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	<H3>ACT I</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter two Gentlemen</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.1>You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.2>No more obey the heavens than our courtiers</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.3>Still seem as does the king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.4>But what's the matter?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.5>His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.6>He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.7>That late he married--hath referr'd herself</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.8>Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.9>Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.10>Is outward sorrow; though I think the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.11>Be touch'd at very heart.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.12>None but the king?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.13>He that hath lost her too; so is the queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.14>That most desired the match; but not a courtier,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.15>Although they wear their faces to the bent</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.16>Of the king's look's, hath a heart that is not</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.17>Glad at the thing they scowl at.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.18>And why so?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.19>He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.20>Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.21>I mean, that married her, alack, good man!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.22>And therefore banish'd--is a creature such</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.23>As, to seek through the regions of the earth</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.24>For one his like, there would be something failing</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.25>In him that should compare. I do not think</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.26>So fair an outward and such stuff within</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.27>Endows a man but he.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.28>You speak him far.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.29>I do extend him, sir, within himself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.30>Crush him together rather than unfold</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.31>His measure duly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.32> What's his name and birth?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.33>I cannot delve him to the root: his father</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.34>Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.35>Against the Romans with Cassibelan,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.36>But had his titles by Tenantius whom</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.37>He served with glory and admired success,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.38>So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.39>And had, besides this gentleman in question,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.40>Two other sons, who in the wars o' the time</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.41>Died with their swords in hand; for which</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.42>their father,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.43>Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.44>That he quit being, and his gentle lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.45>Big of this gentleman our theme, deceased</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.46>As he was born. The king he takes the babe</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.47>To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.48>Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.49>Puts to him all the learnings that his time</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.50>Could make him the receiver of; which he took,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.51>As we do air, fast as 'twas minister'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.52>And in's spring became a harvest, lived in court--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.53>Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.54>A sample to the youngest, to the more mature</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.55>A glass that feated them, and to the graver</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.56>A child that guided dotards; to his mistress,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.57>For whom he now is banish'd, her own price</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.58>Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.59>By her election may be truly read</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.60>What kind of man he is.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.61>I honour him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.62>Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.63>Is she sole child to the king?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.64>His only child.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.65>He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.66>Mark it: the eldest of them at three years old,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.67>I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.68>Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.69>Which way they went.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.70>How long is this ago?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.71>Some twenty years.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.72>That a king's children should be so convey'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.73>So slackly guarded, and the search so slow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.74>That could not trace them!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.75>Howsoe'er 'tis strange,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.76>Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.77>Yet is it true, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.78>I do well believe you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.79>We must forbear: here comes the gentleman,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.80>The queen, and princess.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	<p><i>Enter the QUEEN, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and IMOGEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.81>No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.82>After the slander of most stepmothers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.83>Evil-eyed unto you: you're my prisoner, but</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.84>Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.85>That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.86>So soon as I can win the offended king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.87>I will be known your advocate: marry, yet</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.88>The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.89>You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.90>Your wisdom may inform you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.91>Please your highness,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.92>I will from hence to-day.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.93>You know the peril.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.94>I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.95>The pangs of barr'd affections, though the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.96>Hath charged you should not speak together.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.97>O</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.98>Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.99>Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.100>I something fear my father's wrath; but nothing--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.101>Always reserved my holy duty--what</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.102>His rage can do on me: you must be gone;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.103>And I shall here abide the hourly shot</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.104>Of angry eyes, not comforted to live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.105>But that there is this jewel in the world</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.106>That I may see again.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.107>My queen! my mistress!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.108>O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.109>To be suspected of more tenderness</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.110>Than doth become a man. I will remain</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.111>The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.112>My residence in Rome at one Philario's,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.113>Who to my father was a friend, to me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.114>Known but by letter: thither write, my queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.115>And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.116>Though ink be made of gall.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter QUEEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.117>Be brief, I pray you:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.118>If the king come, I shall incur I know not</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.119>How much of his displeasure.</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.1.120>Yet I'll move him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.121>To walk this way: I never do him wrong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.122>But he does buy my injuries, to be friends;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.123>Pays dear for my offences.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.124>Should we be taking leave</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.125>As long a term as yet we have to live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.126>The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.127>Nay, stay a little:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.128>Were you but riding forth to air yourself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.129>Such parting were too petty. Look here, love;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.130>This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.131>But keep it till you woo another wife,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.132>When Imogen is dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.133>How, how! another?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.134>You gentle gods, give me but this I have,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.135>And sear up my embracements from a next</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.136>With bonds of death!</A><br>
	<p><i>Putting on the ring</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.1.137>Remain, remain thou here</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.138>While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.139>As I my poor self did exchange for you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.140>To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.141>I still win of you: for my sake wear this;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.142>It is a manacle of love; I'll place it</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.143>Upon this fairest prisoner.</A><br>
	<p><i>Putting a bracelet upon her arm</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.144>O the gods!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.145>When shall we see again?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CYMBELINE and Lords</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.146>Alack, the king!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.147>Thou basest thing, avoid! hence, from my sight!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.148>If after this command thou fraught the court</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.149>With thy unworthiness, thou diest: away!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.150>Thou'rt poison to my blood.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.151>The gods protect you!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.152>And bless the good remainders of the court! I am gone.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.153> There cannot be a pinch in death</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.154>More sharp than this is.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.155>O disloyal thing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.156>That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.157>A year's age on me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.158>I beseech you, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.159>Harm not yourself with your vexation</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.160>I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.161>Subdues all pangs, all fears.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.162>Past grace? obedience?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.163>Past hope, and in despair; that way, past grace.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.164>That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.165>O blest, that I might not! I chose an eagle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.166>And did avoid a puttock.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.167>Thou took'st a beggar; wouldst have made my throne</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.168>A seat for baseness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.169>No; I rather added</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.170>A lustre to it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.171> O thou vile one!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.172>Sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.173>It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.174>You bred him as my playfellow, and he is</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.175>A man worth any woman, overbuys me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.176>Almost the sum he pays.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.177>What, art thou mad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.178>Almost, sir: heaven restore me! Would I were</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.179>A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.180>Our neighbour shepherd's son!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.181>Thou foolish thing!</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter QUEEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.1.182>They were again together: you have done</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.183>Not after our command. Away with her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.184>And pen her up.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.185> Beseech your patience. Peace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.186>Dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.187>Leave us to ourselves; and make yourself some comfort</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.188>Out of your best advice.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.189>Nay, let her languish</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.190>A drop of blood a day; and, being aged,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.191>Die of this folly!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt CYMBELINE and Lords</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.192> Fie! you must give way.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter PISANIO</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.1.193>Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.194>My lord your son drew on my master.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.195>Ha!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.196>No harm, I trust, is done?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.197>There might have been,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.198>But that my master rather play'd than fought</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.199>And had no help of anger: they were parted</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.200>By gentlemen at hand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.201>I am very glad on't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.202>Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.203>To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.204>I would they were in Afric both together;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.205>Myself by with a needle, that I might prick</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.206>The goer-back. Why came you from your master?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.207>On his command: he would not suffer me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.208>To bring him to the haven; left these notes</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.209>Of what commands I should be subject to,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.210>When 't pleased you to employ me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.211>This hath been</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.212>Your faithful servant: I dare lay mine honour</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.213>He will remain so.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.214> I humbly thank your highness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.215>Pray, walk awhile.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.1.216> About some half-hour hence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.217>I pray you, speak with me: you shall at least</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.1.218>Go see my lord aboard: for this time leave me.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. The same. A public place.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CLOTEN and two Lords</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.1>Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.2>violence of action hath made you reek as a</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.3>sacrifice: where air comes out, air comes in:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.4>there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.5>If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.6>[Aside] No, 'faith; not so much as his patience.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.7>Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.8>not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.9>[Aside] His steel was in debt; it went o' the</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.10>backside the town.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.11>The villain would not stand me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.12>[Aside] No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.13>Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.14>he added to your having; gave you some ground.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.15>[Aside] As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.16>I would they had not come between us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.17>[Aside] So would I, till you had measured how long</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.18>a fool you were upon the ground.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.19>And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.20>[Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.21>is damned.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.22>Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.23>go not together: she's a good sign, but I have seen</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.24>small reflection of her wit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.25>[Aside] She shines not upon fools, lest the</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.26>reflection should hurt her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.27>Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.28>hurt done!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.29>[Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.2.30>of an ass, which is no great hurt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.31>You'll go with us?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.32>I'll attend your lordship.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.33>Nay, come, let's go together.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.2.34>Well, my lord.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. A room in Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.1>I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.2>And question'dst every sail: if he should write</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.3>And not have it, 'twere a paper lost,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.4>As offer'd mercy is. What was the last</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.5>That he spake to thee?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.6>It was his queen, his queen!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.7>Then waved his handkerchief?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.8>And kiss'd it, madam.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.9>Senseless Linen! happier therein than I!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.10>And that was all?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.11> No, madam; for so long</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.12>As he could make me with this eye or ear</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.13>Distinguish him from others, he did keep</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.14>The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.15>Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.16>Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.17>How swift his ship.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.18>Thou shouldst have made him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.19>As little as a crow, or less, ere left</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.20>To after-eye him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.21> Madam, so I did.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.22>I would have broke mine eye-strings; crack'd them, but</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.23>To look upon him, till the diminution</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.24>Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.25>Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.26>The smallness of a gnat to air, and then</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.27>Have turn'd mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.28>When shall we hear from him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.29>Be assured, madam,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.30>With his next vantage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.31>I did not take my leave of him, but had</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.32>Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.33>How I would think on him at certain hours</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.34>Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.35>The shes of Italy should not betray</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.36>Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.37>At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.38>To encounter me with orisons, for then</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.39>I am in heaven for him; or ere I could</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.40>Give him that parting kiss which I had set</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.41>Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.42>And like the tyrannous breathing of the north</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.43>Shakes all our buds from growing.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Lady</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.44>The queen, madam,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.45>Desires your highness' company.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.46>Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.3.47>I will attend the queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.3.48>Madam, I shall.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Rome. Philario's house.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.1>Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.2>then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.3>as since he hath been allowed the name of; but I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.4>could then have looked on him without the help of</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.5>admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.6>had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.7>You speak of him when he was less furnished than now</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.8>he is with that which makes him both without and within.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.9>I have seen him in France: we had very many there</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.10>could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.11>This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.12>he must be weighed rather by her value than his own,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.13>words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.14>And then his banishment.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.15>Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.16>lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.17>to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgment,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.18>which else an easy battery might lay flat, for</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.19>taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.20>it he is to sojourn with you? How creeps</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.21>acquaintance?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.22>His father and I were soldiers together; to whom I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.23>have been often bound for no less than my life.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.24>Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.25>amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.26>knowing, to a stranger of his quality.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.4.27>I beseech you all, be better known to this</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.28>gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.29>of mine: how worthy he is I will leave to appear</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.30>hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.31>Sir, we have known together in Orleans.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.32>Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.33>which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.34>Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness: I was glad I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.35>did atone my countryman and you; it had been pity</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.36>you should have been put together with so mortal a</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.37>purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.38>slight and trivial a nature.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.39>By your pardon, sir, I was then a young traveller;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.40>rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.41>my every action to be guided by others' experiences:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.42>but upon my mended judgment--if I offend not to say</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.43>it is mended--my quarrel was not altogether slight.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.44>'Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.45>and by such two that would by all likelihood have</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.46>confounded one the other, or have fallen both.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.47>Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.48>Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.49>which may, without contradiction, suffer the report.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.50>It was much like an argument that fell out last</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.51>night, where each of us fell in praise of our</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.52>country mistresses; this gentleman at that time</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.53>vouching--and upon warrant of bloody</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.54>affirmation--his to be more fair, virtuous, wise,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.55>chaste, constant-qualified and less attemptable</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.56>than any the rarest of our ladies in France.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.57>That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.58>opinion by this worn out.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.59>She holds her virtue still and I my mind.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.60>You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.61>Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.62>abate her nothing, though I profess myself her</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.63>adorer, not her friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.64>As fair and as good--a kind of hand-in-hand</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.65>comparison--had been something too fair and too good</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.66>for any lady in Britain. If she went before others</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.67>I have seen, as that diamond of yours outlustres</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.68>many I have beheld. I could not but believe she</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.69>excelled many: but I have not seen the most</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.70>precious diamond that is, nor you the lady.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.71>I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.72>What do you esteem it at?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.73>More than the world enjoys.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.74>Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.75>outprized by a trifle.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.76>You are mistaken: the one may be sold, or given, if</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.77>there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.78>for the gift: the other is not a thing for sale,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.79>and only the gift of the gods.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.80>Which the gods have given you?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.81>Which, by their graces, I will keep.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.82>You may wear her in title yours: but, you know,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.83>strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.84>ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.85>estimations; the one is but frail and the other</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.86>casual; a cunning thief, or a that way accomplished</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.87>courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and last.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.88>Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.89>to convince the honour of my mistress, if, in the</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.90>holding or loss of that, you term her frail. I do</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.91>nothing doubt you have store of thieves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.92>notwithstanding, I fear not my ring.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.93>Let us leave here, gentlemen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.94>Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.95>thank him, makes no stranger of me; we are familiar at first.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.96>With five times so much conversation, I should get</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.97>ground of your fair mistress, make her go back, even</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.98>to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity to friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.99>No, no.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.100>I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.101>your ring; which, in my opinion, o'ervalues it</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.102>something: but I make my wager rather against your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.103>confidence than her reputation: and, to bar your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.104>offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.105>lady in the world.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.106>You are a great deal abused in too bold a</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.107>persuasion; and I doubt not you sustain what you're</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.108>worthy of by your attempt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.109>What's that?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.110>A repulse: though your attempt, as you call it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.111>deserve more; a punishment too.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.112>Gentlemen, enough of this: it came in too suddenly;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.113>let it die as it was born, and, I pray you, be</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.114>better acquainted.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.115>Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.116>approbation of what I have spoke!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.117>What lady would you choose to assail?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.118>Yours; whom in constancy you think stands so safe.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.119>I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.120>that, commend me to the court where your lady is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.121>with no more advantage than the opportunity of a</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.122>second conference, and I will bring from thence</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.123>that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.124>I will wage against your gold, gold to it: my ring</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.125>I hold dear as my finger; 'tis part of it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.126>You are afraid, and therein the wiser. If you buy</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.127>ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.128>preserve it from tainting: but I see you have some</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.129>religion in you, that you fear.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.130>This is but a custom in your tongue; you bear a</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.131>graver purpose, I hope.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.132>I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.133>what's spoken, I swear.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.134>Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.135>return: let there be covenants drawn between's: my</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.136>mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.137>unworthy thinking: I dare you to this match: here's my ring.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.138>I will have it no lay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.139>By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.140>sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.141>bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.142>are yours; so is your diamond too: if I come off,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.143>and leave her in such honour as you have trust in,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.144>she your jewel, this your jewel, and my gold are</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.145>yours: provided I have your commendation for my more</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.146>free entertainment.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.147>I embrace these conditions; let us have articles</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.148>betwixt us. Only, thus far you shall answer: if</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.149>you make your voyage upon her and give me directly</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.150>to understand you have prevailed, I am no further</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.151>your enemy; she is not worth our debate: if she</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.152>remain unseduced, you not making it appear</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.153>otherwise, for your ill opinion and the assault you</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.154>have made to her chastity you shall answer me with</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.155>your sword.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.156>Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.157>down by lawful counsel, and straight away for</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.158>Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.159>starve: I will fetch my gold and have our two</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.160>wagers recorded.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.161>Agreed.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and IACHIMO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>Frenchman</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.162>Will this hold, think you?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.4.163>Signior Iachimo will not from it.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.4.164>Pray, let us follow 'em.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter QUEEN, Ladies, and CORNELIUS</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.1>Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.2>Make haste: who has the note of them?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>First Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.3>I, madam.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.4>Dispatch.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt Ladies</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.5>Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.6>Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:</A><br>
	<p><i>Presenting a small box</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.7>But I beseech your grace, without offence,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.8>My conscience bids me ask--wherefore you have</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.9>Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.10>Which are the movers of a languishing death;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.11>But though slow, deadly?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.12>I wonder, doctor,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.13>Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.14>Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.15>To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.16>That our great king himself doth woo me oft</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.17>For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.18>Unless thou think'st me devilish--is't not meet</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.19>That I did amplify my judgment in</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.20>Other conclusions? I will try the forces</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.21>Of these thy compounds on such creatures as</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.22>We count not worth the hanging, but none human,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.23>To try the vigour of them and apply</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.24>Allayments to their act, and by them gather</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.25>Their several virtues and effects.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.26>Your highness</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.27>Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.28>Besides, the seeing these effects will be</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.29>Both noisome and infectious.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.30>O, content thee.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter PISANIO</i></p>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.31>Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.32>Will I first work: he's for his master,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.33>An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.34>Doctor, your service for this time is ended;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.35>Take your own way.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.36>[Aside] I do suspect you, madam;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.37>But you shall do no harm.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.38>[To PISANIO] Hark thee, a word.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.39>[Aside] I do not like her. She doth think she has</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.40>Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.41>And will not trust one of her malice with</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.42>A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.43>Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.44>Which first, perchance, she'll prove on</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.45>cats and dogs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.46>Then afterward up higher: but there is</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.47>No danger in what show of death it makes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.48>More than the locking-up the spirits a time,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.49>To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.50>With a most false effect; and I the truer,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.51>So to be false with her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.52>No further service, doctor,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.53>Until I send for thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.54>I humbly take my leave.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.55>Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think in time</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.56>She will not quench and let instructions enter</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.57>Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.58>When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.59>I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.60>As great as is thy master, greater, for</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.61>His fortunes all lie speechless and his name</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.62>Is at last gasp: return he cannot, nor</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.63>Continue where he is: to shift his being</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.64>Is to exchange one misery with another,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.65>And every day that comes comes to decay</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.66>A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.67>To be depender on a thing that leans,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.68>Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.69>So much as but to prop him?</A><br>
	<p><i>The QUEEN drops the box: PISANIO takes it up</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.70>Thou takest up</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.71>Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.72>It is a thing I made, which hath the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.73>Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.74>What is more cordial. Nay, I prethee, take it;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.75>It is an earnest of a further good</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.76>That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.77>The case stands with her; do't as from thyself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.78>Think what a chance thou changest on, but think</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.79>Thou hast thy mistress still, to boot, my son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.80>Who shall take notice of thee: I'll move the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.81>To any shape of thy preferment such</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.82>As thou'lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.83>That set thee on to this desert, am bound</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.84>To load thy merit richly. Call my women:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.85>Think on my words.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit PISANIO</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.86>A sly and constant knave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.87>Not to be shaked; the agent for his master</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.88>And the remembrancer of her to hold</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.89>The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.90>Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.91>Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.92>Except she bend her humour, shall be assured</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.93>To taste of too.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter PISANIO and Ladies</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.5.94>So, so: well done, well done:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.95>The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.96>Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.97>Think on my words.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.5.98>And shall do:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.99>But when to my good lord I prove untrue,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.5.100>I'll choke myself: there's all I'll do for you.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VI. The same. Another room in the palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter IMOGEN</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.1>A father cruel, and a step-dame false;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.2>A foolish suitor to a wedded lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.3>That hath her husband banish'd;--O, that husband!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.4>My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.5>Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.6>As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.7>Is the desire that's glorious: blest be those,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.8>How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.9>Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.10>Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.11>Comes from my lord with letters.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.12>Change you, madam?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.13>The worthy Leonatus is in safety</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.14>And greets your highness dearly.</A><br>
	<p><i>Presents a letter</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.15>Thanks, good sir:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.16>You're kindly welcome.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.17>[Aside] All of her that is out of door most rich!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.18>If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.19>She is alone the Arabian bird, and I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.20>Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.21>Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.22>Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.23>Rather directly fly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.24>[Reads] 'He is one of the noblest note, to whose</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.25>kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.26>him accordingly, as you value your trust--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.27>LEONATUS.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.28>So far I read aloud:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.29>But even the very middle of my heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.30>Is warm'd by the rest, and takes it thankfully.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.31>You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.32>Have words to bid you, and shall find it so</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.33>In all that I can do.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.34>Thanks, fairest lady.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.35>What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.36>To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.37>Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.38>The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.39>Upon the number'd beach? and can we not</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.40>Partition make with spectacles so precious</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.41>'Twixt fair and foul?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.42>What makes your admiration?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.43>It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.44>'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.45>Contemn with mows the other; nor i' the judgment,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.46>For idiots in this case of favour would</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.47>Be wisely definite; nor i' the appetite;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.48>Sluttery to such neat excellence opposed</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.49>Should make desire vomit emptiness,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.50>Not so allured to feed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.51>What is the matter, trow?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.52>The cloyed will,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.53>That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.54>Both fill'd and running, ravening first the lamb</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.55>Longs after for the garbage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.56>What, dear sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.57>Thus raps you? Are you well?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.58>Thanks, madam; well.</A><br>
	<p><i>To PISANIO</i></p>
	<A NAME=1.6.59>Beseech you, sir, desire</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.60>My man's abode where I did leave him: he</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.61>Is strange and peevish.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.62>I was going, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.63>To give him welcome.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.64>Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.65>Well, madam.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.66>Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.67>Exceeding pleasant; none a stranger there</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.68>So merry and so gamesome: he is call'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.69>The Briton reveller.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.70>When he was here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.71>He did incline to sadness, and oft-times</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.72>Not knowing why.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.73> I never saw him sad.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.74>There is a Frenchman his companion, one</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.75>An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.76>A Gallian girl at home; he furnaces</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.77>The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.78>Your lord, I mean--laughs from's free lungs, cries 'O,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.79>Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.80>By history, report, or his own proof,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.81>What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.82>But must be, will his free hours languish for</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.83>Assured bondage?'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.84> Will my lord say so?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.85>Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.86>It is a recreation to be by</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.87>And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.88>Some men are much to blame.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.89>Not he, I hope.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.90>Not he: but yet heaven's bounty towards him might</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.91>Be used more thankfully. In himself, 'tis much;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.92>In you, which I account his beyond all talents,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.93>Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.94>To pity too.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.95> What do you pity, sir?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.96>Two creatures heartily.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.97>Am I one, sir?</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.98>You look on me: what wreck discern you in me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.99>Deserves your pity?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.100>Lamentable! What,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.101>To hide me from the radiant sun and solace</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.102>I' the dungeon by a snuff?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.103>I pray you, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.104>Deliver with more openness your answers</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.105>To my demands. Why do you pity me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.106>That others do--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.107>I was about to say--enjoy your--But</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.108>It is an office of the gods to venge it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.109>Not mine to speak on 't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.110>You do seem to know</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.111>Something of me, or what concerns me: pray you,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.112>Since doubling things go ill often hurts more</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.113>Than to be sure they do; for certainties</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.114>Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.115>The remedy then born--discover to me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.116>What both you spur and stop.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.117>Had I this cheek</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.118>To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.119>Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.120>To the oath of loyalty; this object, which</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.121>Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.122>Fixing it only here; should I, damn'd then,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.123>Slaver with lips as common as the stairs</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.124>That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.125>Made hard with hourly falsehood--falsehood, as</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.126>With labour; then by-peeping in an eye</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.127>Base and unlustrous as the smoky light</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.128>That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.129>That all the plagues of hell should at one time</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.130>Encounter such revolt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.131>My lord, I fear,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.132>Has forgot Britain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.133>And himself. Not I,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.134>Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.135>The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.136>That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.137>Charms this report out.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.138>Let me hear no more.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.139>O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.140>With pity, that doth make me sick. A lady</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.141>So fair, and fasten'd to an empery,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.142>Would make the great'st king double,--to be partner'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.143>With tomboys hired with that self-exhibition</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.144>Which your own coffers yield! with diseased ventures</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.145>That play with all infirmities for gold</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.146>Which rottenness can lend nature! such boil'd stuff</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.147>As well might poison poison! Be revenged;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.148>Or she that bore you was no queen, and you</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.149>Recoil from your great stock.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.150>Revenged!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.151>How should I be revenged? If this be true,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.152>As I have such a heart that both mine ears</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.153>Must not in haste abuse--if it be true,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.154>How should I be revenged?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.155>Should he make me</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.156>Live, like Diana's priest, betwixt cold sheets,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.157>Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.158>In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.159>I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.160>More noble than that runagate to your bed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.161>And will continue fast to your affection,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.162>Still close as sure.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.163>What, ho, Pisanio!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.164>Let me my service tender on your lips.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.165>Away! I do condemn mine ears that have</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.166>So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.167>Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.168>For such an end thou seek'st,--as base as strange.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.169>Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.170>From thy report as thou from honour, and</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.171>Solicit'st here a lady that disdains</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.172>Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.173>The king my father shall be made acquainted</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.174>Of thy assault: if he shall think it fit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.175>A saucy stranger in his court to mart</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.176>As in a Romish stew and to expound</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.177>His beastly mind to us, he hath a court</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.178>He little cares for and a daughter who</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.179>He not respects at all. What, ho, Pisanio!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.180>O happy Leonatus! I may say</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.181>The credit that thy lady hath of thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.182>Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.183>Her assured credit. Blessed live you long!</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.184>A lady to the worthiest sir that ever</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.185>Country call'd his! and you his mistress, only</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.186>For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.187>I have spoke this, to know if your affiance</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.188>Were deeply rooted; and shall make your lord,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.189>That which he is, new o'er: and he is one</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.190>The truest manner'd; such a holy witch</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.191>That he enchants societies into him;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.192>Half all men's hearts are his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.193>You make amends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.194>He sits 'mongst men like a descended god:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.195>He hath a kind of honour sets him off,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.196>More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.197>Most mighty princess, that I have adventured</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.198>To try your taking a false report; which hath</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.199>Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.200>In the election of a sir so rare,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.201>Which you know cannot err: the love I bear him</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.202>Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.203>Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.204>All's well, sir: take my power i' the court</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.205>for yours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.206>My humble thanks. I had almost forgot</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.207>To entreat your grace but in a small request,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.208>And yet of moment to, for it concerns</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.209>Your lord; myself and other noble friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.210>Are partners in the business.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.211>Pray, what is't?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.212>Some dozen Romans of us and your lord--</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.213>The best feather of our wing--have mingled sums</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.214>To buy a present for the emperor</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.215>Which I, the factor for the rest, have done</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.216>In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.217>Of rich and exquisite form; their values great;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.218>And I am something curious, being strange,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.219>To have them in safe stowage: may it please you</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.220>To take them in protection?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.221>Willingly;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.222>And pawn mine honour for their safety: since</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.223>My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.224>In my bedchamber.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.225>They are in a trunk,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.226>Attended by my men: I will make bold</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.227>To send them to you, only for this night;</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.228>I must aboard to-morrow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.229>O, no, no.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.230>Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.231>By lengthening my return. From Gallia</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.232>I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.233>To see your grace.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.234>I thank you for your pains:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.235>But not away to-morrow!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.236>O, I must, madam:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.237>Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.238>To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.239>I have outstood my time; which is material</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.240>To the tender of our present.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=1.6.241>I will write.</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.242>Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept,</A><br>
	<A NAME=1.6.243>And truly yielded you. You're very welcome.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT II</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CLOTEN and two Lords</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.1>Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.2>jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.3>hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.4>must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.5>oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.6>What got he by that? You have broke his pate with</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.7>your bowl.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.8>[Aside] If his wit had been like him that broke it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.9>it would have run all out.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.10>When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.11>any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.12>No my lord;</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.1.13>nor crop the ears of them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.14>Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.15>Would he had been one of my rank!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.16>[Aside] To have smelt like a fool.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.17>I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.18>pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.19>they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.20>mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.21>fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.22>nobody can match.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.23>[Aside] You are cock and capon too; and you crow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.24>cock, with your comb on.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.25>Sayest thou?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.26>It is not fit your lordship should undertake every</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.27>companion that you give offence to.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.28>No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.29>offence to my inferiors.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.30>Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.31>Why, so I say.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.32>Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.33>A stranger, and I not know on't!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.34>[Aside] He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.35>not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.36>There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.37>Leonatus' friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.38>Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's another,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.39>whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.40>One of your lordship's pages.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.41>Is it fit I went to look upon him? is there no</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.42>derogation in't?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.43>You cannot derogate, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.44>Not easily, I think.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.45>[Aside] You are a fool granted; therefore your</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.46>issues, being foolish, do not derogate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.47>Come, I'll go see this Italian: what I have lost</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.48>to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him. Come, go.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.1.49>I'll attend your lordship.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt CLOTEN and First Lord</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.1.50>That such a crafty devil as is his mother</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.51>Should yield the world this ass! a woman that</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.52>Bears all down with her brain; and this her son</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.53>Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.54>And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.55>Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.56>Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.57>A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.58>More hateful than the foul expulsion is</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.59>Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.60>Of the divorce he'ld make! The heavens hold firm</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.61>The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.62>That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.1.63>To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace:</h3>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.1>a trunk in one corner of it.</A><br>
	<p><i>IMOGEN in bed, reading; a Lady attending</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.2>Who's there? my woman Helen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.3>Please you, madam</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.4>What hour is it?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.5> Almost midnight, madam.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.6>I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.7>Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.8>Take not away the taper, leave it burning;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.9>And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.10>I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit Lady</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.11>To your protection I commend me, gods.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.12>From fairies and the tempters of the night</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.13>Guard me, beseech ye.</A><br>
	<p><i>Sleeps. IACHIMO comes from the trunk</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.14>The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.15>Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.16>Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.17>The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.18>How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.19>And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.20>But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.21>How dearly they do't! 'Tis her breathing that</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.22>Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.23>Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.24>To see the enclosed lights, now canopied</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.25>Under these windows, white and azure laced</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.26>With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.27>To note the chamber: I will write all down:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.28>Such and such pictures; there the window; such</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.29>The adornment of her bed; the arras; figures,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.30>Why, such and such; and the contents o' the story.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.31>Ah, but some natural notes about her body,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.32>Above ten thousand meaner moveables</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.33>Would testify, to enrich mine inventory.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.34>O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.35>And be her sense but as a monument,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.36>Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off:</A><br>
	<p><i>Taking off her bracelet</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.37>As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.38>'Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.39>As strongly as the conscience does within,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.40>To the madding of her lord. On her left breast</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.41>A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.42>I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.43>Stronger than ever law could make: this secret</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.44>Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.45>The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.46>Why should I write this down, that's riveted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.47>Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.48>The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.49>Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.50>To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.51>Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.52>May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.53>Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here.</A><br>
	<p><i>Clock strikes</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.54>One, two, three: time, time!</A><br>
	<p><i>Goes into the trunk. The scene closes</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Scene III</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.55>An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CLOTEN and Lords</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.56>Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.57>most coldest that ever turned up ace.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.58>It would make any man cold to lose.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.59>But not every man patient after the noble temper of</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.60>your lordship. You are most hot and furious when you win.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.61>Winning will put any man into courage. If I could</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.62>get this foolish Imogen, I should have gold enough.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.63>It's almost morning, is't not?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.64>Day, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.65>I would this music would come: I am advised to give</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.66>her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter Musicians</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.67>Come on; tune: if you can penetrate her with your</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.68>fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.69>will do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.70>First, a very excellent good-conceited thing;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.71>after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.72>words to it: and then let her consider.</A><br>
	<p><i>SONG</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.73>Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.74>And Phoebus 'gins arise,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.75>His steeds to water at those springs</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.76>On chaliced flowers that lies;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.77>And winking Mary-buds begin</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.78>To ope their golden eyes:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.79>With every thing that pretty is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.80>My lady sweet, arise:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.81>Arise, arise.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.82>So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.83>consider your music the better: if it do not, it is</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.84>a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs and</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.85>calves'-guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.86>boot, can never amend.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt Musicians</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>Second Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.87>Here comes the king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.88>I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.89>was up so early: he cannot choose but take this</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.90>service I have done fatherly.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CYMBELINE and QUEEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.91>Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.92>Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.93>Will she not forth?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.94>I have assailed her with music, but she vouchsafes no notice.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.95>The exile of her minion is too new;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.96>She hath not yet forgot him: some more time</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.97>Must wear the print of his remembrance out,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.98>And then she's yours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.99>You are most bound to the king,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.100>Who lets go by no vantages that may</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.101>Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.102>To orderly soliciting, and be friended</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.103>With aptness of the season; make denials</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.104>Increase your services; so seem as if</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.105>You were inspired to do those duties which</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.106>You tender to her; that you in all obey her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.107>Save when command to your dismission tends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.108>And therein you are senseless.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.109>Senseless! not so.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.110>So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.111>The one is Caius Lucius.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.112>A worthy fellow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.113>Albeit he comes on angry purpose now;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.114>But that's no fault of his: we must receive him</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.115>According to the honour of his sender;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.116>And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.117>We must extend our notice. Our dear son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.118>When you have given good morning to your mistress,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.119>Attend the queen and us; we shall have need</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.120>To employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but CLOTEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.121>If she be up, I'll speak with her; if not,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.122>Let her lie still and dream.</A><br>
	<p><i>Knocks</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.123>By your leave, ho!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.124>I Know her women are about her: what</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.125>If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.126>Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.127>Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.128>Their deer to the stand o' the stealer; and 'tis gold</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.129>Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.130>Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man: what</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.131>Can it not do and undo? I will make</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.132>One of her women lawyer to me, for</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.133>I yet not understand the case myself.</A><br>
	<p><i>Knocks</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.134>By your leave.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Lady</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.135>Who's there that knocks?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.136>A gentleman.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.137>No more?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.138>Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.139>That's more</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.140>Than some, whose tailors are as dear as yours,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.141>Can justly boast of. What's your lordship's pleasure?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.142>Your lady's person: is she ready?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.143>Ay,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.144>To keep her chamber.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.145>There is gold for you;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.146>Sell me your good report.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.147>How! my good name? or to report of you</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.148>What I shall think is good?--The princess!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter IMOGEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.149>Good morrow, fairest: sister, your sweet hand.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit Lady</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.150>Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.151>For purchasing but trouble; the thanks I give</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.152>Is telling you that I am poor of thanks</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.153>And scarce can spare them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.154>Still, I swear I love you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.155>If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.156>If you swear still, your recompense is still</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.157>That I regard it not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.158>This is no answer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.159>But that you shall not say I yield being silent,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.160>I would not speak. I pray you, spare me: 'faith,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.161>I shall unfold equal discourtesy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.162>To your best kindness: one of your great knowing</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.163>Should learn, being taught, forbearance.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.164>To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.165>I will not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.166> Fools are not mad folks.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.167>Do you call me fool?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.168>As I am mad, I do:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.169>If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.170>That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.171>You put me to forget a lady's manners,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.172>By being so verbal: and learn now, for all,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.173>That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.174>By the very truth of it, I care not for you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.175>And am so near the lack of charity--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.176>To accuse myself--I hate you; which I had rather</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.177>You felt than make't my boast.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.178>You sin against</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.179>Obedience, which you owe your father. For</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.180>The contract you pretend with that base wretch,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.181>One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.182>With scraps o' the court, it is no contract, none:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.183>And though it be allow'd in meaner parties--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.184>Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.185>On whom there is no more dependency</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.186>But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.187>Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.188>The consequence o' the crown, and must not soil</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.189>The precious note of it with a base slave.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.190>A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.191>A pantler, not so eminent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.192>Profane fellow</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.193>Wert thou the son of Jupiter and no more</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.194>But what thou art besides, thou wert too base</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.195>To be his groom: thou wert dignified enough,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.196>Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.197>Comparative for your virtues, to be styled</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.198>The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.199>For being preferred so well.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.200>The south-fog rot him!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.201>He never can meet more mischance than come</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.202>To be but named of thee. His meanest garment,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.203>That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is dearer</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.204>In my respect than all the hairs above thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.205>Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter PISANIO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.206>'His garment!' Now the devil--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.207>To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.208>'His garment!'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.209> I am sprited with a fool.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.210>Frighted, and anger'd worse: go bid my woman</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.211>Search for a jewel that too casually</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.212>Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's: 'shrew me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.213>If I would lose it for a revenue</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.214>Of any king's in Europe. I do think</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.215>I saw't this morning: confident I am</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.216>Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kiss'd it:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.217>I hope it be not gone to tell my lord</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.218>That I kiss aught but he.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.219>'Twill not be lost.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.220>I hope so: go and search.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit PISANIO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.221>You have abused me:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.222>'His meanest garment!'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.223>Ay, I said so, sir:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.224>If you will make't an action, call witness to't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.225>I will inform your father.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.226>Your mother too:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.227>She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.228>But the worst of me. So, I leave you, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.229>To the worst of discontent.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.2.230>I'll be revenged:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.2.231>'His meanest garment!' Well.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.2.232>CYMBELINE</A><br>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Rome. Philario's house.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.1>Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.2>To win the king as I am bold her honour</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.3>Will remain hers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.4> What means do you make to him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.5>Not any, but abide the change of time,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.6>Quake in the present winter's state and wish</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.7>That warmer days would come: in these sear'd hopes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.8>I barely gratify your love; they failing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.9>I must die much your debtor.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.10>Your very goodness and your company</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.11>O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.12>Hath heard of great Augustus: Caius Lucius</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.13>Will do's commission throughly: and I think</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.14>He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.15>Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.16>Is yet fresh in their grief.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.17>I do believe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.18>Statist though I am none, nor like to be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.19>That this will prove a war; and you shall hear</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.20>The legions now in Gallia sooner landed</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.21>In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.22>Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.23>Are men more order'd than when Julius Caesar</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.24>Smiled at their lack of skill, but found</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.25>their courage</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.26>Worthy his frowning at: their discipline,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.27>Now mingled with their courages, will make known</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.28>To their approvers they are people such</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.29>That mend upon the world.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter IACHIMO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.30>See! Iachimo!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.31>The swiftest harts have posted you by land;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.32>And winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.33>To make your vessel nimble.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.34>Welcome, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.35>I hope the briefness of your answer made</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.36>The speediness of your return.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.37>Your lady</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.38>Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.39>And therewithal the best; or let her beauty</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.40>Look through a casement to allure false hearts</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.41>And be false with them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.42>Here are letters for you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.43>Their tenor good, I trust.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.44>'Tis very like.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.45>Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.46>When you were there?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.47>He was expected then,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.48>But not approach'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.49>All is well yet.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.50>Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.51>Too dull for your good wearing?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.52>If I had lost it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.53>I should have lost the worth of it in gold.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.54>I'll make a journey twice as far, to enjoy</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.55>A second night of such sweet shortness which</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.56>Was mine in Britain, for the ring is won.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.57>The stone's too hard to come by.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.58>Not a whit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.59>Your lady being so easy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.60>Make not, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.61>Your loss your sport: I hope you know that we</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.62>Must not continue friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.63>Good sir, we must,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.64>If you keep covenant. Had I not brought</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.65>The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.66>We were to question further: but I now</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.67>Profess myself the winner of her honour,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.68>Together with your ring; and not the wronger</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.69>Of her or you, having proceeded but</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.70>By both your wills.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.71>If you can make't apparent</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.72>That you have tasted her in bed, my hand</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.73>And ring is yours; if not, the foul opinion</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.74>You had of her pure honour gains or loses</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.75>Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.76>To who shall find them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.77>Sir, my circumstances,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.78>Being so near the truth as I will make them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.79>Must first induce you to believe: whose strength</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.80>I will confirm with oath; which, I doubt not,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.81>You'll give me leave to spare, when you shall find</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.82>You need it not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.83> Proceed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.84>First, her bedchamber,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.85>Where, I confess, I slept not, but profess</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.86>Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.87>With tapesty of silk and silver; the story</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.88>Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.89>And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.90>The press of boats or pride: a piece of work</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.91>So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.92>In workmanship and value; which I wonder'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.93>Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.94>Since the true life on't was--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.95>This is true;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.96>And this you might have heard of here, by me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.97>Or by some other.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.98>More particulars</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.99>Must justify my knowledge.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.100>So they must,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.101>Or do your honour injury.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.102>The chimney</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.103>Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.104>Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.105>So likely to report themselves: the cutter</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.106>Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.107>Motion and breath left out.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.108>This is a thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.109>Which you might from relation likewise reap,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.110>Being, as it is, much spoke of.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.111>The roof o' the chamber</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.112>With golden cherubins is fretted: her andirons--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.113>I had forgot them--were two winking Cupids</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.114>Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.115>Depending on their brands.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.116>This is her honour!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.117>Let it be granted you have seen all this--and praise</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.118>Be given to your remembrance--the description</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.119>Of what is in her chamber nothing saves</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.120>The wager you have laid.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.121>Then, if you can,</A><br>
	<p><i>Showing the bracelet</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.4.122>Be pale: I beg but leave to air this jewel; see!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.123>And now 'tis up again: it must be married</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.124>To that your diamond; I'll keep them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.125>Jove!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.126>Once more let me behold it: is it that</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.127>Which I left with her?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.128>Sir--I thank her--that:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.129>She stripp'd it from her arm; I see her yet;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.130>Her pretty action did outsell her gift,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.131>And yet enrich'd it too: she gave it me, and said</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.132>She prized it once.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.133>May be she pluck'd it off</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.134>To send it me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.135>She writes so to you, doth she?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.136>O, no, no, no! 'tis true. Here, take this too;</A><br>
	<p><i>Gives the ring</i></p>
	<A NAME=2.4.137>It is a basilisk unto mine eye,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.138>Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.139>Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance; love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.140>Where there's another man: the vows of women</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.141>Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.142>Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.143>O, above measure false!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.144>Have patience, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.145>And take your ring again; 'tis not yet won:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.146>It may be probable she lost it; or</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.147>Who knows if one of her women, being corrupted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.148>Hath stol'n it from her?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.149>Very true;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.150>And so, I hope, he came by't. Back my ring:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.151>Render to me some corporal sign about her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.152>More evident than this; for this was stolen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.153>By Jupiter, I had it from her arm.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.154>Hark you, he swears; by Jupiter he swears.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.155>'Tis true:--nay, keep the ring--'tis true: I am sure</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.156>She would not lose it: her attendants are</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.157>All sworn and honourable:--they induced to steal it!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.158>And by a stranger!--No, he hath enjoyed her:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.159>The cognizance of her incontinency</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.160>Is this: she hath bought the name of whore</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.161>thus dearly.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.162>There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.163>Divide themselves between you!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.164>Sir, be patient:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.165>This is not strong enough to be believed</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.166>Of one persuaded well of--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.167>Never talk on't;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.168>She hath been colted by him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.169>If you seek</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.170>For further satisfying, under her breast--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.171>Worthy the pressing--lies a mole, right proud</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.172>Of that most delicate lodging: by my life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.173>I kiss'd it; and it gave me present hunger</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.174>To feed again, though full. You do remember</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.175>This stain upon her?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.176>Ay, and it doth confirm</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.177>Another stain, as big as hell can hold,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.178>Were there no more but it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.179>Will you hear more?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.180>Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.181>Once, and a million!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.182>I'll be sworn--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.183>No swearing.</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.184>If you will swear you have not done't, you lie;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.185>And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.186>Thou'st made me cuckold.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.187>I'll deny nothing.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.188>O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.189>I will go there and do't, i' the court, before</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.190>Her father. I'll do something--</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>PHILARIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.191>Quite besides</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.192>The government of patience! You have won:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.193>Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.4.194>He hath against himself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.4.195>With an my heart.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. Another room in Philario's house.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=2.5.1>Is there no way for men to be but women</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.2>Must be half-workers? We are all bastards;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.3>And that most venerable man which I</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.4>Did call my father, was I know not where</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.5>When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.6>Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.7>The Dian of that time so doth my wife</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.8>The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.9>Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.10>And pray'd me oft forbearance; did it with</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.11>A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.12>Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.13>As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.14>This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?--</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.15>Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.16>Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.17>Cried 'O!' and mounted; found no opposition</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.18>But what he look'd for should oppose and she</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.19>Should from encounter guard. Could I find out</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.20>The woman's part in me! For there's no motion</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.21>That tends to vice in man, but I affirm</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.22>It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.23>The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.24>Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.25>Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.26>Nice longing, slanders, mutability,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.27>All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.28>Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.29>For even to vice</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.30>They are not constant but are changing still</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.31>One vice, but of a minute old, for one</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.32>Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.33>Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.34>In a true hate, to pray they have their will:</A><br>
	<A NAME=2.5.35>The very devils cannot plague them better.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT III</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Britain. A hall in Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, and Lords at one door, and at another, CAIUS LUCIUS and Attendants</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.1>Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.2>When Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.3>Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.4>Be theme and hearing ever, was in this Britain</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.5>And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.6>Famous in Caesar's praises, no whit less</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.7>Than in his feats deserving it--for him</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.8>And his succession granted Rome a tribute,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.9>Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.10>Is left untender'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.11>And, to kill the marvel,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.12>Shall be so ever.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.13>There be many Caesars,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.14>Ere such another Julius. Britain is</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.15>A world by itself; and we will nothing pay</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.16>For wearing our own noses.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.17>That opportunity</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.18>Which then they had to take from 's, to resume</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.19>We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.20>The kings your ancestors, together with</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.21>The natural bravery of your isle, which stands</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.22>As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.23>With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.24>With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.25>But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.26>Caesar made here; but made not here his brag</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.27>Of 'Came' and 'saw' and 'overcame: ' with shame--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.28>That first that ever touch'd him--he was carried</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.29>From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.30>Poor ignorant baubles!-- upon our terrible seas,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.31>Like egg-shells moved upon their surges, crack'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.32>As easily 'gainst our rocks: for joy whereof</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.33>The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.34>O giglot fortune!--to master Caesar's sword,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.35>Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.36>And Britons strut with courage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.37>Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: our</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.38>kingdom is stronger than it was at that time; and,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.39>as I said, there is no moe such Caesars: other of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.40>them may have crook'd noses, but to owe such</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.41>straight arms, none.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.42>Son, let your mother end.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.43>We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.44>Cassibelan: I do not say I am one; but I have a</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.45>hand. Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.46>Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.47>put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.48>for light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.49>You must know,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.50>Till the injurious Romans did extort</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.51>This tribute from us, we were free:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.52>Caesar's ambition,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.53>Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.54>The sides o' the world, against all colour here</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.55>Did put the yoke upon 's; which to shake off</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.56>Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.57>Ourselves to be.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CLOTEN</b></a>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Lords</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.58>We do.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.59>Say, then, to Caesar,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.60>Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.61>Ordain'd our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.62>Hath too much mangled; whose repair and franchise</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.63>Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.64>Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.65>Who was the first of Britain which did put</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.66>His brows within a golden crown and call'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.67>Himself a king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.68> I am sorry, Cymbeline,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.69>That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.70>Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.71>Thyself domestic officers--thine enemy:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.72>Receive it from me, then: war and confusion</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.73>In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.74>For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.75>I thank thee for myself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.76>Thou art welcome, Caius.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.77>Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.78>Much under him; of him I gather'd honour;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.79>Which he to seek of me again, perforce,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.80>Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.81>That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.82>Their liberties are now in arms; a precedent</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.83>Which not to read would show the Britons cold:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.84>So Caesar shall not find them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.85>Let proof speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.86>His majesty bids you welcome. Make</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.87>pastime with us a day or two, or longer: if</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.88>you seek us afterwards in other terms, you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.89>shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.90>beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.91>the adventure, our crows shall fare the better</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.92>for you; and there's an end.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.93>So, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.1.94>I know your master's pleasure and he mine:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.1.95>All the remain is 'Welcome!'</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Another room in the palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter PISANIO, with a letter</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.1>How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.2>What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.3>O master! what a strange infection</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.4>Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.5>As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.6>On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.7>She's punish'd for her truth, and undergoes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.8>More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.9>As would take in some virtue. O my master!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.10>Thy mind to her is now as low as were</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.11>Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.12>Upon the love and truth and vows which I</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.13>Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.14>If it be so to do good service, never</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.15>Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.16>That I should seem to lack humanity</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.17>so much as this fact comes to?</A><br>
	<p><i>Reading</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.2.18>'Do't: the letter</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.19>that I have sent her, by her own command</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.20>Shall give thee opportunity.' O damn'd paper!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.21>Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.22>Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.23>So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.24>I am ignorant in what I am commanded.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter IMOGEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.25>How now, Pisanio!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.26>Madam, here is a letter from my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.27>Who? thy lord? that is my lord, Leonatus!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.28>O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.29>That knew the stars as I his characters;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.30>He'ld lay the future open. You good gods,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.31>Let what is here contain'd relish of love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.32>Of my lord's health, of his content, yet not</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.33>That we two are asunder; let that grieve him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.34>Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.35>For it doth physic love: of his content,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.36>All but in that! Good wax, thy leave. Blest be</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.37>You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.38>And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.39>Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.40>You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods!</A><br>
	<p><i>Reads</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.2.41>'Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.42>in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.43>you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.44>with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.45>at Milford-Haven: what your own love will out of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.46>this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.47>happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.48>increasing in love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.49>LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.50>O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.51>He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.52>How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.53>May plod it in a week, why may not I</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.54>Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.55>Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.56>let me bate,-but not like me--yet long'st,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.57>But in a fainter kind:--O, not like me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.58>For mine's beyond beyond--say, and speak thick;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.59>Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.60>To the smothering of the sense--how far it is</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.61>To this same blessed Milford: and by the way</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.62>Tell me how Wales was made so happy as</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.63>To inherit such a haven: but first of all,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.64>How we may steal from hence, and for the gap</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.65>That we shall make in time, from our hence-going</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.66>And our return, to excuse: but first, how get hence:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.67>Why should excuse be born or e'er begot?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.68>We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.69>How many score of miles may we well ride</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.70>'Twixt hour and hour?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.71>One score 'twixt sun and sun,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.72>Madam, 's enough for you:</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.2.73>and too much too.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.74>Why, one that rode to's execution, man,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.75>Could never go so slow: I have heard of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.76>riding wagers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.77>Where horses have been nimbler than the sands</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.78>That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.79>Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.80>She'll home to her father: and provide me presently</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.81>A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.82>A franklin's housewife.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.83>Madam, you're best consider.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.2.84>I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.85>Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.86>That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.87>Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.2.88>Accessible is none but Milford way.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. Wales: a mountainous country with a cave.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS following</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.1>A goodly day not to keep house, with such</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.2>Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.3>Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.4>To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.5>Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.6>And keep their impious turbans on, without</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.7>Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.8>We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.9>As prouder livers do.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.10>Hail, heaven!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.11>Hail, heaven!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.12>Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.13>Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.14>When you above perceive me like a crow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.15>That it is place which lessens and sets off;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.16>And you may then revolve what tales I have told you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.17>Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.18>This service is not service, so being done,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.19>But being so allow'd: to apprehend thus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.20>Draws us a profit from all things we see;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.21>And often, to our comfort, shall we find</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.22>The sharded beetle in a safer hold</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.23>Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.24>Is nobler than attending for a cheque,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.25>Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.26>Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.27>Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.28>Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.29>Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledged,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.30>Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.31>What air's from home. Haply this life is best,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.32>If quiet life be best; sweeter to you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.33>That have a sharper known; well corresponding</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.34>With your stiff age: but unto us it is</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.35>A cell of ignorance; travelling a-bed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.36>A prison for a debtor, that not dares</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.37>To stride a limit.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.38> What should we speak of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.39>When we are old as you? when we shall hear</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.40>The rain and wind beat dark December, how,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.41>In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.42>The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.43>We are beastly, subtle as the fox for prey,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.44>Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.45>Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.46>We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.47>And sing our bondage freely.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.48>How you speak!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.49>Did you but know the city's usuries</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.50>And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.51>As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.52>Is certain falling, or so slippery that</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.53>The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.54>A pain that only seems to seek out danger</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.55>I' the name of fame and honour; which dies i'</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.56>the search,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.57>And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.58>As record of fair act; nay, many times,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.59>Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.60>Must court'sy at the censure:--O boys, this story</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.61>The world may read in me: my body's mark'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.62>With Roman swords, and my report was once</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.63>First with the best of note: Cymbeline loved me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.64>And when a soldier was the theme, my name</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.65>Was not far off: then was I as a tree</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.66>Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.67>A storm or robbery, call it what you will,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.68>Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.69>And left me bare to weather.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.70>Uncertain favour!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.3.71>My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.72>But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.73>Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.74>I was confederate with the Romans: so</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.75>Follow'd my banishment, and this twenty years</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.76>This rock and these demesnes have been my world;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.77>Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.78>More pious debts to heaven than in all</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.79>The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.80>This is not hunters' language: he that strikes</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.81>The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.82>To him the other two shall minister;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.83>And we will fear no poison, which attends</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.84>In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.3.85>How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.86>These boys know little they are sons to the king;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.87>Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.88>They think they are mine; and though train'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.89>up thus meanly</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.90>I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.91>The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.92>In simple and low things to prince it much</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.93>Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.94>The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.95>The king his father call'd Guiderius,--Jove!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.96>When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.97>The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.98>Into my story: say 'Thus, mine enemy fell,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.99>And thus I set my foot on 's neck;' even then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.100>The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.101>Strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.102>That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.103>Once Arviragus, in as like a figure,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.104>Strikes life into my speech and shows much more</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.105>His own conceiving.--Hark, the game is roused!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.106>O Cymbeline! heaven and my conscience knows</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.107>Thou didst unjustly banish me: whereon,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.108>At three and two years old, I stole these babes;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.109>Thinking to bar thee of succession, as</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.110>Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.111>Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.112>their mother,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.113>And every day do honour to her grave:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.114>Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.3.115>They take for natural father. The game is up.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Country near Milford-Haven.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.1>Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.2>Was near at hand: ne'er long'd my mother so</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.3>To see me first, as I have now. Pisanio! man!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.4>Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.5>That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.6>From the inward of thee? One, but painted thus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.7>Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.8>Beyond self-explication: put thyself</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.9>Into a havior of less fear, ere wildness</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.10>Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.11>Why tender'st thou that paper to me, with</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.12>A look untender? If't be summer news,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.13>Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.14>But keep that countenance still. My husband's hand!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.15>That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.16>And he's at some hard point. Speak, man: thy tongue</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.17>May take off some extremity, which to read</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.18>Would be even mortal to me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.19>Please you, read;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.20>And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.21>The most disdain'd of fortune.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.22>[Reads] 'Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath played the</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.23>strumpet in my bed; the testimonies whereof lie</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.24>bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.25>but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.26>as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.27>must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.28>the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take away</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.29>her life: I shall give thee opportunity at</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.30>Milford-Haven. She hath my letter for the purpose</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.31>where, if thou fear to strike and to make me certain</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.32>it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour and</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.33>equally to me disloyal.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.34>What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.35>Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.36>Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.37>Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.38>Rides on the posting winds and doth belie</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.39>All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.40>Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.41>This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.42>False to his bed! What is it to be false?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.43>To lie in watch there and to think on him?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.44>To weep 'twixt clock and clock? if sleep</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.45>charge nature,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.46>To break it with a fearful dream of him</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.47>And cry myself awake? that's false to's bed, is it?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.48>Alas, good lady!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.49>I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.50>Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.51>Thou then look'dst like a villain; now methinks</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.52>Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.53>Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.54>Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.55>And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.56>I must be ripp'd:--to pieces with me!--O,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.57>Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.58>By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.59>Put on for villany; not born where't grows,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.60>But worn a bait for ladies.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.61>Good madam, hear me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.62>True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.63>Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.64>Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.65>From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.66>Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.67>Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.68>From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.69>Do thou thy master's bidding: when thou see'st him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.70>A little witness my obedience: look!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.71>I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.72>The innocent mansion of my love, my heart;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.73>Fear not; 'tis empty of all things but grief;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.74>Thy master is not there, who was indeed</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.75>The riches of it: do his bidding; strike</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.76>Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.77>But now thou seem'st a coward.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.78>Hence, vile instrument!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.79>Thou shalt not damn my hand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.80>Why, I must die;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.81>And if I do not by thy hand, thou art</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.82>No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.83>There is a prohibition so divine</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.84>That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.85>Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.86>Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.87>The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.88>All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.89>Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.90>Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.91>Believe false teachers: though those that</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.92>are betray'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.93>Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.94>Stands in worse case of woe.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.95>And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.96>My disobedience 'gainst the king my father</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.97>And make me put into contempt the suits</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.98>Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.99>It is no act of common passage, but</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.100>A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.101>To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.102>That now thou tirest on, how thy memory</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.103>Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.104>The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.105>Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.106>When I desire it too.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.107>O gracious lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.108>Since I received command to do this business</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.109>I have not slept one wink.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.110>Do't, and to bed then.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.111>I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.112>Wherefore then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.113>Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.114>So many miles with a pretence? this place?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.115>Mine action and thine own? our horses' labour?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.116>The time inviting thee? the perturb'd court,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.117>For my being absent? whereunto I never</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.118>Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.119>To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.120>The elected deer before thee?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.121>But to win time</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.122>To lose so bad employment; in the which</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.123>I have consider'd of a course. Good lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.124>Hear me with patience.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.125>Talk thy tongue weary; speak</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.126>I have heard I am a strumpet; and mine ear</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.127>Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.128>Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.129>Then, madam,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.130>I thought you would not back again.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.131>Most like;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.132>Bringing me here to kill me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.133>Not so, neither:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.134>But if I were as wise as honest, then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.135>My purpose would prove well. It cannot be</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.136>But that my master is abused:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.137>Some villain, ay, and singular in his art.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.138>Hath done you both this cursed injury.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.139>Some Roman courtezan.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.140>No, on my life.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.141>I'll give but notice you are dead and send him</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.142>Some bloody sign of it; for 'tis commanded</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.143>I should do so: you shall be miss'd at court,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.144>And that will well confirm it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.145>Why good fellow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.146>What shall I do the where? where bide? how live?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.147>Or in my life what comfort, when I am</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.148>Dead to my husband?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.149>If you'll back to the court--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.150>No court, no father; nor no more ado</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.151>With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.152>That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.153>As fearful as a siege.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.154>If not at court,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.155>Then not in Britain must you bide.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.156>Where then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.157>Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.158>Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.159>Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.160>In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.161>There's livers out of Britain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.162>I am most glad</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.163>You think of other place. The ambassador,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.164>Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford-Haven</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.165>To-morrow: now, if you could wear a mind</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.166>Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.167>That which, to appear itself, must not yet be</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.168>But by self-danger, you should tread a course</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.169>Pretty and full of view; yea, haply, near</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.170>The residence of Posthumus; so nigh at least</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.171>That though his actions were not visible, yet</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.172>Report should render him hourly to your ear</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.173>As truly as he moves.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.174>O, for such means!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.175>Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.176>I would adventure.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.177>Well, then, here's the point:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.178>You must forget to be a woman; change</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.179>Command into obedience: fear and niceness--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.180>The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.181>Woman its pretty self--into a waggish courage:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.182>Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy and</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.183>As quarrelous as the weasel; nay, you must</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.184>Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.185>Exposing it--but, O, the harder heart!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.186>Alack, no remedy!--to the greedy touch</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.187>Of common-kissing Titan, and forget</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.188>Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.189>You made great Juno angry.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.190>Nay, be brief</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.191>I see into thy end, and am almost</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.192>A man already.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.193>First, make yourself but like one.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.194>Fore-thinking this, I have already fit--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.195>'Tis in my cloak-bag--doublet, hat, hose, all</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.196>That answer to them: would you in their serving,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.197>And with what imitation you can borrow</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.198>From youth of such a season, 'fore noble Lucius</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.199>Present yourself, desire his service, tell him</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.200>wherein you're happy,--which you'll make him know,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.201>If that his head have ear in music,--doubtless</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.202>With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.203>And doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.204>You have me, rich; and I will never fail</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.205>Beginning nor supplyment.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.206>Thou art all the comfort</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.207>The gods will diet me with. Prithee, away:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.208>There's more to be consider'd; but we'll even</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.209>All that good time will give us: this attempt</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.210>I am soldier to, and will abide it with</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.211>A prince's courage. Away, I prithee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.212>Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.213>Lest, being miss'd, I be suspected of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.214>Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.215>Here is a box; I had it from the queen:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.216>What's in't is precious; if you are sick at sea,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.217>Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.218>Will drive away distemper. To some shade,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.219>And fit you to your manhood. May the gods</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.4.220>Direct you to the best!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.4.221>Amen: I thank thee.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt, severally</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. A room in Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS, Lords, and Attendants</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.1>Thus far; and so farewell.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.2>Thanks, royal sir.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.3>My emperor hath wrote, I must from hence;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.4>And am right sorry that I must report ye</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.5>My master's enemy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.6> Our subjects, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.7>Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.8>To show less sovereignty than they, must needs</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.9>Appear unkinglike.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.10> So, sir: I desire of you</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.11>A conduct over-land to Milford-Haven.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.12>Madam, all joy befal your grace!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.13>And you!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.14>My lords, you are appointed for that office;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.15>The due of honour in no point omit.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.16>So farewell, noble Lucius.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.17>Your hand, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.18>Receive it friendly; but from this time forth</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.19>I wear it as your enemy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.20>Sir, the event</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.21>Is yet to name the winner: fare you well.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.22>Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.23>Till he have cross'd the Severn. Happiness!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt LUCIUS and Lords</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.24>He goes hence frowning: but it honours us</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.25>That we have given him cause.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.26>'Tis all the better;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.27>Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.28>Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.29>How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.30>Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.31>The powers that he already hath in Gallia</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.32>Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.33>His war for Britain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.34>'Tis not sleepy business;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.35>But must be look'd to speedily and strongly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.36>Our expectation that it would be thus</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.37>Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.38>Where is our daughter? She hath not appear'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.39>Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.40>The duty of the day: she looks us like</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.41>A thing more made of malice than of duty:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.42>We have noted it. Call her before us; for</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.43>We have been too slight in sufferance.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.44>Royal sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.45>Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.46>Hath her life been; the cure whereof, my lord,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.47>'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.48>Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.49>So tender of rebukes that words are strokes</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.50>And strokes death to her.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter Attendant</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.51>Where is she, sir? How</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.52>Can her contempt be answer'd?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>Attendant</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.53>Please you, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.54>Her chambers are all lock'd; and there's no answer</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.55>That will be given to the loudest noise we make.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.56>My lord, when last I went to visit her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.57>She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.58>Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.59>She should that duty leave unpaid to you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.60>Which daily she was bound to proffer: this</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.61>She wish'd me to make known; but our great court</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.62>Made me to blame in memory.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.63>Her doors lock'd?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.64>Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.65>Prove false!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.66>Son, I say, follow the king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.67>That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.68>have not seen these two days.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.69>Go, look after.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit CLOTEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.5.70>Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.71>He hath a drug of mine; I pray his absence</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.72>Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.73>It is a thing most precious. But for her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.74>Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.75>Or, wing'd with fervor of her love, she's flown</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.76>To her desired Posthumus: gone she is</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.77>To death or to dishonour; and my end</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.78>Can make good use of either: she being down,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.79>I have the placing of the British crown.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter CLOTEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.5.80>How now, my son!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.81>'Tis certain she is fled.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.82>Go in and cheer the king: he rages; none</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.83>Dare come about him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>QUEEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.84>[Aside] All the better: may</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.85>This night forestall him of the coming day!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.86>I love and hate her: for she's fair and royal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.87>And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.88>Than lady, ladies, woman; from every one</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.89>The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.90>Outsells them all; I love her therefore: but</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.91>Disdaining me and throwing favours on</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.92>The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.93>That what's else rare is choked; and in that point</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.94>I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.95>To be revenged upon her. For when fools Shall--</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter PISANIO</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.5.96>Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.97>Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.98>Where is thy lady? In a word; or else</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.99>Thou art straightway with the fiends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.100>O, good my lord!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.101>Where is thy lady? Or, by Jupiter,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.102>I will not ask again. Close villain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.103>I'll have this secret from thy heart, or rip</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.104>Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.105>From whose so many weights of baseness cannot</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.106>A dram of worth be drawn.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.107>Alas, my lord,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.108>How can she be with him? When was she missed?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.109>He is in Rome.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.110> Where is she, sir? Come nearer;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.111>No further halting: satisfy me home</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.112>What is become of her.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.113>O, my all-worthy lord!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.114>All-worthy villain!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.115>Discover where thy mistress is at once,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.116>At the next word: no more of 'worthy lord!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.117>Speak, or thy silence on the instant is</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.118>Thy condemnation and thy death.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.119>Then, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.120>This paper is the history of my knowledge</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.121>Touching her flight.</A><br>
	<p><i>Presenting a letter</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.122>Let's see't. I will pursue her</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.123>Even to Augustus' throne.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.124>[Aside] Or this, or perish.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.125>She's far enough; and what he learns by this</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.126>May prove his travel, not her danger.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.127>Hum!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.128>[Aside] I'll write to my lord she's dead. O Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.129>Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.130>Sirrah, is this letter true?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.131>Sir, as I think.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.132>It is Posthumus' hand; I know't. Sirrah, if thou</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.133>wouldst not be a villain, but do me true service,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.134>undergo those employments wherein I should have</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.135>cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.136>what villany soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.137>directly and truly, I would think thee an honest</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.138>man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.139>relief nor my voice for thy preferment.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.140>Well, my good lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.141>Wilt thou serve me? for since patiently and</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.142>constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.143>that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.144>course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.145>mine: wilt thou serve me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.146>Sir, I will.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.147>Give me thy hand; here's my purse. Hast any of thy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.148>late master's garments in thy possession?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.149>I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.150>wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.151>The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.152>hither: let it be thy lint service; go.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.153>I shall, my lord.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.154>Meet thee at Milford-Haven!--I forgot to ask him one</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.155>thing; I'll remember't anon:--even there, thou</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.156>villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.157>garments were come. She said upon a time--the</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.158>bitterness of it I now belch from my heart--that she</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.159>held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.160>than my noble and natural person together with the</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.161>adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.162>back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.163>eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.164>be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.165>speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.166>when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.167>her I will execute in the clothes that she so</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.168>praised,--to the court I'll knock her back, foot</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.169>her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.170>and I'll be merry in my revenge.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter PISANIO, with the clothes</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.5.171>Be those the garments?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.172>Ay, my noble lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.173>How long is't since she went to Milford-Haven?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.174>She can scarce be there yet.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.175>Bring this apparel to my chamber; that is the second</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.176>thing that I have commanded thee: the third is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.177>that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.178>but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.179>to thee. My revenge is now at Milford: would I had</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.180>wings to follow it! Come, and be true.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.5.181>Thou bid'st me to my loss: for true to thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.182>Were to prove false, which I will never be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.183>To him that is most true. To Milford go,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.184>And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.185>You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool's speed</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.5.186>Be cross'd with slowness; labour be his meed!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VI. Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter IMOGEN, in boy's clothes</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.1>I see a man's life is a tedious one:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.2>I have tired myself, and for two nights together</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.3>Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.4>But that my resolution helps me. Milford,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.5>When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.6>Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I think</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.7>Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.8>Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.9>I could not miss my way: will poor folks lie,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.10>That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.11>A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.12>When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.13>Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.14>Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.15>Thou art one o' the false ones. Now I think on thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.16>My hunger's gone; but even before, I was</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.17>At point to sink for food. But what is this?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.18>Here is a path to't: 'tis some savage hold:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.19>I were best not to call; I dare not call:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.20>yet famine,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.21>Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.22>Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.23>Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.24>If any thing that's civil, speak; if savage,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.25>Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.26>Best draw my sword: and if mine enemy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.27>But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.28>Such a foe, good heavens!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit, to the cave</i></p>
	<p><i>Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.29>You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.30>Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.31>Will play the cook and servant; 'tis our match:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.32>The sweat of industry would dry and die,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.33>But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.34>Will make what's homely savoury: weariness</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.35>Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.36>Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.37>Poor house, that keep'st thyself!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.38>I am thoroughly weary.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.39>I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.40>There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.41>Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.42>[Looking into the cave]</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.43>Stay; come not in.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.44>But that it eats our victuals, I should think</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.45>Here were a fairy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.46>What's the matter, sir?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.47>By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.48>An earthly paragon! Behold divineness</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.49>No elder than a boy!</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter IMOGEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.50>Good masters, harm me not:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.51>Before I enter'd here, I call'd; and thought</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.52>To have begg'd or bought what I have took:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.53>good troth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.54>I have stol'n nought, nor would not, though I had found</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.55>Gold strew'd i' the floor. Here's money for my meat:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.56>I would have left it on the board so soon</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.57>As I had made my meal, and parted</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.58>With prayers for the provider.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.59>Money, youth?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.60>All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.61>As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.62>Who worship dirty gods.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.63>I see you're angry:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.64>Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.65>Have died had I not made it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.66>Whither bound?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.67>To Milford-Haven.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.68>What's your name?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.69>Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.70>Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford;</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.71>To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.72>I am fall'n in this offence.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.73>Prithee, fair youth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.74>Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.75>By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.76>'Tis almost night: you shall have better cheer</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.77>Ere you depart: and thanks to stay and eat it.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.78>Boys, bid him welcome.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.79>Were you a woman, youth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.80>I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.81>I bid for you as I'd buy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.82>I'll make't my comfort</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.83>He is a man; I'll love him as my brother:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.84>And such a welcome as I'd give to him</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.85>After long absence, such is yours: most welcome!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.86>Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.87>'Mongst friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.88>If brothers.</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=3.6.89>Would it had been so, that they</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.90>Had been my father's sons! then had my prize</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.91>Been less, and so more equal ballasting</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.92>To thee, Posthumus.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.93>He wrings at some distress.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.94>Would I could free't!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.95>Or I, whate'er it be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.96>What pain it cost, what danger. God's!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.97>Hark, boys.</A><br>
	<p><i>Whispering</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.98>Great men,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.99>That had a court no bigger than this cave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.100>That did attend themselves and had the virtue</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.101>Which their own conscience seal'd them--laying by</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.102>That nothing-gift of differing multitudes--</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.103>Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.104>I'd change my sex to be companion with them,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.105>Since Leonatus's false.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.106>It shall be so.</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.107>Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.108>Discourse is heavy, fasting; when we have supp'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.109>We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.110>So far as thou wilt speak it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.111>Pray, draw near.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.112>The night to the owl and morn to the lark</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.6.113>less welcome.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.114>Thanks, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.6.115>I pray, draw near.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE VII. Rome. A public place.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter two Senators and Tribunes</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Senator</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.1>This is the tenor of the emperor's writ:</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.2>That since the common men are now in action</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.3>'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.4>And that the legions now in Gallia are</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.5>Full weak to undertake our wars against</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.6>The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.7>The gentry to this business. He creates</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.8>Lucius preconsul: and to you the tribunes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.9>For this immediate levy, he commends</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.10>His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>First Tribune</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.11>Is Lucius general of the forces?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Senator</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.12>Ay.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>First Tribune</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.13>Remaining now in Gallia?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>First Senator</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.14>With those legions</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.15>Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.16>Must be supplyant: the words of your commission</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.17>Will tie you to the numbers and the time</A><br>
	<A NAME=3.7.18>Of their dispatch.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>First Tribune</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=3.7.19> We will discharge our duty.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT IV</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Wales: near the cave of Belarius.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CLOTEN</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.1.1>I am near to the place where they should meet, if</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.2>Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.3>serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.4>him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.5>rather--saving reverence of the word--for 'tis said</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.6>a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.7>play the workman. I dare speak it to myself--for it</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.8>is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.9>in his own chamber--I mean, the lines of my body are</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.10>as well drawn as his; no less young, more strong,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.11>not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.12>advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.13>conversant in general services, and more remarkable</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.14>in single oppositions: yet this imperceiverant</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.15>thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.16>Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.17>shoulders, shall within this hour be off; thy</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.18>mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.19>thy face: and all this done, spurn her home to her</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.20>father; who may haply be a little angry for my so</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.21>rough usage; but my mother, having power of his</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.22>testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.23>horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.24>purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.25>the very description of their meeting-place; and</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.1.26>the fellow dares not deceive me.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Before the cave of Belarius.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.1>[To IMOGEN] You are not well: remain here in the cave;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.2>We'll come to you after hunting.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.3>[To IMOGEN] Brother, stay here</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.4>Are we not brothers?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.5>So man and man should be;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.6>But clay and clay differs in dignity,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.7>Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.8>Go you to hunting; I'll abide with him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.9>So sick I am not, yet I am not well;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.10>But not so citizen a wanton as</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.11>To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.12>Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.13>Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.14>Cannot amend me; society is no comfort</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.15>To one not sociable: I am not very sick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.16>Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.17>I'll rob none but myself; and let me die,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.18>Stealing so poorly.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.19>I love thee; I have spoke it</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.20>How much the quantity, the weight as much,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.21>As I do love my father.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.22>What! how! how!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.23>If it be sin to say so, I yoke me</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.24>In my good brother's fault: I know not why</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.25>I love this youth; and I have heard you say,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.26>Love's reason's without reason: the bier at door,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.27>And a demand who is't shall die, I'd say</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.28>'My father, not this youth.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.29>[Aside] O noble strain!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.30>O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.31>Cowards father cowards and base things sire base:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.32>Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.33>I'm not their father; yet who this should be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.34>Doth miracle itself, loved before me.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.35>'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.36>Brother, farewell.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.37>I wish ye sport.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.38> You health. So please you, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.39>[Aside] These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.40>I have heard!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.41>Our courtiers say all's savage but at court:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.42>Experience, O, thou disprovest report!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.43>The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.44>Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.45>I am sick still; heart-sick. Pisanio,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.46>I'll now taste of thy drug.</A><br>
	<p><i>Swallows some</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.47>I could not stir him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.48>He said he was gentle, but unfortunate;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.49>Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.50>Thus did he answer me: yet said, hereafter</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.51>I might know more.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.52>To the field, to the field!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.53>We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.54>We'll not be long away.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.55>Pray, be not sick,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.56>For you must be our housewife.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.57>Well or ill,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.58>I am bound to you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.59>And shalt be ever.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit IMOGEN, to the cave</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.2.60>This youth, how'er distress'd, appears he hath had</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.61>Good ancestors.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.62> How angel-like he sings!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.63>But his neat cookery! he cut our roots</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.64>In characters,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.65>And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.66>And he her dieter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.67>Nobly he yokes</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.68>A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.69>Was that it was, for not being such a smile;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.70>The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.71>From so divine a temple, to commix</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.72>With winds that sailors rail at.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.73>I do note</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.74>That grief and patience, rooted in him both,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.75>Mingle their spurs together.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.76>Grow, patience!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.77>And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.78>His perishing root with the increasing vine!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.79>It is great morning. Come, away!--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.80>Who's there?</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CLOTEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.81>I cannot find those runagates; that villain</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.82>Hath mock'd me. I am faint.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.83>'Those runagates!'</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.84>Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.85>Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.86>I saw him not these many years, and yet</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.87>I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.88>He is but one: you and my brother search</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.89>What companies are near: pray you, away;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.90>Let me alone with him.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.91> Soft! What are you</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.92>That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.93>I have heard of such. What slave art thou?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.94>A thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.95>More slavish did I ne'er than answering</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.96>A slave without a knock.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.97>Thou art a robber,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.98>A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.99>To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.100>An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.101>Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.102>My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.103>Why I should yield to thee?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.104>Thou villain base,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.105>Know'st me not by my clothes?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.106>No, nor thy tailor, rascal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.107>Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.108>Which, as it seems, make thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.109>Thou precious varlet,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.110>My tailor made them not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.111>Hence, then, and thank</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.112>The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.113>I am loath to beat thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.114>Thou injurious thief,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.115>Hear but my name, and tremble.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.116>What's thy name?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.117>Cloten, thou villain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.118>Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.119>I cannot tremble at it: were it Toad, or</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.120>Adder, Spider,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.121>'Twould move me sooner.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.122>To thy further fear,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.123>Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.124>I am son to the queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.125>I am sorry for 't; not seeming</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.126>So worthy as thy birth.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.127>Art not afeard?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.128>Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.129>At fools I laugh, not fear them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>CLOTEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.130>Die the death:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.131>When I have slain thee with my proper hand,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.132>I'll follow those that even now fled hence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.133>And on the gates of Lud's-town set your heads:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.134>Yield, rustic mountaineer.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt, fighting</i></p>
	<p><i>Re-enter BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.135>No companies abroad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.136>None in the world: you did mistake him, sure.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.137>I cannot tell: long is it since I saw him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.138>But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.139>Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.140>And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.141>'Twas very Cloten.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.142> In this place we left them:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.143>I wish my brother make good time with him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.144>You say he is so fell.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.145>Being scarce made up,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.146>I mean, to man, he had not apprehension</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.147>Of roaring terrors; for the effect of judgment</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.148>Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter GUIDERIUS, with CLOTEN'S head</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.149>This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.150>There was no money in't: not Hercules</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.151>Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.152>Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.153>My head as I do his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.154>What hast thou done?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.155>I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.156>Son to the queen, after his own report;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.157>Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.158>With his own single hand he'ld take us in</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.159>Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.160>And set them on Lud's-town.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.161>We are all undone.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.162>Why, worthy father, what have we to lose,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.163>But that he swore to take, our lives? The law</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.164>Protects not us: then why should we be tender</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.165>To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.166>Play judge and executioner all himself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.167>For we do fear the law? What company</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.168>Discover you abroad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.169>No single soul</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.170>Can we set eye on; but in all safe reason</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.171>He must have some attendants. Though his humour</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.172>Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.173>From one bad thing to worse; not frenzy, not</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.174>Absolute madness could so far have raved</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.175>To bring him here alone; although perhaps</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.176>It may be heard at court that such as we</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.177>Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.178>May make some stronger head; the which he hearing--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.179>As it is like him--might break out, and swear</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.180>He'ld fetch us in; yet is't not probable</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.181>To come alone, either he so undertaking,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.182>Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.183>If we do fear this body hath a tail</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.184>More perilous than the head.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.185>Let ordinance</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.186>Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe'er,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.187>My brother hath done well.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.188>I had no mind</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.189>To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.190>Did make my way long forth.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech60><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.191>With his own sword,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.192>Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.193>His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.194>Behind our rock; and let it to the sea,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.195>And tell the fishes he's the queen's son, Cloten:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.196>That's all I reck.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech61><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.197>I fear 'twill be revenged:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.198>Would, Polydote, thou hadst not done't! though valour</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.199>Becomes thee well enough.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech62><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.200>Would I had done't</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.201>So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.202>I love thee brotherly, but envy much</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.203>Thou hast robb'd me of this deed: I would revenges,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.204>That possible strength might meet, would seek us through</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.205>And put us to our answer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech63><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.206>Well, 'tis done:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.207>We'll hunt no more to-day, nor seek for danger</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.208>Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.209>You and Fidele play the cooks: I'll stay</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.210>Till hasty Polydote return, and bring him</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.211>To dinner presently.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech64><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.212>Poor sick Fidele!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.213>I'll weringly to him: to gain his colour</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.214>I'ld let a parish of such Clotens' blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.215>And praise myself for charity.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech65><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.216>O thou goddess,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.217>Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.218>In these two princely boys! They are as gentle</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.219>As zephyrs blowing below the violet,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.220>Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.221>Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.222>That by the top doth take the mountain pine,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.223>And make him stoop to the vale. 'Tis wonder</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.224>That an invisible instinct should frame them</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.225>To royalty unlearn'd, honour untaught,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.226>Civility not seen from other, valour</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.227>That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.228>As if it had been sow'd. Yet still it's strange</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.229>What Cloten's being here to us portends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.230>Or what his death will bring us.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter GUIDERIUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech66><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.231>Where's my brother?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.232>I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.233>In embassy to his mother: his body's hostage</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.234>For his return.</A><br>
	<p><i>Solemn music</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech67><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.235> My ingenious instrument!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.236>Hark, Polydore, it sounds! But what occasion</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.237>Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech68><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.238>Is he at home?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech69><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.239> He went hence even now.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech70><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.240>What does he mean? since death of my dear'st mother</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.241>it did not speak before. All solemn things</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.242>Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.243>Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.244>Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.245>Is Cadwal mad?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech71><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.246> Look, here he comes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.247>And brings the dire occasion in his arms</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.248>Of what we blame him for.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter ARVIRAGUS, with IMOGEN, as dead, bearing her in his arms</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech72><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.249>The bird is dead</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.250>That we have made so much on. I had rather</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.251>Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.252>To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.253>Than have seen this.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech73><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.254>O sweetest, fairest lily!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.255>My brother wears thee not the one half so well</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.256>As when thou grew'st thyself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech74><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.257>O melancholy!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.258>Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.259>The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.260>Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.261>Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.262>Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.263>How found you him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech75><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.264>Stark, as you see:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.265>Thus smiling, as some fly hid tickled slumber,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.266>Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at; his</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.267>right cheek</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.268>Reposing on a cushion.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech76><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.269>Where?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech77><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.270>O' the floor;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.271>His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept, and put</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.272>My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.273>Answer'd my steps too loud.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech78><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.274>Why, he but sleeps:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.275>If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.276>With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.277>And worms will not come to thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech79><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.278>With fairest flowers</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.279>Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.280>I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.281>The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.282>The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.283>The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.284>Out-sweeten'd not thy breath: the ruddock would,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.285>With charitable bill,--O bill, sore-shaming</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.286>Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.287>Without a monument!--bring thee all this;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.288>Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.289>To winter-ground thy corse.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech80><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.290>Prithee, have done;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.291>And do not play in wench-like words with that</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.292>Which is so serious. Let us bury him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.293>And not protract with admiration what</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.294>Is now due debt. To the grave!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech81><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.295>Say, where shall's lay him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech82><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.296>By good Euriphile, our mother.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech83><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.297>Be't so:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.298>And let us, Polydore, though now our voices</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.299>Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.300>As once our mother; use like note and words,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.301>Save that Euriphile must be Fidele.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech84><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.302>Cadwal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.303>I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.304>For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.305>Than priests and fanes that lie.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech85><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.306>We'll speak it, then.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech86><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.307>Great griefs, I see, medicine the less; for Cloten</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.308>Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.309>And though he came our enemy, remember</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.310>He was paid for that: though mean and</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.311>mighty, rotting</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.312>Together, have one dust, yet reverence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.313>That angel of the world, doth make distinction</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.314>Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.315>And though you took his life, as being our foe,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.316>Yet bury him as a prince.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech87><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.317>Pray You, fetch him hither.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.318>Thersites' body is as good as Ajax',</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.319>When neither are alive.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech88><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.320>If you'll go fetch him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.321>We'll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit BELARIUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech89><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.322>Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.323>My father hath a reason for't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech90><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.324>'Tis true.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech91><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.325>Come on then, and remove him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech92><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.326>So. Begin.</A><br>
	<p><i>SONG</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech93><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.327> Fear no more the heat o' the sun,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.328>Nor the furious winter's rages;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.329>Thou thy worldly task hast done,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.330>Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.331>Golden lads and girls all must,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.332>As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech94><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.333> Fear no more the frown o' the great;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.334>Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.335>Care no more to clothe and eat;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.336>To thee the reed is as the oak:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.337>The sceptre, learning, physic, must</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.338>All follow this, and come to dust.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech95><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.339> Fear no more the lightning flash,</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech96><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.340> Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech97><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.341> Fear not slander, censure rash;</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech98><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.342> Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech99><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>

	<A NAME=speech100><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.343>All lovers young, all lovers must</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.344>Consign to thee, and come to dust.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech101><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.345> No exorciser harm thee!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech102><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.346> Nor no witchcraft charm thee!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech103><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.347> Ghost unlaid forbear thee!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech104><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.348> Nothing ill come near thee!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech105><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>

	<A NAME=speech106><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.349>Quiet consummation have;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.350>And renowned be thy grave!</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter BELARIUS, with the body of CLOTEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech107><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.351>We have done our obsequies: come, lay him down.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech108><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.352>Here's a few flowers; but 'bout midnight, more:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.353>The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.354>Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Upon their faces.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.355>You were as flowers, now wither'd: even so</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.356>These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.357>Come on, away: apart upon our knees.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.358>The ground that gave them first has them again:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.359>Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech109><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.360>[Awaking] Yes, sir, to Milford-Haven; which is</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.361>the way?--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.362>I thank you.--By yond bush?--Pray, how far thither?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.363>'Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.364>I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.365>But, soft! no bedfellow!--O god s and goddesses!</A><br>
	<p><i>Seeing the body of CLOTEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.2.366>These flowers are like the pleasures of the world;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.367>This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.368>For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.369>And cook to honest creatures: but 'tis not so;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.370>'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.371>Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.372>Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.373>I tremble stiff with fear: but if there be</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.374>Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.375>As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.376>The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.377>Without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.378>A headless man! The garments of Posthumus!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.379>I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.380>His foot Mercurial; his Martial thigh;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.381>The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.382>Murder in heaven?--How!--'Tis gone. Pisanio,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.383>All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.384>And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.385>Conspired with that irregulous devil, Cloten,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.386>Hast here cut off my lord. To write and read</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.387>Be henceforth treacherous! Damn'd Pisanio</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.388>Hath with his forged letters,--damn'd Pisanio--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.389>From this most bravest vessel of the world</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.390>Struck the main-top! O Posthumus! alas,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.391>Where is thy head? where's that? Ay me!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.392>where's that?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.393>Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.394>And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.395>'Tis he and Cloten: malice and lucre in them</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.396>Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.397>The drug he gave me, which he said was precious</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.398>And cordial to me, have I not found it</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.399>Murderous to the senses? That confirms it home:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.400>This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten's: O!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.401>Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.402>That we the horrider may seem to those</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.403>Which chance to find us: O, my lord, my lord!</A><br>
	<p><i>Falls on the body</i></p>
	<p><i>Enter LUCIUS, a Captain and other Officers, and a Soothsayer</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech110><b>Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.404>To them the legions garrison'd in Gailia,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.405>After your will, have cross'd the sea, attending</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.406>You here at Milford-Haven with your ships:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.407>They are in readiness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech111><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.408>But what from Rome?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech112><b>Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.409>The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.410>And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.411>That promise noble service: and they come</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.412>Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.413>Syenna's brother.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech113><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.414> When expect you them?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech114><b>Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.415>With the next benefit o' the wind.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech115><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.416>This forwardness</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.417>Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.418>Be muster'd; bid the captains look to't. Now, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.419>What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech116><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.420>Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.421>I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.422>I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.423>From the spongy south to this part of the west,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.424>There vanish'd in the sunbeams: which portends--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.425>Unless my sins abuse my divination--</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.426>Success to the Roman host.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech117><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.427>Dream often so,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.428>And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.429>Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.430>It was a worthy building. How! a page!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.431>Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.432>For nature doth abhor to make his bed</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.433>With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.434>Let's see the boy's face.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech118><b>Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.435>He's alive, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech119><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.436>He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.437>Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.438>They crave to be demanded. Who is this</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.439>Thou makest thy bloody pillow? Or who was he</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.440>That, otherwise than noble nature did,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.441>Hath alter'd that good picture? What's thy interest</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.442>In this sad wreck? How came it? Who is it?</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.443>What art thou?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech120><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.444> I am nothing: or if not,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.445>Nothing to be were better. This was my master,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.446>A very valiant Briton and a good,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.447>That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.448>There is no more such masters: I may wander</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.449>From east to occident, cry out for service,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.450>Try many, all good, serve truly, never</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.451>Find such another master.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech121><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.452>'Lack, good youth!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.453>Thou movest no less with thy complaining than</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.454>Thy master in bleeding: say his name, good friend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech122><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.455>Richard du Champ.</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.2.456>If I do lie and do</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.457>No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.458>They'll pardon it.--Say you, sir?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech123><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.459>Thy name?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech124><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.460>Fidele, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech125><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.461>Thou dost approve thyself the very same:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.462>Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.463>Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.464>Thou shalt be so well master'd, but, be sure,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.465>No less beloved. The Roman emperor's letters,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.466>Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.467>Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech126><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.468>I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.469>I'll hide my master from the flies, as deep</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.470>As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.471>With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.472>And on it said a century of prayers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.473>Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.474>And leaving so his service, follow you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.475>So please you entertain me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech127><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.2.476>Ay, good youth!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.477>And rather father thee than master thee.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.478>My friends,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.479>The boy hath taught us manly duties: let us</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.480>Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.481>And make him with our pikes and partisans</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.482>A grave: come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.483>By thee to us, and he shall be interr'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.484>As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.2.485>Some falls are means the happier to arise.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. A room in Cymbeline's palace.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CYMBELINE, Lords, PISANIO, and Attendants</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.1>Again; and bring me word how 'tis with her.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.3.2>A fever with the absence of her son,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.3>A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.4>How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.5>The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.6>Upon a desperate bed, and in a time</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.7>When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.8>So needful for this present: it strikes me, past</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.9>The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.10>Who needs must know of her departure and</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.11>Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.12>By a sharp torture.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.13>Sir, my life is yours;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.14>I humbly set it at your will; but, for my mistress,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.15>I nothing know where she remains, why gone,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.16>Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.17>Hold me your loyal servant.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.18>Good my liege,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.19>The day that she was missing he was here:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.20>I dare be bound he's true and shall perform</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.21>All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.22>There wants no diligence in seeking him,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.23>And will, no doubt, be found.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.24>The time is troublesome.</A><br>
	<p><i>To PISANIO</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.3.25>We'll slip you for a season; but our jealousy</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.26>Does yet depend.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.27> So please your majesty,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.28>The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.29>Are landed on your coast, with a supply</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.30>Of Roman gentlemen, by the senate sent.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.31>Now for the counsel of my son and queen!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.32>I am amazed with matter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>First Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.33>Good my liege,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.34>Your preparation can affront no less</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.35>Than what you hear of: come more, for more</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.36>you're ready:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.37>The want is but to put those powers in motion</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.38>That long to move.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.39> I thank you. Let's withdraw;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.40>And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.41>What can from Italy annoy us; but</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.42>We grieve at chances here. Away!</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt all but PISANIO</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.3.43>I heard no letter from my master since</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.44>I wrote him Imogen was slain: 'tis strange:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.45>Nor hear I from my mistress who did promise</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.46>To yield me often tidings: neither know I</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.47>What is betid to Cloten; but remain</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.48>Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.49>Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.50>These present wars shall find I love my country,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.51>Even to the note o' the king, or I'll fall in them.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.52>All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.3.53>Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. Wales: before the cave of Belarius.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS.</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.1>The noise is round about us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.2>Let us from it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.3>What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.4>From action and adventure?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.5>Nay, what hope</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.6>Have we in hiding us? This way, the Romans</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.7>Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.8>For barbarous and unnatural revolts</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.9>During their use, and slay us after.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.10>Sons,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.11>We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us.</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.12>To the king's party there's no going: newness</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.13>Of Cloten's death--we being not known, not muster'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.14>Among the bands--may drive us to a render</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.15>Where we have lived, and so extort from's that</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.16>Which we have done, whose answer would be death</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.17>Drawn on with torture.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.18>This is, sir, a doubt</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.19>In such a time nothing becoming you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.20>Nor satisfying us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.21> It is not likely</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.22>That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.23>Behold their quarter'd fires, have both their eyes</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.24>And ears so cloy'd importantly as now,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.25>That they will waste their time upon our note,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.26>To know from whence we are.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.27>O, I am known</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.28>Of many in the army: many years,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.29>Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.30>From my remembrance. And, besides, the king</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.31>Hath not deserved my service nor your loves;</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.32>Who find in my exile the want of breeding,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.33>The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.34>To have the courtesy your cradle promised,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.35>But to be still hot summer's tamings and</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.36>The shrinking slaves of winter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.37>Than be so</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.38>Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.39>I and my brother are not known; yourself</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.40>So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.41>Cannot be question'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.42>By this sun that shines,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.43>I'll thither: what thing is it that I never</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.44>Did see man die! scarce ever look'd on blood,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.45>But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.46>Never bestrid a horse, save one that had</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.47>A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.48>Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.49>To look upon the holy sun, to have</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.50>The benefit of his blest beams, remaining</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.51>So long a poor unknown.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.52>By heavens, I'll go:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.53>If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.54>I'll take the better care, but if you will not,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.55>The hazard therefore due fall on me by</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.56>The hands of Romans!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.57>So say I amen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=4.4.58>No reason I, since of your lives you set</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.59>So slight a valuation, should reserve</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.60>My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys!</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.61>If in your country wars you chance to die,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.62>That is my bed too, lads, an there I'll lie:</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.63>Lead, lead.</A><br>
	<p><i>Aside</i></p>
	<A NAME=4.4.64>The time seems long; their blood</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.65>thinks scorn,</A><br>
	<A NAME=4.4.66>Till it fly out and show them princes born.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote><p>
	<H3>ACT V</h3>
	<h3>SCENE I. Britain. The Roman camp.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter POSTHUMUS, with a bloody handkerchief</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.1.1>Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.2>Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.3>If each of you should take this course, how many</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.4>Must murder wives much better than themselves</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.5>For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.6>Every good servant does not all commands:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.7>No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.8>Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.9>Had lived to put on this: so had you saved</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.10>The noble Imogen to repent, and struck</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.11>Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But, alack,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.12>You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.13>To have them fall no more: you some permit</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.14>To second ills with ills, each elder worse,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.15>And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.16>But Imogen is your own: do your best wills,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.17>And make me blest to obey! I am brought hither</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.18>Among the Italian gentry, and to fight</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.19>Against my lady's kingdom: 'tis enough</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.20>That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress; peace!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.21>I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.22>Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.23>Of these Italian weeds and suit myself</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.24>As does a Briton peasant: so I'll fight</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.25>Against the part I come with; so I'll die</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.26>For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.27>Is every breath a death; and thus, unknown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.28>Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.29>Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.30>More valour in me than my habits show.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.31>Gods, put the strength o' the Leonati in me!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.32>To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.1.33>The fashion, less without and more within.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE II. Field of battle between the British and Roman camps.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter, from one side, LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and the Roman Army: from the other side, the British Army; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS following, like a poor soldier. They march over and go out. Then enter again, in skirmish, IACHIMO and POSTHUMUS LEONATUS he vanquisheth and disarmeth IACHIMO, and then leaves him</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.1>The heaviness and guilt within my bosom</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.2>Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.3>The princess of this country, and the air on't</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.4>Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.5>A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.6>In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.7>As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.8>If that thy gentry, Britain, go before</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.9>This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.10>Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit</i></p>
	<p><i>The battle continues; the Britons fly; CYMBELINE is taken: then enter, to his rescue, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.11>Stand, stand! We have the advantage of the ground;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.12>The lane is guarded: nothing routs us but</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.13>The villany of our fears.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.14>Stand, stand, and fight!</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and seconds the Britons: they rescue CYMBELINE, and exeunt. Then re-enter LUCIUS, and IACHIMO, with IMOGEN</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.15>Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.16>For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.17>As war were hoodwink'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.18>'Tis their fresh supplies.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.2.19>It is a day turn'd strangely: or betimes</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.2.20>Let's reinforce, or fly.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE III. Another part of the field.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.1>Camest thou from where they made the stand?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.2>I did.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.3>Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.4>I did.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.5>No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.6>But that the heavens fought: the king himself</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.7>Of his wings destitute, the army broken,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.8>And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.9>Through a straight lane; the enemy full-hearted,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.10>Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.11>More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.12>Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.13>Merely through fear; that the straight pass was damm'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.14>With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.15>To die with lengthen'd shame.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.16>Where was this lane?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.17>Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.18>Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.19>An honest one, I warrant; who deserved</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.20>So long a breeding as his white beard came to,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.21>In doing this for's country: athwart the lane,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.22>He, with two striplings-lads more like to run</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.23>The country base than to commit such slaughter</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.24>With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.25>Than those for preservation cased, or shame--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.26>Made good the passage; cried to those that fled,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.27>'Our Britain s harts die flying, not our men:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.28>To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.29>Or we are Romans and will give you that</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.30>Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.31>But to look back in frown: stand, stand.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.32>These three,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.33>Three thousand confident, in act as many--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.34>For three performers are the file when all</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.35>The rest do nothing--with this word 'Stand, stand,'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.36>Accommodated by the place, more charming</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.37>With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.38>A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.39>Part shame, part spirit renew'd; that some,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.40>turn'd coward</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.41>But by example--O, a sin in war,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.42>Damn'd in the first beginners!--gan to look</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.43>The way that they did, and to grin like lions</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.44>Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.45>A stop i' the chaser, a retire, anon</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.46>A rout, confusion thick; forthwith they fly</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.47>Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles; slaves,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.48>The strides they victors made: and now our cowards,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.49>Like fragments in hard voyages, became</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.50>The life o' the need: having found the backdoor open</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.51>Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.52>Some slain before; some dying; some their friends</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.53>O'er borne i' the former wave: ten, chased by one,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.54>Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.55>Those that would die or ere resist are grown</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.56>The mortal bugs o' the field.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.57>This was strange chance</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.58>A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.59>Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.60>Rather to wonder at the things you hear</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.61>Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.62>And vent it for a mockery? Here is one:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.63>'Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.64>Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.65>Nay, be not angry, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.66>'Lack, to what end?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.67>Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.68>For if he'll do as he is made to do,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.69>I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.70>You have put me into rhyme.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>Lord</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.71>Farewell; you're angry.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.72>Still going?</A><br>
	<p><i>Exit Lord</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.3.73>This is a lord! O noble misery,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.74>To be i' the field, and ask 'what news?' of me!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.75>To-day how many would have given their honours</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.76>To have saved their carcasses! took heel to do't,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.77>And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.78>Could not find death where I did hear him groan,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.79>Nor feel him where he struck: being an ugly monster,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.80>'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.81>Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.82>That draw his knives i' the war. Well, I will find him</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.83>For being now a favourer to the Briton,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.84>No more a Briton, I have resumed again</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.85>The part I came in: fight I will no more,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.86>But yield me to the veriest hind that shall</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.87>Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.88>Here made by the Roman; great the answer be</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.89>Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.90>On either side I come to spend my breath;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.91>Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.92>But end it by some means for Imogen.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter two British Captains and Soldiers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>First Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.93>Great Jupiter be praised! Lucius is taken.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.94>'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.95>There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.96>That gave the affront with them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>First Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.97>So 'tis reported:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.98>But none of 'em can be found. Stand! who's there?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.99>A Roman,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.100>Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.101>Had answer'd him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>Second Captain</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.3.102> Lay hands on him; a dog!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.103>A leg of Rome shall not return to tell</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.104>What crows have peck'd them here. He brags</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.105>his service</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.3.106>As if he were of note: bring him to the king.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, Soldiers, Attendants, and Roman Captives. The Captains present POSTHUMUS LEONATUS to CYMBELINE, who delivers him over to a Gaoler: then exeunt omnes</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE IV. A British prison.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and two Gaolers</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.1>You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon you;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.2>So graze as you find pasture.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.3>Ay, or a stomach.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt Gaolers</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.4>Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.5>think, to liberty: yet am I better</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.6>Than one that's sick o' the gout; since he had rather</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.7>Groan so in perpetuity than be cured</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.8>By the sure physician, death, who is the key</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.9>To unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.10>More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.11>The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.12>Then, free for ever! Is't enough I am sorry?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.13>So children temporal fathers do appease;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.14>Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.15>I cannot do it better than in gyves,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.16>Desired more than constrain'd: to satisfy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.17>If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.18>No stricter render of me than my all.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.19>I know you are more clement than vile men,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.20>Who of their broken debtors take a third,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.21>A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.22>On their abatement: that's not my desire:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.23>For Imogen's dear life take mine; and though</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.24>'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coin'd it:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.25>'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.26>Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.27>You rather mine, being yours: and so, great powers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.28>If you will take this audit, take this life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.29>And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.30>I'll speak to thee in silence.</A><br>
	<p><i>Sleeps</i></p>
	<p><i>Solemn music. Enter, as in an apparition, SICILIUS LEONATUS, father to Posthumus Leonatus, an old man, attired like a warrior; leading in his hand an ancient matron, his wife, and mother to Posthumus Leonatus, with music before them: then, after other music, follow the two young Leonati, brothers to Posthumus Leonatus, with wounds as they died in the wars. They circle Posthumus Leonatus round, as he lies sleeping</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.31>No more, thou thunder-master, show</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.32>Thy spite on mortal flies:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.33>With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.34>That thy adulteries</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.35>Rates and revenges.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.36>Hath my poor boy done aught but well,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.37>Whose face I never saw?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.38>I died whilst in the womb he stay'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.39>Attending nature's law:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.40>Whose father then, as men report</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.41>Thou orphans' father art,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.42>Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.43>From this earth-vexing smart.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>Mother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.44>Lucina lent not me her aid,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.45>But took me in my throes;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.46>That from me was Posthumus ript,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.47>Came crying 'mongst his foes,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.48>A thing of pity!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.49>Great nature, like his ancestry,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.50>Moulded the stuff so fair,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.51>That he deserved the praise o' the world,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.52>As great Sicilius' heir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>First Brother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.53>When once he was mature for man,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.54>In Britain where was he</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.55>That could stand up his parallel;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.56>Or fruitful object be</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.57>In eye of Imogen, that best</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.58>Could deem his dignity?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>Mother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.59>With marriage wherefore was he mock'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.60>To be exiled, and thrown</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.61>From Leonati seat, and cast</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.62>From her his dearest one,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.63>Sweet Imogen?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.64>Why did you suffer Iachimo,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.65>Slight thing of Italy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.66>To taint his nobler heart and brain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.67>With needless jealosy;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.68>And to become the geck and scorn</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.69>O' th' other's villany?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Brother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.70>For this from stiller seats we came,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.71>Our parents and us twain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.72>That striking in our country's cause</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.73>Fell bravely and were slain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.74>Our fealty and Tenantius' right</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.75>With honour to maintain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>First Brother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.76>Like hardiment Posthumus hath</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.77>To Cymbeline perform'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.78>Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.79>Why hast thou thus adjourn'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.80>The graces for his merits due,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.81>Being all to dolours turn'd?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.82>Thy crystal window ope; look out;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.83>No longer exercise</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.84>Upon a valiant race thy harsh</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.85>And potent injuries.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>Mother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.86>Since, Jupiter, our son is good,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.87>Take off his miseries.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.88>Peep through thy marble mansion; help;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.89>Or we poor ghosts will cry</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.90>To the shining synod of the rest</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.91>Against thy deity.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>First Brother</b></a>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>Second Brother</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.92>Help, Jupiter; or we appeal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.93>And from thy justice fly.</A><br>
	<p><i>Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Apparitions fall on their knees</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>Jupiter</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.94>No more, you petty spirits of region low,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.95>Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you ghosts</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.96>Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.97>Sky-planted batters all rebelling coasts?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.98>Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.99>Upon your never-withering banks of flowers:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.100>Be not with mortal accidents opprest;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.101>No care of yours it is; you know 'tis ours.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.102>Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.103>The more delay'd, delighted. Be content;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.104>Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.105>His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.106>Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.107>Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.108>He shall be lord of lady Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.109>And happier much by his affliction made.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.110>This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.111>Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.112>and so, away: no further with your din</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.113>Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.114>Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.</A><br>
	<p><i>Ascends</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.115>He came in thunder; his celestial breath</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.116>Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.117>Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.118>More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.119>Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.120>As when his god is pleased.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>All</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.121>Thanks, Jupiter!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>Sicilius Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.122>The marble pavement closes, he is enter'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.123>His radiant root. Away! and, to be blest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.124>Let us with care perform his great behest.</A><br>
	<p><i>The Apparitions vanish</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>Posthumus Leonatus</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.125>[Waking] Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.126>A father to me; and thou hast created</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.127>A mother and two brothers: but, O scorn!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.128>Gone! they went hence so soon as they were born:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.129>And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.130>On greatness' favour dream as I have done,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.131>Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.132>Many dream not to find, neither deserve,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.133>And yet are steep'd in favours: so am I,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.134>That have this golden chance and know not why.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.135>What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.136>Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.137>Nobler than that it covers: let thy effects</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.138>So follow, to be most unlike our courtiers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.139>As good as promise.</A><br>
	<p><i>Reads</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.4.140>'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.141>without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.142>tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.143>lopped branches, which, being dead many years,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.144>shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.145>freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.146>Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.147>'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.148>Tongue and brain not; either both or nothing;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.149>Or senseless speaking or a speaking such</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.150>As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.151>The action of my life is like it, which</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.152>I'll keep, if but for sympathy.</A><br>
	<p><i>Re-enter First Gaoler</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.153>Come, sir, are you ready for death?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.154>Over-roasted rather; ready long ago.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.155>Hanging is the word, sir: if</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.156>you be ready for that, you are well cooked.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.157>So, if I prove a good repast to the</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.158>spectators, the dish pays the shot.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.159>A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.160>you shall be called to no more payments, fear no</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.161>more tavern-bills; which are often the sadness of</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.162>parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.163>flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.164>much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.165>sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.166>both empty; the brain the heavier for being too</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.167>light, the purse too light, being drawn of</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.168>heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.169>quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.170>thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.171>creditor but it; of what's past, is, and to come,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.172>the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.173>counters; so the acquittance follows.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.174>I am merrier to die than thou art to live.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.175>Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.176>tooth-ache: but a man that were to sleep your</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.177>sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.178>would change places with his officer; for, look you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.179>sir, you know not which way you shall go.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.180>Yes, indeed do I, fellow.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.181>Your death has eyes in 's head then; I have not seen</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.182>him so pictured: you must either be directed by</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.183>some that take upon them to know, or do take upon</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.184>yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.185>jump the after inquiry on your own peril: and how</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.186>you shall speed in your journey's end, I think you'll</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.187>never return to tell one.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.188>I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.189>direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.190>will not use them.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.191>What an infinite mock is this, that a man should</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.192>have the best use of eyes to see the way of</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.193>blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>Messenger</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.194>Knock off his manacles; bring your prisoner to the king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.195>Thou bring'st good news; I am called to be made free.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.196>I'll be hang'd then.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.197>Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for the dead.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and Messenger</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>First Gaoler</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.4.198>Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.199>gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on my</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.200>conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.201>for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.202>too that die against their wills; so should I, if I</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.203>were one. I would we were all of one mind, and one</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.204>mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.205>gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.4.206>my wish hath a preferment in 't.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
	</blockquote>
	<h3>SCENE V. Cymbeline's tent.</h3>
	<p><blockquote>
	<i>Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, Lords, Officers, and Attendants</i>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech1><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.1>Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.2>Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.3>That the poor soldier that so richly fought,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.4>Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.5>Stepp'd before larges of proof, cannot be found:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.6>He shall be happy that can find him, if</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.7>Our grace can make him so.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech2><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.8>I never saw</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.9>Such noble fury in so poor a thing;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.10>Such precious deeds in one that promises nought</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.11>But beggary and poor looks.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech3><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.12>No tidings of him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech4><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.13>He hath been search'd among the dead and living,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.14>But no trace of him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech5><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.15>To my grief, I am</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.16>The heir of his reward;</A><br>
	<p><i>To BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.17>which I will add</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.18>To you, the liver, heart and brain of Britain,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.19>By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.20>To ask of whence you are. Report it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech6><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.21>Sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.22>In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.23>Further to boast were neither true nor modest,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.24>Unless I add, we are honest.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech7><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.25>Bow your knees.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.26>Arise my knights o' the battle: I create you</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.27>Companions to our person and will fit you</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.28>With dignities becoming your estates.</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter CORNELIUS and Ladies</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.29>There's business in these faces. Why so sadly</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.30>Greet you our victory? you look like Romans,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.31>And not o' the court of Britain.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech8><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.32>Hail, great king!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.33>To sour your happiness, I must report</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.34>The queen is dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech9><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.35>Who worse than a physician</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.36>Would this report become? But I consider,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.37>By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.38>Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech10><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.39>With horror, madly dying, like her life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.40>Which, being cruel to the world, concluded</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.41>Most cruel to herself. What she confess'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.42>I will report, so please you: these her women</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.43>Can trip me, if I err; who with wet cheeks</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.44>Were present when she finish'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech11><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.45>Prithee, say.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech12><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.46>First, she confess'd she never loved you, only</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.47>Affected greatness got by you, not you:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.48>Married your royalty, was wife to your place;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.49>Abhorr'd your person.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech13><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.50>She alone knew this;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.51>And, but she spoke it dying, I would not</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.52>Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech14><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.53>Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.54>With such integrity, she did confess</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.55>Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.56>But that her flight prevented it, she had</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.57>Ta'en off by poison.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech15><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.58>O most delicate fiend!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.59>Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech16><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.60>More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.61>For you a mortal mineral; which, being took,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.62>Should by the minute feed on life and lingering</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.63>By inches waste you: in which time she purposed,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.64>By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.65>O'ercome you with her show, and in time,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.66>When she had fitted you with her craft, to work</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.67>Her son into the adoption of the crown:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.68>But, failing of her end by his strange absence,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.69>Grew shameless-desperate; open'd, in despite</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.70>Of heaven and men, her purposes; repented</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.71>The evils she hatch'd were not effected; so</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.72>Despairing died.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech17><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.73> Heard you all this, her women?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech18><b>First Lady</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.74>We did, so please your highness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech19><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.75>Mine eyes</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.76>Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.77>Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.78>That thought her like her seeming; it had</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.79>been vicious</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.80>To have mistrusted her: yet, O my daughter!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.81>That it was folly in me, thou mayst say,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.82>And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!</A><br>
	<p><i>Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, the Soothsayer, and other Roman Prisoners, guarded; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS behind, and IMOGEN</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.83>Thou comest not, Caius, now for tribute that</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.84>The Britons have razed out, though with the loss</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.85>Of many a bold one; whose kinsmen have made suit</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.86>That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.87>Of you their captives, which ourself have granted:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.88>So think of your estate.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech20><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.89>Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.90>Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.91>We should not, when the blood was cool,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.92>have threaten'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.93>Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.94>Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.95>May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.96>A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.97>Augustus lives to think on't: and so much</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.98>For my peculiar care. This one thing only</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.99>I will entreat; my boy, a Briton born,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.100>Let him be ransom'd: never master had</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.101>A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.102>So tender over his occasions, true,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.103>So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.104>With my request, which I make bold your highness</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.105>Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.106>Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.107>And spare no blood beside.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech21><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.108>I have surely seen him:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.109>His favour is familiar to me. Boy,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.110>Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.111>And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.112>To say 'live, boy:' ne'er thank thy master; live:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.113>And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.114>Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.115>Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.116>The noblest ta'en.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech22><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.117> I humbly thank your highness.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech23><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.118>I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.119>And yet I know thou wilt.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech24><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.120>No, no: alack,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.121>There's other work in hand: I see a thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.122>Bitter to me as death: your life, good master,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.123>Must shuffle for itself.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech25><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.124>The boy disdains me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.125>He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.126>That place them on the truth of girls and boys.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.127>Why stands he so perplex'd?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech26><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.128>What wouldst thou, boy?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.129>I love thee more and more: think more and more</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.130>What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.131>Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech27><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.132>He is a Roman; no more kin to me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.133>Than I to your highness; who, being born your vassal,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.134>Am something nearer.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech28><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.135>Wherefore eyest him so?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech29><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.136>I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.137>To give me hearing.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech30><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.138>Ay, with all my heart,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.139>And lend my best attention. What's thy name?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech31><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.140>Fidele, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech32><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.141> Thou'rt my good youth, my page;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.142>I'll be thy master: walk with me; speak freely.</A><br>
	<p><i>CYMBELINE and IMOGEN converse apart</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech33><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.143>Is not this boy revived from death?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech34><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.144>One sand another</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.145>Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.146>Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech35><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.147>The same dead thing alive.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech36><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.148>Peace, peace! see further; he eyes us not; forbear;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.149>Creatures may be alike: were 't he, I am sure</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.150>He would have spoke to us.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech37><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.151>But we saw him dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech38><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.152>Be silent; let's see further.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech39><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.153>[Aside] It is my mistress:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.154>Since she is living, let the time run on</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.155>To good or bad.</A><br>
	<p><i>CYMBELINE and IMOGEN come forward</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech40><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.156> Come, stand thou by our side;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.157>Make thy demand aloud.</A><br>
	<p><i>To IACHIMO</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.158>Sir, step you forth;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.159>Give answer to this boy, and do it freely;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.160>Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.161>Which is our honour, bitter torture shall</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.162>Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech41><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.163>My boon is, that this gentleman may render</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.164>Of whom he had this ring.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech42><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.165>[Aside] What's that to him?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech43><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.166>That diamond upon your finger, say</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.167>How came it yours?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech44><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.168>Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.169>Which, to be spoke, would torture thee.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech45><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.170>How! me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech46><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.171>I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.172>Which torments me to conceal. By villany</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.173>I got this ring: 'twas Leonatus' jewel;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.174>Whom thou didst banish; and--which more may</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.175>grieve thee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.176>As it doth me--a nobler sir ne'er lived</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.177>'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech47><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.178>All that belongs to this.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech48><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.179>That paragon, thy daughter,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.180>For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.181>Quail to remember--Give me leave; I faint.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech49><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.182>My daughter! what of her? Renew thy strength:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.183>I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.184>Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech50><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.185>Upon a time,--unhappy was the clock</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.186>That struck the hour!--it was in Rome,--accursed</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.187>The mansion where!--'twas at a feast,--O, would</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.188>Our viands had been poison'd, or at least</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.189>Those which I heaved to head!--the good Posthumus--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.190>What should I say? he was too good to be</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.191>Where ill men were; and was the best of all</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.192>Amongst the rarest of good ones,--sitting sadly,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.193>Hearing us praise our loves of Italy</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.194>For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.195>Of him that best could speak, for feature, laming</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.196>The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.197>Postures beyond brief nature, for condition,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.198>A shop of all the qualities that man</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.199>Loves woman for, besides that hook of wiving,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.200>Fairness which strikes the eye--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech51><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.201>I stand on fire:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.202>Come to the matter.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech52><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.203>All too soon I shall,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.204>Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.205>Most like a noble lord in love and one</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.206>That had a royal lover, took his hint;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.207>And, not dispraising whom we praised,--therein</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.208>He was as calm as virtue--he began</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.209>His mistress' picture; which by his tongue</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.210>being made,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.211>And then a mind put in't, either our brags</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.212>Were crack'd of kitchen-trolls, or his description</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.213>Proved us unspeaking sots.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech53><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.214>Nay, nay, to the purpose.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech54><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.215>Your daughter's chastity--there it begins.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.216>He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.217>And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.218>Made scruple of his praise; and wager'd with him</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.219>Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.220>Upon his honour'd finger, to attain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.221>In suit the place of's bed and win this ring</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.222>By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.223>No lesser of her honour confident</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.224>Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.225>And would so, had it been a carbuncle</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.226>Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely, had it</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.227>Been all the worth of's car. Away to Britain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.228>Post I in this design: well may you, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.229>Remember me at court; where I was taught</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.230>Of your chaste daughter the wide difference</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.231>'Twixt amorous and villanous. Being thus quench'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.232>Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.233>'Gan in your duller Britain operate</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.234>Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.235>And, to be brief, my practise so prevail'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.236>That I return'd with simular proof enough</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.237>To make the noble Leonatus mad,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.238>By wounding his belief in her renown</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.239>With tokens thus, and thus; averting notes</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.240>Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet,--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.241>O cunning, how I got it!--nay, some marks</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.242>Of secret on her person, that he could not</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.243>But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.244>I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.245>Methinks, I see him now--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech55><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.246>[Advancing] Ay, so thou dost,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.247>Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.248>Egregious murderer, thief, any thing</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.249>That's due to all the villains past, in being,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.250>To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.251>Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.252>For torturers ingenious: it is I</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.253>That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.254>By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.255>That kill'd thy daughter:--villain-like, I lie--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.256>That caused a lesser villain than myself,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.257>A sacrilegious thief, to do't: the temple</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.258>Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.259>Spit, and throw stone s, cast mire upon me, set</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.260>The dogs o' the street to bay me: every villain</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.261>Be call'd Posthumus Leonitus; and</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.262>Be villany less than 'twas! O Imogen!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.263>My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.264>Imogen, Imogen!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech56><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.265> Peace, my lord; hear, hear--</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech57><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.266>Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.267>There lie thy part.</A><br>
	<p><i>Striking her: she falls</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech58><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.268>O, gentlemen, help!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.269>Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.270>You ne'er kill'd Imogen til now. Help, help!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.271>Mine honour'd lady!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech59><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.272>Does the world go round?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech60><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.273>How come these staggers on me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech61><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.274>Wake, my mistress!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech62><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.275>If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.276>To death with mortal joy.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech63><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.277>How fares thy mistress?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech64><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.278>O, get thee from my sight;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.279>Thou gavest me poison: dangerous fellow, hence!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.280>Breathe not where princes are.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech65><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.281>The tune of Imogen!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech66><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.282>Lady,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.283>The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.284>That box I gave you was not thought by me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.285>A precious thing: I had it from the queen.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech67><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.286>New matter still?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech68><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.287> It poison'd me.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech69><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.288>O gods!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.289>I left out one thing which the queen confess'd.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.290>Which must approve thee honest: 'If Pisanio</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.291>Have,' said she, 'given his mistress that confection</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.292>Which I gave him for cordial, she is served</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.293>As I would serve a rat.'</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech70><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.294>What's this, Comelius?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech71><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.295>The queen, sir, very oft importuned me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.296>To temper poisons for her, still pretending</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.297>The satisfaction of her knowledge only</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.298>In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.299>Of no esteem: I, dreading that her purpose</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.300>Was of more danger, did compound for her</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.301>A certain stuff, which, being ta'en, would cease</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.302>The present power of life, but in short time</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.303>All offices of nature should again</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.304>Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech72><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.305>Most like I did, for I was dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech73><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.306>My boys,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.307>There was our error.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech74><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.308>This is, sure, Fidele.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech75><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.309>Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.310>Think that you are upon a rock; and now</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.311>Throw me again.</A><br>
	<p><i>Embracing him</i></p>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech76><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.312>Hang there like a fruit, my soul,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.313>Till the tree die!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech77><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.314> How now, my flesh, my child!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.315>What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.316>Wilt thou not speak to me?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech78><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.317>[Kneeling] Your blessing, sir.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech79><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.318>[To GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS] Though you did love</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.319>this youth, I blame ye not:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.320>You had a motive for't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech80><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.321>My tears that fall</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.322>Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.323>Thy mother's dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech81><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.324>I am sorry for't, my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech82><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.325>O, she was nought; and long of her it was</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.326>That we meet here so strangely: but her son</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.327>Is gone, we know not how nor where.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech83><b>PISANIO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.328>My lord,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.329>Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.330>Upon my lady's missing, came to me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.331>With his sword drawn; foam'd at the mouth, and swore,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.332>If I discover'd not which way she was gone,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.333>It was my instant death. By accident,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.334>had a feigned letter of my master's</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.335>Then in my pocket; which directed him</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.336>To seek her on the mountains near to Milford;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.337>Where, in a frenzy, in my master's garments,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.338>Which he enforced from me, away he posts</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.339>With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.340>My lady's honour: what became of him</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.341>I further know not.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech84><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.342>Let me end the story:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.343>I slew him there.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech85><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.344>Marry, the gods forfend!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.345>I would not thy good deeds should from my lips</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.346>Pluck a bard sentence: prithee, valiant youth,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.347>Deny't again.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech86><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.348> I have spoke it, and I did it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech87><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.349>He was a prince.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech88><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.350>A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.351>Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.352>With language that would make me spurn the sea,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.353>If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.354>And am right glad he is not standing here</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.355>To tell this tale of mine.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech89><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.356>I am sorry for thee:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.357>By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd, and must</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.358>Endure our law: thou'rt dead.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech90><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.359>That headless man</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.360>I thought had been my lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech91><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.361>Bind the offender,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.362>And take him from our presence.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech92><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.363>Stay, sir king:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.364>This man is better than the man he slew,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.365>As well descended as thyself; and hath</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.366>More of thee merited than a band of Clotens</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.367>Had ever scar for.</A><br>
	<p><i>To the Guard</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.368>Let his arms alone;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.369>They were not born for bondage.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech93><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.370>Why, old soldier,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.371>Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.372>By tasting of our wrath? How of descent</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.373>As good as we?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech94><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.374> In that he spake too far.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech95><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.375>And thou shalt die for't.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech96><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.376>We will die all three:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.377>But I will prove that two on's are as good</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.378>As I have given out him. My sons, I must,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.379>For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.380>Though, haply, well for you.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech97><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.381>Your danger's ours.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech98><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.382>And our good his.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech99><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.383> Have at it then, by leave.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.384>Thou hadst, great king, a subject who</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.385>Was call'd Belarius.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech100><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.386>What of him? he is</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.387>A banish'd traitor.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech101><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.388>He it is that hath</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.389>Assumed this age; indeed a banish'd man;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.390>I know not how a traitor.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech102><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.391>Take him hence:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.392>The whole world shall not save him.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech103><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.393>Not too hot:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.394>First pay me for the nursing of thy sons;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.395>And let it be confiscate all, so soon</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.396>As I have received it.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech104><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.397>Nursing of my sons!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech105><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.398>I am too blunt and saucy: here's my knee:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.399>Ere I arise, I will prefer my sons;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.400>Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.401>These two young gentlemen, that call me father</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.402>And think they are my sons, are none of mine;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.403>They are the issue of your loins, my liege,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.404>And blood of your begetting.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech106><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.405>How! my issue!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech107><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.406>So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.407>Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.408>Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.409>Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.410>Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes--</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.411>For such and so they are--these twenty years</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.412>Have I train'd up: those arts they have as I</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.413>Could put into them; my breeding was, sir, as</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.414>Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.415>Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.416>Upon my banishment: I moved her to't,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.417>Having received the punishment before,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.418>For that which I did then: beaten for loyalty</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.419>Excited me to treason: their dear loss,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.420>The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.421>Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.422>Here are your sons again; and I must lose</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.423>Two of the sweet'st companions in the world.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.424>The benediction of these covering heavens</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.425>Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.426>To inlay heaven with stars.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech108><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.427>Thou weep'st, and speak'st.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.428>The service that you three have done is more</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.429>Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.430>If these be they, I know not how to wish</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.431>A pair of worthier sons.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech109><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.432>Be pleased awhile.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.433>This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.434>Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.435>This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.436>Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.437>In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.438>Of his queen mother, which for more probation</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.439>I can with ease produce.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech110><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.440>Guiderius had</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.441>Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.442>It was a mark of wonder.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech111><b>BELARIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.443>This is he;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.444>Who hath upon him still that natural stamp:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.445>It was wise nature's end in the donation,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.446>To be his evidence now.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech112><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.447>O, what, am I</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.448>A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.449>Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.450>That, after this strange starting from your orbs,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.451>may reign in them now! O Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.452>Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech113><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.453>No, my lord;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.454>I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.455>Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.456>But I am truest speaker you call'd me brother,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.457>When I was but your sister; I you brothers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.458>When ye were so indeed.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech114><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.459>Did you e'er meet?</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech115><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.460>Ay, my good lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech116><b>GUIDERIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.461> And at first meeting loved;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.462>Continued so, until we thought he died.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech117><b>CORNELIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.463>By the queen's dram she swallow'd.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech118><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.464>O rare instinct!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.465>When shall I hear all through? This fierce</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.466>abridgement</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.467>Hath to it circumstantial branches, which</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.468>Distinction should be rich in. Where? how lived You?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.469>And when came you to serve our Roman captive?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.470>How parted with your brothers? how first met them?</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.471>Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.472>And your three motives to the battle, with</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.473>I know not how much more, should be demanded;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.474>And all the other by-dependencies,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.475>From chance to chance: but nor the time nor place</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.476>Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.477>Posthumus anchors upon Imogen,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.478>And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.479>On him, her brother, me, her master, hitting</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.480>Each object with a joy: the counterchange</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.481>Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.482>And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.</A><br>
	<p><i>To BELARIUS</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.483>Thou art my brother; so we'll hold thee ever.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech119><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.484>You are my father too, and did relieve me,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.485>To see this gracious season.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech120><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.486>All o'erjoy'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.487>Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.488>For they shall taste our comfort.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech121><b>IMOGEN</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.489>My good master,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.490>I will yet do you service.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech122><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.491>Happy be you!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech123><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.492>The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.493>He would have well becomed this place, and graced</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.494>The thankings of a king.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech124><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.495>I am, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.496>The soldier that did company these three</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.497>In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.498>The purpose I then follow'd. That I was he,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.499>Speak, Iachimo: I had you down and might</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.500>Have made you finish.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech125><b>IACHIMO</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.501>[Kneeling] I am down again:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.502>But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.503>As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.504>Which I so often owe: but your ring first;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.505>And here the bracelet of the truest princess</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.506>That ever swore her faith.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech126><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.507>Kneel not to me:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.508>The power that I have on you is, to spare you;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.509>The malice towards you to forgive you: live,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.510>And deal with others better.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech127><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.511>Nobly doom'd!</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.512>We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.513>Pardon's the word to all.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech128><b>ARVIRAGUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.514>You holp us, sir,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.515>As you did mean indeed to be our brother;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.516>Joy'd are we that you are.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech129><b>POSTHUMUS LEONATUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.517>Your servant, princes. Good my lord of Rome,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.518>Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.519>Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.520>Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.521>Of mine own kindred: when I waked, I found</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.522>This label on my bosom; whose containing</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.523>Is so from sense in hardness, that I can</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.524>Make no collection of it: let him show</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.525>His skill in the construction.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech130><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.526>Philarmonus!</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech131><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.527>Here, my good lord.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech132><b>CAIUS LUCIUS</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.528>Read, and declare the meaning.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech133><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.529>[Reads] 'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.530>unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.531>piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.532>shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.533>years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.534>stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.535>his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.536>peace and plenty.'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.537>Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.538>The fit and apt construction of thy name,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.539>Being Leonatus, doth import so much.</A><br>
	<p><i>To CYMBELINE</i></p>
	<A NAME=5.5.540>The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.541>Which we call 'mollis aer;' and 'mollis aer'</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.542>We term it 'mulier:' which 'mulier' I divine</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.543>Is this most constant wife; who, even now,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.544>Answering the letter of the oracle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.545>Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.546>With this most tender air.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech134><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.547>This hath some seeming.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech135><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.548>The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.549>Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.550>Thy two sons forth; who, by Belarius stol'n,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.551>For many years thought dead, are now revived,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.552>To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.553>Promises Britain peace and plenty.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech136><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.554>Well</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.555>My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.556>Although the victor, we submit to Caesar,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.557>And to the Roman empire; promising</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.558>To pay our wonted tribute, from the which</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.559>We were dissuaded by our wicked queen;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.560>Whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.561>Have laid most heavy hand.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech137><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
	<blockquote>
	<A NAME=5.5.562>The fingers of the powers above do tune</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.563>The harmony of this peace. The vision</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.564>Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.565>Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.566>Is full accomplish'd; for the Roman eagle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.567>From south to west on wing soaring aloft,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.568>Lessen'd herself, and in the beams o' the sun</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.569>So vanish'd: which foreshow'd our princely eagle,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.570>The imperial Caesar, should again unite</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.571>His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.572>Which shines here in the west.</A><br>
	</blockquote>

	<A NAME=speech138><b>CYMBELINE</b></a>
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	<A NAME=5.5.573>Laud we the gods;</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.574>And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.575>From our blest altars. Publish we this peace</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.576>To all our subjects. Set we forward: let</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.577>A Roman and a British ensign wave</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.578>Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.579>And in the temple of great Jupiter</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.580>Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.581>Set on there! Never was a war did cease,</A><br>
	<A NAME=5.5.582>Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.</A><br>
	<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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