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Title: Stories of Shakespeare's English history plays
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: d. 1929
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the forest, where, after turning his headtoward the east, they recite a funeral hymn. It isbarely finished when Belarius deposits the headlessbody of Cloten near that of the page, and the ladshasten off in quest of dainty flowers to strew overthe corpse of the lovely boy they have learned tolove so dearly. Shortly after they have gone, Imogen rouses fromher trance, under an impression of intense fatigue.Still half dazed by her drugged sleep, she gazesaround her, and is startled to behold a headlesstrunk by her side. Imagining this a delusion, shecloses her eyes, murmuring she thought she hadbeen living in a cave with honest men, whom sheserved. Then, reopening her eyes, and still con-fronted by the same corpse, she creeps toward it,only to discover it is wrapped in her husbands gar-ments! She therefore despairingly concludes Pos-thumus has been slain by Pisanio, who also triedto poison her, and falls over the headless trunk ina dead faint. A few moments later, the Roman ambassador ap-
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A Liezen-Mayer lach. O sleep, thou ape of death, he dull upon her •Cymbelme. Act 2, Scene 2 Pii :BRARY ; AND -.TIONS. Cymbeline \<) pears with his escort, talking over news just received,and consulting a soothsayer, who has observed omensof good luck. The ambassador, stumbling over Clo-tens corpse, discovers Fidele, who, on recovering hissenses, brokenly relates his master was slain by out-laws, and that his like will never be seen again.Touched by his sorrow, the ambassador offers tobefriend him,—a proposal Fidele gratefully accepts,after obtaining permission to bury his master,—theRoman meantime doing his best to comfort him bykindly assuring him some falls are means the hap-pier to arise. The curtain next rises in the palace, where Cym-beline is inquiring for the Queen, whose serious ill-ness he attributes solely to the disappearance of herson. After commenting upon the sorrows whichhave visited him of late, Cymbeline inquires whetherPisanio has discovered any trace of Imo

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