A Room in Cymbeline's Palace.
 Enter INNOGEN and PISANIO.

Innogen	I would thou grew'st unto the shores o'th' haven,
	And questioned'st every sail. If he should write
	And I not have it, 'twere a paper lost,
	As offered mercy is. What was the last
	That he spake to thee?

Pisanio								It was: His queen, his queen!

Innogen	Then waved his handkerchief?

Pisanio											And kissed it, madam.

Innogen	Senseless linen, happier therein than I!
	And that was all?

Pisanio								No, madam; for so long
	As he could make me with this eye or ear
	Distinguish him from others, he did keep
	The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,
	Still waving, as the fits and stirs of's mind
	Could best express how slow his soul sailed on,
	How swift his ship.

Innogen								Thou shouldst have made him
	As little as a crow, or less, ere left
	To after-eye him.

Pisanio							Madam, so I did.

Innogen	I would have broke mine eye-strings, cracked them, but
	To look upon him till the diminution
	Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;
	Nay, followed him till he had melted from
	The smallness of a gnat to air; and then
	Have turned mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,
	When shall we hear from him?

Pisanio										Be assured, madam,
	With his next vantage.

Innogen	I did not take my leave of him, but had
	Most pretty things to say. Ere I could tell him
	How I would think on him at certain hours,
	Such thoughts and such; or I could make him swear
	The shes of Italy should not betray
	Mine interest and his honour; or have charged him,
	At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,
	T' encounter me with orisons, for then
	I am in heaven for him; or ere I could
	Give him that parting kiss which I had set
	Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father,
	And like the tyrannous breathing of the north,
	Shakes all our buds from growing.

                              Enter A LADY.

Lady										The queen, madam,
	Desires your highness' company.

Innogen	Those things I bid you do, get them dispatched.
	I will attend the queen.

Pisanio									Madam, I shall.
													[Exeunt.
