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33 CHAPTERS

Ongoing Story

Cymbeline

King Cymbeline had plans to arrange the marriage between his daughter Imogen and his son-in-law Cloten. Instead, she secretly marries Posthumus Leonatus, a poor gentleman. Before Cymbeline banishes Posthumus, Imogen is gifted a beautiful bracelet that she vows never to remove, while Posthumus is given an expensive ring. While on his way to Rome, Posthumus meets Iachimo, who is heading to Britain, and the two make a bet: If Iachimo can...

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CHAPTERS

33

Dramatis Personae

Cymbeline, King of Britain Cloten, son to the Queen by a former husband Posthumus Leonatus, a gentleman, husband to Imogen Belarius, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan Guiderius, son ...

Act 1

Britain. The garden of Cymbeline’s palace. Gentlemen: Enter two Gentlemen. First Gentleman: You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does ...

Scene 1 1

Britain. The garden of Cymbeline’s palace. Gentlemen: Enter two Gentlemen. First Gentleman: You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does ...

Scene 1 2

The same. A public place. Cloten: Enter Cloten and two Lords. First Lord: Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice: where air comes out, air c...

Scene 1 3

A room in Cymbeline’s palace. Imogen: Enter Imogen and Pisanio. Imogen: I would thou grew’st unto the shores o’ the haven, And question’dst every sail: if he should write, And not have it, ’twere a pa...

Scene 1 4

Rome. Philario’s house. Philario: Enter Philario, Iachimo, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard. Iachimo: Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was then of a crescent note, expected to pr...

Scene 1 5

Britain. A room in Cymbeline’s palace. Queen: Enter Queen, Ladies, and Cornelius. Queen: Whiles yet the dew’s on ground, gather those flowers; Make haste: who has the note of them? First Lady: I, mada...

Scene 1 6

The same. Another room in the palace. Imogen: Enter Imogen. Imogen: A father cruel, and a step-dame false; A foolish suitor to a wedded lady, That hath her husband banish’d;⁠—O, that husband! My supre...

Act 2

Britain. Before Cymbeline’s palace. Cloten: Enter Cloten and two Lords. Cloten: Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t: an...

Scene 2 1

Britain. Before Cymbeline’s palace. Cloten: Enter Cloten and two Lords. Cloten: Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t: an...

Scene 2 2

Imogen’s bedchamber in Cymbeline’s palace: a trunk in one corner of it. Imogen: Imogen in bed, reading; a Lady attending. Imogen: Who’s there? my woman Helen? Lady: Please you, madam Imogen: What hour...

Scene 2 3

An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen’s apartments. Cloten: Enter Cloten and Lords. First Lord: Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the most coldest that ever turned up ace. Cloten: It would mak...

Scene 2 4

Rome. Philario’s house. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus and Philario. Posthumus: Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure To win the king as I am bold her honour Will remain hers. Philario: What means do y...

Scene 2 5

Another room in Philario’s house. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus. Posthumus: Is there no way for men to be but women Must be half-workers? We are all bastards; And that most venerable man which I Did call...

Act 3

Britain. A hall in Cymbeline’s palace. Cymbeline: Enter in state, Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten, and Lords at one door, and at another, Caius Lucius and Attendants. Cymbeline: Now say, what would Augustus ...

Scene 3 1

Britain. A hall in Cymbeline’s palace. Cymbeline: Enter in state, Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten, and Lords at one door, and at another, Caius Lucius and Attendants. Cymbeline: Now say, what would Augustus ...

Scene 3 2

Another room in the palace. Pisanio: Enter Pisanio, with a letter. Pisanio: How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not What monster’s her accuser? Leonatus! O master! what a strange infection Is fall’n...

Scene 3 3

Wales: a mountainous country with a cave. Belarius: Enter, from the cave, Belarius; Guiderius, and Arviragus following. Belarius: A goodly day not to keep house, with such Whose roof’s as low as ours!...

Scene 3 4

Country near Milford-Haven. Pisanio: Enter Pisanio and Imogen. Imogen: Thou told’st me, when we came from horse, the place Was near at hand: ne’er long’d my mother so To see me first, as I have now. P...

Scene 3 5

A room in Cymbeline’s palace. Cymbeline: Enter Cymbeline, Queen, Cloten, Lucius, Lords, and Attendants. Cymbeline: Thus far; and so farewell. Lucius: Thanks, royal sir. My emperor hath wrote, I must f...

Scene 3 6

Wales. Before the cave of Belarius. Imogen: Enter Imogen, in boy’s clothes. Imogen: I see a man’s life is a tedious one: I have tired myself, and for two nights together Have made the ground my bed. I...

Scene 3 7

Rome. A public place. Senators: Enter two Senators and Tribunes. First Senator: This is the tenour of the emperor’s writ: That since the common men are now in action ’Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmati...

Act 4

Wales: near the cave of Belarius. Cloten: Enter Cloten. Cloten: I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why should his mistress, ...

Scene 4 1

Wales: near the cave of Belarius. Cloten: Enter Cloten. Cloten: I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why should his mistress, ...

Scene 4 2

Before the cave of Belarius. Belarius: Enter, from the cave, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, and Imogen. Belarius: To Imogen. You are not well: remain here in the cave; We’ll come to you after hunting...

Scene 4 3

A room in Cymbeline’s palace. Cymbeline: Enter Cymbeline, Lords, Pisanio, and Attendants. Cymbeline: Again; and bring me word how ’tis with her. Exit an Attendant. A fever with the absence of her son,...

Scene 4 4

Wales: before the cave of Belarius. Belarius: Enter Belarius, Guiderius, and Arviragus. Guiderius: The noise is round about us. Belarius: Let us from it. Arviragus: What pleasure, sir, find we in life...

Act 5

Britain. The Roman camp. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus, with a bloody handkerchief. Posthumus: Yea, bloody cloth, I’ll keep thee, for I wish’d Thou shouldst be colour’d thus. You married ones, If each of...

Scene 5 1

Britain. The Roman camp. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus, with a bloody handkerchief. Posthumus: Yea, bloody cloth, I’ll keep thee, for I wish’d Thou shouldst be colour’d thus. You married ones, If each of...

Scene 5 2

Field of battle between the British and Roman camps. Lucius: Enter, from one side, Lucius, Iachimo, and the Roman Army; from the other side, the British Army; Posthumus Leonatus following, like a poor...

Scene 5 3

Another part of the field. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus and a British Lord. Lord: Camest thou from where they made the stand? Posthumus: I did: Though you, it seems, come from the fliers. Lord: I did. P...

Scene 5 4

A British prison. Posthumus: Enter Posthumus and two Gaolers. First Gaoler: You shall not now be stol’n, you have locks upon you; So graze as you find pasture. Second Gaoler: Ay, or a stomach. Exeunt ...

Scene 5 5

Cymbeline’s tent. Cymbeline: Enter Cymbeline, Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus, Pisanio, Lords, Officers, and Attendants. Cymbeline: Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made Preservers of my throne...