Of eyes again so royal! -Your crown's awry; Enter the Guard, rushing in. First Guard. Where is the queen? Speak softly, wake her not. First Guard. Too slow a messenger. [Applies an asp. O, come apace, dispatch: I partly feel thee. First Guard. Approach, ho! All's not well: Cæsar's beguil'd. Sec. Guard. There's Dolabella sent from Cæsar; call 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. Ah, soldier! Dol. How goes it here? Sec. Guard. Dol. [Dies. Re-enter DOLABELLA. All dead. Cæsar, thy thoughts Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming Within. A way there, a way for Cæsar! Re-enter CESAR and his Train. 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? First Guard. A simple countryman, that brought her figs: This was his basket. Cæs. Poison'd, then. O Cæsar, First Guard. This Charmian liv'd but now; she stood and spake: On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood, O noble weakness! Cæs. 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. First Guard. This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves Have slime upon them, such as th' aspic leaves 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: She shall be buried by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous. High events as these Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall [Exeunt. CYMBELIN E. DRAMATIS PERSONE. CYMBELINE, king of Britain. former husband. A French Gentleman, friend to CAIUS LUCIUS, general of the A Roman Captain. guised nder the name of PISANIO, servant to Posthumus. Morgan. GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, CORNELIUS, a physician. sons to Cymbeline, Two Lords of Cymbeline's court. disguised under the Two Gentlemen of the same. names of Polydore Two Gaolers. Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes, a Soothsayer, a Dutch Gentleman, a Spanish Gentleman, Musicians, Officers, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants. SCENE Apparitions. sometimes in Britain, sometimes in Italy. 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. 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 Sec. Gent. None but the king? First Gent. He that hath lost her too: so is the queen, Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 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! And therefore banish'd — is a creature such As, to seek through the regions of the earth For one his like, there would be something failing In him that should compare: - I do not think So fair an outward, and such stuff within, Endows a man but he. Sec. Gent. You speak him far. First Gent. I do extend him, sir, within himself; Crush him together, rather than unfold His measure duly. Sec. Gent. What's his name and birth? First Gent. I cannot delve him to the root: his father Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour, Against the Romans, with Cassibelan; |