The Stratford gallery; . y ! Oph. Heavenly powers, restore him ! Ham. I have heard of your paintings, too, wellenough; God hath given you one face, and you makeyourselves another; you jig, you amble, and you lisp,and nickname Gods creatures, and make your wanton-ness your ignorance: Go to, Ill no more oft; it hathmade me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages :those that are married already, all but one, shall live;the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go ! Oph. O, what a noble mind is here oerthrown!The courtiers, soldiers, scholars eye, tongue, sword,The expectancy a
The Stratford gallery; . y ! Oph. Heavenly powers, restore him ! Ham. I have heard of your paintings, too, wellenough; God hath given you one face, and you makeyourselves another; you jig, you amble, and you lisp,and nickname Gods creatures, and make your wanton-ness your ignorance: Go to, Ill no more oft; it hathmade me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages :those that are married already, all but one, shall live;the rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go ! Oph. O, what a noble mind is here oerthrown!The courtiers, soldiers, scholars eye, tongue, sword,The expectancy and rose of the fair state,The glass of fashion and the mould of form,The observed of all observers—quite, quite down !And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,That suckd the honey of his music vows,Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh—That unmatchd form and feature of blown youth,Blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me !To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!. IMOGEN. The princess Imogen, daughter of Cymbeline, King of Britain,had secretly married Posthunms, an orphan, who had been in amanner adopted by the king, and educated as his own , by his first queen, had three children—Imogen, and twosons, who were stolen in infancy by a revengeful courtier; hissecond queen had one son by a former marriage, named Cloten,for whom she employed every means to secure the hand of Imo-gen, sole heiress to the British throne. The discovery of Imogenssecret marriage frustrated these ambitious plans, and so incensedthe king, her father, that he banished Posthumus from the king-dom. Posthumus left with his bride, for their mutual service, hisfaithful gentleman Pisanio; and so they parted, after having ex-changed love-pledges—Imogen giving her husband a rare diamondring, and he bestowing in return a curious bracelet. Arrived in Rome, Posthumus fell in company with a party ofgay young fellows, who were descanting on the
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