Page 524 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4
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ARVIRAGUS
I’ll make’t my comfort
He is a man, I’ll love him as my brother:
And such a welcome as I’ld give to him [45]
(After long absence) such is yours. Most welcome!
Be sprightly, for you fall ’mongst friends.
IMOGEN
’Mongst friends?
If brothers: [aside] would it had been so, that they
Had been my father’s sons, then had my prize
Been less, and so more equal ballasting [50]
To thee, Posthumus.
BELARIUS
He wrings at some distress.
GUIDERIUS
Would I could free’t!
ARVIRAGUS
Or I, whate’er it be,
What pain it cost, what danger! Gods!
BELARIUS
Hark, boys.
[Whispering.]
IMOGEN
Great men,
That had a court no bigger than this cave, [55]
That did attend themselves, and had the virtue
Which their own conscience seal’d them, laying by
That nothing-gift of differing multitudes,
Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!
I’ld change my sex to be companion with them, [60]
Since Leonatus false.
