Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. Soft, soft! What is here? She takes papers from her bodice. The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus, All turned to heresy? Away, away! She throws away the letters. Corrupters of my faith, you shall no more 90 Be stomachers to my heart.
Thus may poor fools Believe false teachers. Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe. The lamb entreats the butcher. Why hast thou abused So many miles with a pretense? This place? Mine action and thine own? The perturbed court For my being absent, whereunto I never Purpose return?
But Pisanio has something else in mind: he says he'd rather pull his own eyeballs out before killing Imogen. Since we don't see him doing that anytime soon, we better listen to his plan. Good lady, Hear me with patience. I have heard I am a strumpet, and mine ear, Therein false struck, can take no greater wound, Nor tent to bottom that.
But speak. But if I were as wise as honest, then My purpose would prove well. It cannot be But that my master is abused. Pisanio has figured out that "some villain" must have dragged Imogen's name through the mud.
Why else would Posthumus suddenly accuse her of cheating on him? You shall be missed at court, And that will well confirm it. Where bide? How live? Or in my life what comfort when I am Dead to my husband? Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night, Are they not but in Britain? Pisanio figures that if Imogen could go to Posthumus and talk to him face-to-face, the two lovebirds could figure it out.
Luckily, Lucius the Roman ambassador is passing through Milford-Haven on his way back to Rome tomorrow. Nay, you must Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek, Exposing it—but O, the harder heart! Act 1, scene 5 The queen obtains a box that she is told contains poison. Act 1, scene 6 Iachimo arrives in Britain and begins his attempt to seduce Imogen by telling her that Posthumus is betraying her with…. Act 2, scene 1 Cloten and two lords discuss the arrival of Iachimo.
Act 2, scene 2 As Imogen sleeps, the trunk that she is keeping for Iachimo opens, and Iachimo emerges. Act 2, scene 3 Cloten serenades Imogen in an attempt to win her love. Act 2, scene 5 Posthumus, in soliloquy, attacks women as the embodiment of all that is vicious. Act 3, scene 2 Pisanio receives two letters from Posthumus—one in which Pisanio is instructed to kill Imogen, and another written to Imogen, telling….
Act 3, scene 3 Three men enter as if from a cave, the two younger men protesting the limitations of their mountain lives. Act 3, scene 4 On the journey to Milford Haven, Pisanio reveals to Imogen that he is supposed to kill her.
Act 3, scene 6 Imogen, disguised as a boy named Fidele, stumbles, exhausted and famished, into the cave of Belarius and the two young…. Act 3, scene 7 A Roman senator announces that the Roman army attacking Britain will be under the control of Caius Lucius and that….
Act 4, scene 2 Imogen, not feeling well, takes the potion given her by Pisanio, thinking it is a restorative; the potion puts her…. Act 4, scene 3 Cymbeline finds himself alone in the face of the Roman attack, with Imogen and Cloten both missing and the queen….
Act 4, scene 4 The young princes persuade Belarius that the three of them should join with the Britons against Rome. Act 5, scene 2 In a series of battles, Posthumus disguised as a peasant defeats and disarms Iachimo; the Britons flee and Cymbeline is…. Act 5, scene 3 Posthumus, still seeking death and failing to find it as a poor British soldier, reverts to his earlier role as….
Act 5, scene 4 Posthumus, in chains, falls asleep and is visited by the ghosts of his dead family and by the god Jupiter,…. Act 5, scene 5 Cymbeline knights Belarius and the two young men in gratitude for their valor, and sends in search of the poor…. Scene 4. Get even more from the Folger You can get your own copy of this text to keep. Download this text. About About PlayShakespeare. Henry 4. Henry 6. Please consider making a small donation to help keep this site free. Cymbeline Scenes.
Scene 4 The country near Milford-Haven. Pisanio; Imogen Imogen cannot understand why they have not yet found Posthumus.
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