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Britain. Court before Cymbeline's Palace.
Enter CLOTEN, 1st LORD, and 2nd LORD.
Cloten Was there ever man had such luck! When I kissed the jack,
upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a hundred pound on't;
and then a whoreson jackanapes must take me up for
swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him, and might not
spend them at my pleasure.
1st Lord What got he by that? You have broke his pate with your
bowl.
2nd Lord [Aside.] If his wit has been like him that broke it, it
would have run all out.
Cloten When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any
standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?
2nd Lord No, my lord; [Aside.] nor crop the ears of them.
Cloten Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction? Would he had been
one of my rank!
2nd Lord [Aside.] To have smelled like a fool.
Cloten I am not vexed more at anything in th' earth. A pox on't! I
had rather not be so noble as I am: they dare not fight
with me because of the queen my mother. Every Jack-slave
hath his bellyful of fighting, and I must go up and down
like a cock that nobody can match.
2nd Lord [Aside.] You are cock, and capon too, an you crow 'Cock'
with your comb on.
Cloten Sayst thou?
2nd Lord It is not fit your lordship should undertake every
companion that you give offence to.
Cloten No, I know that; but it is fit I should commit offence to
my inferiors.
2nd Lord Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.
Cloten Why, so I say.
1st Lord Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court tonight?
Cloten A stranger, and I not know on't?
2nd Lord [Aside.] He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it not.
1st Lord There's an Italian come, and, 'tis thought, one of
Leonatus' friends.
Cloten Leonatus? A banished rascal; and he's another, whatsoever
he be. Who told you of this stranger?
1st Lord One of your lordship's pages.
Cloten Is it fit I went to look upon him? Is there no derogation
in't?
2nd Lord You cannot derogate, my lord.
Cloten Not easily, I think.
2nd Lord [Aside.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues,
being foolish, do not derogate.
Cloten Come, I'll go see this Italian. What I have lost today at
bowls I'll win tonight of him. Come, go.
2nd Lord I'll attend your lordship.
[Exeunt CLOTEN and 1st LORD.
That such a crafty devil as is his mother
Should yield the world this ass! - a woman that
Bears all down with her brain, and this her son
Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,
And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,
Thou divine Innogen, what thou endur'st,
Betwixt a father by thy stepdame governed,
A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer
More hateful than the foul expulsion is
Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act
Of the divorce he'd make! The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honour; keep unshaked
That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand
T' enjoy thy banished lord, and this great land!
[Exit.