Cymbeline
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
extent: 169385
format: text/plain
language: en
publisher: Unknown. (Ask Eric.)
rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
source: cymbeline.Z
subject: imogen
subject: cymbeline
subject: imprison
subject: outward
subject: sorrow
subject: queen
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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full text: CYMBELINE 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 | sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the names | of Polydote and Cadwal, supposed sons to ARVIRAGUS | Morgan. 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. (Captain:) Two British Captains. (First Captain:) (Second Captain:) A Frenchman, friend to Philario. (Frenchman:) Two Lords of Cymbeline's court. (First Lord:) (Second Lord:) Two Gentlemen of the same. (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) Two Gaolers. (First Gaoler:) (Second Gaoler:) 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, a Dutchman, a Spaniard, Musicians, Officers, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. (Lord:) (Lady:) (First Lady:) (First Senator:) (Second Senator:) (First Tribune:) (Soothsayer:) (Messenger:) Apparitions. (Sicilius Leonatus:) (Mother:) (First Brother:) (Second Brother:) (Jupiter:) SCENE Britain; Rome. CYMBELINE ACT I SCENE I Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace. [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 the king. Second Gentleman But what's the matter? First Gentleman His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom He purposed 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; Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all Is outward sorrow; though I think the king Be touch'd at very heart. Second Gentleman None but the king? First Gentleman He that hath lost her too; so is the queen, That most desired the match; but not a courti…