Depart, and not to bear your answer. Well, sir, we will accompany you hence. Pan. I will retire to marshal forth the guard Of honour which befits your rank, and wait Your leisure, so that it the hour exceeds [Ezil PANIA. not. Bel. Now then obey! Arb. Doubtless. Bel. Yes, to the gates That grate the palace, which is now our prison No further. Arb. indeed! Thou hast harp'd the truth 420 The realm itself, in all its wide extension, Yawns dungeons at each step for thee and me. Bel. Graves! It shall have work enough. Let me hope better than thou augurest; At present, let us hence as best we may. Thou dost agree with me in understanding This order as a sentence ? 430 Arb. But they all sicken'd by the way, it was Arb. And I even yet repenting must Relapse to guilt! Bel. Self-defence is a virtue, Sole bulwark of all right. Away, I say! Let's leave this place, the air grows thick and choking, And the walls have a scent of night-shade - hence ! Let us not leave them time for further counsel. 460 Our quick departure proves our civic zeal; Our quick departure hinders our good escort, The worthy Pania, from anticipating The orders of some parasangs from hence: Nay, there's no other choice, but — hence, I say. [Exit with ARBACES, who follows reluctantly. Think not I am insensible to all Thine honest wisdom, and thy rough yet kind, Though oft reproving, sufferance of my follies. If I have spared these men against thy counsel, That is, their lives - it is not that I doubt The advice was sound; but, let them live: we will not Cavil about their lives them. so let them mend |