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Madam, you’re best consider.



              IMOGEN
               I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,
               Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them, [80]
               That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee,
               Do as I bid thee: there’s no more to say:

               Accessible is none but Milford way.
                                                                                                      [Exeunt.]



                                                    Scene III         IT



                                     Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus.


              BELARIUS

               A goodly day not to keep house with such
               Whose roof’s as low as ours! Stoop, boys: this gate
               Instructs you how t’ adore the heavens; and bows you

               To a morning’s holy office. The gates of monarchs
               Are arch’d so high that giants may jet through [5]
               And keep their impious turbans on, without
               Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!
               We house i’ th’ rock, yet use thee not so hardly

               As prouder livers do.



              GUIDERIUS
                               Hail, heaven!



              ARVIRAGUS
                               Hail, heaven!



              BELARIUS
               Now for our mountain sport, up to yond hill! [10]
               Your legs are young: I’ll tread these flats. Consider,

               When you above perceive me like a crow,
               That it is place which lessens and sets off,
               And you may then revolve what tales I have told you
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