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Act IIScene IBritain. Before Cymbeline’s palaceEnter Cloten and two LordsClotenWas there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on’t: and then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.First LordWhat got he by that? You have broke his pate with your bowl.Second LordAsideIf his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have run all out.ClotenWhen a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?Second LordNo my lord;Asidenor crop the ears of them.ClotenWhoreson dog! I give him satisfaction? Would he had been one of my rank!Second LordAsideTo have smelt like a fool.ClotenI am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a pox on’t! I had rather not be so noble as I am; they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that nobody can match.Second LordAsideYou are cock and capon too; and you crow, cock, with your comb on.ClotenSayest thou?Second LordIt is not fit your lordship should undertake every companion that you give offence to.ClotenNo, I know that: but it is fit I should commit offence to my inferiors.Second LordAy, it is fit for your lordship only.ClotenWhy, so I say.First LordDid you hear of a stranger that’s come to court to-night?ClotenA stranger, and I not know on’t!Second LordAsideHe’s a strange fellow himself, and knows it not.First LordThere’s an Italian come; and, ’tis thought, one of Leonatus’ friends.ClotenLeonatus! a banished rascal; and he’s another, whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?First LordOne of your lordship’s pages.ClotenIs it fit I went to look upon him? is there no derogation in’t?Second LordYou cannot derogate, my lord.ClotenNot easily, I think.Second LordAsideYou are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate.ClotenCome, I’ll go see this Italian: what I have lost to-day at bowls I’ll win to-night of him. Come, go.Second LordI’ll attend your lordship.Exeunt Cloten and First LordThat such a crafty devil as is his mother Should yield the world this ass! a woman that Bears all down with her brain; and this her son Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart, And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess, Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest, Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern’d, A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer More hateful than the foul expulsion is Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act Of the divorce he’ld make! The heavens hold firm The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand, To enjoy thy banish’d lord and this great land!Exit
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William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act I, Scene II
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- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
