Cymbeline - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

indignation against Posthumus with, first, a look and
gesture of confirmation (at "if this be true..." from
Imogen) and then a look of wounded honour at being doubted
at the repetition of the phrase two lines later.
Imogen asks, presumably ingenuously, failing to
comprehend ,
How should I be reveng'd?
and lachimo's answer, "Should he make me.,.", is almost in
a whisper. with "Revenge it" he kneels, and at
I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,
he take/ai_7 hold of her dress with reverence. 2 -^ lachimo is
feeling his way. An earlier marking at "Still close, as
sure" has lachimo take her hand, but Creswick deletes it,
and not«"s Robe. He also deletes struggling to get loose
at the first ' n;hat ho! PisanioJ". Evidently all energy
is to be saved for the climax.
Away I I do condemn mine ears, that have
So long attended thee.
With which she throws him from her.
lachimo rises at "Such an end thou seek'st", is behind
Imogen by the second "What hoi lisanio'", and on her right
hand at t?>e third, which she accompanies by raising her
hand. lachimo bein£ nov/ on her right hand, it seems that
the gesture to which Morley objected is not a signal offsteuje,
to hail Pisanio, but a hand held up to ward off
lachirao, or to def;> bin - perhaps she even shrank at her
own power? If, ac Morley says, ::;:iofi«n lowers her hand
half-way through the thirteen-line speech of lachimo which
begins "0 happy LeonatusJ", it is probably at the stage in
lachiino's self-explanation at which he n^Ics
G-ive me your
'.]he scene is given symmetry by lachimo's kneeling again
at "Pray you, pardon" ( erabie's version: Folio, "Pray,