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SCENE 1
Posthumus has received from Pisanio a bloodied cloth, indicating Imogen's death. He is sad that she is dead and for a small transgression while other people get away with worse crimes. He wishes that he had been killed instead for one of his transgressions. He decides to make amends--however futile the gesture. Though he has come to Britain arrayed as a Roman and to fight as one, he will dress himself like a British peasant and die while fighting the Romans (which he thinks will give him a better chance to die).
SCENE 2
Having been bested by a British peasant (Posthumus), Jachimo reflects upon his
