The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare Volume 12

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...Messengers, and other Attendants. Scene, sometimes in Britain, sometimes in Italy. CYMBELINE. ACT I. SCENE I. Britain. The garden behind Cymbeline's palace. Enter Two Gentlemen. l Gen. You do not meet a man, but frowns: our bloods1 No more obey the heavens, than our courtiers Still seem, as does the king's. 2 Gen. But what's the matter? l Gen. His daughter, and the heir of his king dom, 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. 2 Gen. None but the king? 1 Inclination, natural disposition. l Gen. He, that hath lost her too: so is the queen, That most desired 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. 2 Gen. And why so? l Gen. He that hathmiss'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. 2 Gen. You speak him far.1 l Gen. I do extend him, sir, within himself; 2 Crush him together, rather than unfold His measure duly. 2 Gen. What's his name and birth? l Gen. I cannot delve him to the root. His father Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honor, Against the Romans, with Cassibelan; But had his titles by Tenantius,3 whom 1 You are lavish in your encomiums.. " My praise, however extensive, is within his merit. 3 The father of ...