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The Elizabethan Imogen         5

who Iyst to proue shall know
for all ther host
all Daye almost
but I will not saye soo
now whot nowe colde
ther ys no holde
but as the wynd Doth blowe
when all is done
they will change Iik the mone
but I will not saye soo

they loue they Ieyve
they will Disteyue
as Dyse that men do throwe
who vsyth them myche
Shall never be Rych
but I will not saye soo

Gyue this give that
all thyng they lack
and all you may bestowe
onez ought of Syght
farewell good nyght
but I wi∏ not saye soo
thus one & other
takyth after the mother
as cockes by kynde do crow
my song ys endyd
the best maye be amendid
but I wyll not saye soo
ffinis

Posthumus seems, then, to have been fairly well acquainted
with works in dispraise of women; in fact, he says that he,
too, is going to write a book against them.

Other comments about women in the play Cymbeline,
however, give a much more acceptable picture and tend to
rehabilitate women in the eyes of the audience. First of all
we Ieam that even Iachimo and his friends recognize the
admirable qualities of women, when they praise their Italian

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