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May make some stronger head, the which he hearing
(As it is like him) might break out, and swear [140]
He’ld fetch us in, yet is’t not probable
To come alone, either he so undertaking,

Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,
If we do fear this body hath a tail
More perilous than the head.

ARVIRAGUS
Let ordinance [145]

Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe’er,
My brother hath done well.

BELARIUS
I had no mind
To hunt this day: the boy Fidele’s sickness
Did make my way long forth.

GUIDERIUS
With his own sword,

Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta’en [150]
His head from him: I’ll throw’t into the creek
Behind our rock, and let it to the sea,

And tell the fishes he’s the queen’s son, Cloten,
That’s all I reck.
[Exit.]

BELARIUS
I fear ’twill be reveng’d:
Would, Polydore, thou hadst not done’t: though valour [155]

Becomes thee well enough.

ARVIRAGUS
Would I had done’t:
So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,
I love thee brotherly, but envy much

Thou hast robb’d me of this deed: I would revenges,