quaere

It seems the town she hails from has been arbitrarily renamed Quaere by a cartographer, confusing residents who had always referred to it as North Burcombe.

According to the play, Quaere, in Latin, means something missing or absent, and despite Shakespeare’s resistance, Imogen eventually has herself written into the First Folio, which Henry has dedicated himself to preparing.

Me quoque solicito quaere per arva gradu.

Persa sagax, propera: discurre per ardua regum Tecta, per auratas marmoreasque domus:95 Quaere �, quae intepuit Reginae purpura partu; Principe vagitu quae domus insonuit.

How could you ever have penned such a quaere?