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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>PHILO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.1>Nay, but this dotage of our general's</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.2>O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.3>That o'er the files and musters of the war</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.4>Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.5>The office and devotion of their view</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.6>Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.7>Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.8>The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>And is become the bellows and the fan</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.10>To cool a gipsy's lust.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.11>Look, where they come:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.12>Take but good note, and you shall see in him.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.13>The triple pillar of the world transform'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.14>Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.15>If it be love indeed, tell me how much.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.16>There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.17>I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.18>Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter an Attendant</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.19>News, my good lord, from Rome.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.20>Grates me: the sum.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.21>Nay, hear them, Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.22>Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.23>If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.25>Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.26>Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.27>How, my love!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.28>Perchance! nay, and most like:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.29>You must not stay here longer, your dismission</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.31>Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.32>Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.33>Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.34>Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.35>When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.36>Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.38>Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.40>Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair</A><br>
<p><i>Embracing</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.41>And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.42>On pain of punishment, the world to weet</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.43>We stand up peerless.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.44>Excellent falsehood!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.45>Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.46>I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>Will be himself.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.48> But stirr'd by Cleopatra.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.49>Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.50>Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.51>There's not a minute of our lives should stretch</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.52>Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.53>Hear the ambassadors.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech15><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.54>Fie, wrangling queen!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.55>Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.56>To weep; whose every passion fully strives</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.57>To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>No messenger, but thine; and all alone</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.59>To-night we'll wander through the streets and note</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.60>The qualities of people. Come, my queen;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.61>Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with their train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.62>Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech17><b>PHILO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.63>Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.64>He comes too short of that great property</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.65>Which still should go with Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.66>I am full sorry</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.67>That he approves the common liar, who</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.68>Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.69>Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. The same. Another room.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.2>almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.3>that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.4>this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.5>with garlands!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.6>Soothsayer!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.8>Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.9>In nature's infinite book of secrecy</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.10>A little I can read.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.11>Show him your hand.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.12>Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.13>Cleopatra's health to drink.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.14>Good sir, give me good fortune.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.15>I make not, but foresee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.16>Pray, then, foresee me one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.17>You shall be yet far fairer than you are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.18>He means in flesh.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.19>No, you shall paint when you are old.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.20>Wrinkles forbid!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.21>Vex not his prescience; be attentive.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.22>Hush!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.23>You shall be more beloving than beloved.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.24>I had rather heat my liver with drinking.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.25>Nay, hear him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.26>Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.27>to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.28>let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.29>may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.30>Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.31>You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.32>O excellent! I love long life better than figs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.33>You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>Than that which is to approach.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.35>Then belike my children shall have no names:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.36>prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.37>If every of your wishes had a womb.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.38>And fertile every wish, a million.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.39>Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.40>You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.41>Nay, come, tell Iras hers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.42>We'll know all our fortunes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.43>Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.44>be--drunk to bed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.45>There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.46>E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.47>Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.48>Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.49>prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.50>tell her but a worky-day fortune.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.51>Your fortunes are alike.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.52>But how, but how? give me particulars.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.53>I have said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.54>Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.55>Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.56>I, where would you choose it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.57>Not in my husband's nose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.58>Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.59>his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.60>that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.61>her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.62>follow worse, till the worst of all follow him</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.63>laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.64>Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.65>matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.66>Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.68>loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.69>foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.70>decorum, and fortune him accordingly!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.71>Amen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.72>Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.73>cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.74>they'ld do't!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.75>Hush! here comes Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.76>Not he; the queen.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.77>Saw you my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.78> No, lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.79>Was he not here?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.80>No, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.81>He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.82>A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.83>Madam?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.84>Seek him, and bring him hither.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.85>Where's Alexas?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.86>Here, at your service. My lord approaches.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.87>We will not look upon him: go with us.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.88>Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.89>Against my brother Lucius?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.90>Ay:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>But soon that war had end, and the time's state</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.92>Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.93>Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>Upon the first encounter, drave them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.95>Well, what worst?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.96>The nature of bad news infects the teller.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.97>When it concerns the fool or coward. On:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.100>I hear him as he flatter'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.101>Labienus--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.102>This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.103>Extended Asia from Euphrates;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.104>His conquering banner shook from Syria</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.105>To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.106>Antony, thou wouldst say,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.107>O, my lord!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.108>Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.109>Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.110>Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.111>With such full licence as both truth and malice</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.112>Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.113>When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.114>Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.115>At your noble pleasure.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.116>From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>First Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.117>The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>Second Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.118>He stays upon your will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.119>Let him appear.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.120>These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.121>Or lose myself in dotage.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter another Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.122>What are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>Second Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.123>Fulvia thy wife is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.124>Where died she?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>Second Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.125>In Sicyon:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.126>Her length of sickness, with what else more serious</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.127>Importeth thee to know, this bears.</A><br>
<p><i>Gives a letter</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.128>Forbear me.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Second Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.129>There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.130>What our contempt doth often hurl from us,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.131>We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.132>By revolution lowering, does become</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.133>The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.134>The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.135>I must from this enchanting queen break off:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.136>Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.137>My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.138>What's your pleasure, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.139>I must with haste from hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.140>Why, then, we kill all our women:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.141>we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.142>if they suffer our departure, death's the word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.143>I must be gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.144>Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.145>pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.146>them and a great cause, they should be esteemed</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.147>nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.148>this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.149>times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.150>mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.151>her, she hath such a celerity in dying.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.152>She is cunning past man's thought.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ALEXAS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.153>Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.154>the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.155>winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.156>storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.157>cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.158>shower of rain as well as Jove.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.159>Would I had never seen her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.160>O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.161>of work; which not to have been blest withal would</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.162>have discredited your travel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.163>Fulvia is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.164>Sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.165>Fulvia is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.166>Fulvia!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.167>Dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.168>Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.169>it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.170>from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.171>comforting therein, that when old robes are worn</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.172>out, there are members to make new. If there were</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.173>no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.174>and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.175>with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.176>petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.177>that should water this sorrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.178>The business she hath broached in the state</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.179>Cannot endure my absence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.180>And the business you have broached here cannot be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.181>without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.182>wholly depends on your abode.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.183>No more light answers. Let our officers</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.184>Have notice what we purpose. I shall break</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.185>The cause of our expedience to the queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.186>And get her leave to part. For not alone</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.187>The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.188>Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.189>Of many our contriving friends in Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.190>Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.191>Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.192>The empire of the sea: our slippery people,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.193>Whose love is never link'd to the deserver</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.194>Till his deserts are past, begin to throw</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.195>Pompey the Great and all his dignities</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.196>Upon his son; who, high in name and power,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.197>Higher than both in blood and life, stands up</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.198>For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.199>The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.200>Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.201>And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.202>To such whose place is under us, requires</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.203>Our quick remove from hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.204>I shall do't.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The same. Another room.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>Where is he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.2> I did not see him since.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.3>See where he is, who's with him, what he does:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>I did not send you: if you find him sad,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.5>Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.6>That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ALEXAS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.7>Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.8>You do not hold the method to enforce</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.9>The like from him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.10> What should I do, I do not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.11>In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.12>Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.13>Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.14>In time we hate that which we often fear.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.15>But here comes Antony.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.16>I am sick and sullen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.17>I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.18>Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.19>It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.20>Will not sustain it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.21>Now, my dearest queen,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.22>Pray you, stand further from me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.23>What's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.24>I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>What says the married woman? You may go:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.26>Would she had never given you leave to come!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>I have no power upon you; hers you are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.29>The gods best know,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.30>O, never was there queen</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.31>So mightily betray'd! yet at the first</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.32>I saw the treasons planted.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.33>Cleopatra,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.34>Why should I think you can be mine and true,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.36>Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.37>To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.38>Which break themselves in swearing!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.39>Most sweet queen,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.40>Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.41>But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.42>Then was the time for words: no going then;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.43>Eternity was in our lips and eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.44>Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.45>But was a race of heaven: they are so still,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.46>Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.47>Art turn'd the greatest liar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.48>How now, lady!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.49>I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.50>There were a heart in Egypt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.51>Hear me, queen:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.52>The strong necessity of time commands</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.53>Our services awhile; but my full heart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.54>Remains in use with you. Our Italy</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.55>Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.56>Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.57>Equality of two domestic powers</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.58>Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.59>Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.60>Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.61>Into the hearts of such as have not thrived</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.62>Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.63>And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.64>By any desperate change: my more particular,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.65>And that which most with you should safe my going,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.66>Is Fulvia's death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.67>Though age from folly could not give me freedom,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.68>It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.69>She's dead, my queen:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.70>Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.71>The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.72>See when and where she died.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.73>O most false love!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.74>Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.75>With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.76>In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.77>Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.78>The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.79>As you shall give the advice. By the fire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.80>That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.81>Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.82>As thou affect'st.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.83> Cut my lace, Charmian, come;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.84>But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.85>So Antony loves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.86> My precious queen, forbear;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.87>And give true evidence to his love, which stands</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.88>An honourable trial.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.89>So Fulvia told me.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.90>I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.91>Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.92>Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.93>Of excellent dissembling; and let it look</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.94>Life perfect honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.95>You'll heat my blood: no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.96>You can do better yet; but this is meetly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.97>Now, by my sword,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.98>And target. Still he mends;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.99>But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.100>How this Herculean Roman does become</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.101>The carriage of his chafe.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.102>I'll leave you, lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.103>Courteous lord, one word.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.104>Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.105>Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.106>That you know well: something it is I would,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.107>O, my oblivion is a very Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.108>And I am all forgotten.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.109>But that your royalty</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.110>Holds idleness your subject, I should take you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.111>For idleness itself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.112>'Tis sweating labour</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.113>To bear such idleness so near the heart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.114>As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.115>Since my becomings kill me, when they do not</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.116>Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.117>Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.118>And all the gods go with you! upon your sword</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.119>Sit laurel victory! and smooth success</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.120>Be strew'd before your feet!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.121>Let us go. Come;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.122>Our separation so abides, and flies,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.123>That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.124>And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.1>You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.2>It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.3>Our great competitor: from Alexandria</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.4>This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.5>The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.6>Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.7>More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.8>Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.9>A man who is the abstract of all faults</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.10>That all men follow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.11>I must not think there are</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.12>Evils enow to darken all his goodness:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.13>His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.14>More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.15>Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.16>Than what he chooses.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.17>You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.18>Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.19>To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.20>And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.21>To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.22>With knaves that smell of sweat: say this</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.23>becomes him,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.24>As his composure must be rare indeed</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.25>Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.26>No way excuse his soils, when we do bear</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.27>So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.28>His vacancy with his voluptuousness,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.29>Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.30>Call on him for't: but to confound such time,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.31>That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.32>As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.33>As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.34>Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.35>And so rebel to judgment.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.36>Here's more news.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.37>Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.38>Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.39>How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.40>And it appears he is beloved of those</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.41>That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.42>The discontents repair, and men's reports</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.43>Give him much wrong'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.44>I should have known no less.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.45>It hath been taught us from the primal state,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.46>That he which is was wish'd until he were;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.47>And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.48>Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.49>Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.50>Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.51>To rot itself with motion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.52>Caesar, I bring thee word,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.53>Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.54>Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.55>With keels of every kind: many hot inroads</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.56>They make in Italy; the borders maritime</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.57>Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.58>No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.59>Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.60>Than could his war resisted.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.61>Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.62>Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.63>Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.64>Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.65>Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.66>Though daintily brought up, with patience more</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.67>Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.68>The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.69>Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.70>The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.71>Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.72>The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.73>It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.74>Which some did die to look on: and all this--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.75>It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.76>Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.77>So much as lank'd not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.78>'Tis pity of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.79>Let his shames quickly</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.80>Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.81>Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.82>Assemble we immediate council: Pompey</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.83>Thrives in our idleness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.84>To-morrow, Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.85>I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.86>Both what by sea and land I can be able</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.87>To front this present time.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.88>Till which encounter,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.89>It is my business too. Farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.90>Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.91>Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.92>To let me be partaker.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.93>Doubt not, sir;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.94>I knew it for my bond.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.1>Charmian!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.2>Madam?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.3>Ha, ha!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.4>Give me to drink mandragora.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.5>Why, madam?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.6>That I might sleep out this great gap of time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.7>My Antony is away.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.8> You think of him too much.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.9>O, 'tis treason!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.10> Madam, I trust, not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.11>Thou, eunuch Mardian!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.12>What's your highness' pleasure?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.13>Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.14>In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.15>That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.16>May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.17>Yes, gracious madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.18>Indeed!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.19>Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.20>But what indeed is honest to be done:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.21>Yet have I fierce affections, and think</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.22>What Venus did with Mars.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.23>O Charmian,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.24>Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.25>Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.26>O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.27>Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.28>The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.29>And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.30>Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.31>For so he calls me: now I feed myself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.32>With most delicious poison. Think on me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.33>That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.34>And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.35>When thou wast here above the ground, I was</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.36>A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.37>Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.38>There would he anchor his aspect and die</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.39>With looking on his life.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.40>Sovereign of Egypt, hail!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.41>How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.42>Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.43>With his tinct gilded thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.44>How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.45>Last thing he did, dear queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.46>He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.47>This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.48>Mine ear must pluck it thence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.49>'Good friend,' quoth he,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.50>'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.51>This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.52>To mend the petty present, I will piece</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.53>Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.54>Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.55>And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.56>Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.57>Was beastly dumb'd by him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.58>What, was he sad or merry?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.59>Like to the time o' the year between the extremes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.60>Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.61>O well-divided disposition! Note him,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.62>Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.63>He was not sad, for he would shine on those</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.64>That make their looks by his; he was not merry,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.65>Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.66>In Egypt with his joy; but between both:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.67>O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.68>The violence of either thee becomes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.69>So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.70>Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.71>Why do you send so thick?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.72>Who's born that day</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.73>When I forget to send to Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.74>Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.75>Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.76>Ever love Caesar so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.77>O that brave Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.78>Be choked with such another emphasis!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.79>Say, the brave Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.80>The valiant Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.81>By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.82>If thou with Caesar paragon again</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.83>My man of men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.84> By your most gracious pardon,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.85>I sing but after you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.5.86>My salad days,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.87>When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.88>To say as I said then! But, come, away;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.89>Get me ink and paper:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.90>He shall have every day a several greeting,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.5.91>Or I'll unpeople Egypt.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT II</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Messina. POMPEY's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.1>If the great gods be just, they shall assist</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.2>The deeds of justest men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>MENECRATES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.3>Know, worthy Pompey,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.4>That what they do delay, they not deny.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.5>Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.6>The thing we sue for.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>MENECRATES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.7>We, ignorant of ourselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.8>Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.9>Deny us for our good; so find we profit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.10>By losing of our prayers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.11>I shall do well:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.12>The people love me, and the sea is mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.13>My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.14>Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.15>In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.16>No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.17>He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.18>Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.19>Nor either cares for him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.20>Caesar and Lepidus</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.21>Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.22>Where have you this? 'tis false.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.23>From Silvius, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.24>He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.25>Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.26>Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.27>Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.28>Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.29>Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.30>Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.31>That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.32>Even till a Lethe'd dulness!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter VARRIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.33>How now, Varrius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>VARRIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.34>This is most certain that I shall deliver:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.35>Mark Antony is every hour in Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.36>Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.37>A space for further travel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.38>I could have given less matter</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.39>A better ear. Menas, I did not think</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.40>This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.41>For such a petty war: his soldiership</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.42>Is twice the other twain: but let us rear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.43>The higher our opinion, that our stirring</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.44>Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.45>The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.46>I cannot hope</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.47>Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.48>His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.49>His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.50>Not moved by Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.51>I know not, Menas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.52>How lesser enmities may give way to greater.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.53>Were't not that we stand up against them all,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.54>'Twere pregnant they should square between</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.55>themselves;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.56>For they have entertained cause enough</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.57>To draw their swords: but how the fear of us</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.58>May cement their divisions and bind up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.59>The petty difference, we yet not know.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.60>Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.61>Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.62>Come, Menas.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.1>Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.2>And shall become you well, to entreat your captain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.3>To soft and gentle speech.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.4>I shall entreat him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.5>To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.6>Let Antony look over Caesar's head</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.7>And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.8>Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.9>I would not shave't to-day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.10>'Tis not a time</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.11>For private stomaching.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.12>Every time</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.13>Serves for the matter that is then born in't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.14>But small to greater matters must give way.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.15>Not if the small come first.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.16>Your speech is passion:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.17>But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.18>The noble Antony.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.19> And yonder, Caesar.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.20>If we compose well here, to Parthia:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.21>Hark, Ventidius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.22> I do not know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.23>Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.24>Noble friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.25>That which combined us was most great, and let not</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.26>A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.27>May it be gently heard: when we debate</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.28>Our trivial difference loud, we do commit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.29>Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.30>The rather, for I earnestly beseech,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.31>Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.32>Nor curstness grow to the matter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.33>'Tis spoken well.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.34>Were we before our armies, and to fight.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.35>I should do thus.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.36>Welcome to Rome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.37> Thank you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.38>Sit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.39>Sit, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.40>Nay, then.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.41>I learn, you take things ill which are not so,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.42>Or being, concern you not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.43>I must be laugh'd at,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.44>If, or for nothing or a little, I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.45>Should say myself offended, and with you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.46>Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.47>Once name you derogately, when to sound your name</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.48>It not concern'd me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.49>My being in Egypt, Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.50>What was't to you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.51>No more than my residing here at Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.52>Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.53>Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.54>Might be my question.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.55>How intend you, practised?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.56>You may be pleased to catch at mine intent</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.57>By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.58>Made wars upon me; and their contestation</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.59>Was theme for you, you were the word of war.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.60>You do mistake your business; my brother never</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.61>Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.62>And have my learning from some true reports,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.63>That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.64>Discredit my authority with yours;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.65>And make the wars alike against my stomach,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.66>Having alike your cause? Of this my letters</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.67>Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.68>As matter whole you have not to make it with,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.69>It must not be with this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.70>You praise yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.71>By laying defects of judgment to me; but</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.72>You patch'd up your excuses.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.73>Not so, not so;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.74>I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.75>Very necessity of this thought, that I,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.76>Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.77>Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.78>Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.79>I would you had her spirit in such another:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.80>The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.81>You may pace easy, but not such a wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.82>Would we had all such wives, that the men might go</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.83>to wars with the women!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.84>So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.85>Made out of her impatience, which not wanted</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.86>Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.87>Did you too much disquiet: for that you must</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.88>But say, I could not help it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.89>I wrote to you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.90>When rioting in Alexandria; you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.91>Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.92>Did gibe my missive out of audience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.93>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.94>He fell upon me ere admitted: then</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.95>Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.96>Of what I was i' the morning: but next day</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.97>I told him of myself; which was as much</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.98>As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.99>Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.100>Out of our question wipe him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.101>You have broken</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.102>The article of your oath; which you shall never</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.103>Have tongue to charge me with.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.104>Soft, Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.105>No,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.106>Lepidus, let him speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.107>The honour is sacred which he talks on now,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.108>Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.109>The article of my oath.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.110>To lend me arms and aid when I required them;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.111>The which you both denied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.112>Neglected, rather;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.113>And then when poison'd hours had bound me up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.114>From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.115>I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.116>Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.117>Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.118>To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.119>For which myself, the ignorant motive, do</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.120>So far ask pardon as befits mine honour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.121>To stoop in such a case.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.122>'Tis noble spoken.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.123>If it might please you, to enforce no further</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.124>The griefs between ye: to forget them quite</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.125>Were to remember that the present need</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.126>Speaks to atone you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.127>Worthily spoken, Mecaenas.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.128>Or, if you borrow one another's love for the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.129>instant, you may, when you hear no more words of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.130>Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.131>wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.132>Thou art a soldier only: speak no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.133>That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.134>You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.135>Go to, then; your considerate stone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.136>I do not much dislike the matter, but</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.137>The manner of his speech; for't cannot be</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.138>We shall remain in friendship, our conditions</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.139>So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.140>What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.141>O' the world I would pursue it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.142>Give me leave, Caesar,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.143>Speak, Agrippa.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.144>Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.145>Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.146>Is now a widower.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.147> Say not so, Agrippa:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.148>If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.149>Were well deserved of rashness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.150>I am not married, Caesar: let me hear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.151>Agrippa further speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.152>To hold you in perpetual amity,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.153>To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.154>With an unslipping knot, take Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.155>Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.156>No worse a husband than the best of men;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.157>Whose virtue and whose general graces speak</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.158>That which none else can utter. By this marriage,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.159>All little jealousies, which now seem great,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.160>And all great fears, which now import their dangers,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.161>Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.162>Where now half tales be truths: her love to both</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.163>Would, each to other and all loves to both,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.164>Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.165>For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.166>By duty ruminated.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.167> Will Caesar speak?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.168>Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.169>With what is spoke already.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.170>What power is in Agrippa,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.171>If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.172>To make this good?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.173> The power of Caesar, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.174>His power unto Octavia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.175>May I never</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.176>To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.177>Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.178>Further this act of grace: and from this hour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.179>The heart of brothers govern in our loves</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.180>And sway our great designs!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.181>There is my hand.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.182>A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.183>Did ever love so dearly: let her live</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.184>To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.185>Fly off our loves again!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.186>Happily, amen!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.187>I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.188>For he hath laid strange courtesies and great</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.189>Of late upon me: I must thank him only,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.190>Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.191>At heel of that, defy him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.192>Time calls upon's:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.193>Of us must Pompey presently be sought,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.194>Or else he seeks out us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.195>Where lies he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.196>About the mount Misenum.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.197>What is his strength by land?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.198>Great and increasing: but by sea</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.199>He is an absolute master.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.200>So is the fame.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.201>Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.202>Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.203>The business we have talk'd of.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.204>With most gladness:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.205>And do invite you to my sister's view,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.206>Whither straight I'll lead you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.207>Let us, Lepidus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.208>Not lack your company.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.209>Noble Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.210>Not sickness should detain me.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, and LEPIDUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.211>Welcome from Egypt, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.212>Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.213>honourable friend, Agrippa!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.214>Good Enobarbus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.215>We have cause to be glad that matters are so well</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.216>digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.217>Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.218>made the night light with drinking.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.219>Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.220>but twelve persons there; is this true?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.221>This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.222>monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.223>She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.224>her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.225>When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.226>his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.227>There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.228>well for her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.229>I will tell you.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.230>The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.231>Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.232>Purple the sails, and so perfumed that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.233>The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.234>Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.235>The water which they beat to follow faster,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.236>As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.237>It beggar'd all description: she did lie</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.238>In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.239>O'er-picturing that Venus where we see</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.240>The fancy outwork nature: on each side her</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.241>Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.242>With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.243>To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.244>And what they undid did.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.245>O, rare for Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.246>Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.247>So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.248>And made their bends adornings: at the helm</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.249>A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.250>Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.251>That yarely frame the office. From the barge</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.252>A strange invisible perfume hits the sense</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.253>Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.254>Her people out upon her; and Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.255>Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.256>Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.257>Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.258>And made a gap in nature.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.259>Rare Egyptian!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.260>Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.261>Invited her to supper: she replied,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.262>It should be better he became her guest;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.263>Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.264>Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.265>Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.266>And for his ordinary pays his heart</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.267>For what his eyes eat only.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.268>Royal wench!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.269>She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.270>He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.271>I saw her once</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.272>Hop forty paces through the public street;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.273>And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.274>That she did make defect perfection,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.275>And, breathless, power breathe forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.276>Now Antony must leave her utterly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.277>Never; he will not:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.278>Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.279>Her infinite variety: other women cloy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.280>The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.281>Where most she satisfies; for vilest things</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.282>Become themselves in her: that the holy priests</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.283>Bless her when she is riggish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.284>If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.285>The heart of Antony, Octavia is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.286>A blessed lottery to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.287>Let us go.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.288>Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.289>Whilst you abide here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.290>Humbly, sir, I thank you.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between them, and Attendants</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.1>The world and my great office will sometimes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.2>Divide me from your bosom.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.3>All which time</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.4>Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.5>To them for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.6> Good night, sir. My Octavia,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.7>Read not my blemishes in the world's report:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.8>I have not kept my square; but that to come</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.9>Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.10>Good night, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.11>Good night.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Soothsayer</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.12>Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.13>Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.14>If you can, your reason?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.15>I see it in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.16>My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.17>Hie you to Egypt again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.18>Say to me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.19>Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.20>Caesar's.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.21>Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.22>Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.23>Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.24>Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.25>Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.26>Make space enough between you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.27>Speak this no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.28>To none but thee; no more, but when to thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.29>If thou dost play with him at any game,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.30>Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.31>He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.32>When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.33>Is all afraid to govern thee near him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.34>But, he away, 'tis noble.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.35>Get thee gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.36>Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Soothsayer</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.37>He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.38>He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.39>And in our sports my better cunning faints</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.40>Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.41>His cocks do win the battle still of mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.42>When it is all to nought; and his quails ever</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.43>Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.44>And though I make this marriage for my peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.45>I' the east my pleasure lies.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter VENTIDIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.46>O, come, Ventidius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.47>You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.48>Follow me, and receive't.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. The same. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.1>Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.2>Your generals after.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.3>Sir, Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.4>Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.5>Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.6>Which will become you both, farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.7>We shall,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.8>As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.9>Before you, Lepidus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.10>Your way is shorter;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.11>My purposes do draw me much about:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.12>You'll win two days upon me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<A NAME=speech7><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.13>Sir, good success!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.14>Farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.1>Give me some music; music, moody food</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.2>Of us that trade in love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Attendants</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.3>The music, ho!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARDIAN</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.4>Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.5>My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.6>As well a woman with an eunuch play'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.7>As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.8>As well as I can, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.9>And when good will is show'd, though't come</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.10>too short,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.11>The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.12>Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.13>My music playing far off, I will betray</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.14>Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.15>Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.16>I'll think them every one an Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.17>And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.18>'Twas merry when</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.19>You wager'd on your angling; when your diver</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.20>Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.21>With fervency drew up.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.22>That time,--O times!--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.23>I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.24>I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.25>Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.26>Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.27>I wore his sword Philippan.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.28>O, from Italy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.29>Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.30>That long time have been barren.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.31>Madam, madam,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.32>Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.33>Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.34>If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.35>My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.36>Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.37>First, madam, he is well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.38>Why, there's more gold.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.39>But, sirrah, mark, we use</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.40>To say the dead are well: bring it to that,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.41>The gold I give thee will I melt and pour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.42>Down thy ill-uttering throat.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.43>Good madam, hear me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.44>Well, go to, I will;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.45>But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.46>Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.47>To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.48>Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.49>Not like a formal man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.50>Will't please you hear me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.51>I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.52>Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.53>Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.54>I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.55>Rich pearls upon thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.56>Madam, he's well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.57>Well said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.58>And friends with Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.59>Thou'rt an honest man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.60>Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.61>Make thee a fortune from me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.62>But yet, madam,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.63>I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.64>The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.65>'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.66>Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.67>Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.68>The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.69>In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.70>Free, madam! no; I made no such report:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.71>He's bound unto Octavia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.72>For what good turn?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.73>For the best turn i' the bed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.74>I am pale, Charmian.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.75>Madam, he's married to Octavia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.76>The most infectious pestilence upon thee!</A><br>
<p><i>Strikes him down</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.77>Good madam, patience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.78>What say you? Hence,</A><br>
<p><i>Strikes him again</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.79>Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.80>Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:</A><br>
<p><i>She hales him up and down</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.81>Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.82>Smarting in lingering pickle.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.83>Gracious madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.84>I that do bring the news made not the match.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.85>Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.86>And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.87>Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.88>And I will boot thee with what gift beside</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.89>Thy modesty can beg.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.90>He's married, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.91>Rogue, thou hast lived too long.</A><br>
<p><i>Draws a knife</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.92>Nay, then I'll run.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.93>What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.94>Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.95>The man is innocent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.96>Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.97>Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.98>Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.99>Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.100>He is afeard to come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.101>I will not hurt him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CHARMIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.102>These hands do lack nobility, that they strike</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.103>A meaner than myself; since I myself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.104>Have given myself the cause.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.105>Come hither, sir.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.106>Though it be honest, it is never good</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.107>To bring bad news: give to a gracious message.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.108>An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.109>Themselves when they be felt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.110>I have done my duty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.111>Is he married?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.112>I cannot hate thee worser than I do,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.113>If thou again say 'Yes.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.114>He's married, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.115>The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.116>Should I lie, madam?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.117>O, I would thou didst,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.118>So half my Egypt were submerged and made</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.119>A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.120>Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.121>Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.122>I crave your highness' pardon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.123>He is married?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.124>Take no offence that I would not offend you:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.125>To punish me for what you make me do.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.126>Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.127>O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.128>That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.129>The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.130>Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.131>And be undone by 'em!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.132>Good your highness, patience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.133>In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.134>Many times, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.5.135> I am paid for't now.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.136>Lead me from hence:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.137>I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.138>Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.139>Report the feature of Octavia, her years,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.140>Her inclination, let him not leave out</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.141>The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ALEXAS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.142>Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.143>Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.144>The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas</A><br>
<p><i>To MARDIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=2.5.145>Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.5.146>But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. Near Misenum.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door, with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS, with Soldiers marching</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.1>Your hostages I have, so have you mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.2>And we shall talk before we fight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.3>Most meet</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.4>That first we come to words; and therefore have we</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.5>Our written purposes before us sent;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.6>Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.7>If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.8>And carry back to Sicily much tall youth</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.9>That else must perish here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.10>To you all three,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.11>The senators alone of this great world,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.12>Chief factors for the gods, I do not know</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.13>Wherefore my father should revengers want,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.14>Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.15>Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.16>There saw you labouring for him. What was't</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.17>That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.18>Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.19>With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.20>To drench the Capitol; but that they would</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.21>Have one man but a man? And that is it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.22>Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.23>The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.24>To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.25>Cast on my noble father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.26>Take your time.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.27>Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.28>We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.29>How much we do o'er-count thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.30>At land, indeed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.31>Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.32>But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.33>Remain in't as thou mayst.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.34>Be pleased to tell us--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.35>For this is from the present--how you take</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.36>The offers we have sent you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.37>There's the point.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.38>Which do not be entreated to, but weigh</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.39>What it is worth embraced.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.40>And what may follow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.41>To try a larger fortune.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.42>You have made me offer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.43>Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.44>Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.45>Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.46>To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.47>Our targes undinted.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.48>That's our offer.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.49>Know, then,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.50>I came before you here a man prepared</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.51>To take this offer: but Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.52>Put me to some impatience: though I lose</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.53>The praise of it by telling, you must know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.54>When Caesar and your brother were at blows,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.55>Your mother came to Sicily and did find</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.56>Her welcome friendly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.57>I have heard it, Pompey;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.58>And am well studied for a liberal thanks</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.59>Which I do owe you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.60>Let me have your hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.61>I did not think, sir, to have met you here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.62>The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.63>That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.64>For I have gain'd by 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.65>Since I saw you last,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.66>There is a change upon you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.67>Well, I know not</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.68>What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.69>But in my bosom shall she never come,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.70>To make my heart her vassal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.71>Well met here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.72>I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.73>I crave our composition may be written,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.74>And seal'd between us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.75>That's the next to do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.76>We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.77>Draw lots who shall begin.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.78>That will I, Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.79>No, Antony, take the lot: but, first</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.80>Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.81>Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.82>Grew fat with feasting there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.83>You have heard much.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.84>I have fair meanings, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.85>And fair words to them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.86>Then so much have I heard:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.87>And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.88>No more of that: he did so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.89>What, I pray you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.90>A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.91>I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.92>Well;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.93>And well am like to do; for, I perceive,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.94>Four feasts are toward.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.95>Let me shake thy hand;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.96>I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.97>When I have envied thy behavior.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.98>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.99>I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.100>When you have well deserved ten times as much</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.101>As I have said you did.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.102>Enjoy thy plainness,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.103>It nothing ill becomes thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.104>Aboard my galley I invite you all:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.105>Will you lead, lords?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<A NAME=speech41><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.106>Show us the way, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.107>Come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.108>[Aside] Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.109>made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.110>At sea, I think.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.111>We have, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.112>You have done well by water.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.113>And you by land.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.114>I will praise any man that will praise me; though it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.115>cannot be denied what I have done by land.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.116>Nor what I have done by water.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.117>Yes, something you can deny for your own</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.118>safety: you have been a great thief by sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.119>And you by land.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.120>There I deny my land service. But give me your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.121>hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.122>might take two thieves kissing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.123>All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.124>But there is never a fair woman has a true face.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.125>No slander; they steal hearts.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.126>We came hither to fight with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.127>For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.128>Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.129>If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.130>You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.131>here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.132>Caesar's sister is called Octavia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.133>True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.134>But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.135>Pray ye, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.136>'Tis true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.137>Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.138>If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.139>not prophesy so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.140>I think the policy of that purpose made more in the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.141>marriage than the love of the parties.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.142>I think so too. But you shall find, the band that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.143>seems to tie their friendship together will be the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.144>very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.145>holy, cold, and still conversation.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.146>Who would not have his wife so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.147>Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.148>He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.149>sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.150>I said before, that which is the strength of their</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.151>amity shall prove the immediate author of their</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.152>variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.153>he married but his occasion here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.154>And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.6.155>I have a health for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.156>I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.6.157>Come, let's away.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VII. On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.1>Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.2>ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.3>will blow them down.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.4>Lepidus is high-coloured.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.5>They have made him drink alms-drink.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.6>As they pinch one another by the disposition, he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.7>cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.8>entreaty, and himself to the drink.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.9>But it raises the greater war between him and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.10>his discretion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.11>Why, this is to have a name in great men's</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.12>fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.13>me no service as a partisan I could not heave.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.14>To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.15>to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.16>which pitifully disaster the cheeks.</A><br>
<p><i>A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.17>[To OCTAVIUS CAESAR] Thus do they, sir: they take</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.18>the flow o' the Nile</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.19>By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.20>By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.21>Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.22>The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.23>Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.24>And shortly comes to harvest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.25>You've strange serpents there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.26>Ay, Lepidus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.27>Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.28>operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.29>They are so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.30>Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.31>I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.32>Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.33>Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.34>pyramises are very goodly things; without</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.35>contradiction, I have heard that.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.36>[Aside to POMPEY] Pompey, a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.37>[Aside to MENAS] Say in mine ear:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.38>what is't?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.39>[Aside to POMPEY] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.40>thee, captain,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.41>And hear me speak a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.42>[Aside to MENAS] Forbear me till anon.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.43>This wine for Lepidus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.44>What manner o' thing is your crocodile?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.45>It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.46>as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.47>and moves with its own organs: it lives by that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.48>which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.49>it, it transmigrates.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.50>What colour is it of?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.51>Of it own colour too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.52>'Tis a strange serpent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.53>'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.54>Will this description satisfy him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.55>With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.56>very epicure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.57>[Aside to MENAS] Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.58>that? away!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.59>Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.60>[Aside to POMPEY] If for the sake of merit thou</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.61>wilt hear me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.62>Rise from thy stool.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.63>[Aside to MENAS] I think thou'rt mad.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.64>The matter?</A><br>
<p><i>Rises, and walks aside</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.65>I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.66>Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.67>Be jolly, lords.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.68> These quick-sands, Lepidus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.69>Keep off them, for you sink.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.70>Wilt thou be lord of all the world?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.71>What say'st thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.72>Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.73>How should that be?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.74>But entertain it,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.75>And, though thou think me poor, I am the man</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.76>Will give thee all the world.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.77>Hast thou drunk well?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.78>Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.79>Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.80>Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.81>Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.82>Show me which way.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.83>These three world-sharers, these competitors,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.84>Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.85>And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.86>All there is thine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.87>Ah, this thou shouldst have done,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.88>And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.89>In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.90>'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.91>Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.92>Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.93>I should have found it afterwards well done;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.94>But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.95>[Aside] For this,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.96>I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.97>Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.98>Shall never find it more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.99>This health to Lepidus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.100>Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.101>Here's to thee, Menas!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.102>Enobarbus, welcome!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.103>Fill till the cup be hid.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.104>There's a strong fellow, Menas.</A><br>
<p><i>Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.105>Why?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.106>A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.107>not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.108>The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.109>That it might go on wheels!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.110>Drink thou; increase the reels.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.111>Come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.112>This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.113>It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.114>Here is to Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.115> I could well forbear't.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.116>It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.117>And it grows fouler.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.118>Be a child o' the time.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.119>Possess it, I'll make answer:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.120>But I had rather fast from all four days</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.121>Than drink so much in one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.122>Ha, my brave emperor!</A><br>
<p><i>To MARK ANTONY</i></p>
<A NAME=2.7.123>Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.124>And celebrate our drink?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.125>Let's ha't, good soldier.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.126>Come, let's all take hands,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.127>Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.128>In soft and delicate Lethe.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.129>All take hands.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.130>Make battery to our ears with the loud music:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.131>The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.132>The holding every man shall bear as loud</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.133>As his strong sides can volley.</A><br>
<p><i>Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand</i></p>
<A NAME=2.7.134>THE SONG.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.135>Come, thou monarch of the vine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.136>Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.137>In thy fats our cares be drown'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.138>With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.139>Cup us, till the world go round,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.140>Cup us, till the world go round!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.141>What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.142>Let me request you off: our graver business</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.143>Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.144>You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.145>Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.146>Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.147>Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.148>Good Antony, your hand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.149>I'll try you on the shore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.150>And shall, sir; give's your hand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.151>O Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.152>You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.153>Come, down into the boat.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.154>Take heed you fall not.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.7.155>Menas, I'll not on shore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.156>No, to my cabin.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.157>These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.158>Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell</A><br>
<A NAME=2.7.159>To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!</A><br>
<p><i>Sound a flourish, with drums</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.160>Ho! says a' There's my cap.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>MENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.7.161>Ho! Noble captain, come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT III</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. A plain in Syria.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.1>Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.2>Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.3>Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.4>Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.5>Pays this for Marcus Crassus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.6>Noble Ventidius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.7>Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.8>The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.9>Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.10>The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.11>Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.12>Put garlands on thy head.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.13>O Silius, Silius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.14>I have done enough; a lower place, note well,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.15>May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.16>Better to leave undone, than by our deed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.17>Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.18>Caesar and Antony have ever won</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.19>More in their officer than person: Sossius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.20>One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.21>For quick accumulation of renown,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.22>Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.23>Who does i' the wars more than his captain can</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.24>Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.25>The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.26>Than gain which darkens him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.27>I could do more to do Antonius good,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.28>But 'twould offend him; and in his offence</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.29>Should my performance perish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>SILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.30>Thou hast, Ventidius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.31>that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.32>Without the which a soldier, and his sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.33>Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.34>I'll humbly signify what in his name,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.35>That magical word of war, we have effected;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.36>How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.37>The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.38>We have jaded out o' the field.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>SILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.39>Where is he now?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.40>He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.41>The weight we must convey with's will permit,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.42>We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at another</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.1>What, are the brothers parted?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.2>They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.3>The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.4>To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.5>Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.6>With the green sickness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.7>'Tis a noble Lepidus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.8>A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.9>Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.10>Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.11>What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.12>Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.13>O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.14>Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.15>Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.16>But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.17>Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.18>poets, cannot</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.19>Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.20>His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.21>Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.22>Both he loves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.23>They are his shards, and he their beetle.</A><br>
<p><i>Trumpets within</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.24>So;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.25>This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.26>Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.27>No further, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.28>You take from me a great part of myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.29>Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.30>As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.31>Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.32>Let not the piece of virtue, which is set</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.33>Betwixt us as the cement of our love,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.34>To keep it builded, be the ram to batter</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.35>The fortress of it; for better might we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.36>Have loved without this mean, if on both parts</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.37>This be not cherish'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.38>Make me not offended</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.39>In your distrust.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.40> I have said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.41>You shall not find,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.42>Though you be therein curious, the least cause</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.43>For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.44>And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.45>We will here part.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.46>Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.47>The elements be kind to thee, and make</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.48>Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.49>My noble brother!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.50>The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.51>And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.52>Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.53>What, Octavia?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.54> I'll tell you in your ear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.55>Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.56>Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.57>down-feather,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.58>That stands upon the swell at full of tide,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.59>And neither way inclines.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.60>[Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.61>[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.62>[Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.63>were he a horse;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.64>So is he, being a man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.65>[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.66>When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.67>He cried almost to roaring; and he wept</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.68>When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.69>[Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he was</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.70>troubled with a rheum;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.71>What willingly he did confound he wail'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.72>Believe't, till I wept too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.73>No, sweet Octavia,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.74>You shall hear from me still; the time shall not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.75>Out-go my thinking on you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.76>Come, sir, come;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.77>I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.78>Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.79>And give you to the gods.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.80>Adieu; be happy!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.81>Let all the number of the stars give light</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.82>To thy fair way!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.83>Farewell, fa rewell!</A><br>
<p><i>Kisses OCTAVIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.84>Farewell!</A><br>
<p><i>Trumpets sound. Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.1>Where is the fellow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.2>Half afeard to come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.3>Go to, go to.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the Messenger as before</i></p>
<A NAME=3.3.4>Come hither, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ALEXAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.5>Good majesty,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.6>Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.7>But when you are well pleased.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.8>That Herod's head</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.9>I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.10>Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.11>Most gracious majesty,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.12>Didst thou behold Octavia?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.13>Ay, dread queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.14>Where?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.15>Madam, in Rome;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.16>I look'd her in the face, and saw her led</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.17>Between her brother and Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.18>Is she as tall as me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.19>She is not, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.20>Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.21>Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.22>That's not so good: he cannot like her long.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.23>Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.24>I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.25>What majesty is in her gait? Remember,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.26>If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.27>She creeps:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.28>Her motion and her station are as one;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.29>She shows a body rather than a life,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.30>A statue than a breather.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.31>Is this certain?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.32>Or I have no observance.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.33>Three in Egypt</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.34>Cannot make better note.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.35>He's very knowing;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.36>I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.37>The fellow has good judgment.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.38>Excellent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.39>Guess at her years, I prithee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.40>Madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.41>She was a widow,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.42> Widow! Charmian, hark.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.43>And I do think she's thirty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.44>Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.45>Round even to faultiness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.46>For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.47>Her hair, what colour?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.48>Brown, madam: and her forehead</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.49>As low as she would wish it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.50>There's gold for thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.51>Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.52>I will employ thee back again; I find thee</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.53>Most fit for business: go make thee ready;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.54>Our letters are prepared.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.55>A proper man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.56>Indeed, he is so: I repent me much</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.57>That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.58>This creature's no such thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.59>Nothing, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.60>The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.61>Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.62>And serving you so long!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.63>I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.64>But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.65>Where I will write. All may be well enough.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.66>I warrant you, madam.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.1>Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.2>That were excusable, that, and thousands more</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.3>Of semblable import,--but he hath waged</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.4>New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.5>To public ear:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.6>Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.7>But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.8>He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.9>When the best hint was given him, he not took't,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.10>Or did it from his teeth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.11>O my good lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.12>Believe not all; or, if you must believe,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.13>Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.14>If this division chance, ne'er stood between,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.15>Praying for both parts:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.16>The good gods me presently,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.17>When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.18>Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.19>'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.20>Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.21>'Twixt these extremes at all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.22>Gentle Octavia,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.23>Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.24>Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.25>I lose myself: better I were not yours</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.26>Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.27>Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.28>I'll raise the preparation of a war</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.29>Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.30>So your desires are yours.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.31>Thanks to my lord.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.32>The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.33>Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.34>As if the world should cleave, and that slain men</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.35>Should solder up the rift.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.4.36>When it appears to you where this begins,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.37>Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.38>Can never be so equal, that your love</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.39>Can equally move with them. Provide your going;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.40>Choose your own company, and command what cost</A><br>
<A NAME=3.4.41>Your heart has mind to.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. The same. Another room.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.1>How now, friend Eros!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.2>There's strange news come, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.3>What, man?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.4>Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.5>This is old: what is the success?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.6>Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.7>Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.8>him partake in the glory of the action: and not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.9>resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.10>wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.11>the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.12>Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.13>And throw between them all the food thou hast,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.14>They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.15>He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.16>The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.17>And threats the throat of that his officer</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.18>That murder'd Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.19>Our great navy's rigg'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.20>For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.21>My lord desires you presently: my news</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.22>I might have told hereafter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.23>'Twill be naught:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.5.24>But let it be. Bring me to Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.5.25>Come, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.1>Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.2>In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.3>I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.4>Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.5>Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.6>Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.7>And all the unlawful issue that their lust</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.8>Since then hath made between them. Unto her</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.9>He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.10>Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.11>Absolute queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.12> This in the public eye?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.13>I' the common show-place, where they exercise.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.14>His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.15>Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.16>He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.17>Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.18>In the habiliments of the goddess Isis</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.19>That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.20>As 'tis reported, so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.21>Let Rome be thus Inform'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.22>Who, queasy with his insolence</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.23>Already, will their good thoughts call from him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.24>The people know it; and have now received</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.25>His accusations.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.26> Who does he accuse?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.27>Caesar: and that, having in Sicily</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.28>Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.29>His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.30>Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.31>That Lepidus of the triumvirate</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.32>Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.33>All his revenue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.34> Sir, this should be answer'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.35>'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.36>I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.37>That he his high authority abused,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.38>And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.39>I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.40>And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.41>Demand the like.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.42> He'll never yield to that.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.43>Nor must not then be yielded to in this.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter OCTAVIA with her train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.44>Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.45>That ever I should call thee castaway!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.46>You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.47>Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.48>Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.49>Should have an army for an usher, and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.50>The neighs of horse to tell of her approach</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.51>Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.52>Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.53>Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.54>Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.55>Raised by your populous troops: but you are come</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.56>A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.57>The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.58>Is often left unloved; we should have met you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.59>By sea and land; supplying every stage</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.60>With an augmented greeting.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.61>Good my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.62>To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.63>On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.64>Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.65>My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.66>His pardon for return.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.67>Which soon he granted,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.68>Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.69>Do not say so, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.70>I have eyes upon him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.71>And his affairs come to me on the wind.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.72>Where is he now?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.73> My lord, in Athens.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.74>No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.75>Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.76>Up to a whore; who now are levying</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.77>The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.78>Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.79>Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.80>Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.81>King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.82>Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.83>Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.84>The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.85>With a more larger list of sceptres.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.86>Ay me, most wretched,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.87>That have my heart parted betwixt two friends</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.88>That do afflict each other!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.89>Welcome hither:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.90>Your letters did withhold our breaking forth;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.91>Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.92>And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.93>Be you not troubled with the time, which drives</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.94>O'er your content these strong necessities;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.95>But let determined things to destiny</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.96>Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.97>Nothing more dear to me. You are abused</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.98>Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.99>To do you justice, make them ministers</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.100>Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.101>And ever welcome to us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.102>Welcome, lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.103>Welcome, dear madam.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.104>Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.105>Only the adulterous Antony, most large</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.106>In his abominations, turns you off;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.107>And gives his potent regiment to a trull,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.108>That noises it against us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>OCTAVIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.109>Is it so, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.6.110>Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.6.111>Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.1>I will be even with thee, doubt it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.2>But why, why, why?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.3>Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.4>And say'st it is not fit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.5>Well, is it, is it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.6>If not denounced against us, why should not we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.7>Be there in person?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.8>[Aside] Well, I could reply:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.9>If we should serve with horse and mares together,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.10>The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.11>A soldier and his horse.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.12>What is't you say?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.13>Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.14>Take from his heart, take from his brain,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.15>from's time,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.16>What should not then be spared. He is already</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.17>Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.18>That Photinus an eunuch and your maids</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.19>Manage this war.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.20> Sink Rome, and their tongues rot</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.21>That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.22>And, as the president of my kingdom, will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.23>Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.24>I will not stay behind.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.25>Nay, I have done.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.26>Here comes the emperor.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.27>Is it not strange, Canidius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.28>That from Tarentum and Brundusium</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.29>He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.30>And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.31>Celerity is never more admired</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.32>Than by the negligent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.33>A good rebuke,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.34>Which might have well becomed the best of men,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.35>To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.36>Will fight with him by sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.37>By sea! what else?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.38>Why will my lord do so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.39>For that he dares us to't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.40>So hath my lord dared him to single fight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.41>Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.42>Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.43>Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.44>And so should you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.45> Your ships are not well mann'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.46>Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.47>Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.48>Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.49>Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.50>Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.51>Being prepared for land.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.52>By sea, by sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.53>Most worthy sir, you therein throw away</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.54>The absolute soldiership you have by land;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.55>Distract your army, which doth most consist</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.56>Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.57>Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.58>The way which promises assurance; and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.59>Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.60>From firm security.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.61>I'll fight at sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.62>I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.63>Our overplus of shipping will we burn;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.64>And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.65>Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.66>We then can do't at land.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=3.7.67>Thy business?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.68>The news is true, my lord; he is descried;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.69>Caesar has taken Toryne.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.70>Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.71>Strange that power should be. Canidius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.72>Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.73>And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.74>Away, my Thetis!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Soldier</i></p>
<A NAME=3.7.75>How now, worthy soldier?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.76>O noble emperor, do not fight by sea;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.77>Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.78>This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.79>And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.80>Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.81>And fighting foot to foot.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.82>Well, well: away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.83>By Hercules, I think I am i' the right.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.84>Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.85>Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.86>And we are women's men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.87>You keep by land</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.88>The legions and the horse whole, do you not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.89>Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.90>Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.91>But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.92>Carries beyond belief.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.93>While he was yet in Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.94>His power went out in such distractions as</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.95>Beguiled all spies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.96>Who's his lieutenant, hear you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.97>They say, one Taurus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.98>Well I know the man.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.99>The emperor calls Canidius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.7.100>With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.7.101>Each minute, some.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.8.1>Taurus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>TAURUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.8.2>My lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.8.3>Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.8.4>Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.8.5>The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies</A><br>
<A NAME=3.8.6>Upon this jump.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IX. Another part of the plain.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.9.1>Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.9.2>In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place</A><br>
<A NAME=3.9.3>We may the number of the ships behold,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.9.4>And so proceed accordingly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE X. Another part of the plain.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight</i>
</blockquote>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.1>Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.2>The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.3>With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.4>To see't mine eyes are blasted.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter SCARUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.5>Gods and goddesses,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.6>All the whole synod of them!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.7>What's thy passion!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.8>The greater cantle of the world is lost</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.9>With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.10>Kingdoms and provinces.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.11>How appears the fight?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.12>On our side like the token'd pestilence,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.13>Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.14>Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.15>When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.16>Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.17>The breese upon her, like a cow in June,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.18>Hoists sails and flies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.19>That I beheld:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.20>Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.21>Endure a further view.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.22>She once being loof'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.23>The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.24>Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.25>Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.26>I never saw an action of such shame;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.27>Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.28>Did violate so itself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.29>Alack, alack!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CANIDIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.30>Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.31>And sinks most lamentably. Had our general</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.32>Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.33>O, he has given example for our flight,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.34>Most grossly, by his own!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.35>Ay, are you thereabouts?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.36>Why, then, good night indeed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.37>Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.38>'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.39>What further comes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CANIDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.40>To Caesar will I render</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.41>My legions and my horse: six kings already</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.42>Show me the way of yielding.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.10.43>I'll yet follow</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.44>The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason</A><br>
<A NAME=3.10.45>Sits in the wind against me.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.1>Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.2>It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.3>I am so lated in the world, that I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.4>Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.5>Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.6>And make your peace with Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.7>Fly! not we.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.8>I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.9>To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.10>I have myself resolved upon a course</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.11>Which has no need of you; be gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.12>My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.13>I follow'd that I blush to look upon:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.14>My very hairs do mutiny; for the white</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.15>Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.16>For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.17>Have letters from me to some friends that will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.18>Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.19>Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.20>Which my despair proclaims; let that be left</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.21>Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.22>I will possess you of that ship and treasure.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.23>Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.24>Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.25>Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.</A><br>
<p><i>Sits down</i></p>
<p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS; EROS following</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.26>Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.27>Do, most dear queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.28>Do! why: what else?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.29>Let me sit down. O Juno!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.30>No, no, no, no, no.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.31>See you here, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.32>O fie, fie, fie!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.33>Madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.34>Madam, O good empress!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.35>Sir, sir,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.36>Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.37>His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.38>The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.39>That the mad Brutus ended: he alone</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.40>Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.41>In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.42>Ah, stand by.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.43>The queen, my lord, the queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.44>Go to him, madam, speak to him:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.45>He is unqualitied with very shame.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.46>Well then, sustain him: O!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.47>Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.48>Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.49>Your comfort makes the rescue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.50>I have offended reputation,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.51>A most unnoble swerving.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.52>Sir, the queen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.53>O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.54>How I convey my shame out of thine eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.55>By looking back what I have left behind</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.56>'Stroy'd in dishonour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.57>O my lord, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.58>Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.59>You would have follow'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.60>Egypt, thou knew'st too well</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.61>My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.62>And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.63>Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.64>Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.65>Command me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.66> O, my pardon!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.67>Now I must</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.68>To the young man send humble treaties, dodge</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.69>And palter in the shifts of lowness; who</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.70>With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.71>Making and marring fortunes. You did know</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.72>How much you were my conqueror; and that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.73>My sword, made weak by my affection, would</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.74>Obey it on all cause.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.75>Pardon, pardon!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.11.76>Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.77>All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.78>Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.79>Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.80>Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows</A><br>
<A NAME=3.11.81>We scorn her most when most she offers blows.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.1>Let him appear that's come from Antony.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.2>Know you him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.3> Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.4>An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.5>He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.6>Which had superfluous kings for messengers</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.7>Not many moons gone by.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.8>Approach, and speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>EUPHRONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.9>Such as I am, I come from Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.10>I was of late as petty to his ends</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.11>As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.12>To his grand sea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.13> Be't so: declare thine office.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>EUPHRONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.14>Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.15>Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.16>He lessens his requests; and to thee sues</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.17>To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.18>A private man in Athens: this for him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.19>Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.20>Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.21>The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.22>Now hazarded to thy grace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.23>For Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.24>I have no ears to his request. The queen</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.25>Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.26>From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.27>Or take his life there: this if she perform,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.28>She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>EUPHRONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.29>Fortune pursue thee!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.30>Bring him through the bands.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit EUPHRONIUS</i></p>
<p><i>To THYREUS</i></p>
<A NAME=3.12.31>From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.32>And in our name, what she requires; add more,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.33>From thine invention, offers: women are not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.34>In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.35>The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.36>Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.37>Will answer as a law.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.38>Caesar, I go.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.39>Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.40>And what thou think'st his very action speaks</A><br>
<A NAME=3.12.41>In every power that moves.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.12.42>Caesar, I shall.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.1>What shall we do, Enobarbus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.2>Think, and die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.3>Is Antony or we in fault for this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.4>Antony only, that would make his will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.5>Lord of his reason. What though you fled</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.6>From that great face of war, whose several ranges</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.7>Frighted each other? why should he follow?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.8>The itch of his affection should not then</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.9>Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.10>When half to half the world opposed, he being</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.11>The meered question: 'twas a shame no less</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.12>Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.13>And leave his navy gazing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.14>Prithee, peace.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.15>Is that his answer?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>EUPHRONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.16>Ay, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.17>The queen shall then have courtesy, so she</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.18>Will yield us up.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>EUPHRONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.19> He says so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.20>Let her know't.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.21>To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.22>And he will fill thy wishes to the brim</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.23>With principalities.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.24>That head, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.25>To him again: tell him he wears the rose</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.26>Of youth upon him; from which the world should note</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.27>Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.28>May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.29>Under the service of a child as soon</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.30>As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.31>To lay his gay comparisons apart,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.32>And answer me declined, sword against sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.33>Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.34>[Aside] Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.35>Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.36>Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.37>A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.38>Do draw the inward quality after them,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.39>To suffer all alike. That he should dream,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.40>Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.41>Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.42>His judgment too.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter an Attendant</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.43> A messenger from CAESAR.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.44>What, no more ceremony? See, my women!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.45>Against the blown rose may they stop their nose</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.46>That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Attendant</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.47>[Aside] Mine honesty and I begin to square.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.48>The loyalty well held to fools does make</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.49>Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.50>To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.51>Does conquer him that did his master conquer</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.52>And earns a place i' the story.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter THYREUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.53>Caesar's will?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.54>Hear it apart.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.55> None but friends: say boldly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.56>So, haply, are they friends to Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.57>He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.58>Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.59>Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.60>Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.61>So.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.62>Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.63>Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.64>Further than he is Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.65>Go on: right royal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.66>He knows that you embrace not Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.67>As you did love, but as you fear'd him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.68>O!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.69>The scars upon your honour, therefore, he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.70>Does pity, as constrained blemishes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.71>Not as deserved.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.72> He is a god, and knows</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.73>What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.74>But conquer'd merely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.75>[Aside] To be sure of that,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.76>I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.77>That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.78>Thy dearest quit thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.79>Shall I say to Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.80>What you require of him? for he partly begs</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.81>To be desired to give. It much would please him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.82>That of his fortunes you should make a staff</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.83>To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.84>To hear from me you had left Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.85>And put yourself under his shrowd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.86>The universal landlord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.87>What's your name?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.88>My name is Thyreus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.89>Most kind messenger,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.90>Say to great Caesar this: in deputation</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.91>I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.92>To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.93>Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.94>The doom of Egypt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.95>'Tis your noblest course.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.96>Wisdom and fortune combating together,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.97>If that the former dare but what it can,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.98>No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.99>My duty on your hand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.100>Your Caesar's father oft,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.101>When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.102>Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.103>As it rain'd kisses.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.104>Favours, by Jove that thunders!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.105>What art thou, fellow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.106>One that but performs</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.107>The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.108>To have command obey'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.109>[Aside] You will be whipp'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.110>Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.111>and devils!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.112>Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.113>Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.114>And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.115>Antony yet.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Attendants</i></p>
<A NAME=3.13.116>Take hence this Jack, and whip him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.117>[Aside] 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.118>Than with an old one dying.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.119>Moon and stars!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.120>Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.121>That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.122>So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.123>Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.124>Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.125>And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>THYREUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.126>Mark Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.127> Tug him away: being whipp'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.128>Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.129>Bear us an errand to him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS</i></p>
<A NAME=3.13.130>You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.131>Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.132>Forborne the getting of a lawful race,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.133>And by a gem of women, to be abused</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.134>By one that looks on feeders?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.135>Good my lord,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.136>You have been a boggler ever:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.137>But when we in our viciousness grow hard--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.138>O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.139>In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.140>Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.141>To our confusion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.142> O, is't come to this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.143>I found you as a morsel cold upon</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.144>Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.145>Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.146>Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.147>Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.148>Though you can guess what temperance should be,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.149>You know not what it is.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.150>Wherefore is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.151>To let a fellow that will take rewards</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.152>And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.153>My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.154>And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.155>Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.156>The horned herd! for I have savage cause;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.157>And to proclaim it civilly, were like</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.158>A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.159>For being yare about him.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS</i></p>
<A NAME=3.13.160>Is he whipp'd?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>First Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.161>Soundly, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.162> Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>First Attendant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.163>He did ask favour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.164>If that thy father live, let him repent</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.165>Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.166>To follow Caesar in his triumph, since</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.167>Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.168>The white hand of a lady fever thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.169>Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.170>Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.171>He makes me angry with him; for he seems</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.172>Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.173>Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.174>And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.175>When my good stars, that were my former guides,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.176>Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.177>Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.178>My speech and what is done, tell him he has</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.179>Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.180>He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.181>As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.182>Hence with thy stripes, begone!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit THYREUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.183>Have you done yet?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.184> Alack, our terrene moon</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.185>Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.186>The fall of Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.187>I must stay his time.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.188>To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.189>With one that ties his points?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.190>Not know me yet?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.191>Cold-hearted toward me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.192>Ah, dear, if I be so,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.193>From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.194>And poison it in the source; and the first stone</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.195>Drop in my neck: as it determines, so</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.196>Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.197>Till by degrees the memory of my womb,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.198>Together with my brave Egyptians all,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.199>By the discandying of this pelleted storm,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.200>Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.201>Have buried them for prey!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.202>I am satisfied.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.203>Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.204>I will oppose his fate. Our force by land</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.205>Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.206>Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.207>Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.208>If from the field I shall return once more</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.209>To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.210>I and my sword will earn our chronicle:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.211>There's hope in't yet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.212>That's my brave lord!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.213>I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.214>And fight maliciously: for when mine hours</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.215>Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.216>Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.217>And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.218>Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.219>All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.220>Let's mock the midnight bell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.221>It is my birth-day:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.222>I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.223>Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.224>We will yet do well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.225>Call all his noble captains to my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.226>Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.227>The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.228>There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.229>I'll make death love me; for I will contend</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.230>Even with his pestilent scythe.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.13.231>Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.232>Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.233>The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.234>A diminution in our captain's brain</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.235>Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.236>It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek</A><br>
<A NAME=3.13.237>Some way to leave him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT IV</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.1>He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.2>To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.3>He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.4>Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.5>I have many other ways to die; meantime</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.6>Laugh at his challenge.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.7>Caesar must think,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.8>When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.9>Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.10>Make boot of his distraction: never anger</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.11>Made good guard for itself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.12>Let our best heads</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.13>Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.14>We mean to fight: within our files there are,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.15>Of those that served Mark Antony but late,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.16>Enough to fetch him in. See it done:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.17>And feast the army; we have store to do't,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.18>And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.1>He will not fight with me, Domitius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.2>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.3>Why should he not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.4>He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.5>He is twenty men to one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.6>To-morrow, soldier,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.7>By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.8>Or bathe my dying honour in the blood</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.9>Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.10>I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.11>Well said; come on.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.12>Call forth my household servants: let's to-night</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.13>Be bounteous at our meal.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter three or four Servitors</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.14>Give me thy hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.15>Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.16>Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.17>And kings have been your fellows.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.18>[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What means this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.19>[Aside to CLEOPATRA] 'Tis one of those odd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.20>tricks which sorrow shoots</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.21>Out of the mind.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.22> And thou art honest too.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.23>I wish I could be made so many men,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.24>And all of you clapp'd up together in</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.25>An Antony, that I might do you service</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.26>So good as you have done.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.27>The gods forbid!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.28>Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.29>Scant not my cups; and make as much of me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.30>As when mine empire was your fellow too,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.31>And suffer'd my command.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.32>[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What does he mean?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.33>[Aside to CLEOPATRA] To make his followers weep.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.34>Tend me to-night;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.35>May be it is the period of your duty:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.36>Haply you shall not see me more; or if,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.37>A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.38>You'll serve another master. I look on you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.39>As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.40>I turn you not away; but, like a master</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.41>Married to your good service, stay till death:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.42>Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.43>And the gods yield you for't!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.44>What mean you, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.45>To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.46>And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.47>Transform us not to women.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.48>Ho, ho, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.49>Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.50>Grace grow where those drops fall!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.51>My hearty friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.52>You take me in too dolorous a sense;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.53>For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.54>To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.55>I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.56>Where rather I'll expect victorious life</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.57>Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.58>And drown consideration.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The same. Before the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter two Soldiers to their guard</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.1>Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.2>It will determine one way: fare you well.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.3>Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.4>Nothing. What news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.5>Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.6>Well, sir, good night.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter two other Soldiers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.7>Soldiers, have careful watch.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.8>And you. Good night, good night.</A><br>
<p><i>They place themselves in every corner of the stage</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Fourth Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.9>Here we: and if to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.10>Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.11>Our landmen will stand up.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.12>'Tis a brave army,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.13>And full of purpose.</A><br>
<p><i>Music of the hautboys as under the stage</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Fourth Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.14>Peace! what noise?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.15>List, list!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.16>Hark!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.17> Music i' the air.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.18>Under the earth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Fourth Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.19>It signs well, does it not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.20>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.21>Peace, I say!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.22>What should this mean?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.23>'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.24>Now leaves him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.25>Walk; let's see if other watchmen</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.26>Do hear what we do?</A><br>
<p><i>They advance to another post</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.27>How now, masters!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.28>[Speaking together] How now!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.29>How now! do you hear this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.30>Ay; is't not strange?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.31>Do you hear, masters? do you hear?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.32>Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.33>Let's see how it will give off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.34>Content. 'Tis strange.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and others attending</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.1>Eros! mine armour, Eros!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.2>Sleep a little.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.3>No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter EROS with armour</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.4>Come good fellow, put mine iron on:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.5>If fortune be not ours to-day, it is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.6>Because we brave her: come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.7>Nay, I'll help too.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.8>What's this for?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.9> Ah, let be, let be! thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.10>The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.11>Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.12>Well, well;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.13>We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.14>Go put on thy defences.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.15>Briefly, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.16>Is not this buckled well?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.17>Rarely, rarely:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.18>He that unbuckles this, till we do please</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.19>To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.20>Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.21>More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.22>That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.23>The royal occupation! thou shouldst see</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.24>A workman in't.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter an armed Soldier</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.25>Good morrow to thee; welcome:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.26>Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.27>To business that we love we rise betime,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.28>And go to't with delight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.29>A thousand, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.30>Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.31>And at the port expect you.</A><br>
<p><i>Shout. Trumpets flourish</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Captains and Soldiers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Captain</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.32>The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.33>Good morrow, general.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.34>'Tis well blown, lads:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.35>This morning, like the spirit of a youth</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.36>That means to be of note, begins betimes.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.37>So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.38>Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.39>This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable</A><br>
<p><i>Kisses her</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.40>And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.41>On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.42>Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.43>Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.44>Please you, retire to your chamber.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.45>Lead me.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.46>He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.47>Determine this great war in single fight!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.48>Then Antony,--but now--Well, on.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a Soldier meeting them</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.1>The gods make this a happy day to Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.2>Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.3>To make me fight at land!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.4>Hadst thou done so,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.5>The kings that have revolted, and the soldier</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.6>That has this morning left thee, would have still</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.7>Follow'd thy heels.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.8>Who's gone this morning?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.9>Who!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.10>One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.11>He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.12>Say 'I am none of thine.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.13>What say'st thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.14>Sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.15>He is with Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.16> Sir, his chests and treasure</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.17>He has not with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.18>Is he gone?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.19>Most certain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.20>Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.21>Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.22>I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.23>Say that I wish he never find more cause</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.24>To change a master. O, my fortunes have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.25>Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.1>Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.2>Our will is Antony be took alive;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.3>Make it so known.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.4>Caesar, I shall.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.5>The time of universal peace is near:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.6>Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.7>Shall bear the olive freely.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.8>Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.9>Is come into the field.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.10>Go charge Agrippa</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.11>Plant those that have revolted in the van,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.12>That Antony may seem to spend his fury</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.13>Upon himself.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.14>Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.15>Affairs of Antony; there did persuade</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.16>Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.17>And leave his master Antony: for this pains</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.18>Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.19>That fell away have entertainment, but</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.20>No honourable trust. I have done ill;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.21>Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.22>That I will joy no more.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.23>Enobarbus, Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.24>Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.25>His bounty overplus: the messenger</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.26>Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.27>Unloading of his mules.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.28>I give it you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.29>Mock not, Enobarbus.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.30>I tell you true: best you safed the bringer</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.31>Out of the host; I must attend mine office,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.32>Or would have done't myself. Your emperor</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.33>Continues still a Jove.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.34>I am alone the villain of the earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.35>And feel I am so most. O Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.36>Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.37>My better service, when my turpitude</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.38>Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.39>If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.40>Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.41>I fight against thee! No: I will go seek</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.42>Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.43>My latter part of life.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VII. Field of battle between the camps.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.1>Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.2>Caesar himself has work, and our oppression</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.3>Exceeds what we expected.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.4>O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.5>Had we done so at first, we had droven them home</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.6>With clouts about their heads.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.7>Thou bleed'st apace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.8>I had a wound here that was like a T,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.9>But now 'tis made an H.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.10>They do retire.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.11>We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.12>Room for six scotches more.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter EROS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.13>They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.14>For a fair victory.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.15>Let us score their backs,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.16>And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.17>'Tis sport to maul a runner.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.18>I will reward thee</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.19>Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold</A><br>
<A NAME=4.7.20>For thy good valour. Come thee on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.7.21>I'll halt after.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS, with others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.8.1>We have beat him to his camp: run one before,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.2>And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.3>Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.4>That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.5>For doughty-handed are you, and have fought</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.6>Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.7>Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.8>Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.9>Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.10>Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.11>The honour'd gashes whole.</A><br>
<p><i>To SCARUS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.8.12>Give me thy hand</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA, attended</i></p>
<A NAME=4.8.13>To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.14>Make her thanks bless thee.</A><br>
<p><i>To CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.8.15>O thou day o' the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.16>Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.17>Through proof of harness to my heart, and there</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.18>Ride on the pants triumphing!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.8.19>Lord of lords!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.20>O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.21>The world's great snare uncaught?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.8.22>My nightingale,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.23>We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.24>though grey</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.25>Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.26>A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.27>Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.28>Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.29>Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.30>As if a god, in hate of mankind, had</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.31>Destroy'd in such a shape.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.8.32>I'll give thee, friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.33>An armour all of gold; it was a king's.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.8.34>He has deserved it, were it carbuncled</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.35>Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.36>Through Alexandria make a jolly march;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.37>Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.38>Had our great palace the capacity</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.39>To camp this host, we all would sup together,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.40>And drink carouses to the next day's fate,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.41>Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.42>With brazen din blast you the city's ear;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.43>Make mingle with rattling tabourines;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.44>That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.8.45>Applauding our approach.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Sentinels at their post</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.1>If we be not relieved within this hour,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.2>We must return to the court of guard: the night</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.3>Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.4>By the second hour i' the morn.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.5>This last day was</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.6>A shrewd one to's.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.7> O, bear me witness, night,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.8>What man is this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.9> Stand close, and list him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.10>Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.11>When men revolted shall upon record</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.12>Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.13>Before thy face repent!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.14>Enobarbus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.15>Peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.16>Hark further.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.17>O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.18>The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.19>That life, a very rebel to my will,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.20>May hang no longer on me: throw my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.21>Against the flint and hardness of my fault:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.22>Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.23>And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.24>Nobler than my revolt is infamous,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.25>Forgive me in thine own particular;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.26>But let the world rank me in register</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.27>A master-leaver and a fugitive:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.28>O Antony! O Antony!</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.29>Let's speak To him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.30>Let's hear him, for the things he speaks</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.31>May concern Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.32>Let's do so. But he sleeps.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.33>Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.34>Was never yet for sleep.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.35>Go we to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.36>Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.37>Hear you, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.38>The hand of death hath raught him.</A><br>
<p><i>Drums afar off</i></p>
<A NAME=4.9.39>Hark! the drums</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.40>Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.41>To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.42>Is fully out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.9.43>Come on, then;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.9.44>He may recover yet.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt with the body</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE X. Between the two camps.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.10.1>Their preparation is to-day by sea;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.2>We please them not by land.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.10.3>For both, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.10.4>I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.5>We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.6>Upon the hills adjoining to the city</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.7>Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.8>They have put forth the haven</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.9>Where their appointment we may best discover,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.10.10>And look on their endeavour.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XI. Another part of the same.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.11.1>But being charged, we will be still by land,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.11.2>Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force</A><br>
<A NAME=4.11.3>Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.11.4>And hold our best advantage.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XII. Another part of the same.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.12.1>Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.2>does stand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.3>I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.4>Straight, how 'tis like to go.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>SCARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.12.5>Swallows have built</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.6>In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.7>Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.8>And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.9>Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.10>His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.11>Of what he has, and has not.</A><br>
<p><i>Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.12.12>All is lost;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.13>This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.14>My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.15>They cast their caps up and carouse together</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.16>Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.17>'tis thou</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.18>Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.19>Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.20>For when I am revenged upon my charm,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.21>I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit SCARUS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.12.22>O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.23>Fortune and Antony part here; even here</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.24>Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.25>That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.26>Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.27>On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.28>That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.29>O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.30>Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.31>Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.32>Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.33>Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.34>What, Eros, Eros!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.12.35>Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.12.36>Why is my lord enraged against his love?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.12.37>Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.38>And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.39>And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.40>Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.41>Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.42>For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.43>Patient Octavia plough thy visage up</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.44>With her prepared nails.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.12.45>'Tis well thou'rt gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.46>If it be well to live; but better 'twere</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.47>Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.48>Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.49>The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.50>Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.51>Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.52>And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.53>Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.54>To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall</A><br>
<A NAME=4.12.55>Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.13.1>Help me, my women! O, he is more mad</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.2>Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.3>Was never so emboss'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.13.4>To the monument!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.5>There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.6>The soul and body rive not more in parting</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.7>Than greatness going off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.13.8>To the monument!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.9>Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.10>Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.11>And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.12>And bring me how he takes my death.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.13.13>To the monument!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XIV. The same. Another room.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.1>Eros, thou yet behold'st me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.2>Ay, noble lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.3>Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.4>A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.5>A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.6>A forked mountain, or blue promontory</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.7>With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.8>And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.9>these signs;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.10>They are black vesper's pageants.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.11>Ay, my lord,</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.12>That which is now a horse, even with a thought</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.13>The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.14>As water is in water.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.15>It does, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.16>My good knave Eros, now thy captain is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.17>Even such a body: here I am Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.18>Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.19>I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.20>Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.21>Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.22>A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.23>Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.24>Unto an enemy's triumph.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.25>Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.26>Ourselves to end ourselves.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MARDIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=4.14.27>O! thy vile lady!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.28>She has robb'd me of my sword.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.29>No, Antony;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.30>My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.31>With thine entirely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.32>Hence, saucy eunuch; peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.33>She hath betray'd me and shall die the death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.34>Death of one person can be paid but once,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.35>And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.36>Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.37>Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.38>Then in the midst a tearing groan did break</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.39>The name of Antony; it was divided</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.40>Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.41>Thy name so buried in her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.42>Dead, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>MARDIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.43>Dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.44>Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.45>And we must sleep.</A><br>
<p><i>To MARDIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=4.14.46>That thou depart'st hence safe,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.47>Does pay thy labour richly; go.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit MARDIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=4.14.48>Off, pluck off:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.49>The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.50>The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.51>Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.52>Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.53>No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.54>You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit EROS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.14.55>I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.56>Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.57>All length is torture: since the torch is out,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.58>Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.59>Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.60>Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.61>Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.62>Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.63>And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.64>Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.65>And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter EROS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.66>What would my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.67>Since Cleopatra died,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.68>I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.69>Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.70>Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.71>With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.72>The courage of a woman; less noble mind</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.73>Than she which by her death our Caesar tells</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.74>'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.75>That, when the exigent should come, which now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.76>Is come indeed, when I should see behind me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.77>The inevitable prosecution of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.78>Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.79>Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.80>Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.81>Put colour in thy cheek.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.82>The gods withhold me!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.83>Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.84>Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.85>Eros,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.86>Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.87>Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.88>His corrigible neck, his face subdued</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.89>To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.90>Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.91>His baseness that ensued?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.92>I would not see't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.93>Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.94>Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.95>Most useful for thy country.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.96>O, sir, pardon me!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.97>When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.98>To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.99>Or thy precedent services are all</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.100>But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.101>Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.102>Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.103>Lo thee!</A><br>
<p><i>Turning from him</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.104>My sword is drawn.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.105> Then let it do at once</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.106>The thing why thou hast drawn it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.107>My dear master,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.108>My captain, and my emperor, let me say,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.109>Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.110>'Tis said, man; and farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.111>Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.112>Now, Eros.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>EROS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.113>Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.114>Of Antony's death.</A><br>
<p><i>Kills himself</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.115> Thrice-nobler than myself!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.116>Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.117>I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.118>Have by their brave instruction got upon me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.119>A nobleness in record: but I will be</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.120>A bridegroom in my death, and run into't</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.121>As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.122>Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus</A><br>
<p><i>Falling on his sword</i></p>
<A NAME=4.14.123>I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.124>The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DERCETAS and Guard</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.125>What's the noise?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.126>I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.127>Of what I have begun.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>Second Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.128>The star is fall'n.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.129>And time is at his period.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.130>Alas, and woe!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.131>Let him that loves me strike me dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.132>Not I.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>Second Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.133>Nor I.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>Third Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.134>Nor any one.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Guard</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DERCETAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.135>Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.136>This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.137>Shall enter me with him.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DIOMEDES</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.138>Where's Antony?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>DERCETAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.139> There, Diomed there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.140>Lives he?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.141>Wilt thou not answer, man?</A><br>
<p><i>Exit DERCETAS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.142>Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.143>Sufficing strokes for death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.144>Most absolute lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.145>My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.146>When did she send thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.147>Now, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.148>Where is she?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.149>Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.150>Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.151>Which never shall be found--you did suspect</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.152>She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.153>Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.154>But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.155>Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.156>I dread, too late.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.157>Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.158>What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.159>Come, your lord calls!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.160>Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.161>'Tis the last service that I shall command you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.162>Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.163>All your true followers out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.164>Most heavy day!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.14.165>Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.166>To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.167>Which comes to punish us, and we punish it</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.168>Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.169>I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.14.170>And have my thanks for all.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE XV. The same. A monument.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with CHARMIAN and IRAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.1>O Charmian, I will never go from hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.2>Be comforted, dear madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.3>No, I will not:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.4>All strange and terrible events are welcome,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.5>But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.6>Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.7>As that which makes it.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter, below, DIOMEDES</i></p>
<A NAME=4.15.8>How now! is he dead?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DIOMEDES</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.9>His death's upon him, but not dead.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.10>Look out o' the other side your monument;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.11>His guard have brought him thither.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.12>O sun,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.13>Burn the great sphere thou movest in!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.14>darkling stand</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.15>The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.16>Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.17>Help, friends below; let's draw him hither.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.18>Peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.19>Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.20>But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.21>So it should be, that none but Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.22>Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.23>I am dying, Egypt, dying; only</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.24>I here importune death awhile, until</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.25>Of many thousand kisses the poor last</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.26>I lay up thy lips.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.27> I dare not, dear,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.28>Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.29>Lest I be taken: not the imperious show</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.30>Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.31>Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.32>serpents, have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.33>Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.34>Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.35>And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.36>Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.37>Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.38>Assist, good friends.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.39>O, quick, or I am gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.40>Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.41>Our strength is all gone into heaviness,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.42>That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.43>The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.44>And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.45>Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come;</A><br>
<p><i>They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.15.46>And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.47>Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.48>Thus would I wear them out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.49>A heavy sight!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.50>I am dying, Egypt, dying:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.51>Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.52>No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.53>That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.54>Provoked by my offence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.55>One word, sweet queen:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.56>Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.57>They do not go together.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.58>Gentle, hear me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.59>None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.60>My resolution and my hands I'll trust;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.61>None about Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.62>The miserable change now at my end</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.63>Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.64>In feeding them with those my former fortunes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.65>Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.66>The noblest; and do now not basely die,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.67>Not cowardly put off my helmet to</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.68>My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.69>Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.70>I can no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.71> Noblest of men, woo't die?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.72>Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.73>In this dull world, which in thy absence is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.74>No better than a sty? O, see, my women,</A><br>
<p><i>MARK ANTONY dies</i></p>
<A NAME=4.15.75>The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.76>O, wither'd is the garland of the war,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.77>The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.78>Are level now with men; the odds is gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.79>And there is nothing left remarkable</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.80>Beneath the visiting moon.</A><br>
<p><i>Faints</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.81>O, quietness, lady!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.82>She is dead too, our sovereign.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.83>Lady!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.84>Madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.85>O madam, madam, madam!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.86>Royal Egypt, Empress!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.87>Peace, peace, Iras!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.15.88>No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.89>By such poor passion as the maid that milks</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.90>And does the meanest chares. It were for me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.91>To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.92>To tell them that this world did equal theirs</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.93>Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.94>Patience is scottish, and impatience does</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.95>Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.96>To rush into the secret house of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.97>Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.98>What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.99>My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.100>Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.101>We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.102>what's noble,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.103>Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.104>And make death proud to take us. Come, away:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.105>This case of that huge spirit now is cold:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.106>Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend</A><br>
<A NAME=4.15.107>But resolution, and the briefest end.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT V</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.1>Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.2>Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.3>The pauses that he makes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.4>Caesar, I shall.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.5>Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.6>Appear thus to us?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DERCETAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.7> I am call'd Dercetas;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.8>Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.9>Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.10>He was my master; and I wore my life</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.11>To spend upon his haters. If thou please</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.12>To take me to thee, as I was to him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.13>I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.14>I yield thee up my life.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.15>What is't thou say'st?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DERCETAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.16>I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.17>The breaking of so great a thing should make</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.18>A greater crack: the round world</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.19>Should have shook lions into civil streets,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.20>And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.21>Is not a single doom; in the name lay</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.22>A moiety of the world.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DERCETAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.23>He is dead, Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.24>Not by a public minister of justice,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.25>Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.26>Which writ his honour in the acts it did,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.27>Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.28>Splitted the heart. This is his sword;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.29>I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.30>With his most noble blood.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.31>Look you sad, friends?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.32>The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.33>To wash the eyes of kings.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.34>And strange it is,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.35>That nature must compel us to lament</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.36>Our most persisted deeds.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.37>His taints and honours</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.38>Waged equal with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>AGRIPPA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.39>A rarer spirit never</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.40>Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.41>Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>MECAENAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.42>When such a spacious mirror's set before him,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.43>He needs must see himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.44>O Antony!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.45>I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.46>Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.47>Have shown to thee such a declining day,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.48>Or look on thine; we could not stall together</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.49>In the whole world: but yet let me lament,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.50>With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.51>That thou, my brother, my competitor</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.52>In top of all design, my mate in empire,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.53>Friend and companion in the front of war,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.54>The arm of mine own body, and the heart</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.55>Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.56>Unreconciliable, should divide</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.57>Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.58>But I will tell you at some meeter season:</A><br>
<p><i>Enter an Egyptian</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.59>The business of this man looks out of him;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.60>We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Egyptian</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.61>A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.62>Confined in all she has, her monument,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.63>Of thy intents desires instruction,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.64>That she preparedly may frame herself</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.65>To the way she's forced to.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.66>Bid her have good heart:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.67>She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.68>How honourable and how kindly we</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.69>Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.70>To be ungentle.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>Egyptian</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.71>So the gods preserve thee!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.72>Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.73>We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.74>The quality of her passion shall require,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.75>Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.76>She do defeat us; for her life in Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.77>Would be eternal in our triumph: go,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.78>And with your speediest bring us what she says,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.79>And how you find of her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.80>Caesar, I shall.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.81>Gallus, go you along.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit GALLUS</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.82>Where's Dolabella,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.83>To second Proculeius?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.84>Dolabella!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.85>Let him alone, for I remember now</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.86>How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.87>Go with me to my tent; where you shall see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.88>How hardly I was drawn into this war;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.89>How calm and gentle I proceeded still</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.90>In all my writings: go with me, and see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.91>What I can show in this.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Alexandria. A room in the monument.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.1>My desolation does begin to make</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.2>A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.3>Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.4>A minister of her will: and it is great</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.5>To do that thing that ends all other deeds;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.6>Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.7>Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.8>The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS, GALLUS and Soldiers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.9>Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.10>And bids thee study on what fair demands</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.11>Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.12>What's thy name?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.13>My name is Proculeius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.14>Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.15>Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.16>I do not greatly care to be deceived,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.17>That have no use for trusting. If your master</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.18>Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.19>That majesty, to keep decorum, must</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.20>No less beg than a kingdom: if he please</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.21>To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.22>He gives me so much of mine own, as I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.23>Will kneel to him with thanks.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.24>Be of good cheer;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.25>You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.26>Make your full reference freely to my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.27>Who is so full of grace, that it flows over</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.28>On all that need: let me report to him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.29>Your sweet dependency; and you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.30>A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.31>Where he for grace is kneel'd to.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.32>Pray you, tell him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.33>I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.34>The greatness he has got. I hourly learn</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.35>A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.36>Look him i' the face.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.37>This I'll report, dear lady.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.38>Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.39>Of him that caused it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>GALLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.40>You see how easily she may be surprised:</A><br>
<p><i>Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the monument by a ladder placed against a window, and, having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of the Guard unbar and open the gates</i></p>
<p><i>To PROCULEIUS and the Guard</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.41>Guard her till Caesar come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.42>Royal queen!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.43>O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.44>Quick, quick, good hands.</A><br>
<p><i>Drawing a dagger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.45>Hold, worthy lady, hold:</A><br>
<p><i>Seizes and disarms her</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.46>Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.47>Relieved, but not betray'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.48>What, of death too,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.49>That rids our dogs of languish?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.50>Cleopatra,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.51>Do not abuse my master's bounty by</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.52>The undoing of yourself: let the world see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.53>His nobleness well acted, which your death</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.54>Will never let come forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.55>Where art thou, death?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.56>Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.57>Worthy many babes and beggars!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.58>O, temperance, lady!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.59>Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.60>If idle talk will once be necessary,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.61>I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.62>Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.63>Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.64>Nor once be chastised with the sober eye</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.65>Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.66>And show me to the shouting varletry</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.67>Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.68>Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.69>Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.70>Blow me into abhorring! rather make</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.71>My country's high pyramides my gibbet,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.72>And hang me up in chains!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.73>You do extend</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.74>These thoughts of horror further than you shall</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.75>Find cause in Caesar.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DOLABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.76>Proculeius,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.77>What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.78>And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.79>I'll take her to my guard.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>PROCULEIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.80>So, Dolabella,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.81>It shall content me best: be gentle to her.</A><br>
<p><i>To CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.82>To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.83>If you'll employ me to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.84>Say, I would die.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.85>Most noble empress, you have heard of me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.86>I cannot tell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.87> Assuredly you know me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.88>No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.89>You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.90>Is't not your trick?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.91>I understand not, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.92>I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.93>O, such another sleep, that I might see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.94>But such another man!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.95>If it might please ye,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.96>His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.97>A sun and moon, which kept their course,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.98>and lighted</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.99>The little O, the earth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.100>Most sovereign creature,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.101>His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.102>Crested the world: his voice was propertied</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.103>As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.104>But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.105>He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.106>There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.107>That grew the more by reaping: his delights</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.108>Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.109>The element they lived in: in his livery</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.110>Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.111>As plates dropp'd from his pocket.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.112>Cleopatra!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.113>Think you there was, or might be, such a man</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.114>As this I dream'd of?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.115>Gentle madam, no.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.116>You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.117>But, if there be, or ever were, one such,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.118>It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.119>To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.120>And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.121>Condemning shadows quite.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.122>Hear me, good madam.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.123>Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.124>As answering to the weight: would I might never</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.125>O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.126>By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.127>My very heart at root.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.128>I thank you, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.129>Know you what Caesar means to do with me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.130>I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.131>Nay, pray you, sir,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.132>Though he be honourable,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.133>He'll lead me, then, in triumph?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.134>Madam, he will; I know't.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there: Octavius Caesar!'</i></p>
<p><i>Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.135>Which is the Queen of Egypt?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.136>It is the emperor, madam.</A><br>
<p><i>CLEOPATRA kneels</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.137>Arise, you shall not kneel:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.138>I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.139>Sir, the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.140>Will have it thus; my master and my lord</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.141>I must obey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.142> Take to you no hard thoughts:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.143>The record of what injuries you did us,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.144>Though written in our flesh, we shall remember</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.145>As things but done by chance.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.146>Sole sir o' the world,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.147>I cannot project mine own cause so well</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.148>To make it clear; but do confess I have</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.149>Been laden with like frailties which before</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.150>Have often shamed our sex.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.151>Cleopatra, know,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.152>We will extenuate rather than enforce:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.153>If you apply yourself to our intents,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.154>Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.155>A benefit in this change; but if you seek</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.156>To lay on me a cruelty, by taking</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.157>Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.158>Of my good purposes, and put your children</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.159>To that destruction which I'll guard them from,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.160>If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.161>And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.162>Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.163>Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.164>You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.165>This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.166>I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.167>Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>SELEUCUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.168>Here, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.169>This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.170>Upon his peril, that I have reserved</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.171>To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>SELEUCUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.172>Madam,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.173>I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.174>Speak that which is not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.175>What have I kept back?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>SELEUCUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.176>Enough to purchase what you have made known.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.177>Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.178>Your wisdom in the deed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.179>See, Caesar! O, behold,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.180>How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.181>And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.182>The ingratitude of this Seleucus does</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.183>Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.184>Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.185>Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.186>Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.187>O rarely base!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.188> Good queen, let us entreat you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.189>O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.190>That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.191>Doing the honour of thy lordliness</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.192>To one so meek, that mine own servant should</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.193>Parcel the sum of my disgraces by</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.194>Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.195>That I some lady trifles have reserved,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.196>Immoment toys, things of such dignity</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.197>As we greet modern friends withal; and say,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.198>Some nobler token I have kept apart</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.199>For Livia and Octavia, to induce</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.200>Their mediation; must I be unfolded</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.201>With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.202>Beneath the fall I have.</A><br>
<p><i>To SELEUCUS</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.203>Prithee, go hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.204>Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.205>Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.206>Thou wouldst have mercy on me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.207>Forbear, Seleucus.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit SELEUCUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.208>Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.209>For things that others do; and, when we fall,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.210>We answer others' merits in our name,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.211>Are therefore to be pitied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.212>Cleopatra,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.213>Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.214>Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.215>Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.216>Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.217>Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.218>Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.219>For we intend so to dispose you as</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.220>Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.221>Our care and pity is so much upon you,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.222>That we remain your friend; and so, adieu.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.223>My master, and my lord!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.224>Not so. Adieu.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.225>He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.226>Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.</A><br>
<p><i>Whispers CHARMIAN</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.227>Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.228>And we are for the dark.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.229>Hie thee again:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.230>I have spoke already, and it is provided;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.231>Go put it to the haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.232>Madam, I will.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter DOLABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.233>Where is the queen?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.234>Behold, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.235>Dolabella!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.236>Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.237>Which my love makes religion to obey,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.238>I tell you this: Caesar through Syria</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.239>Intends his journey; and within three days</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.240>You with your children will he send before:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.241>Make your best use of this: I have perform'd</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.242>Your pleasure and my promise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.243>Dolabella,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.244>I shall remain your debtor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.245>I your servant,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.246>Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.247>Farewell, and thanks.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit DOLABELLA</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.248>Now, Iras, what think'st thou?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.249>Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.250>In Rome, as well as I mechanic slaves</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.251>With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.252>Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.253>Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.254>And forced to drink their vapour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.255>The gods forbid!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.256>Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.257>Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.258>Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.259>Extemporally will stage us, and present</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.260>Our Alexandrian revels; Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.261>Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.262>Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.263>I' the posture of a whore.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.264>O the good gods!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.265>Nay, that's certain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>IRAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.266>I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.267>Are stronger than mine eyes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.268>Why, that's the way</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.269>To fool their preparation, and to conquer</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.270>Their most absurd intents.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter CHARMIAN</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.271>Now, Charmian!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.272>Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.273>My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.274>To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.275>Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.276>And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.277>To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.278>Wherefore's this noise?</A><br>
<p><i>Exit IRAS. A noise within</i></p>
<p><i>Enter a Guardsman</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.279>Here is a rural fellow</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.280>That will not be denied your highness presence:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.281>He brings you figs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.282>Let him come in.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Guardsman</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.283>What poor an instrument</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.284>May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.285>My resolution's placed, and I have nothing</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.286>Of woman in me: now from head to foot</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.287>I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.288>No planet is of mine.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.289>This is the man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.290>Avoid, and leave him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Guardsman</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.291>Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.292>That kills and pains not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.293>Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.294>that should desire you to touch him, for his biting</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.295>is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.296>never recover.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.297>Rememberest thou any that have died on't?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.298>Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.299>them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.300>but something given to lie; as a woman should not</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.301>do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.302>biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.303>a very good report o' the worm; but he that will</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.304>believe all that they say, shall never be saved by</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.305>half that they do: but this is most fallible, the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.306>worm's an odd worm.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.307>Get thee hence; farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.308>I wish you all joy of the worm.</A><br>
<p><i>Setting down his basket</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech94><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.309>Farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech95><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.310>You must think this, look you, that the worm will</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.311>do his kind.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech96><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.312>Ay, ay; farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech97><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.313>Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.314>keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.315>goodness in worm.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech98><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.316>Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech99><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.317>Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.318>not worth the feeding.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech100><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.319>Will it eat me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech101><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.320>You must not think I am so simple but I know the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.321>devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.322>woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.323>not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.324>gods great harm in their women; for in every ten</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.325>that they make, the devils mar five.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech102><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.326>Well, get thee gone; farewell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech103><b>Clown</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.327>Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, & c</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech104><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.328>Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.329>Immortal longings in me: now no more</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.330>The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.331>Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.332>Antony call; I see him rouse himself</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.333>To praise my noble act; I hear him mock</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.334>The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.335>To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.336>Now to that name my courage prove my title!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.337>I am fire and air; my other elements</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.338>I give to baser life. So; have you done?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.339>Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.340>Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.341>Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.342>If thou and nature can so gently part,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.343>The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.344>Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.345>If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.346>It is not worth leave-taking.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech105><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.347>Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.348>The gods themselves do weep!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech106><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.349>This proves me base:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.350>If she first meet the curled Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.351>He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.352>Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.353>mortal wretch,</A><br>
<p><i>To an asp, which she applies to her breast</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.354>With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.355>Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.356>Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.357>That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.358>Unpolicied!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech107><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.359> O eastern star!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech108><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.360>Peace, peace!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.361>Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.362>That sucks the nurse asleep?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech109><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.363>O, break! O, break!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech110><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.364>As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.365>O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too.</A><br>
<p><i>Applying another asp to her arm</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.366>What should I stay--</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech111><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.367>In this vile world? So, fare thee well.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.368>Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.369>A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.370>And golden Phoebus never be beheld</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.371>Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.372>I'll mend it, and then play.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the Guard, rushing in</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech112><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.373>Where is the queen?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech113><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.374>Speak softly, wake her not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech114><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.375>Caesar hath sent--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech115><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.376> Too slow a messenger.</A><br>
<p><i>Applies an asp</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.377>O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech116><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.378>Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech117><b>Second Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.379>There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech118><b>First Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.380>What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech119><b>CHARMIAN</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.381>It is well done, and fitting for a princess</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.382>Descended of so many royal kings.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.383>Ah, soldier!</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter DOLABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech120><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.384>How goes it here?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech121><b>Second Guard</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.385> All dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech122><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.386>Caesar, thy thoughts</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.387>Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.388>To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.389>So sought'st to hinder.</A><br>
<p><i>Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!'</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech123><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.390>O sir, you are too sure an augurer;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.391>That you did fear is done.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech124><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.392>Bravest at the last,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.393>She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.394>Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.395>I do not see them bleed.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech125><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.396>Who was last with them?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech126><b>First Guard</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.397>A simple countryman, that brought her figs:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.398>This was his basket.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech127><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.399>Poison'd, then.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech128><b>First Guard</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.400>O Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.401>This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.402>I found her trimming up the diadem</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.403>On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.404>And on the sudden dropp'd.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech129><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.405>O noble weakness!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.406>If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.407>By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.408>As she would catch another Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.409>In her strong toil of grace.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech130><b>DOLABELLA</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.410>Here, on her breast,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.411>There is a vent of blood and something blown:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.412>The like is on her arm.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech131><b>First Guard</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.413>This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.414>Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.415>Upon the caves of Nile.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech132><b>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</b></a>
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<A NAME=5.2.416>Most probable</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.417>That so she died; for her physician tells me</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.418>She hath pursued conclusions infinite</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.419>Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.420>And bear her women from the monument:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.421>She shall be buried by her Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.422>No grave upon the earth shall clip in it</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.423>A pair so famous. High events as these</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.424>Strike those that make them; and their story is</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.425>No less in pity than his glory which</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.426>Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.427>In solemn show attend this funeral;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.428>And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.429>High order in this great solemnity.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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