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Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace: a trunk in one corner of it.
[IMOGEN in bed, reading; a Lady attending]
IMOGEN
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Who's there?| My wom|an Helen?
LADY
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Please you,| madam.
IMOGEN
, Tx
What hour | is it?
LADY
T T , ,
Almost | midnight,| madam.
IMOGEN
2 ,
T T T ,
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I have read | three hours then:| mine eyes | are
weak:
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Fold^down | the leaf | where I | have left:| to
bed:
T T . T
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Take not away | the tap|er, leave it | burning;
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2 ,
And if | thou canst | awake | by four | of the
clock,
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I prith|ee call | me: Sleep | hath seized | me
whol||ly.
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To | your protec|tion I | commend | me, gods,
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From fair|ies, and | the temp|ters of | the night
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Guard me | beseech | ye. \\
[Sleeps. IACHIMO comes from the trunk]
IACHIMO
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The crick|ets sing,| and man's | ore-lab|ored
sense
,
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Repairs | itself | by rest:| our Tar|quin thus
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Did soft|ly press | the rush|es, ere | he
wa||kened
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The chast|ity | he woun|ded. Cyth|erea,
, , 2 ,
T T Tx
How brave/ly thou be|comst thy | bed; fresh lily,
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And whit|er than | the sheets:| that I | might
touch,
. T T T
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But kiss, one kiss.| Rubies | unpa|ragoned,
, x
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How dear|ly they / do it: 'Tis | her brea|thing
that
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Perfumes | the chamb|er thus:| the flame | of the
ta||per
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Bows | toward her,| and would und|er-peep | her
lids,
, 2 ,
T T T ,
To see | the enclosed | lights, now ca|nopied
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T T
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Under these | windows, white | and az|ure laced
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Tx T T ,
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With blue | of heaven's own tinct.| But my |
design,
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T
To note | the chamb|er, I will | write all down,
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Such, and such pic|tures: there | the wind|ow,
such
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The adorn|ment of her | bed; the | arras,|
figures, ??
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Why such | and such:| and the con|tents of the |
story.
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Ah, but some*| natural | notes a|bout her | body,
. T T T
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Above ten thous|and mean|er move|ables
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2 , ,
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Would tes|tify,| to enrich | mine in|ventory.
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T T T x
O sleep,| thou ape | of death, lie dull | upon
her,
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And be | her sense | but as | a mon|ument,
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Thus in a | chapel | lying.| Come^off,| come^off:
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As slip|pery as | the Gord|ian knot | was hard.
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'Tis mine,| and this | will wit|ness out|wardly,
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As strong|ly as | the con|science does | within:
2 ,
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To the mad|ding of | her lord.| On her / left
breast
. T T T
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A mole cinque-spot|ted, like | the crim|son drops
2 ,
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In the bot|tom of a / cowslip:| here's a |
voucher,
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Stronger than | ever | law could | make: this |
secret
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Will force | him think | I have picked | the
lock,| and tane
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The treas|ure of her | honor.| No* more:| To what
end?
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Why should | I write | this down,|
that's^riv|eted,
, 2
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Screwed to my | memory.| She hath | been read|ing
late,
,
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The tale | of Ter|eus, here | the leaf's |
turned^down
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Where Phi|lomel | gave^up.| I have | enough,
2 ,
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To the trunk | again,| and shut | the spring | of
it.
T T
T , 2
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Swift, swift, you | dragons | of the night,| that
dawn||ing
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May bare | the rav|en's eye:| I lodge | in fear,
, x
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Though* this | a heaven|ly ang|el: hell | is
here.
[Clock strikes]
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One,| two,| three:| time,| time.
[Goes into the trunk. The scene closes]