Today’s Totally Random
Lines
The
roof of the chamber
With golden cherubins is fretted: her
andirons-
I had forgot them- were two winking Cupids
Of silver, each on one foot standing,
nicely
depending on their brands.
Iachimo
Cymbeline Act II, Scene iv, Line 88
Iachimo is describing the bedroom of Imogen, Posthumus’s wife. Iachimo made a bet with Posthumus that he, Iachimo, could seduce Imogen and get her to cheat on her husband. All he really did was sneak into Imogen’s bedroom without Imogen. He is describing the bedroom to Posthumus as proof that he slept with Imogen. He did no such thing, but gullible Posthumus believes him.
Iachimo/Posthumus, Iago/Othello; it’s all the same nonsense. One of them gets his hands on a hanky, and the other describes a bedroom. These husbands of Shakespeare need to have a little more faith in their wives! Just wow.
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