SCENE VI.

CÆSAR, MANDUBRATIUS.

AND. Let gracious favour smooth war's rugged brow; Cassibelane will compound; all rage must end. We choose you umpire for a friendly close.

CÆS. It is my glory to end all with peace; And for that cause I Comius sent in haste For to conduct him hither.

TEN. This trump gives warning of the king's approach.

CASSIBELANUS, COMIUS, LANTONUS.

CAS. Fate, and no fault of mine, makes me appear To yield, as far as honour gives me leave.

CÆS. Hail, valorous prince! disdain not this ingrafting Into Rome's empire, whose command encloses The whole Levant, and whose large shadow hides The triple-bounded earth and bellowing seas.

CAS. We shall observe your will, so you impose A league--no yoke. [_They shake hands._

CÆS. Thus we determine: that crown still shall stand: Reign as the total monarch of this isle, Till death unkings you. 'Twere, Androgeus, best You in our train kept honourable place; And let Tenantius wear the royal wreath. You must forgive the towns which did revolt, Nor seek revenge on Trinobants, but let Young Mandubrace possess his father's princedom.

CAS. Be all wrongs drench'd in Lethe.

AND. Pardon my rash attempts.

MAN. Count me your loyal friend.

[CASSIBELANUS _embraces_ ANDROGEUS _and_ MANDUBRATIUS.

CÆS. In sign of league you shall us pledges give, And yearly pay three thousand pound of silver Unto our treasury. So let these decrees Be straight proclaim'd through Troynovant, whose tower[345] Shall be more fairly built at my charge, as A lasting monument of our arrival.

CAS. All shall be done, renowned prince, whose worth, Unparallel'd both as a friend and foe, We do admire. Accept this surcoat, starrified with pearls And diamonds, such as our own shores breed.

CÆS. And you receive this massy cup of gold, Love's earnest and memorial of this day. By this suppose our senate calls you friend.

[_They sit together._

LAN. Now time, best oracle of oracles, Father of truth, the true sense doth suggest Of Dian's answer. The lion and the eagle do design The Briton and the Roman states, whose arms Were painted with those animals; both fierce, Weary at last, conclude: the semicircles, First letters of the leaders' names (we see) Are join'd in true love's endless figure. Both come of Trojan race, both nobly bold, Both matchless captains on one throne behold.

CÆS. Now the Tarpeian rock o'erlooks the world, Her empire bounded only by the ocean; And boundless fame beats on the starry pole. So Danow, crawling from a mountain's side, Wider and deeper grows, and like a serpent Or pyramid revers'd, improves his bigness As well as length; till, viewing countries large, And fed with sixty rivers, his wide mouth On th' Euxine sea-nymph gapes, and fear doth stir, Whether he will disgorge or swallow her.

CAS. Since the great guide of all, Olympus' king, Will have the Romans his viceroys on earth; Since the red fatal eyes of crow-black night Fling their malignant influence on our state; _Since Britain must submit; it was her fame,_ _None but a Julius Cæsar could her tame._

[_While trumpets sound_, ANDROGEUS _and_ TENANTIUS _embracing, take leave. All depart._