Page 545 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Which chance to find us. O, my lord! my lord!
[Falls on the body.]

Enter Lucius, Captains, and a Soothsayer.

CAPTAIN
To them, the legions garrison’d in Gallia
After your will have cross’d the sea, attending

You here at Milford-Haven, with your ships: [335]
They are in readiness.

LUCIUS
But what from Rome?

CAPTAIN
The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners
And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,

That promise noble service: and they come
Under the conduct of bold Iachimo, [340]
Siena’s brother.

LUCIUS
When expect you them?

CAPTAIN
With the next benefit o’ th’ wind.

LUCIUS

This forwardness
Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers
Be muster’d; bid the captains look to ’t. Now sir,
What have you dream’d of late of this war’s purpose? [345]

SOOTHSAYER
Last night the very gods show’d me a vision

(I fast, and pray’d for their intelligence) thus:
I saw Jove’s bird, the Roman eagle, wing’d