You might think you can tell the difference between Posthumus’ noble words and Iachimo’s manipulative lies, but this Cymbeline Quote Identification Quiz will test your ear for verse. More difficult than it seems is the identity of the speaker of the famous funeral dirge, or of the king’s final pardon. Test your memory of the script’s most touching lines.
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Cymbeline Quotes Quiz
- “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” is spoken by
- “Hang there like fruit, my soul, till the tree die” is spoken by
- “Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust” is said by
- “I’ll speak to thee in silence” is spoken by
- “Thou basest thing, avoid hence, from my sight!” is directed to
- “His meanest garment, that ever hath but clipped his body, is dearer than all the hairs above thee” is said by
- “Some griefs are med’cinable” is spoken by
- “O learn’d indeed were that astronomer that knew the stars as I his characters” is said by
- “A headless man? The garments of Posthumus?” is exclaimed by
- “I am absolute ‘twas very Cloten” is stated by
- “Thou took’st a beggar, wouldst have made my throne a seat for baseness” is said by
- “Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained” is spoken by
- “Though those that are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe” is said by
- “You were best consider what you do” is a warning by
- “Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer’d” is spoken by
- “Such devil’s tricks as these, plays on all women” is said by
- “If she be furnish’d with a mind so rare, she is alone th’ Arabian bird” refers to
- “Every good servant does not all commands” is said by
- “I have not slept one wink” is confessed by
- “I am not bound to you by any bond but of obedience” is spoken by
- “Thy mother’s poison’d: I am sorry for’t” is revealed by
- “O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause to be suspected of more tenderness than doth become a man” is spoken by
- “This paper is the history of my knowledge touching her flight” is said by
- “Yea, bloody cloth, I’ll keep thee; for I wish’d thou shouldst be color’d thus” is spoken by
- “I am down again; for in the dream of this, I fell asleep” is said by
- “No more ado, but to our Welsh mountains” is spoken by
- “If she loved me not, her health, and life, and death, would yet have been the same” is said by
- “The game is up” is exclaimed by
- “The fingers of the powers above do tune the harmony of this peace” is spoken by
- “Be cheerful, wipe thine eyes: some falls are means the happier to arise” is said by