Cymbeline - eTheses Repository - University of Birmingham

154.
goes to table Takes out his tablets and place/i_7 lamp^
on table and writes. ZY (28. and Interleaf).
As he notes the features of the room he is writing at
table, but he takes lamp from table in L/efj7 hand to
examine Imogen for "some natural notes about her body".
When he reaches "t 1 enrich mine inventory" he sees the
bracelet (Kemble's printed direction) and comes forward
'Tis mine.
The earlier marking, Rise, at "the madding of her lord" is
unaltered, but presumably was ignored - Creswick seems to
have stood at the bedside to examine the mole on her breast.
A direction in his own hand is deleted (Put up the - presumably
the bracelet) and to Kemble's text are restored the
lines:
... This secret
v'ill force him to think 1 have pick'd the lock and
ta'en
The treasure of her honour no more
/Strong than law could make/ (28)
lachimo moves towards the table. At this point he
decides not to write any more (29), replaces the lamp
(apparently on the stand downstage of the bed, and indicated
in a drawing on the interleaf) and then notices the
book which Imogen had been reading - he takes up the lamp
and see/s_7 the book. (An earlier instruction to go to
table and take up the book is deleted, and the book seems
to be by the bed). On "I have enough" he puts up tablets
(having noted the place reached by Imogen in her reading ?)
and after unlocking the door returns to the trunk. The
lamp is still on its stand (did he carry the book from the
table to the lamp-stand to read and note down his findings?
there is no further mention of the lamp after the direction
to replace it at "That's riveted".)
A distant clock strikes (noted both by Creswick and by
the Kerable prompter with three crosses for three strokes