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SCENE 1
When ambassador from Rome, Cauis Lucius, urges Britain to resume paying her tribute owed Augustus Caesar which had been neglected of late, Cloten and his mother justify the neglect by respectively boasting of Britain's new found might and disparaging Julius Caesar's original attempt to conquer Britain as something less than triumphant. Cymbeline urges Cloten to let his mother do the talking, but Cloten rattles on. He welcomes Lucius to Britain, echoing Cymbeline who had done so after informing Lucius that Britain will oppose Rome at the risk of incurring Rome's wrath as Britain is a proud people who
