Page 474 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

There’s an Italian come, and ’tis thought one of Leonatus’ friends.

CLOTEN
Leonatus? A banished rascal; and he’s another, whatsoever he be. Who told
you of this stranger?

FIRST LORD
One of your lordship’s pages. [40]

CLOTEN
Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation in’t?

SECOND LORD
You cannot derogate, my lord.

CLOTEN
Not easily, I think.

SECOND LORD
[aside]
You are a fool granted, therefore your issues [45] being foolish do not
derogate.

CLOTEN
Come, I’ll go see this Italian: what I have lost to-day at bowls I’ll win to-night

of him. Come: go.

SECOND LORD

I’ll attend your lordship.
[Exeunt Cloten and First Lord.]
That such a crafty devil as is his mother [50]
Should yield the world this ass! a woman that

Bears all down with her brain, and this her son
Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
And leave eighteen. Alas poor princess,
Thou divine Imogen, what thou endur’st, [55]

Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern’d,