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CYMBELINE.

TRAGEDY.

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CYMBELINE, King of Britain.

Cloten, Son to the Queen by a former husband.
Leonatus Pofthumus, a gentleman in love with the
Princefs, and privately married to her.

Guiderius, Difguis'd under the names of Polidore and
Arviragus,Cadwal, supposed fons to Bellarius.
Bellarius, a banish'd Lord, difguis'd under the name of
Morgan.

Philario, an Italian, Friend to Pofthumus.
Iachimo, Friend to Philario.

Caius Lucius, Ambassador from Rome.
Pifanio, Servant to Pofthumus.

A French gentleman, friend to Philario.
Cornelius, a Doctor, Servant to the Queen."
Two Gentlemen.

Queen, Wife to Cymbeline.

Imogen, Daughter to Cymbeline by a former Queen.
Helen, Woman to Imogen.

Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes, Ghofts, a Soothsayer, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers, and other attendants.

SCENE, for fome part of the firft, fecond, and third Acts, lyes in Rome; for the reft of the Play in Britain.

Story partly taken from Boccace's Decameron, day 2. nov. 9, little befides the names being biftorical.

CYMBELINE.

ACTI. SCENE I.

CYMBELINE's Palace in Britain.

Enter two Gentlemen.

I GENTLEMAN.

OU do not meet a man but frowns. Our bloods

No more obey the heavens than our courtiers ;

But feem as do's the king's.

2 Gent. But what's the matter?

1 Gent. His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom (whom

He purpos'd to his wife's fole fon, a widow
That late he married) hath referr'd her felf
Unto a poor, but worthy gentleman.
She's wedded.

Her husband banifh'd; fhe imprifon'd. All
Is outward forrow, though I think the king
Be touch'd at very heart,

2 Gent. None but the king?

Gent. He that hath loft her too: fo is the queen,

A 3

That