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Enter Imogen, and Pisanio.

Imo. I would thou grew’st vnto the shores o’th’ Hauen,

And questioned’st euery Saile: if he should write,

And I not haue it, ‘twere a Paper lost

As offer’d mercy is: What was the last

That he spake to thee?

Pisa. It was his Queene, his Queene

Imo. Then wau’d his Handkerchiefe?

Pisa. And kist it, Madam

Imo. Senselesse Linnen, happier therein then I:

And that was all?

Pisa. No Madam: for so long

As he could make me with his eye, or eare,

Distinguish him from others, he did keepe

The Decke, with Gloue, or Hat, or Handkerchife,

Still wauing, as the fits and stirres of’s mind

Could best expresse how slow his Soule sayl’d on,

How swift his Ship

Imo. Thou should’st haue made him

As little as a Crow, or lesse, ere left

To after-eye him

Pisa. Madam, so I did

Imo. I would haue broke mine eye-strings;

Crack’d them, but to looke vpon him, till the diminution

Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle:

Nay, followed him, till he had melted from

The smalnesse of a Gnat, to ayre: and then

Haue turn’d mine eye, and wept. But good Pisanio,

When shall we heare from him

Pisa. Be assur’d Madam,

With his next vantage

Imo. I did not take my leaue of him, but had

Most pretty things to say: Ere I could tell him

How I would thinke on him at certaine houres,

Such thoughts, and such: Or I could make him sweare,

The Shees of Italy should not betray

Mine Interest, and his Honour: or haue charg’d him

At the sixt houre of Morne, at Noone, at Midnight,

T’ encounter me with Orisons, for then

I am in Heauen for him: Or ere I could,

Giue him that parting kisse, which I had set

Betwixt two charming words, comes in my Father,

And like the Tyrannous breathing of the North,

Shakes all our buddes from growing.

Enter a Lady.

La. The Queene (Madam)

Desires your Highnesse Company

Imo. Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch’d,

I will attend the Queene

Pisa. Madam, I shall.

Exeunt.