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BELARIUS

It shall be so:
Boys, we’ll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in;
Discourse is heavy, fasting: when we have supp’d

We’ll mannerly demand thee of thy story,
So far as thou wilt speak it.

GUIDERIUS
Pray, draw near. [65]

ARVIRAGUS
The night to th’ owl and morn to th’ lark less welcome.

IMOGEN
Thanks, sir.

ARVIRAGUS
I pray, draw near.
[Exeunt.]

Scene VIII IT

Enter two Senators and Tribunes.

FIRST SENATOR
This is the tenour of the emperor’s writ;
That since the common men are now in action

’Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,
And that the legions now in Gallia are
Full weak to undertake our wars against [5]
The fall’n-off Britons, that we do incite

The gentry to this business. He creates
Lucius proconsul: and to you the tribunes,
For this immediate levy, he commands
His absolute commission. Long live Cæsar! [10]

FIRST TRIBUNE