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6 Imogen. Talk thy tongue weary, speak; I have heard I am a strumpet, and mine ear, Therein false struck, can take no greater wound, Nor tent to bottom that."

When Pisanio, who had been charged to kill his mistress, puts her in a way to live, she says,

Yet when he advises her to disguise herself in boy's clothes, and suggests "a course pretty and full in view," by which she may "happily be near the residence of Posthumus," she exclaims,

And when Pisanio, enlarging on the consequences, tells her she must change

she interrupts him hastily: