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| <H3>SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.</h3> | |
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| <i>Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS, with others</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>We have beat him to his camp: run one before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>For doughty-handed are you, and have fought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>The honour'd gashes whole.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To SCARUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=12>Give me thy hand</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CLEOPATRA, attended</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=13>To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Make her thanks bless thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To CLEOPATRA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=15>O thou day o' the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Through proof of harness to my heart, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Ride on the pants triumphing!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>Lord of lords!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>The world's great snare uncaught?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>My nightingale,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>though grey</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>As if a god, in hate of mankind, had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Destroy'd in such a shape.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLEOPATRA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>I'll give thee, friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>An armour all of gold; it was a king's.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARK ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>He has deserved it, were it carbuncled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Through Alexandria make a jolly march;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Had our great palace the capacity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>To camp this host, we all would sup together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>And drink carouses to the next day's fate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>With brazen din blast you the city's ear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Make mingle with rattling tabourines;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Applauding our approach.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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