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4,253 | 2759_chapter_32:_captive_and_jailers | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The governor prepares to receive his guests. Athos asks D'Artagnan for an explanation when they have a moment of privacy. D'Artagnan explains that they attached because they thought the two visitors were in collusion with the prisoner. Athos reveals that he knows the deal regarding the prisoner. D'Artagnan is upset tha... | [
"Chapter XXXII. Captive and Jailers.",
"When they had entered the fort, and whilst the governor was making some\npreparations for the reception of his guests, \"Come,\" said Athos, \"let\nus have a word of explanation whilst we are alone.\"",
"\"It is simply this,\" replied the musketeer. \"I have conducted hit... |
4,254 | 2759_chapter_33:_promises | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan receives a letter from the King ordering him back to Paris. The three men leave the isle together, as Raoul and Athos must return to military responsibilities. D'Artagnan bids his friends good-bye, but within moments is back. He embraces the two men for a long time without saying anything, then leaves. Athos... | [
"Chapter XXXIII. Promises.",
"Scarcely had D'Artagnan re-entered his apartment with his two friends,\nwhen one of the soldiers of the fort came to inform him that the\ngovernor was seeking him. The bark which Raoul had perceived at sea, and\nwhich appeared so eager to gain the port, came to Sainte-Marguerite with... |
4,255 | 2759_chapter_34:_among_women | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan rides to Paris as quickly as possible. When he arrives, the King is hunting. D'Artagnan spends five hours getting up to speed on all the latest news at court. Some of the most important bits include: Madame is ill, de Guiche is out of town, Colbert is happy, and Fouquet is really ill. Apparently the King has... | [
"Chapter XXXIV. Among Women.",
"D'Artagnan had not been able to hide his feelings from his friends\nso much as he would have wished. The stoical soldier, the impassive\nman-at-arms, overcome by fear and sad presentiments, had yielded, for\na few moments, to human weakness. When, therefore, he had silenced\nhis he... |
4,256 | 2759_chapter_35:_the_last_supper | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fouquet is giving a farewell supper. D'Artagnan has some difficulty being received, but eventually he gains entrance to the dining room, where all the Epicureans are assembled with Fouquet. They have remained loyal to their patron. Everyone is scared to see D'Artagnan, convinced he has come to arrest Fouquet. D'Artagna... | [
"Chapter XXXV. The Last Supper.",
"The superintendent had no doubt received advice of the approaching\ndeparture, for he was giving a farewell dinner to his friends. From\nthe bottom to the top of the house, the hurry of the servants bearing\ndishes, and the diligence of the _registres_, denoted an approaching\nc... |
4,257 | 2759_chapter_36:_in_the_carriage_of_m._colbert | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan is riding at the head of all the assembled Musketeers when he spies Colbert getting into a carriage occupied by two women. D'Artagnan is curious as to the women's identity and so runs his horse right next to the carriage to frighten them. They are revealed as Madame Vanel and Madame de Chevreuse. We learn th... | [
"Chapter XXXVI. In M. Colbert's Carriage.",
"As Gourville had seen, the king's musketeers were mounting and following their captain. The latter, who did not like to be confined in his proceedings, left his brigade under the orders of a lieutenant, and set off on post horses, recommending his men to use all dilige... |
4,258 | 2759_chapter_37:_the_two_lighters | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fouquet travels rapidly to Orleans, convinced that he is not being pursued. At Orleans, he hires a boat with eight rowers to take him down the Loire River. Fouquet hopes to be the first dignitary at Nantes. The rowers let out an exclamation, for behind them, and rapidly gaining ground, is a boat with twelve rowers. Fou... | [
"Chapter XXXVII. The Two Lighters.",
"D'Artagnan had set off; Fouquet likewise was gone, and with a rapidity\nwhich doubled the tender interest of his friends. The first moments of\nthis journey, or better say, this flight, were troubled by a ceaseless\ndread of every horse and carriage to be seen behind the fugi... |
4,259 | 2759_chapter_38:_friendly_advice | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fouquet is not well. When D'Artagnan shows up at his door, he asks if it is now time for the arrest. D'Artagnan reassures Fouquet and tells him that when the time comes, he will announce his intentions loudly. Fouquet compliments D'Artagnan on his intelligence and heart. He then tells the captain about the race between... | [
"Chapter XXXVIII. Friendly Advice.",
"Fouquet had gone to bed, like a man who clings to life, and wishes to\neconomize, as much as possible, that slender tissue of existence, of\nwhich the shocks and frictions of this world so quickly wear out the\ntenuity. D'Artagnan appeared at the door of this chamber, and was... |
4,260 | 2759_chapter_39:_how_king_louis_xiv_played_his_little_part | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Fouquet accompanies D'Artagnan to see the King, a man shoves a piece of paper in his hand. While D'Artagnan is talking with the King, Fouquet reads the letter. In Gourville's handwriting, the letter informs Fouquet that a white horse is ready to bear him to safety. The Fouquet destroys the note. Fouquet goes in to s... | [
"Chapter XXXIX. How the King, Louis XIV., Played His Little Part.",
"As Fouquet was alighting from his carriage, to enter the castle of\nNantes, a man of mean appearance went up to him with marks of the\ngreatest respect, and gave him a letter. D'Artagnan endeavored to\nprevent this man from speaking to Fouquet, ... |
4,261 | 2759_chapter_40:_the_white_horse_and_the_black_horse | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan suspects something is going on, and investigates. As he walks down a staircase, D'Artagnan spots a white horse in the distance traveling at a very fast speed. D'Artagnan thinks nothing of this fact until he comes across fragments of the note Fouquet was reading. D'Artagnan recognizes Gourville's handwriting ... | [
"Chapter XL: The White Horse and the Black.",
"\"That is rather surprising,\" said D'Artagnan; \"Gourville running about\nthe streets so gayly, when he is almost certain that M. Fouquet is in\ndanger; when it is almost equally certain that it was Gourville who\nwarned M. Fouquet just now by the note which was tor... |
4,262 | 2759_chapter_41:_in_which_the_squirrel_falls_in_which_the_adder_flies | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is two o'clock in the afternoon and the King is anxious about D'Artagnan's whereabouts. The King questions Colbert, who has no idea where the captain is. Eventually D'Artagnan himself walks into the room. He is in a bad mood. Somebody has ordered the Musketeers to search Fouquet's home. D'Artagnan is adamant that on... | [
"Chapter XLI. In Which the Squirrel Falls,--the Adder Flies.",
"It was two o'clock in the afternoon. The king, full of impatience,\nwent to his cabinet on the terrace, and kept opening the door of the\ncorridor, to see what his secretaries were doing. M. Colbert, seated in\nthe same place M. de Saint-Aignan had s... |
4,263 | 2759_chapter_42:_belle_isle_en_mer | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We return to Belle-Isle where Aramis and Porthos are walking around the island, and discussing the curious disappearance of all the fishing boats. Much to Aramis's chagrin, Porthos reveals that he sent the only two remaining fishing boats out to look for the others. Porthos confesses that he is unhappy at Belle-Isle an... | [
"Chapter XLII. Belle-Ile-en-Mer.",
"At the extremity of the mole, against which the furious sea beats at the\nevening tide, two men, holding each other by the arm, were conversing\nin an animated and expansive tone, without the possibility of any other\nhuman being hearing their words, borne away, as they were, o... |
4,264 | 2759_chapter_43:_the_explanations_of_aramis | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis admits he deceived Porthos. Porthos asks if it was for his own good. When Aramis answers in the affirmative, Porthos is grateful. Aramis explains that, rather than supporting the real king, he has been working for the false king, and that Aramis and Porthos are to be considered rebels against the crown. Porthos ... | [
"Chapter XLIII. Explanations by Aramis.",
"\"What I have to say to you, friend Porthos, will probably surprise you,\nbut it may prove instructive.\"",
"\"I like to be surprised,\" said Porthos, in a kindly tone; \"do not spare\nme, therefore, I beg. I am hardened against emotions; don't fear, speak\nout.\"",
... |
4,265 | 2759_chapter_44:_result_of_the_ideas_of_the_king_and_the_ideas_of_d'artagnan | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan is furious that the King has anticipated him. He decides to go with the fallback plan. D'Artagnan announces his intention to resign, and says that the fleet must return to Nantes with him. With the blockade raised, his friends will have time to escape. When he asks if anyone objects to this plan, an officer ... | [
"Chapter XLIV. Result of the Ideas of the King, and the Ideas of",
"D'Artagnan.",
"The blow was direct. It was severe, mortal. D'Artagnan, furious at\nhaving been anticipated by an idea of the king's, did not despair,\nhowever, even yet; and reflecting upon the idea he had brought back from\nBelle-Isle, he elic... |
4,266 | 2759_chapter_45:_the_ancestors_of_porthos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis relates D'Artagnan's plan to Porthos. Aramis tells Porthos that if there is only time for one of them to escape, Porthos should go. Porthos refuses. He tells Aramis that they will either escape together or remain together. Aramis asks for the cause of Porthos's gloom. Porthos says he is drawing up his will. He t... | [
"Chapter XLV. The Ancestors of Porthos.",
"When D'Artagnan left Aramis and Porthos, the latter returned to the\nprincipal fort, in order to converse with greater liberty. Porthos,\nstill thoughtful, was a restraint on Aramis, whose mind had never felt\nitself more free.",
"\"Dear Porthos,\" said he, suddenly, \... |
4,267 | 2759_chapter_46:_the_son_of_biscarrat | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis and Porthos hope to question their prisoner and learn of their enemy's plans. Porthos suggests inviting the man to supper and giving him lots of alcohol. The prisoner is nervous at first as he tells them that the plan is for killing during the fighting, and, if taken alive, for a hanging afterwards. By the sixth... | [
"Chapter XLVI. The Son of Biscarrat.",
"The Bretons of the Isle were very proud of this victory; Aramis did not\nencourage them in the feeling.",
"\"What will happen,\" said he to Porthos, when everybody was gone home,\n\"will be that the anger of the king will be roused by the account of the\nresistance; and t... |
4,268 | 2759_chapter_47:_the_grotto_of_locmaria | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis and Porthos proceed carefully to Locmaria. They expect to find three servants there to help them. Porthos's legs go weak again at the entrance to the grotto. Aramis enters the grotto and gives a pre-arranged signal. Porthos descends as Aramis examines the canoe, which is well-stocked with firepower. The servants... | [
"Chapter XLVII. The Grotto of Locmaria.",
"The cavern of Locmaria was sufficiently distant from the mole to render\nit necessary for our friends to husband their strength in order to\nreach it. Besides, night was advancing; midnight had struck at the fort.\nPorthos and Aramis were loaded with money and arms. They... |
4,269 | 2759_chapter_48:_the_grotto | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Biscarrat and his companions halt in front of the grotto. They are certain that the dogs have gone in, but are suspicious that they do not hear them. Each of the men calls for the dogs, but get no answer. Biscarrat tells the men that he will go investigate the grotto. He goes alone, saying there is no point in more tha... | [
"Chapter XLVIII. The Grotto.",
"In spite of the sort of divination which was the remarkable side of\nthe character of Aramis, the event, subject to the risks of things over\nwhich uncertainty presides, did not fall out exactly as the bishop of\nVannes had foreseen. Biscarrat, better mounted than his companions,\n... |
4,270 | 2759_chapter_49:_a_homeric_song | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As for the defenders, they have begun to move out their boat. They cannot escape while the attack occurs Porthos suggests that he hide behind a pillar with a iron bar that he can use to bash in their heads. Aramis says it's a great idea, but points out that they need a weapon that will take out dozens at once. Twenty-f... | [
"Chapter XLIX. An Homeric Song.",
"It is time to pass to the other camp, and to describe at once the\ncombatants and the field of battle. Aramis and Porthos had gone to the\ngrotto of Locmaria with the expectation of finding there their canoe\nready armed, as well as the three Bretons, their assistants; and they\... |
4,271 | 2759_chapter_50:_the_death_of_a_titan | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis leads Porthos into another compartment of the cavern and shows him a seventy to eighty pound barrel of powder attached to a fuse. Porthos is to wait until all the men are together, and then hurl the barrel in their direction. Aramis prepares the boat for departure. They light the barrel. Aramis leaves. As the fu... | [
"Chapter L: The Death of a Titan.",
"At the moment when Porthos, more accustomed to the darkness than these\nmen, coming from open daylight, was looking round him to see if through\nthis artificial midnight Aramis were not making him some signal, he felt\nhis arm gently touched, and a voice low as a breath murmur... |
4,272 | 2759_chapter_51:_the_epitaph_of_porthos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aramis stands and goes to the boat, supported by the three servants. He is full of grief. The narrator delivers a touching obituary. The men row towards Spain as Aramis sinks into a silent, immovable grief. The men soon realize they are being chased, but do not disturb their master until an hour has past. Aramis does n... | [
"Chapter LI. Porthos's Epitaph.",
"Aramis, silent and sad as ice, trembling like a timid child, arose\nshivering from the stone. A Christian does not walk on tombs. But,\nthough capable of standing, he was not capable of walking. It might\nbe said that something of dead Porthos had just died within him. His\nBret... |
4,273 | 2759_chapter_52:_the_round_of_m._de_gesvres | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan is deeply upset when he returns to Nantes and seeks a meeting with the King straightaway. M. de Gesvres tells him that the King does not want to be disturbed. Used to having free access to the King and his quarters, D'Artagnan is angry . Worried about his friends, he decides to seek out Colbert. He learns th... | [
"Chapter LII. M. de Gesvres's Round.",
"D'Artagnan was little used to resistance like that he had just\nexperienced. He returned, profoundly irritated, to Nantes. Irritation,\nwith this vigorous man, usually vented itself in impetuous attack, which\nfew people, hitherto, were they king, were they giants, had been... |
4,274 | 2759_chapter_53:_king_louis_xiv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When D'Artagnan walks into the King's chamber, the King has his back to the door and is busy going through some papers. Finally, the King calls out, asking for D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan announces himself. He is clearly in an obstinate mood. The King asks D'Artagnan what his orders were with respect to Belle-Isle. D'Artagn... | [
"Chapter LIII. King Louis XIV.",
"The king was seated in his cabinet, with his back turned towards the\ndoor of entrance. In front of him was a mirror, in which, while turning\nover his papers, he could see at a glance those who came in. He did\nnot take any notice of the entrance of D'Artagnan, but spread above ... |
4,275 | 2759_chapter_54:_the_friends_of_m._fouquet | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | D'Artagnan arrives back in Paris after going to Belle-Isle and discovering no trace of his friends. He knows only that they killed a lot of men. Once the King is settled in Paris, D'Artagnan shows up with a sad face. He has learned of Porthos's death. The King admits he knew. D'Artagnan asks why he was not informed. Th... | [
"Chapter LIV. M. Fouquet's Friends.",
"The king had returned to Paris, and with him D'Artagnan, who, in\ntwenty-four hours, having made with greatest care all possible inquiries\nat Belle-Isle, succeeded in learning nothing of the secret so well kept\nby the heavy rock of Locmaria, which had fallen on the heroic ... |
4,276 | 2759_chapter_55:_porthos's_will | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pierrefonds has been prepared for his funeral. Mousqueton, , has lost plenty of weight in two days; his clothes hang on his frame. Various friends arrive to hear the reading of the will. D'Artagnan arrives right as the reading is about to begin. He hugs Mousqueton and nods to the guests. Porthos's will first details al... | [
"Chapter LV. Porthos's Will.",
"At Pierrefonds everything was in mourning. The courts were deserted--the\nstables closed--the parterres neglected. In the basins, the fountains,\nformerly so jubilantly fresh and noisy, had stopped of themselves. Along\nthe roads around the chateau came a few grave personages mount... |
4,277 | 2759_chapter_56:_the_old_age_of_athos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back on his own estate, Athos has been preparing for his death. Since his son is gone, Athos has no incentive to lead a good example. He slowly begins sleeping in and cutting back on all his exercises. He stops speaking. He tries writing to his friends, but his letters go unanswered. Finally, his servants get so worrie... | [
"Chapter LVI. The Old Age of Athos.",
"While these affairs were separating forever the four musketeers,\nformerly bound together in a manner that seemed indissoluble, Athos,\nleft alone after the departure of Raoul, began to pay his tribute to\nthat foretaste of death which is called the absence of those we love.... |
4,278 | 2759_chapter_57:_the_vision_of_athos | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Athos gets out of bed, determined to get in touch with D'Artagnan and take a trip to Belle-Isle to pay his last respects to Porthos's resting place. As soon as he is ready to go, however, he loses all his strength and is obliged to rest. Every time he tries to leave, he is overtaken by fatigue. Clearly, he is not suppo... | [
"Chapter LVII. Athos's Vision.",
"When this fainting of Athos had ceased, the comte, almost ashamed of\nhaving given way before this superior natural event, dressed himself\nand ordered his horse, determined to ride to Blois, to open more certain\ncorrespondences with either Africa, D'Artagnan, or Aramis. In fact... |
4,279 | 2759_chapter_58:_the_angel_of_death | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The vision is interrupted by a loud noise. A man on horseback has arrived and is now ascending the stairs. It is Grimaud. Athos asks if Raoul is dead. Grimaud answers in the affirmative. Athos raises his eyes to heaven, imagining that he is once again on the hill, watching his son ascend into heaven. He says, "Here I a... | [
"Chapter LVIII. The Angel of Death.",
"Athos was at this part of his marvelous vision, when the charm was\nsuddenly broken by a great noise rising from the outer gates. A horse\nwas heard galloping over the hard gravel of the great alley, and the\nsound of noisy and animated conversations ascended to the chamber ... |
4,280 | 2759_chapter_59:_the_bulletin | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We get a copy of the letter Beaufort wrote to Athos . Beaufort writes that Raoul died gloriously, and encloses a report of the death. It goes like this: The attack started in the morning. As per instructions, Raoul stayed close to Beaufort. When a task that would expose him to heavy fire needed completion, Raoul volunt... | [
"Chapter LIX. The Bulletin.",
"The Duc de Beaufort wrote to Athos. The letter destined for the living\nonly reached the dead. God had changed the address.",
"\"MY DEAR COMTE,\" wrote the prince, in his large, school-boy's hand,--\"a\ngreat misfortune has struck us amidst a great triumph. The king\nloses one of ... |
4,281 | 2759_chapter_60:_the_last_canto_of_the_poem | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next day, all the nobility arrives to pay their last respects. D'Artagnan keeps to himself. He helps prepare for the funeral and writes to the King, requesting a longer leave of absence. The bodies of father and son are laid out in the front hall. Grimuad brought Raoul's body back with him . Athos and Raoul are bur... | [
"Chapter LX. The Last Canto of the Poem.",
"On the morrow, all the _noblesse_ of the provinces, of the environs, and\nwherever messengers had carried the news, might have been seen arriving\nin detachments. D'Artagnan had shut himself up, without being willing\nto speak to anybody. Two such heavy deaths falling u... |
4,282 | 1799_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the beginning of Act One, two gentlemen fill the audience in on the play's back-story. It seems that there has been a falling-out between the King of England, Cymbeline, and his daughter, Imogen, who has married Posthumus Leonatus without the King's consent. Indeed, Cymbeline had intended Imogen, who is his only rem... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nBritain. The garden of CYMBELINE'S palace",
"FIRST GENTLEMAN. You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King's. SECOND GENTLEMAN. But what's the matter? FIRST GENTLEMAN. His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom He purpos'... |
4,283 | 1799_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten' second short scene - in which, once again, he demonstrates his buffoonery - opens Act Two, after which we are shown Imogen in her bedchamber, preparing for sleep. She says goodnight to her Lady-in-Waiting, then, after she has fallen fast asleep, Iachimo climbs out of the trunk that she agreed to keep in her roo... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nBritain. Before CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CLOTEN and the two LORDS",
"CLOTEN. Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss'd 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... |
4,284 | 1799_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cymbeline and the Queen, who were informed of Caius Lucius's presence in Act Two, begin Act Three by meeting with the Roman ambassador. Lucius informs them that Rome is demanding an annual tribute of three thousand pounds, which the empire has levied ever since conquering Cymbeline's uncle, Cassibelan. Cymbeline tells ... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.\nBritain. A hall in CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, and LORDS at one door,\nand at another CAIUS LUCIUS and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us? LUCIUS. When Julius Caesar- whose remembrance yet\n Lives in men's eyes, and wil... |
4,285 | 1799_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten, having arrived in Wales, prepares to execute his ghastly plan against Posthumus and Imogen, while Belarius and his supposed sons leave an ailing Imogen for the hunt. As they part, Imogen, Guiderius, and Arvigarus declare an inscrutable love for one another; they sense the deep bond of their royal siblinghood, t... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.\nWales. Near the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter CLOTEN alone",
"CLOTEN. I am near to th' place where they should meet, if\nPisanio\n have mapp'd it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why\nshould\n his mistress, who was made by him that made the tailor, not\nbe\n fit too? The rather- sav... |
4,286 | 1799_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After two Acts where he has been absent, Posthumus finally reappears. He is thoroughly repentant of his decision to order Imogen to be killed, though he still believes her to be guilty, and is determined to atone for his murder by fighting on the side of the British in the coming conflict. He abandons his Italian garb,... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nBritain. The Roman camp",
"Enter POSTHUMUS alone, with a bloody handkerchief",
"POSTHUMUS. Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I wish'd\n Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,\n If each of you should take this course, how many\n Must murder wives much better than themse... |
4,287 | 1799_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens in the garden of King Cymbeline's palace in Britain. Two gentleman of the court enter, talking animatedly of the happenings over the past few days. From their conversation, the reader learns that Cymbeline is very unhappy with his daughter, Imogen, who had married a man against her father's wishes. Imog... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nBritain. The garden of CYMBELINE'S palace",
"FIRST GENTLEMAN. You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King's. SECOND GENTLEMAN. But what's the matter? FIRST GENTLEMAN. His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom He purpos'... |
4,288 | 1799_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten, the Queen's son by a former marriage, enters with two lords. His shirt is torn and bloody after his confrontation with Posthumus, and one of the lords advises him to change it. Cloten is more interested in inquiring if Posthumus has been injured. To Cloten's various questions, the First Lord gives placating, fa... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. A public place",
"Enter CLOTEN and two LORDS",
"FIRST LORD. Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the\nviolence\n of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes\nout,\n air comes in; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you\nvent. CLOTEN. If my shirt were bloody,... |
4,289 | 1799_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Imogen is burdened with the grief due to her separation from Posthumus. She enters with Pisanio, the servant of Posthumus, and declares that if she were in Pisanio's place, she would wait at the shore hoping that each ship that arrived would bring news of her husband. She questions him over and over again regarding Pos... | [
"SCENE III.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO",
"IMOGEN. I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' th' haven, And questioned'st every sail; if he should write, And I not have it, 'twere a paper lost, As offer'd mercy is. What was the last That he spake to thee? PISANIO. It was: his queen, h... |
4,290 | 1799_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The setting is Rome where a group of men are gathered in Philario's house: Philario, Iachimo, and a Frenchman, a Dutchman and a Spaniard. They are talking about Posthumus, who is to arrive there as the guest of Philario because he has been banished from his homeland. Iachimo maintains that he has seen Posthumus once in... | [
"SCENE IV.\nRome. PHILARIO'S house",
"Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a FRENCHMAN, a DUTCHMAN, and a SPANIARD",
"IACHIMO. Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him without the h... |
4,291 | 1799_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts back to Britain to Cymbeline's palace. The Queen is closeted with her ladies when Cornelius, the physician, enters. The Queen sends her ladies to gather flowers while she talks to Cornelius. The physician is apprehensive about giving her the box he has brought with him as it contains deadly and poisono... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter QUEEN, LADIES, and CORNELIUS",
"QUEEN. Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;\n Make haste; who has the note of them? LADY. I, madam. QUEEN. Dispatch. Exeunt LADIES\n Now, Master Doctor, have you brought those drugs? CORNELIUS. Pleaseth your H... |
4,292 | 1799_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Imogen ruminates on her fate: a cruel father who is opposed to her love; a stepmother who is cunning and double-faced; a foolish suitor, Cloten, who does not think it improper to woo a married woman. She wonders if she is actually luckier than the brothers who were stolen as babies, for she feels sure that they must be... | [
"SCENE VI.\nBritain. The palace",
"Enter IMOGEN alone",
"IMOGEN. A father cruel and a step-dame false;\n A foolish suitor to a wedded lady\n That hath her husband banish'd. O, that husband!\n My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated\n Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,\n As my two bro... |
4,293 | 1799_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten enters with his two lords, complaining about losing money in gambling. He has been embroiled in a fight with someone and feels that he is entitled to swear and quarrel with his inferiors, by rank of his position. As in the earlier scene, the First Lord is obsequious while the Second Lord, in a series of asides, ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nBritain. Before CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CLOTEN and the two LORDS",
"CLOTEN. Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss'd 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... |
4,294 | 1799_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Imogen is lying in bed, reading. In one corner of the room is placed the trunk that Iachimo has requested her to keep for the night. As the scene opens, Imogen bids her lady attendant to put away the book she has been reading, as it is nearly midnight. However, she asks the woman to leave the taper burning while she sl... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. IMOGEN'S bedchamber in CYMBELINE'S palace; a trunk in\none corner",
"Enter IMOGEN in her bed, and a LADY attending",
"IMOGEN. Who's there? My woman? Helen? LADY. Please you, madam. IMOGEN. What hour is it? LADY. Almost midnight, madam. IMOGEN. I have read three hours then. Mine eyes are wea... |
4,295 | 1799_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten and his lords enter an antechamber adjoining Imogen's rooms. Cloten has decided to woo the princess with music and has arranged for musicians to play before her door while he serenades her with a song. He hopes that his efforts will pay off and that Imogen will accept him. Meanwhile, the King and Queen enter, an... | [
"SCENE III.\nCYMBELINE'S palace. An ante-chamber adjoining IMOGEN'S apartments",
"Enter CLOTEN and LORDS",
"FIRST LORD. Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the\nmost\n coldest that ever turn'd up ace.\n CLOTEN. It would make any man cold to lose.\n FIRST LORD. But not every man patient after the... |
4,296 | 1799_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts again to Rome to Philario's house where Posthumus is engaged in a conversation with Philario. Posthumus is sure that he will win the wager as he has great faith in his lady. In reply to Philario's questions about Cymbeline, he has nothing to say except to wait for time to heal all wounds. They talk of ... | [
"SCENE IV.\nRome. PHILARIO'S house",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO",
"POSTHUMUS. Fear it not, sir; I would I were so sure\n To win the King as I am bold her honour\n Will remain hers. PHILARIO. What means do you make to him? POSTHUMUS. Not any; but abide the change of time,\n Quake in the present winte... |
4,297 | 1799_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Posthumus, angry and distraught, rages against his wife and women in general in a soliloquy. He is now inclined to believe the worst about women, to the extent of doubting his own parentage and questioning his mother's own fidelity. He cannot understand how Imogen, who had restrained him from his "lawful pleasure" shou... | [
"SCENE V.\nRome. Another room in PHILARIO'S house",
"Enter POSTHUMUS",
"POSTHUMUS. Is there no way for men to be, but women\n Must be half-workers? We are all bastards,\n And that most venerable man which I\n Did call my father was I know not where\n When I was stamp'd. Some coiner with his tools\n ... |
4,298 | 1799_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The political situation arising out of Cymbeline's refusal to pay tribute to Augustus Caesar is dramatized in this scene. When Caius Lucius, on behalf of the Roman Emperor, reminds Cymbeline of the events leading to the payment of the annual tribute of three thousand pounds which Cymbeline has neglected to pay, the Que... | [
"ACT III. SCENE I.\nBritain. A hall in CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, and LORDS at one door,\nand at another CAIUS LUCIUS and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us? LUCIUS. When Julius Caesar- whose remembrance yet\n Lives in men's eyes, and wil... |
4,299 | 1799_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pisanio is astonished at the letter he has received from his master, accusing Imogen of adultery. He knows the power and strength of her love and chastity, and wonders who has poisoned his master's mind. Posthumus has written that Pisanio should kill Imogen, and that Posthumus himself, in his letter to Imogen, had prov... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. Another room in CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter PISANIO reading of a letter",
"PISANIO. How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not\n What monsters her accuse? Leonatus! O master, what a strange infection\n Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian-\n As poisonous-tongu'd as handed- hat... |
4,300 | 1799_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | From a cave in the mountainous Welsh countryside enters Belarius followed by his sons Guiderius and Arviragus. It is a fine morning, and Belarius exhorts his sons not to sit inside the cave, but to enjoy the wonderful weather. They plan to go hunting as usual with the brothers climbing the hill while Belarius tries to ... | [
"SCENE III.\nWales. A mountainous country with a cave",
"Enter from the cave BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS",
"BELARIUS. A goodly day not to keep house with such\n Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate\n Instructs you how t' adore the heavens, and bows you\n To a morning's holy office... |
4,301 | 1799_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pisanio and Imogen are nearing the coastal town of Milford-Haven on the coast of Pembrokeshire in South Wales. They have been traveling for a considerable time and Imogen asks Pisanio how much longer it will take to reach their destination. She notices that Pisanio looks troubled and unhappy, and insists on knowing the... | [
"SCENE IV.\nWales, near Milford Haven",
"Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN",
"IMOGEN. Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place Was near at hand. Ne'er long'd my mother so To see me first as I have now. Pisanio! Man! Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh... |
4,302 | 1799_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts once again to the palace of Cymbeline where King Cymbeline, the Queen, Cloten, and attendants enter along with Lucius, the Roman messenger. Cymbeline treats Lucius with great courtesy and warmth even as he reiterates his decision not to pay the tribute to Caesar. He vouchsafes a safe journey to Milford... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS, and LORDS",
"CYMBELINE. Thus far; and so farewell. LUCIUS. Thanks, royal sir. My emperor hath wrote; I must from hence, And am right sorry that I must report ye My master's enemy. CYMBELINE. Our subjects, sir, Will not endure his ... |
4,303 | 1799_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enroute to Milford-Haven, Imogen loses her way and arrives before the cave of Belarius. She is hungry and tired but also frightened of what she might find in the cave. So she draws her sword and enters but finds the cave empty. A little later Belarius and the brothers Guiderius and Arviragus enter, with the day's hunt.... | [
"SCENE VI.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter IMOGEN alone, in boy's clothes",
"IMOGEN. I see a man's life is a tedious one. I have tir'd myself, and for two nights together Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick But that my resolution helps me. Milford, When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'... |
4,304 | 1799_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This short scene, set in Rome, shows the preparations being taken for the war against Britain. Two Senators and two Tribunes discuss the declaration of war and their roles in it. Since the commoners or volunteers were away fighting wars of rebellion elsewhere, and since the forces in Gallia were too weak to take Britai... | [
"SCENE VII.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter two ROMAN SENATORS and TRIBUNES",
"FIRST SENATOR. This is the tenour of the Emperor's writ:\n That since the common men are now in action\n 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,\n And that the legions now in Gallia are\n Full weak to undertake our wars aga... |
4,305 | 1799_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dressed in a garment belonging to Posthumus, Cloten arrives near the cave of Belarius, thinking it is the place where Imogen is to meet Posthumus. He thinks that since Posthumus's clothes fit him well, so Imogen would suit him, also. He cannot comprehend how she could reject him and choose Posthumus when all the advant... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.\nWales. Near the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter CLOTEN alone",
"CLOTEN. I am near to th' place where they should meet, if\nPisanio\n have mapp'd it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why\nshould\n his mistress, who was made by him that made the tailor, not\nbe\n fit too? The rather- sav... |
4,306 | 1799_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Belarius and his sons Guiderius and Arviragus emerge from the cave, followed by Imogen in her boy's clothes. She is ill, and the others tell her to rest while they go hunting. When one of the brothers offers to stay with her, she refuses to let him do so, as that would upset his routine. They are loath to leave Fidele ... | [
"SCENE II.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN",
"BELARIUS. [To IMOGEN] You are not well. Remain here in the\ncave;\n We'll come to you after hunting. ARVIRAGUS. [To IMOGEN] Brother, stay here. Are we not brothers? IMOGEN. So man and man sho... |
4,307 | 1799_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Cymbeline's palace, the King is anxious over the growing war and his missing daughter. The Queen is pining over the disappearance of her son and has contracted a fever and is delirious. Cymbeline is overwhelmed by these events. His beloved daughter has fled, and there is still no word of her whereabouts. Cloten is m... | [
"SCENE III.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CYMBELINE, LORDS, PISANIO, and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Again! and bring me word how 'tis with her. Exit an attendant A fever with the absence of her son; A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens, How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen, The great pa... |
4,308 | 1799_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Belarius, along with Guiderius and Arviragus, are standing in front of their cave. All around them, the sounds of British and Roman troops getting ready for battle can be heard. The two lads are all fired up, and tell their father that they wish to join the British troops. Belarius tries in vain to persuade them not to... | [
"SCENE IV.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS",
"GUIDERIUS. The noise is round about us. BELARIUS. Let us from it. ARVIRAGUS. What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it From action and adventure? GUIDERIUS. Nay, what hope Have we in hiding us? This way the Roman... |
4,309 | 1799_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the Roman camp, Posthumus enters with a handkerchief soaked in blood. From his soliloquy, the reader gathers that after Pisanio's report of Imogen's death, Posthumus has been stricken by remorse and wishes that he had not been so hasty in seeking vengeance. He wonders how the gods take away people who have sinned bu... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nBritain. The Roman camp",
"Enter POSTHUMUS alone, with a bloody handkerchief",
"POSTHUMUS. Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I wish'd\n Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,\n If each of you should take this course, how many\n Must murder wives much better than themse... |
4,310 | 1799_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the battlefield, there is fierce fighting between the Romans and the British, with Posthumus in disguise. In a skirmish with Iachimo, Posthumus is able to defeat and disarm the former, but leaves him alive. Iachimo feels the burden of guilt and remorse at the way he has wronged a British princess and feels that his ... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. A field of battle between the British and Roman camps",
"Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and the Roman army at one door, and the\nBritish army\nat another, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS following like a poor soldier.\nThey march over and go out. Alarums. Then enter again, in\nskirmish,\nIACHIMO and POSTHUMUS. ... |
4,311 | 1799_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In another part of the field, Posthumus is accosted by a British lord who asks him about the progress of the battle. Posthumus recounts that at one stage, the British army was overcome and in disarray, and the soldiers were fleeing down a narrow path leaving the King to the mercy of the enemy. Yet out of nowhere an old... | [
"SCENE III.\nAnother part of the field",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and a Britain LORD",
"LORD. Cam'st thou from where they made the stand?\n POSTHUMUS. I did:\n Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.\n LORD. I did.\n POSTHUMUS. No blame be to you, sir, for all was lost,\n But that the heavens fought. The K... |
4,312 | 1799_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Posthumus is led into a British prison and left there in chains. Strangely enough, he rejoices in the captivity because death will free him from both physical and spiritual bondage. Although his sorrow and contrition are enough to pardon him in God's eyes, he wishes to give up his life in return for Imogen's. Exhausted... | [
"SCENE IV.\nBritain. A prison",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and two GAOLERS",
"FIRST GAOLER. You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon\nyou;\n So graze as you find pasture. SECOND GAOLER. Ay, or a stomach. Exeunt GAOLERS\n POSTHUMUS. Most welcome, bondage! for thou art a way,\n I think, to liberty. Yet am I ... |
4,313 | 1799_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set in Cymbeline's tent. Cymbeline enters along with Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus and Pisanio. He knights Belarius and the two young men for their services in battle, and is upset that they are unable to trace the fourth man, who was Posthumus in disguise, to honour him him as well. The physician Corneli... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S tent",
"Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, LORDS,\nOFFICERS, and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart That the poor soldier that so richly fought, Whose rags sham'd gilded arms, whos... |
4,287 | 1799_act_1_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two gentlemen are talking in the palace of Cymbeline, King of Britain. The First Gentleman says that all the courtiers are frowning, reflecting the sorrowful mood of the King. He explains the reason: the King's daughter, Imogen, has married Posthumus Leonatus, a poor but worthy man, against the wishes of her father and... | [
"ACT I. SCENE I.\nBritain. The garden of CYMBELINE'S palace",
"FIRST GENTLEMAN. You do not meet a man but frowns; our bloods No more obey the heavens than our courtiers Still seem as does the King's. SECOND GENTLEMAN. But what's the matter? FIRST GENTLEMAN. His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom He purpos'... |
4,288 | 1799_act_1_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Queen tells Imogen that she is no wicked stepmother in that she supports her in her decision. She will have Imogen set free and speak in favor of Posthumus to the King. But she advises Posthumus to comply with the King's sentence of banishment. Posthumus agrees to leave today. The Queen leaves the newly-wed couple ... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. A public place",
"Enter CLOTEN and two LORDS",
"FIRST LORD. Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the\nviolence\n of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice. Where air comes\nout,\n air comes in; there's none abroad so wholesome as that you\nvent. CLOTEN. If my shirt were bloody,... |
4,289 | 1799_act_1_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The First Lord advises Cloten to change his shirt, which smells as a result of his fighting with Posthumus, though the Lord, in an attempt to flatter Cloten, tries unconvincingly to suggest that it is the air outside Cloten's shirt that is unwholesome. Cloten only sees the need to change his shirt if it were bloody, an... | [
"SCENE III.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO",
"IMOGEN. I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' th' haven, And questioned'st every sail; if he should write, And I not have it, 'twere a paper lost, As offer'd mercy is. What was the last That he spake to thee? PISANIO. It was: his queen, h... |
4,290 | 1799_act_1_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Imogen questions Pisanio about his last sight of Posthumus and hopes he will write. Posthumus's final words were about Imogen as he unwillingly sailed away from her. Imogen regrets that she did not have time to say all that she had wanted to her husband - her worries that Posthumus would be tempted away from her by Ita... | [
"SCENE IV.\nRome. PHILARIO'S house",
"Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a FRENCHMAN, a DUTCHMAN, and a SPANIARD",
"IACHIMO. Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain. He was then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as since he hath been allowed the name of. But I could then have look'd on him without the h... |
4,291 | 1799_act_1_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set in Rome at the house of Philario, where Posthumus intends to stay. Iachimo, a friend of Philario's, is speaking cynically about Posthumus, whom he has seen on a trip to Britain. He hints that he may not be as worthy as he is popularly believed to be. Philario replies that Posthumus has since grown in w... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter QUEEN, LADIES, and CORNELIUS",
"QUEEN. Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;\n Make haste; who has the note of them? LADY. I, madam. QUEEN. Dispatch. Exeunt LADIES\n Now, Master Doctor, have you brought those drugs? CORNELIUS. Pleaseth your H... |
4,292 | 1799_act_1_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Cymbeline's palace, the Queen is giving instructions to pick flowers while the dew is on the ground. Then she asks the doctor, Cornelius, whether he has brought the drugs. He presents a box to her, but his conscience prompts him to ask why she requires these slow but deadly poisons. Annoyed at being questioned, she ... | [
"SCENE VI.\nBritain. The palace",
"Enter IMOGEN alone",
"IMOGEN. A father cruel and a step-dame false;\n A foolish suitor to a wedded lady\n That hath her husband banish'd. O, that husband!\n My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated\n Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,\n As my two bro... |
4,293 | 1799_act_2_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten is playing bowls with some Lords and losing. A Lord asks Cloten if he knows of the Italian visitor to court, Iachimo, a friend of Posthumus's. Cloten does not, and goes to seek him out. The Second Lord, left alone, marvels "That such a crafty devil as is his mother / Should yield the world this ass!" . She is a ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE I.\nBritain. Before CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CLOTEN and the two LORDS",
"CLOTEN. Was there ever man had such luck! When I kiss'd 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... |
4,294 | 1799_act_2_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene is set in Imogen's bedroom. Iachimo's trunk is placed in it. After she goes to sleep, Iachimo emerges from the trunk. He is tempted by her beauty, but resists the urge to touch and kiss her. His plan is to note details of the room and identifying marks on her body, in order to convince Posthumus that he has s... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. IMOGEN'S bedchamber in CYMBELINE'S palace; a trunk in\none corner",
"Enter IMOGEN in her bed, and a LADY attending",
"IMOGEN. Who's there? My woman? Helen? LADY. Please you, madam. IMOGEN. What hour is it? LADY. Almost midnight, madam. IMOGEN. I have read three hours then. Mine eyes are wea... |
4,295 | 1799_act_2_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten is playing some Lords, either at dice or cards, and losing again. Some musicians enter; Cloten has employed them to serenade Imogen, which they do. The King and Queen enter. Cymbeline inquires whether Imogen has come out of her room. When Cloten says she has not, Cymbeline says that in time, Imogen will forget P... | [
"SCENE III.\nCYMBELINE'S palace. An ante-chamber adjoining IMOGEN'S apartments",
"Enter CLOTEN and LORDS",
"FIRST LORD. Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the\nmost\n coldest that ever turn'd up ace.\n CLOTEN. It would make any man cold to lose.\n FIRST LORD. But not every man patient after the... |
4,296 | 1799_act_2_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Rome, Posthumus tells Philario he is sure of Imogen's honor, but has less confidence that he will win over the King. He is leaving it to time. In his exiled state, he regrets he cannot repay Philario for his generosity. But Philario says that Posthumus's goodness and company are payment enough. Besides, he is confid... | [
"SCENE IV.\nRome. PHILARIO'S house",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO",
"POSTHUMUS. Fear it not, sir; I would I were so sure\n To win the King as I am bold her honour\n Will remain hers. PHILARIO. What means do you make to him? POSTHUMUS. Not any; but abide the change of time,\n Quake in the present winte... |
4,299 | 1799_act_3_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pisanio is reading a letter from Posthumus revealing that he accuses Imogen of adultery. A liar has prevailed over Posthumus's "too ready hearing," and Imogen is "punish'd for her truth" . Pisanio observes that Posthumus's mind, compared with Imogen, has sunk to the level of his fortune. Posthumus asks Pisanio to murde... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. Another room in CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter PISANIO reading of a letter",
"PISANIO. How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not\n What monsters her accuse? Leonatus! O master, what a strange infection\n Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian-\n As poisonous-tongu'd as handed- hat... |
4,300 | 1799_act_3_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene shifts to a cave in Wales, where Belarius, a banished Lord, is out hunting with his adopted sons. These are, in fact, Cymbeline's lost sons, Guiderius and Arviragus, though they are going under the names of Polydore and Cadwal. Belarius contrasts the pride and vanity of the court with the poorer but "nobler" ... | [
"SCENE III.\nWales. A mountainous country with a cave",
"Enter from the cave BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS",
"BELARIUS. A goodly day not to keep house with such\n Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate\n Instructs you how t' adore the heavens, and bows you\n To a morning's holy office... |
4,301 | 1799_act_3_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pisanio and Imogen are on their way to Milford Haven to meet Posthumus, as Imogen thinks. Pisanio is disturbed about leading Imogen to her death. When Imogen questions his obvious anxiety, he hands Posthumus's letter to her, in which Posthumus orders him to kill Imogen at Milford Haven for her proven adultery. Imogen a... | [
"SCENE IV.\nWales, near Milford Haven",
"Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN",
"IMOGEN. Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place Was near at hand. Ne'er long'd my mother so To see me first as I have now. Pisanio! Man! Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh... |
4,302 | 1799_act_3_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cymbeline is bidding farewell to Lucius. Lucius says he is sorry that he has to report to his master that Cymbeline is his enemy. Cymbeline explains that the Britons will not endure Caesar's domination, and for the King to show less desire for independence than his subjects would appear "unkinglike" . Cymbeline gives L... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS, and LORDS",
"CYMBELINE. Thus far; and so farewell. LUCIUS. Thanks, royal sir. My emperor hath wrote; I must from hence, And am right sorry that I must report ye My master's enemy. CYMBELINE. Our subjects, sir, Will not endure his ... |
4,303 | 1799_act_3_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Wales, near Belarius's cave, Imogen enters disguised as a boy. She is lost, has slept rough for two nights, and is on the point of collapse from lack of food. She reflects that to lie when prosperous is a greater crime than to lie out of need, and so falsehood is "worse in kings than beggars" . On this basis, Posthu... | [
"SCENE VI.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter IMOGEN alone, in boy's clothes",
"IMOGEN. I see a man's life is a tedious one. I have tir'd myself, and for two nights together Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick But that my resolution helps me. Milford, When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'... |
4,304 | 1799_act_3_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Belarius congratulates Guiderius for being most successful in the hunt, and names him as master of the feast. Arviragus and he will play cook and servant. The boys are both weary. Belarius notices Imogen in the cave, and remarks that if she were not eating their food, he would think her a fairy. He next thinks that she... | [
"SCENE VII.\nRome. A public place",
"Enter two ROMAN SENATORS and TRIBUNES",
"FIRST SENATOR. This is the tenour of the Emperor's writ:\n That since the common men are now in action\n 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,\n And that the legions now in Gallia are\n Full weak to undertake our wars aga... |
4,305 | 1799_act_4_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cloten, dressed in Posthumus's clothes, is in Wales, near the place where Imogen is supposed to meet Posthumus. He says the clothes fit him well, and thus why should Imogen not prove "fit" for him, too ? He feels that he compares well to Posthumus in youth, looks and strength, and surpasses him in birth and advantages... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE I.\nWales. Near the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter CLOTEN alone",
"CLOTEN. I am near to th' place where they should meet, if\nPisanio\n have mapp'd it truly. How fit his garments serve me! Why\nshould\n his mistress, who was made by him that made the tailor, not\nbe\n fit too? The rather- sav... |
4,306 | 1799_act_4_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Imogen is still disguised as a boy. Belarius notices that Imogen/Fidele is not well and asks her to stay in the cave while he and the boys go hunting. Arviragus addresses her as "brother". This has an ironic ring for the audience, which knows that he is Imogen's brother, but not for the characters themselves, who do no... | [
"SCENE II.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN",
"BELARIUS. [To IMOGEN] You are not well. Remain here in the\ncave;\n We'll come to you after hunting. ARVIRAGUS. [To IMOGEN] Brother, stay here. Are we not brothers? IMOGEN. So man and man sho... |
4,307 | 1799_act_4_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cymbeline asks how his wife is. She has run mad with a fever at Cloten's absence, and her life is in danger. The King is forlorn at the loss of Imogen and the possible loss of the Queen, as well as the absence of Cloten at a time when a frightening war looms. He believes Pisanio knows something about Imogen's departure... | [
"SCENE III.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S palace",
"Enter CYMBELINE, LORDS, PISANIO, and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Again! and bring me word how 'tis with her. Exit an attendant A fever with the absence of her son; A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens, How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen, The great pa... |
4,308 | 1799_act_4_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Guiderius notes that he, his brother, and Belarius are in danger from the Romans. Belarius suggests they retreat higher into the mountains. He says that because of Cloten's killing, they cannot go for protection to the King. If they are caught, they will be tortured and killed. Arviragus thinks that the King will be to... | [
"SCENE IV.\nWales. Before the cave of BELARIUS",
"Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS",
"GUIDERIUS. The noise is round about us. BELARIUS. Let us from it. ARVIRAGUS. What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it From action and adventure? GUIDERIUS. Nay, what hope Have we in hiding us? This way the Roman... |
4,309 | 1799_act_5_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Posthumus is now at the Roman camp in Britain, having joined the Roman forces. He carries with him a bloodstained cloth, sent to him by Pisanio as proof of Imogen's murder. He repents that he had Imogen killed , a wife better than himself, for straying just a little. In an example of dramatic irony , he wishes that Pi... | [
"ACT V. SCENE I.\nBritain. The Roman camp",
"Enter POSTHUMUS alone, with a bloody handkerchief",
"POSTHUMUS. Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee; for I wish'd\n Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,\n If each of you should take this course, how many\n Must murder wives much better than themse... |
4,310 | 1799_act_5_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lucius, Iachimo and the Roman army enter at one side of the stage, and the British army at another, with Posthumus following, dressed as a poor soldier. There is a skirmish between Iachimo and Posthumus, who disarms Iachimo and leaves. Iachimo, left alone, is penitent that he slandered Imogen, the princess of Britain, ... | [
"SCENE II.\nBritain. A field of battle between the British and Roman camps",
"Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and the Roman army at one door, and the\nBritish army\nat another, LEONATUS POSTHUMUS following like a poor soldier.\nThey march over and go out. Alarums. Then enter again, in\nskirmish,\nIACHIMO and POSTHUMUS. ... |
4,311 | 1799_act_5_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Posthumus is talking to a British Lord, who fled the battle. Posthumus says there is no shame in this, since all seemed lost for the Britons, until the gods intervened. He tells the Lord how an old man and two boys-obviously Belarius, Arviragus and Guiderius-turned the battle around by stopping the Britons from fleeing... | [
"SCENE III.\nAnother part of the field",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and a Britain LORD",
"LORD. Cam'st thou from where they made the stand?\n POSTHUMUS. I did:\n Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.\n LORD. I did.\n POSTHUMUS. No blame be to you, sir, for all was lost,\n But that the heavens fought. The K... |
4,312 | 1799_act_5_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Posthumus enters in chains, with his jailers. They leave him alone, whereupon he explains that he welcomes his bondage, as it is for him the way to freedom . He says his conscience is more of a prisoner than his body, and asks the gods to give him the "penitent instrument" to pick this lock, setting him free forever. ... | [
"SCENE IV.\nBritain. A prison",
"Enter POSTHUMUS and two GAOLERS",
"FIRST GAOLER. You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon\nyou;\n So graze as you find pasture. SECOND GAOLER. Ay, or a stomach. Exeunt GAOLERS\n POSTHUMUS. Most welcome, bondage! for thou art a way,\n I think, to liberty. Yet am I ... |
4,313 | 1799_act_5_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cymbeline is in his tent, surrounded by Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus and Pisanio. He calls Belarius and the two sons the "preservers of my throne" and regrets that the "poor soldier" who fought so well cannot be found. Pisanio says that a thorough search has been done but in vain. In response to Cymbeline's questio... | [
"SCENE V.\nBritain. CYMBELINE'S tent",
"Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS, PISANIO, LORDS,\nOFFICERS, and attendants",
"CYMBELINE. Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart That the poor soldier that so richly fought, Whose rags sham'd gilded arms, whos... |
4,314 | 2246_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bertram's bags are all packed and he's ready to leave his childhood home in Roussillon to travel to the king of France's court in Paris. It's a sad day for Bertram's mom, the countess of Roussillon, who is completely bummed out that her baby is leaving the nest. She says she hasn't been this sad since the day Bertram's... | [
"Actus primus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena,\nLord\nLafew, all in blacke.",
"Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second\nhusband",
"Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my\nfathers death anew; but I must attend his maiesties\ncommand, to whom I a... |
4,315 | 2246_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The second act opens at the king of France's swanky palace, where a bunch of young noblemen are getting ready to run off to Italy to fight in that foreign war we mentioned earlier. The king of France is so old and sickly that he has to be carried into the room on a chair. He wishes everyone good luck getting their batt... | [
"Actus Secundus.",
"Enter the King with diuers yong Lords, taking leaue for the\nFlorentine\nwarre: Count, Rosse, and Parrolles. Florish Cornets.",
"King. Farewell yong Lords, these warlike principles\nDoe not throw from you, and you my Lords farewell:\nShare the aduice betwixt you, if both gaine, all\nThe guif... |
4,316 | 2246_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | We drop in on the duke of Florence at his Italian court. The duke is leading the Florentine army against Siena, and he's a little miffed that the king of France has refused to join his war efforts. Two French lords Dumaine chime in, saying that they think their king has his reasons for wanting to stay out of it. The fi... | [
"Actus Tertius.",
"Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two Frenchmen, with a\ntroope of\nSouldiers.",
"Duke. So that from point to point, now haue you heard\nThe fundamentall reasons of this warre,\nWhose great decision hath much blood let forth\nAnd more thirsts after",
"1.Lord. Holy seemes the quarrel... |
4,317 | 2246_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the soldiers' camp in Florence, the first lord Dumaine and several soldiers hide in the bushes. They're waiting to ambush Paroles, who is supposed to be trying to retrieve the drum he lost on the battlefield. Paroles shows up and starts talking to himself. He admits that he has no intention of trying to get his... | [
"Actus Quartus.",
"Enter one of the Frenchmen, with fiue or sixe other souldiers in\nambush.",
"Lord E. He can come no other way but by this hedge\ncorner: when you sallie vpon him, speake what terrible\nLanguage you will: though you vnderstand it not your\nselues, no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand... |
4,318 | 2246_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Helen, the widow, and Diana have arrived in Marseilles, France, in search of the King. As we know, the King isn't there. They bump into an austringer and find out that the King is actually in Roussillon, which means the women had traveled all this way for nothing. Helen is not about to give up. She laces up ... | [
"Actus Quintus.",
"Enter Hellen, Widdow, and Diana, with two Attendants.",
"Hel. But this exceeding posting day and night,\nMust wear your spirits low, we cannot helpe it:\nBut since you haue made the daies and nights as one,\nTo weare your gentle limbes in my affayres,\nBe bold you do so grow in my requitall,\... |
4,314 | 2246_act_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the opening of this play, the main figures of the plot are weighed down with thoughts of two recent deaths. "Young Bertram," the Count of Rousillon , has lost his father, as has Helena, the beautiful daughter of a famed physician, Gerard de Narbon, "whose skill was almost as great as his honesty." Bertram's mother i... | [
"Actus primus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena,\nLord\nLafew, all in blacke.",
"Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second\nhusband",
"Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my\nfathers death anew; but I must attend his maiesties\ncommand, to whom I a... |
4,315 | 2246_act_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Paris, the king wishes his young warriors well as they leave for the Italian wars: " . . . be you the sons! Of worthy Frenchmen . . . see that you come / Not to woo honor, but to wed it." He adds a sly note to "beware the Italian women!" Bertram, who is unhappy that he must linger behind -- and be told that he is "t... | [
"Actus Secundus.",
"Enter the King with diuers yong Lords, taking leaue for the\nFlorentine\nwarre: Count, Rosse, and Parrolles. Florish Cornets.",
"King. Farewell yong Lords, these warlike principles\nDoe not throw from you, and you my Lords farewell:\nShare the aduice betwixt you, if both gaine, all\nThe guif... |
4,316 | 2246_act_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In twenty-three lines, Shakespeare introduces the city of Florence, Italy, to the play while that city's duke puzzles aloud to a French nobleman about the king of France's neutrality in the Italian wars. The French lord concurs: "Holy seems the quarrel / Upon your Grace's part; black and fearful / On the opposer." In S... | [
"Actus Tertius.",
"Flourish. Enter the Duke of Florence, the two Frenchmen, with a\ntroope of\nSouldiers.",
"Duke. So that from point to point, now haue you heard\nThe fundamentall reasons of this warre,\nWhose great decision hath much blood let forth\nAnd more thirsts after",
"1.Lord. Holy seemes the quarrel... |
4,317 | 2246_act_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One of the French lords and a band of soldiers set a trap for Parolles as previously planned. They capture and blindfold him and speak in a hilarious nonsense language which he takes to be Russian -- that is, "Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo." To save his life, Parolles, as predicted, immediately volunteers to bet... | [
"Actus Quartus.",
"Enter one of the Frenchmen, with fiue or sixe other souldiers in\nambush.",
"Lord E. He can come no other way but by this hedge\ncorner: when you sallie vpon him, speake what terrible\nLanguage you will: though you vnderstand it not your\nselues, no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand... |
4,318 | 2246_act_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helena, the widow and Diana are in pursuit of the king, whom they know to have traveled to Marseilles. Once there, they learn from a gentleman that the king has left in haste for Rousillon. Helena asks him to speed ahead with a message for the king. In Rousillon, Parolles is begging the clown to deliver a letter of his... | [
"Actus Quintus.",
"Enter Hellen, Widdow, and Diana, with two Attendants.",
"Hel. But this exceeding posting day and night,\nMust wear your spirits low, we cannot helpe it:\nBut since you haue made the daies and nights as one,\nTo weare your gentle limbes in my affayres,\nBe bold you do so grow in my requitall,\... |
4,314 | 2246_act_1,_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Helena, the daughter of a famous doctor, has been the ward of the Countess of Rousillon, a wise and kindly old noblewoman, since her father's death. The Countess' husband has also recently died, and her son Count Bertram, a brave, handsome, but callow young man, is sent to serve the King of France, his liege lord. . He... | [
"Actus primus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena,\nLord\nLafew, all in blacke.",
"Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second\nhusband",
"Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my\nfathers death anew; but I must attend his maiesties\ncommand, to whom I a... |
4,315 | 2246_act_2,_scenes_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Paris, the King of France bids farewell to a party of lords bound for the war in Florence, declaring that he may well be dead by the time they return. Two brothers, the First Lord and Second Lord Dumaine, urge Bertram to come with them to the war, but he says regretfully that the King has commanded him to remain at ... | [
"Actus Secundus.",
"Enter the King with diuers yong Lords, taking leaue for the\nFlorentine\nwarre: Count, Rosse, and Parrolles. Florish Cornets.",
"King. Farewell yong Lords, these warlike principles\nDoe not throw from you, and you my Lords farewell:\nShare the aduice betwixt you, if both gaine, all\nThe guif... |
4,317 | 2246_act_4,_scene_1-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Outside the army's camp, the First Lord and Second Lord Dumaine wait with a party of their men to capture the unfortunate Parolles. They decide to disguise their voices by speaking nonsense, and pick a soldier whose voice is unfamiliar to their victim to act as "interpreter." Parolles comes along soon enough, debating ... | [
"Actus Quartus.",
"Enter one of the Frenchmen, with fiue or sixe other souldiers in\nambush.",
"Lord E. He can come no other way but by this hedge\ncorner: when you sallie vpon him, speake what terrible\nLanguage you will: though you vnderstand it not your\nselues, no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand... |
4,314 | 2246_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play begins in the Countess' palace at Rousillon, where all the characters are in mourning. Bertram, his mother , and Lafeu , all mourn for the recently deceased Count of Rousillon, and young Helena mourns for her recently deceased father. Bertram announces that he must leave for Paris and present himself to the Ki... | [
"Actus primus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena,\nLord\nLafew, all in blacke.",
"Mother. In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second\nhusband",
"Ros. And I in going Madam, weep ore my\nfathers death anew; but I must attend his maiesties\ncommand, to whom I a... |
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