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you shall answer me with your sword.

IACHIMO
Your hand, a covenant: we will have these things set down by lawful counsel,
and straight away for Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and starve. I
will fetch my gold, and [160] have our two wagers recorded.

POSTHUMUS
Agreed.

[Exeunt Posthumus and Iachimo.]

FRENCHMAN
Will this hold, think you?

PHILARIO
Signior Iachimo will not from it. Pray let us follow ’em. [165]
[Exeunt.]

Scene VI IT

Enter Queen, Ladies, and Cornelius.

QUEEN
Whiles yet the dew’s on ground, gather those flowers;
Make haste. Who has the note of them?

FIRST LADY
I, madam.

QUEEN
Dispatch.

[Exeunt Ladies.]
Now master doctor, have you brought those drugs?

CORNELIUS
Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam: [5]