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<H3>SCENE XII. Another part of the same.</h3>
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<i>Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
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<A NAME=1>Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine</A><br>
<A NAME=2>does stand,</A><br>
<A NAME=3>I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word</A><br>
<A NAME=4>Straight, how 'tis like to go.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>SCARUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=5>Swallows have built</A><br>
<A NAME=6>In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers</A><br>
<A NAME=7>Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,</A><br>
<A NAME=8>And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=9>Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,</A><br>
<A NAME=10>His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=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>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
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<A NAME=12>All is lost;</A><br>
<A NAME=13>This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:</A><br>
<A NAME=14>My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder</A><br>
<A NAME=15>They cast their caps up and carouse together</A><br>
<A NAME=16>Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!</A><br>
<A NAME=17>'tis thou</A><br>
<A NAME=18>Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=19>Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;</A><br>
<A NAME=20>For when I am revenged upon my charm,</A><br>
<A NAME=21>I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit SCARUS</i></p>
<A NAME=22>O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:</A><br>
<A NAME=23>Fortune and Antony part here; even here</A><br>
<A NAME=24>Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts</A><br>
<A NAME=25>That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave</A><br>
<A NAME=26>Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets</A><br>
<A NAME=27>On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=28>That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:</A><br>
<A NAME=29>O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--</A><br>
<A NAME=30>Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;</A><br>
<A NAME=31>Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--</A><br>
<A NAME=32>Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,</A><br>
<A NAME=33>Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.</A><br>
<A NAME=34>What, Eros, Eros!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=35>Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a>
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<A NAME=36>Why is my lord enraged against his love?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a>
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<A NAME=37>Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,</A><br>
<A NAME=38>And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=39>And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:</A><br>
<A NAME=40>Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot</A><br>
<A NAME=41>Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown</A><br>
<A NAME=42>For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let</A><br>
<A NAME=43>Patient Octavia plough thy visage up</A><br>
<A NAME=44>With her prepared nails.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CLEOPATRA</i></p>
<A NAME=45>'Tis well thou'rt gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=46>If it be well to live; but better 'twere</A><br>
<A NAME=47>Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death</A><br>
<A NAME=48>Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=49>The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,</A><br>
<A NAME=50>Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:</A><br>
<A NAME=51>Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;</A><br>
<A NAME=52>And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,</A><br>
<A NAME=53>Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:</A><br>
<A NAME=54>To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall</A><br>
<A NAME=55>Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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