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| <H3>SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Charmian!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>Madam?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Ha, ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Give me to drink mandragora.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>Why, madam?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>That I might sleep out this great gap of time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>My Antony is away.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8> You think of him too much.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>O, 'tis treason!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10> Madam, I trust, not so.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>Thou, eunuch Mardian!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARDIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>What's your highness' pleasure?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARDIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>Yes, gracious madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>Indeed!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARDIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>But what indeed is honest to be done:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Yet have I fierce affections, and think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>What Venus did with Mars.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>O Charmian,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>For so he calls me: now I feed myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>With most delicious poison. Think on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>When thou wast here above the ground, I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>There would he anchor his aspect and die</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>With looking on his life.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>ALEXAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>Sovereign of Egypt, hail!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>With his tinct gilded thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>ALEXAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>Last thing he did, dear queen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48>Mine ear must pluck it thence.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>ALEXAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=49>'Good friend,' quoth he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>To mend the petty present, I will piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Was beastly dumb'd by him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=58>What, was he sad or merry?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>ALEXAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Like to the time o' the year between the extremes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=61>O well-divided disposition! Note him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>He was not sad, for he would shine on those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>That make their looks by his; he was not merry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>In Egypt with his joy; but between both:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>The violence of either thee becomes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>ALEXAS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Why do you send so thick?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=72>Who's born that day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>When I forget to send to Antony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>Ever love Caesar so?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=77>O that brave Caesar!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=78>Be choked with such another emphasis!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Say, the brave Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>The valiant Caesar!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>If thou with Caesar paragon again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>My man of men.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>CHARMIAN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84> By your most gracious pardon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>I sing but after you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=86>My salad days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>To say as I said then! But, come, away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Get me ink and paper:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>He shall have every day a several greeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Or I'll unpeople Egypt.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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