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That I should seem to lack humanity
               So much as this fact comes to? [Reading.] Do’t: the letter
               That I have sent her by her own command
               Shall give thee opportunity. O damn’d paper!

               Black as the ink that’s on thee! Senseless bauble, [20]
               Art thou a feodary for this act, and look’st
               So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.
               I am ignorant in what I am commanded.


                                                       Enter Imogen.




              IMOGEN
          How now, Pisanio?



              PISANIO
               Madam, here is a letter from my lord. [25]



              IMOGEN
               Who? thy lord? that is my lord Leonatus!
               O, learn’d indeed were that astronomer
               That knew the stars as I his characters;

               He’d lay the future open. You good gods,
               Let what is here contain’d relish of love, [30]
               Of my lord’s health, of his content: yet not
               That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;

               Some griefs are med’cinable, that is one of them,
               For it doth physic love: of his content,
               All but in that! Good wax, thy leave: blest be [35]
               You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers

               And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:
               Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet
               You clasp young Cupid’s tables. Good news, gods!
          [Reads]

          Justice,  and  your  father’s  wrath  (should  he  take  me  in  his  [40]  dominion)
          could not be so cruel to me, as you (O the dearest of creatures) would even
          renew me with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria at Milford-Haven:
          what your own love will out of this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all

          happiness, that [45] remains loyal to his vow, and your increasing in love
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