C. AND A. CONRAD & CO. PHILADELPHIA; CONRAD, PERSONS REPRESENTED. Cymbeline, king of Britain. Cloten, son to the queen by a former husband. Leonatus Posthumus, a gentleman, husband to Imogen. Belarius, a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan. Guiderius, sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the names of Polydore and Cadwal, supposed sons to Belarius. Arviragus, Philario, friend to Posthumus, Italians. A French gentleman, friend to Philario. Cornelius, a physician. Two gentlemen. Two gaolers. Queen, wife to Cymbeline. Imogen, daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen. Lords, ladies, Roman senators, tribunes, apparitions, a soothsayer, a Dutch gentleman, a Spanish gentleman, musicians, officers, captains, soldiers, messengers, and other attendants. SCENE, Sometimes in Britain; sometimes in Italy. ACT I.....SCENE I. Britain. The Garden behind Cymbeline's Palace. Enter Two Gentlemen.. 1 1 Gent. You do not meet a man, but frowns: our bloods No more obey the heavens, than our courtiers; 2 Gent. But what 's the matter? 1 Gent. His daughter, and the heir of his kingdom, whom He purpos'd to his wife's sole son, (a widow, Is outward sorrow; though, I think, the king 2 Gent. None but the king? 1 Gent. He, that hath lost her, too: so is the queen, That most desir'd 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 2 Gent. And why so? 1 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. 2 Gent. You speak him far. 1. Gent. I do extend him, sir, within himself; |