. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. s ^ ! [Exit, ivith the Child. Leon. No, I 11 not rear Anothers Attend. Please your highness, posts, JFrom those you sent to the oracle, are come An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, Being well arrivd from Delphos, are both landed. Hasting to the Lord. So please you, sir, their speed Hath been beyond Twenty-three days They have been absent: t is good speed; foretells The great Apollo suddenly will have The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords; Summon a session, that we may arraign Our most disl
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. s ^ ! [Exit, ivith the Child. Leon. No, I 11 not rear Anothers Attend. Please your highness, posts, JFrom those you sent to the oracle, are come An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, Being well arrivd from Delphos, are both landed. Hasting to the Lord. So please you, sir, their speed Hath been beyond Twenty-three days They have been absent: t is good speed; foretells The great Apollo suddenly will have The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords; Summon a session, that we may arraign Our most disloyal lady: for, as she hath Been publicly accusd, so shall she have A just and open trial. While she lives. My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me; And think upon my bidding. [^Exeunt. » Loss. We have the word repeated in the third Act:— Poor wretch,That, for thy mothers fault, art thus exposdTo loss, and what may follow!This passage shows that loss does not here mean destruction—a final calamity; for somethingmay follow. It probably means exposure. II 2 ^. ?f^, [Scene III. What have we here ? ] ACT III. SCENE I.—Sicilia. A Cleomenes and Dion. Ci-EO. The climate s delicate ; the air most sweet; Fertile the isle; the temple much surpassing The common praise it I shall report, For most it caught me, the celestial habits, (Methinks I so should term them,) and the reverence SCENE II.] A WINTEBs TALE. 463 Of the grave wearers. 0, the sacrifice ! How ceremonious, solemn, and unearthly-It was i the offering!Cleg. But, of all, the burst And the ear-deafening voice o the oracle. Kin to Joves thunder, so surprisd my sense, That I was If the event o the journey Prove as successful to the queen,—0, be t so I — As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy. The time is worth the use Great Apollo, Turn all to the best! These proclamations, So forcing faults upon Hermione, I little The violent carriage of it Will clear,
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