Page 460 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

CORNELIUS

[aside]
I do suspect you, madam;
But you shall do no harm.

QUEEN
[to Pisanio]

Hark thee, a word.

CORNELIUS
[aside]
I do not like her. She doth think she has
Strange ling’ring poisons: I do know her spirit;
And will not trust one of her malice with [35]

A drug of such damn’d nature. Those she has
Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile;
Which first (perchance) she’ll prove on cats and dogs,

Then afterward up higher: but there is
No danger in what show of death it makes, [40]
More than the locking up the spirits a time,
To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool’d
With a most false effect: and I the truer,

So to be false with her.

QUEEN
No further service, doctor,
Until I send for thee.

CORNELIUS
I humbly take my leave. [45]

[Exit.]

QUEEN

Weeps she still, say’st thou? Dost thou think in time
She will not quench, and let instructions enter
Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:
When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,

I’ll tell thee on the instant, thou art then [50]