Cymbeline: ACT II
Introduction ACT I ACT II SCENE I. Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace. SCENE II. Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace: a trunk in one corner of it. Scene III An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments. SCENE IV. Rome. Philario's house. SCENE V. Another room in Philario's house. ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE V. Another room in Philario's house. Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS POSTHUMUS LEONATUS       Is there no way for men to be but women       Must be half-workers? We are all bastards;       And that most venerable man which I       Did call my father, was I know not where 5     When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools       Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd       The Dian of that time so doth my wife       The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!       Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd 10    And pray'd me oft forbearance; did it with       A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't       Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her       As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!       This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?-- 15    Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,       Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,       Cried 'O!' and mounted; found no opposition       But what he look'd for should oppose and she       Should from encounter guard. Could I find out 20    The woman's part in me! For there's no motion       That tends to vice in man, but I affirm       It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,       The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;       Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers; 25    Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,       Nice longing, slanders, mutability,       All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,       Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;       For even to vice 30    They are not constant but are changing still       One vice, but of a minute old, for one       Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,       Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill       In a true hate, to pray they have their will: 35    The very devils cannot plague them better. Exit Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene