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  • That part thou, Pisanio, must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with the breach of hers.

    Cymbeline 2004

  • That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant, have not seen these two days.

    Cymbeline 2004

  • Posthumus, after having hired his loyal servant Pisanio to kill Imogen (a task that Pisanio virtuously refuses to carry out), belatedly comes to believe that, like Othello, he has slain an innocent and has thus destroyed all his hopes of happiness.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly.

    Act IV. Scene I. Cymbeline 1914

  • Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath played the strumpet in my bed; the testimonies whereof lie bleeding in me.

    Act III. Scene IV. Cymbeline 1914

  • That part thou, Pisanio, must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with the breach of hers.

    Act III. Scene IV. Cymbeline 1914

  • He is angry now with Pisanio for having executed his order and murdered her; he should have “saved the noble Imogen to repent.”

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • Even his servant Pisanio will not believe in Imogen's guilt though his master assures him of it.

    The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

  • Even his servant Pisanio will not believe in Imogen's guilt though his master assures him of it.

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

  • Pisanio for having executed his order and murdered her; he should have

    The Man Shakespeare Frank Harris 1893

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