rider like myself, who ne’er wore rowel
Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed
To look upon the holy sun, to have
So long a poor unknown.
|
|
GUIDERIUS
By heavens, I’ll go!
If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
I’ll take the better care, but if you will not,
55
The hazard therefore due fall on me by
The hands of Romans.
|
GUIDERIUS
By heavens, I’ll go!
If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,
I’ll take the better care, but if you will not,
The hands of Romans.
|
|
AVIRAGUS
So say I. Amen.
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AVIRAGUS
So say I. Amen.
|
|
BELARIUS
No reason I—since of your lives you set
So slight a valuation—should reserve
60
My cracked one to more care. Have with you, boys!
If in your country wars you chance to die,
That is my bed, too, lads, and there I’ll lie.
Lead, lead.
Aside. The time seems long; their
blood thinks scorn
65
Till it fly out and show them princes born.
|
BELARIUS
No reason I—since of your lives you set
So slight a valuation—should reserve
If in your country wars you chance to die,
That is my bed, too, lads, and there I’ll lie.
Lead, lead.
Aside. The time seems long; their
blood thinks scorn
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They exit.
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They exit.
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