A lass unparallel'd. Downy Windows, close; Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry; ACT. V Enter the Guard, rushing in. FIRST GUARD. Where is the Queen? CHAR. Speak softly, wake her not. Too slow a messenger. 320 FIRST GUARD. Cæsar hath sent- O, come apace, dispatch: I partly feel thee. beguil❜d. SEC. GUARD. There's Dolabella sent from Cæsar him. FIRST GUARD. What work is here! Charmian, is this well done? CHAR. It is well done, and fitting for a Princess Descended of so many royal Kings. Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming 330 [Within, A way there, a way for Cæsar! Re-enter CÆSAR and all his Train, marching. DOL. O Sir, you are too sure an augurer; That you did fear is done. CÆS. Brav'st at the last, She levell❜d at our purposes, and, being royal, Took her own way. The manner of their deaths? I do not see them bleed. DOL. Who was last with them? ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ACT V Sc. II FIRST GUARD. A simple countryman, that brought her This Charmian liv'd but now; she stood and spake : I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood, CAS. O noble weakness! If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear In her strong toil of grace. DOL. Here, on her breast, There is a vent of blood, and something blown; The like is on her arm. 340 FIRST GUARD. This is an aspic's trail; and these fig-leaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves Upon the caves of Nile. CES. Most probable That so she died; for her physician tells me Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed; And bear her women from the monument. No grave upon the Earth shall clip in it A pair so famous. High events as these Strike those that make them; and their story is And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see 350 360 [exeunt. PERSONS REPRESENTED 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: SONS TO CYMBELINE, DISGUISED UNDER THE PHILARIO, FRIEND TO POSTHUMUS } ITALIANS. IACHIMO, FRIEND TO PHILARIO: CAIUS LUCIUS: GENERAL OF THE ROMAN FORCES. PISANIO: SERVANT TO POSTHUMUS. CORNELIUS: A PHYSICIAN. A ROMAN Captain. TWO BRITISH CAPTAINS. A FRENCHMAN: FRIEND TO PHILARIO. Two LORDS OF CYMBELINE'S COURT. Two GENTLEMEN OF THE SAME. Two GAOLERS. QUEEN: WIFE TO CYMBELINE. IMOGEN: Daughter to CYMBELINE BY A FORMER QUEEN. HELEN: A LADY ATTENDING ON IMOGEN. LORDS, LADIES, ROMAN SENATORS, TRIBUNES, A SOOTHSAYER, APPARITIONS. SCENE-Britain; Rome. THE TRAGEDY OF CYMBELINE ACT I SCENE I. Britain. The Garden of CYMBELINE'S Palace. Enter two Gentlemen. FIRST GENT. You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods No more obey the Heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King.1 SEC. GENT. But what's the matter? FIRST GENT. His daughter, and the heir of's Kingdom, whom He purpos'd to his wife's sole son (a widow That late he married) hath referr'd herself Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded; Is outward sorrow; though, I think, the King Be touch'd at very heart. SEC. GENT. None but the King? ΤΟ FIRST GENT. He that hath lost her too; so is the Queen, That most desir'd the match: but not a courtier, Although they wear their faces to the bent Of the King's looks, hath a heart that is not Glad at the thing they scowl at. SEC. GENT. And why so? FIRST GENT. He that hath miss'd the Princess is a thing Too bad for bad report; and he that hath her I mean that married her (alack, good man! As, to seek through the regions of the Earth 1 i.e. our dispositions are not more absolutely governed by the stars than our 20 |