This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...you did mean indeed to be our brother; Joy'd are we, that you are.... Post. Your servant, princes.--Good my lord of Rome, Call forth your soothsayer: As I slept, methought, Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back, Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows8 Of mine own kindred: when I wak'd, I found This label on my bosom; whose containing Is so from sense in hardness, that I can Make collection of it9; let him show His skill in the construction. ---Spritely shows--Are groups of sprites, ghostly appearances. Steevens. 9 Make Collection of it: A collection is a corollary, a Luc. Philarmous, . Sooth. Here, my good lord. Luc. Read, and declare the meaning. Sooth. Reads. When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unkwn, without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many years shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock, and freshly grow; then shall Ibsthu' mus end his miseries, Britain be fortunate, andflourish in peace and plenty. Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp; The fit and apt construction of thy name, Being Leo-natus, doth import so much: The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter, To Cymbeline. Which we call mollis aer; and mollis aer We term it mulier: which mulier I divine, Is this most constant wife; who, even w, Answering the letter of the oracle, Unkwn to you, unsought, were clipp'd about With this most tender air. Cym. This hath some seeming. Sooth. The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline, Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point Thy two sons forth: who, by Belarius stolen, For many years thought dead, are w reviv'd, consequence deduced from premises. So, in Sir John Davies's poem on The Immortality of the Soul: When she, from sun...