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| <h3>SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.</H3> | |
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| <i>Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>PHILO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Nay, but this dotage of our general's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>That o'er the files and musters of the war</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>The office and devotion of their view</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>And is become the bellows and the fan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=11>Look, where they come:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Take but good note, and you shall see in him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>The triple pillar of the world transform'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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=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> | |
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| <A NAME=17>I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=19>News, my good lord, from Rome.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>Grates me: the sum.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>Nay, hear them, Antony:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=27>How, my love!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Perchance! nay, and most like:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>You must not stay here longer, your dismission</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Embracing</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=41>And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>On pain of punishment, the world to weet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>We stand up peerless.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44>Excellent falsehood!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Will be himself.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48> But stirr'd by Cleopatra.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>There's not a minute of our lives should stretch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=53>Hear the ambassadors.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=54>Fie, wrangling queen!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>To weep; whose every passion fully strives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>No messenger, but thine; and all alone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>To-night we'll wander through the streets and note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>The qualities of people. Come, my queen;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>PHILO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=63>Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>He comes too short of that great property</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Which still should go with Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>DEMETRIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>I am full sorry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>That he approves the common liar, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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