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I've seen Cymbeline before - but they surely omitted Act 5, Scene 3.

p. 44 Stephen to his fellow landlubber and medical man: "Let us comfort ourselves with the reflexion that not all of our shipmates could tell how an ablative comes to be so very absolute, on occasion."
p. 49: Jack glosses "to heave to" for Stephen, because (as the narrator explains) "a person who could call a cutter a ship after so many years at sea might need even simpler terms explained."

Stephen Maturin speaking to a new acquaintance about his reading habits: "I look upon them – I look upon good novels – as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints."

I can see why the Shakespeare 2020 Reading Project has this right after completing the sonnets - all the better to appreciate the bad sonnets of the forsworn love-lorn men here!