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Octavia attempts to reconcile them, but fails. Antony returns to Cleopatra. He challenges Caesar at sea, adding Cleopatra’s ships to his own. When she and her navy flee in mid-battle, Antony follows, abandoning his men. Antony fails in a second battle at sea. At first, he blames Cleopatra and plans to kill her. He responds to false news of her death, however, by attempting suicide; fatally wounded, he reunites with her as he dies. Faced with Caesar’s plans to humiliate her in Rome, Cleopatra kills herself with poisonous snakes.  Characters in the Play ANTONY, a triumvir of Rome CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, a triumvir of Rome OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar, later wife to Antony LEPIDUS, a triumvir of Rome ENOBARBUS, also called DOMITIUS VENTIDIUS SILIUS EROS CANIDIUS accompanying Antony SCARUS in Egypt and elsewhere DERCETUS DEMETRIUS PHILO A SCHOOLMASTER,Antony’s AMBASSADOR to Caesar CHARMIAN IRAS ALEXAS serving in Cleopatra’s court MARDIAN, a Eunuch SELEUCUS, Cleopatra’s treasurer DIOMEDES MAECENAS AGRIPPA TAURUS THIDIAS supporting and accompanying Caesar DOLABELLA GALLUS PROCULEIUS SEXTUS POMPEIUS, also called POMPEY MENAS MENECRATES VARRIUS MESSENGERS SOLDIERS SENTRIES GUARDSMEN A SOOTHSAYER SERVANTS A BOY A CAPTAIN AN EGYPTIAN A COUNTRYMAN Ladies, Eunuchs, Captains, Officers, Soldiers, Attendants, Servants (Lamprius, Rannius, Lucillius: mute characters named in the opening stage direction to 1.2)  ACT 1 Scene 1 Enter Demetrius and Philo. PHILO FTLN 0001 Nay, but this dotage of our general’s FTLN 0002 O’erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes, FTLN 0003 That o’er the files and musters of the war FTLN 0004 Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn FTLN 0005 The office and devotion of their view 5 FTLN 0006 Upon a tawny front. His captain’s heart, FTLN 0007 Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst FTLN 0008 The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper FTLN 0009 And is become the bellows and the fan FTLN 0010 To cool a gypsy’s lust. 10 Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her. FTLN 0011 Look where they come. FTLN 0012 Take but good note, and you shall see in him FTLN 0013 The triple pillar of the world transformed FTLN 0014 Into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0015 If it be love indeed, tell me how much. 15 ANTONY FTLN 0016 There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0017 I’ll set a bourn how far to be beloved. 7  ACT 1. SC. 1 9 Antony and Cleopatra ANTONY FTLN 0018 Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new FTLN 0019 Earth. Enter a Messenger. FTLN 0020 MESSENGER News, my good lord, from Rome. 20 FTLN 0021 ANTONY Grates me, the sum. FTLN 0022 CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, Antony. FTLN 0023 Fulvia perchance is angry. Or who knows FTLN 0024 If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent FTLN 0025 His powerful mandate to you: “Do this, or this; 25 FTLN 0026 Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that. FTLN 0027 Perform ’t, or else we damn thee.” FTLN 0028 ANTONY How, my love? FTLN 0029 CLEOPATRA Perchance? Nay, and most like. FTLN 0030 You must not stay here longer; your dismission 30 FTLN 0031 Is come from Caesar. Therefore hear it, Antony. FTLN 0032 Where’s Fulvia’s process? Caesar’s, I would say— FTLN 0033 both? FTLN 0034 Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt’s queen, FTLN 0035 Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine 35 FTLN 0036 Is Caesar’s homager; else so thy cheek pays shame FTLN 0037 When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers! ANTONY FTLN 0038 Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch FTLN 0039 Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space. FTLN 0040 Kingdoms are clay. Our dungy earth alike 40 FTLN 0041 Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life FTLN 0042 Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair FTLN 0043 And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, FTLN 0044 On pain of punishment, the world to weet FTLN 0045 We stand up peerless. 45 FTLN 0046 CLEOPATRA Excellent falsehood! FTLN 0047 Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her? FTLN 0048 I’ll seem the fool I am not. Antony FTLN 0049 Will be himself.  ACT 1. SC. 2 11 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0050 ANTONY But stirred by Cleopatra. 50 FTLN 0051 Now for the love of Love and her soft hours, FTLN 0052 Let’s not confound the time with conference harsh. FTLN 0053 There’s not a minute of our lives should stretch FTLN 0054 Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0055 Hear the ambassadors. 55 FTLN 0056 ANTONY Fie, wrangling queen, FTLN 0057 Whom everything becomes—to chide, to laugh, FTLN 0058 To weep; whose every passion fully strives FTLN 0059 To make itself, in thee, fair and admired! FTLN 0060 No messenger but thine, and all alone 60 FTLN 0061 Tonight we’ll wander through the streets and note FTLN 0062 The qualities of people. Come, my queen, FTLN 0063 Last night you did desire it. To the Messenger. FTLN 0064 Speak not to us. Antony and Cleopatra exit with the Train. DEMETRIUS FTLN 0065 Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight? 65 PHILO FTLN 0066 Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony FTLN 0067 He comes too short of that great property FTLN 0068 Which still should go with Antony. FTLN 0069 DEMETRIUS I am full sorry FTLN 0070 That he approves the common liar who 70 FTLN 0071 Thus speaks of him at Rome; but I will hope FTLN 0072 Of better deeds tomorrow. Rest you happy! They exit. Scene 2 Enter Enobarbus, Lamprius, a Soothsayer, Rannius, Lucillius, Charmian, Iras, Mardian the Eunuch, Alexas, and Servants. FTLN 0073 CHARMIAN Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything FTLN 0074 Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where’s the  ACT 1. SC. 2 13 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0075 soothsayer that you praised so to th’ Queen? O, that FTLN 0076 I knew this husband which you say must charge FTLN 0077 his horns with garlands! 5 FTLN 0078 ALEXAS Soothsayer! FTLN 0079 SOOTHSAYER Your will? CHARMIAN FTLN 0080 Is this the man?—Is ’t you, sir, that know things? SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0081 In nature’s infinite book of secrecy FTLN 0082 A little I can read. 10 FTLN 0083 ALEXAS, to Charmian Show him your hand. ENOBARBUS, to Servants FTLN 0084 Bring in the banquet quickly, wine enough FTLN 0085 Cleopatra’s health to drink. FTLN 0086 CHARMIAN, giving her hand to the Soothsayer Good sir, FTLN 0087 give me good fortune. 15 FTLN 0088 SOOTHSAYER I make not, but foresee. FTLN 0089 CHARMIAN Pray then, foresee me one. SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0090 You shall be yet far fairer than you are. FTLN 0091 CHARMIAN He means in flesh. FTLN 0092 IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old. 20 FTLN 0093 CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid! FTLN 0094 ALEXAS Vex not his prescience. Be attentive. FTLN 0095 CHARMIAN Hush. SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0096 You shall be more beloving than beloved. FTLN 0097 CHARMIAN I had rather heat my liver with drinking. 25 FTLN 0098 ALEXAS Nay, hear him. FTLN 0099 CHARMIAN Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me FTLN 0100 be married to three kings in a forenoon and widow FTLN 0101 them all. Let me have a child at fifty to whom Herod FTLN 0102 of Jewry may do homage. Find me to marry me 30 FTLN 0103 with Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my FTLN 0104 mistress.  ACT 1. SC. 2 15 Antony and Cleopatra SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0105 You shall outlive the lady whom you serve. FTLN 0106 CHARMIAN O, excellent! I love long life better than figs. SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0107 You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune 35 FTLN 0108 Than that which is to approach. FTLN 0109 CHARMIAN Then belike my children shall have no FTLN 0110 names. Prithee, how many boys and wenches must FTLN 0111 I have? SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0112 If every of your wishes had a womb, 40 FTLN 0113 And fertile every wish, a million. FTLN 0114 CHARMIAN Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch. FTLN 0115 ALEXAS You think none but your sheets are privy to FTLN 0116 your wishes. FTLN 0117 CHARMIAN, to Soothsayer Nay, come. Tell Iras hers. 45 FTLN 0118 ALEXAS We’ll know all our fortunes. FTLN 0119 ENOBARBUS Mine, and most of our fortunes tonight, FTLN 0120 shall be—drunk to bed. FTLN 0121 IRAS, giving her hand to the Soothsayer There’s a palm FTLN 0122 presages chastity, if nothing else. 50 FTLN 0123 CHARMIAN E’en as the o’erflowing Nilus presageth FTLN 0124 famine. FTLN 0125 IRAS Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay. FTLN 0126 CHARMIAN Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, FTLN 0127 I cannot scratch mine ear.—Prithee 55 FTLN 0128 tell her but a workaday fortune. FTLN 0129 SOOTHSAYER Your fortunes are alike. FTLN 0130 IRAS But how, but how? Give me particulars. FTLN 0131 SOOTHSAYER I have said. FTLN 0132 IRAS Am I not an inch of fortune better than she? 60 FTLN 0133 CHARMIAN Well, if you were but an inch of fortune FTLN 0134 better than I, where would you choose it? FTLN 0135 IRAS Not in my husband’s nose. FTLN 0136 CHARMIAN Our worser thoughts heavens mend. Alexas— FTLN 0137 come, his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a 65  ACT 1. SC. 2 17 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0138 woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, and FTLN 0139 let her die, too, and give him a worse, and let worse FTLN 0140 follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing FTLN 0141 to his grave, fiftyfold a cuckold. Good Isis, hear me FTLN 0142 this prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more 70 FTLN 0143 weight, good Isis, I beseech thee! FTLN 0144 IRAS Amen, dear goddess, hear that prayer of the FTLN 0145 people. For, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome FTLN 0146 man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to FTLN 0147 behold a foul knave uncuckolded. Therefore, dear 75 FTLN 0148 Isis, keep decorum and fortune him accordingly. FTLN 0149 CHARMIAN Amen. FTLN 0150 ALEXAS Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make me a FTLN 0151 cuckold, they would make themselves whores but FTLN 0152 they’d do ’t. 80 FTLN 0153 ENOBARBUS Hush, here comes Antony. FTLN 0154 CHARMIAN Not he. The Queen. Enter Cleopatra. FTLN 0155 CLEOPATRA Saw you my lord? FTLN 0156 ENOBARBUS No, lady. FTLN 0157 CLEOPATRA Was he not here? 85 FTLN 0158 CHARMIAN No, madam. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0159 He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden FTLN 0160 A Roman thought hath struck him.—Enobarbus! FTLN 0161 ENOBARBUS Madam? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0162 Seek him and bring him hither.—Where’s Alexas? 90 ALEXAS FTLN 0163 Here at your service. My lord approaches. Enter Antony with a Messenger. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0164 We will not look upon him. Go with us. All but Antony and the Messenger exit.  ACT 1. SC. 2 19 Antony and Cleopatra MESSENGER FTLN 0165 Fulvia thy wife first came into the field. FTLN 0166 ANTONY Against my brother Lucius? FTLN 0167 MESSENGER Ay. 95 FTLN 0168 But soon that war had end, and the time’s state FTLN 0169 Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst FTLN 0170 Caesar, FTLN 0171 Whose better issue in the war from Italy FTLN 0172 Upon the first encounter drave them. 100 FTLN 0173 ANTONY Well, what worst? MESSENGER FTLN 0174 The nature of bad news infects the teller. ANTONY FTLN 0175 When it concerns the fool or coward. On. FTLN 0176 Things that are past are done, with me. ’Tis thus: FTLN 0177 Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, 105 FTLN 0178 I hear him as he flattered. FTLN 0179 MESSENGER Labienus— FTLN 0180 This is stiff news—hath with his Parthian force FTLN 0181 Extended Asia: from Euphrates FTLN 0182 His conquering banner shook, from Syria 110 FTLN 0183 To Lydia and to Ionia, FTLN 0184 Whilst— FTLN 0185 ANTONY “Antony,” thou wouldst say? FTLN 0186 MESSENGER O, my lord! ANTONY FTLN 0187 Speak to me home; mince not the general tongue. 115 FTLN 0188 Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome; FTLN 0189 Rail thou in Fulvia’s phrase, and taunt my faults FTLN 0190 With such full license as both truth and malice FTLN 0191 Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds FTLN 0192 When our quick winds lie still, and our ills told us 120 FTLN 0193 Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile. FTLN 0194 MESSENGER At your noble pleasure. Messenger exits.  ACT 1. SC. 2 21 Antony and Cleopatra Enter another Messenger. ANTONY FTLN 0195 From Sicyon how the news? Speak there. SECOND MESSENGER FTLN 0196 The man from Sicyon— FTLN 0197 ANTONY Is there such an one? 125 SECOND MESSENGER FTLN 0198 He stays upon your will. FTLN 0199 ANTONY Let him appear. Second Messenger exits. FTLN 0200 These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, FTLN 0201 Or lose myself in dotage. Enter another Messenger with a letter. FTLN 0202 What are you? 130 THIRD MESSENGER FTLN 0203 Fulvia thy wife is dead. FTLN 0204 ANTONY Where died she? FTLN 0205 THIRD MESSENGER In Sicyon. FTLN 0206 Her length of sickness, with what else more serious FTLN 0207 Importeth thee to know, this bears. 135 He hands Antony the letter. FTLN 0208 ANTONY Forbear me. Third Messenger exits. FTLN 0209 There’s a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it. FTLN 0210 What our contempts doth often hurl from us, FTLN 0211 We wish it ours again. The present pleasure, FTLN 0212 By revolution lowering, does become 140 FTLN 0213 The opposite of itself. She’s good, being gone. FTLN 0214 The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on. FTLN 0215 I must from this enchanting queen break off. FTLN 0216 Ten thousand harms more than the ills I know FTLN 0217 My idleness doth hatch.—How now, Enobarbus! 145 Enter Enobarbus.  ACT 1. SC. 2 23 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0218 ENOBARBUS What’s your pleasure, sir? FTLN 0219 ANTONY I must with haste from hence. FTLN 0220 ENOBARBUS Why then we kill all our women. We see FTLN 0221 how mortal an unkindness is to them. If they suffer FTLN 0222 our departure, death’s the word. 150 FTLN 0223 ANTONY I must be gone. FTLN 0224 ENOBARBUS Under a compelling occasion, let women FTLN 0225 die. It were pity to cast them away for nothing, FTLN 0226 though between them and a great cause, they FTLN 0227 should be esteemed nothing. Cleopatra, catching 155 FTLN 0228 but the least noise of this, dies instantly. I have seen FTLN 0229 her die twenty times upon far poorer moment. I do FTLN 0230 think there is mettle in death which commits some FTLN 0231 loving act upon her, she hath such a celerity in FTLN 0232 dying. 160 FTLN 0233 ANTONY She is cunning past man’s thought. FTLN 0234 ENOBARBUS Alack, sir, no, her passions are made of FTLN 0235 nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot FTLN 0236 call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are FTLN 0237 greater storms and tempests than almanacs can 165 FTLN 0238 report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she FTLN 0239 makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. FTLN 0240 ANTONY Would I had never seen her! FTLN 0241 ENOBARBUS O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful FTLN 0242 piece of work, which not to have been blest 170 FTLN 0243 withal would have discredited your travel. FTLN 0244 ANTONY Fulvia is dead. FTLN 0245 ENOBARBUS Sir? FTLN 0246 ANTONY Fulvia is dead. FTLN 0247 ENOBARBUS Fulvia? 175 FTLN 0248 ANTONY Dead. FTLN 0249 ENOBARBUS Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. FTLN 0250 When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a FTLN 0251 man from him, it shows to man the tailors of the  ACT 1. SC. 2 25 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0252 Earth; comforting therein, that when old robes are 180 FTLN 0253 worn out, there are members to make new. If there FTLN 0254 were no more women but Fulvia, then had you FTLN 0255 indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented. This grief FTLN 0256 is crowned with consolation; your old smock brings FTLN 0257 forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an 185 FTLN 0258 onion that should water this sorrow. ANTONY FTLN 0259 The business she hath broachèd in the state FTLN 0260 Cannot endure my absence. FTLN 0261 ENOBARBUS And the business you have broached here FTLN 0262 cannot be without you, especially that of Cleopatra’s, 190 FTLN 0263 which wholly depends on your abode. ANTONY FTLN 0264 No more light answers. Let our officers FTLN 0265 Have notice what we purpose. I shall break FTLN 0266 The cause of our expedience to the Queen FTLN 0267 And get her leave to part. For not alone 195 FTLN 0268 The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, FTLN 0269 Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too FTLN 0270 Of many our contriving friends in Rome FTLN 0271 Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius FTLN 0272 Hath given the dare to Caesar and commands 200 FTLN 0273 The empire of the sea. Our slippery people, FTLN 0274 Whose love is never linked to the deserver FTLN 0275 Till his deserts are past, begin to throw FTLN 0276 Pompey the Great and all his dignities FTLN 0277 Upon his son, who—high in name and power, 205 FTLN 0278 Higher than both in blood and life—stands up FTLN 0279 For the main soldier; whose quality, going on, FTLN 0280 The sides o’ th’ world may danger. Much is FTLN 0281 breeding FTLN 0282 Which, like the courser’s hair, hath yet but life 210 FTLN 0283 And not a serpent’s poison. Say our pleasure,  ACT 1. SC. 3 27 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0284 To such whose place is under us, requires FTLN 0285 Our quick remove from hence. FTLN 0286 ENOBARBUS I shall do ’t. They exit. Scene 3 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas, and Iras. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0287 Where is he? FTLN 0288 CHARMIAN I did not see him since. CLEOPATRA, to Alexas FTLN 0289 See where he is, who’s with him, what he does. FTLN 0290 I did not send you. If you find him sad, FTLN 0291 Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report 5 FTLN 0292 That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return. Alexas exits. CHARMIAN FTLN 0293 Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly, FTLN 0294 You do not hold the method to enforce FTLN 0295 The like from him. FTLN 0296 CLEOPATRA What should I do I do not? 10 CHARMIAN FTLN 0297 In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0298 Thou teachest like a fool: the way to lose him. CHARMIAN FTLN 0299 Tempt him not so too far. I wish, forbear. FTLN 0300 In time we hate that which we often fear. Enter Antony. FTLN 0301 But here comes Antony. 15 FTLN 0302 CLEOPATRA I am sick and sullen. ANTONY FTLN 0303 I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose—  ACT 1. SC. 3 29 Antony and Cleopatra CLEOPATRA FTLN 0304 Help me away, dear Charmian! I shall fall. FTLN 0305 It cannot be thus long; the sides of nature FTLN 0306 Will not sustain it. 20 FTLN 0307 ANTONY Now, my dearest queen— CLEOPATRA FTLN 0308 Pray you stand farther from me. FTLN 0309 ANTONY What’s the matter? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0310 I know by that same eye there’s some good news. FTLN 0311 What, says the married woman you may go? 25 FTLN 0312 Would she had never given you leave to come. FTLN 0313 Let her not say ’tis I that keep you here. FTLN 0314 I have no power upon you. Hers you are. ANTONY FTLN 0315 The gods best know— FTLN 0316 CLEOPATRA O, never was there queen 30 FTLN 0317 So mightily betrayed! Yet at the first FTLN 0318 I saw the treasons planted. FTLN 0319 ANTONY Cleopatra— CLEOPATRA FTLN 0320 Why should I think you can be mine, and true— FTLN 0321 Though you in swearing shake the thronèd gods— 35 FTLN 0322 Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness, FTLN 0323 To be entangled with those mouth-made vows FTLN 0324 Which break themselves in swearing! FTLN 0325 ANTONY Most sweet FTLN 0326 queen— 40 CLEOPATRA FTLN 0327 Nay, pray you seek no color for your going, FTLN 0328 But bid farewell and go. When you sued staying, FTLN 0329 Then was the time for words. No going then! FTLN 0330 Eternity was in our lips and eyes, FTLN 0331 Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor 45 FTLN 0332 But was a race of heaven. They are so still,  ACT 1. SC. 3 31 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0333 Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, FTLN 0334 Art turned the greatest liar. FTLN 0335 ANTONY How now, lady? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0336 I would I had thy inches. Thou shouldst know 50 FTLN 0337 There were a heart in Egypt. FTLN 0338 ANTONY Hear me, queen: FTLN 0339 The strong necessity of time commands FTLN 0340 Our services awhile, but my full heart FTLN 0341 Remains in use with you. Our Italy 55 FTLN 0342 Shines o’er with civil swords; Sextus Pompeius FTLN 0343 Makes his approaches to the port of Rome; FTLN 0344 Equality of two domestic powers FTLN 0345 Breed scrupulous faction; the hated grown to FTLN 0346 strength 60 FTLN 0347 Are newly grown to love; the condemned Pompey, FTLN 0348 Rich in his father’s honor, creeps apace FTLN 0349 Into the hearts of such as have not thrived FTLN 0350 Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten; FTLN 0351 And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge 65 FTLN 0352 By any desperate change. My more particular, FTLN 0353 And that which most with you should safe my going, FTLN 0354 Is Fulvia’s death. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0355 Though age from folly could not give me freedom, FTLN 0356 It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die? 70 FTLN 0357 ANTONY She’s dead, my queen. He shows her papers. FTLN 0358 Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read FTLN 0359 The garboils she awaked; at the last, best, FTLN 0360 See when and where she died. FTLN 0361 CLEOPATRA O, most false love! 75 FTLN 0362 Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill FTLN 0363 With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see, FTLN 0364 In Fulvia’s death, how mine received shall be. ANTONY FTLN 0365 Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know  ACT 1. SC. 3 33 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0366 The purposes I bear, which are or cease 80 FTLN 0367 As you shall give th’ advice. By the fire FTLN 0368 That quickens Nilus’ slime, I go from hence FTLN 0369 Thy soldier, servant, making peace or war FTLN 0370 As thou affects. FTLN 0371 CLEOPATRA Cut my lace, Charmian, come! 85 FTLN 0372 But let it be; I am quickly ill and well; FTLN 0373 So Antony loves. FTLN 0374 ANTONY My precious queen, forbear, FTLN 0375 And give true evidence to his love, which stands FTLN 0376 An honorable trial. 90 FTLN 0377 CLEOPATRA So Fulvia told me. FTLN 0378 I prithee turn aside and weep for her, FTLN 0379 Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears FTLN 0380 Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene FTLN 0381 Of excellent dissembling, and let it look 95 FTLN 0382 Like perfect honor. FTLN 0383 ANTONY You’ll heat my blood. No more! CLEOPATRA FTLN 0384 You can do better yet, but this is meetly. ANTONY FTLN 0385 Now by my sword— FTLN 0386 CLEOPATRA And target. Still he mends. 100 FTLN 0387 But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian, FTLN 0388 How this Herculean Roman does become FTLN 0389 The carriage of his chafe. FTLN 0390 ANTONY I’ll leave you, lady. FTLN 0391 CLEOPATRA Courteous lord, one word. 105 FTLN 0392 Sir, you and I must part, but that’s not it; FTLN 0393 Sir, you and I have loved, but there’s not it; FTLN 0394 That you know well. Something it is I would— FTLN 0395 O, my oblivion is a very Antony, FTLN 0396 And I am all forgotten. 110 FTLN 0397 ANTONY But that your Royalty FTLN 0398 Holds idleness your subject, I should take you FTLN 0399 For idleness itself.  ACT 1. SC. 4 35 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0400 CLEOPATRA ’Tis sweating labor FTLN 0401 To bear such idleness so near the heart 115 FTLN 0402 As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me, FTLN 0403 Since my becomings kill me when they do not FTLN 0404 Eye well to you. Your honor calls you hence; FTLN 0405 Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly, FTLN 0406 And all the gods go with you. Upon your sword 120 FTLN 0407 Sit laurel victory, and smooth success FTLN 0408 Be strewed before your feet. FTLN 0409 ANTONY Let us go. Come. FTLN 0410 Our separation so abides and flies FTLN 0411 That thou, residing here, goes yet with me, 125 FTLN 0412 And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. FTLN 0413 Away! They exit. Scene 4 Enter Octavius Caesar, reading a letter, Lepidus, and their Train. CAESAR FTLN 0414 You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know, FTLN 0415 It is not Caesar’s natural vice to hate FTLN 0416 Our great competitor. From Alexandria FTLN 0417 This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes FTLN 0418 The lamps of night in revel, is not more manlike 5 FTLN 0419 Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy FTLN 0420 More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or FTLN 0421 Vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall FTLN 0422 find there FTLN 0423 A man who is th’ abstract of all faults 10 FTLN 0424 That all men follow. FTLN 0425 LEPIDUS I must not think there are FTLN 0426 Evils enough to darken all his goodness.  ACT 1. SC. 4 37 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0427 His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven, FTLN 0428 More fiery by night’s blackness, hereditary 15 FTLN 0429 Rather than purchased, what he cannot change FTLN 0430 Than what he chooses. CAESAR FTLN 0431 You are too indulgent. Let’s grant it is not FTLN 0432 Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy, FTLN 0433 To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit 20 FTLN 0434 And keep the turn of tippling with a slave, FTLN 0435 To reel the streets at noon and stand the buffet FTLN 0436 With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes FTLN 0437 him— FTLN 0438 As his composure must be rare indeed 25 FTLN 0439 Whom these things cannot blemish—yet must FTLN 0440 Antony FTLN 0441 No way excuse his foils when we do bear FTLN 0442 So great weight in his lightness. If he filled FTLN 0443 His vacancy with his voluptuousness, 30 FTLN 0444 Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones FTLN 0445 Call on him for ’t. But to confound such time FTLN 0446 That drums him from his sport and speaks as loud FTLN 0447 As his own state and ours, ’tis to be chid FTLN 0448 As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge, 35 FTLN 0449 Pawn their experience to their present pleasure FTLN 0450 And so rebel to judgment. Enter a Messenger. FTLN 0451 LEPIDUS Here’s more news. MESSENGER FTLN 0452 Thy biddings have been done, and every hour, FTLN 0453 Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report 40 FTLN 0454 How ’tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea, FTLN 0455 And it appears he is beloved of those FTLN 0456 That only have feared Caesar. To the ports FTLN 0457 The discontents repair, and men’s reports FTLN 0458 Give him much wronged. 45  ACT 1. SC. 4 39 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0459 CAESAR I should have known no less. FTLN 0460 It hath been taught us from the primal state FTLN 0461 That he which is was wished until he were, FTLN 0462 And the ebbed man, ne’er loved till ne’er worth love, FTLN 0463 Comes feared by being lacked. This common body, 50 FTLN 0464 Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, FTLN 0465 Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide FTLN 0466 To rot itself with motion. Enter a Second Messenger. FTLN 0467 SECOND MESSENGER Caesar, I bring thee word FTLN 0468 Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, 55 FTLN 0469 Makes the sea serve them, which they ear and FTLN 0470 wound FTLN 0471 With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads FTLN 0472 They make in Italy—the borders maritime FTLN 0473 Lack blood to think on ’t—and flush youth revolt. 60 FTLN 0474 No vessel can peep forth but ’tis as soon FTLN 0475 Taken as seen, for Pompey’s name strikes more FTLN 0476 Than could his war resisted. FTLN 0477 CAESAR Antony, FTLN 0478 Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once 65 FTLN 0479 Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew’st FTLN 0480 Hirsius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel FTLN 0481 Did famine follow, whom thou fought’st against, FTLN 0482 Though daintily brought up, with patience more FTLN 0483 Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink 70 FTLN 0484 The stale of horses and the gilded puddle FTLN 0485 Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did FTLN 0486 deign FTLN 0487 The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. FTLN 0488 Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets, 75 FTLN 0489 The barks of trees thou browsèd. On the Alps FTLN 0490 It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh FTLN 0491 Which some did die to look on. And all this—  ACT 1. SC. 5 41 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0492 It wounds thine honor that I speak it now— FTLN 0493 Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek 80 FTLN 0494 So much as lanked not. FTLN 0495 LEPIDUS ’Tis pity of him. FTLN 0496 CAESAR Let his shames quickly FTLN 0497 Drive him to Rome. ’Tis time we twain FTLN 0498 Did show ourselves i’ th’ field, and to that end 85 FTLN 0499 Assemble we immediate council. Pompey FTLN 0500 Thrives in our idleness. FTLN 0501 LEPIDUS Tomorrow, Caesar, FTLN 0502 I shall be furnished to inform you rightly FTLN 0503 Both what by sea and land I can be able 90 FTLN 0504 To front this present time. FTLN 0505 CAESAR Till which encounter, FTLN 0506 It is my business too. Farewell. LEPIDUS FTLN 0507 Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime FTLN 0508 Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir, 95 FTLN 0509 To let me be partaker. CAESAR FTLN 0510 Doubt not, sir. I knew it for my bond. They exit. Scene 5 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian. FTLN 0511 CLEOPATRA Charmian! FTLN 0512 CHARMIAN Madam? FTLN 0513 CLEOPATRA Ha, ha! Give me to drink mandragora. FTLN 0514 CHARMIAN Why, madam? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0515 That I might sleep out this great gap of time 5 FTLN 0516 My Antony is away. FTLN 0517 CHARMIAN You think of him too much.  ACT 1. SC. 5 43 Antony and Cleopatra CLEOPATRA FTLN 0518 O, ’tis treason! FTLN 0519 CHARMIAN Madam, I trust not so. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0520 Thou, eunuch Mardian! 10 FTLN 0521 MARDIAN What’s your Highness’ pleasure? CLEOPATRA FTLN 0522 Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure FTLN 0523 In aught an eunuch has. ’Tis well for thee FTLN 0524 That, being unseminared, thy freer thoughts FTLN 0525 May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections? 15 FTLN 0526 MARDIAN Yes, gracious madam. FTLN 0527 CLEOPATRA Indeed? MARDIAN FTLN 0528 Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing FTLN 0529 But what indeed is honest to be done. FTLN 0530 Yet have I fierce affections, and think 20 FTLN 0531 What Venus did with Mars. FTLN 0532 CLEOPATRA O, Charmian, FTLN 0533 Where think’st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he? FTLN 0534 Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse? FTLN 0535 O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! 25 FTLN 0536 Do bravely, horse, for wot’st thou whom thou FTLN 0537 mov’st? FTLN 0538 The demi-Atlas of this Earth, the arm FTLN 0539 And burgonet of men. He’s speaking now, FTLN 0540 Or murmuring “Where’s my serpent of old Nile?” 30 FTLN 0541 For so he calls me. Now I feed myself FTLN 0542 With most delicious poison. Think on me FTLN 0543 That am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black, FTLN 0544 And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar, FTLN 0545 When thou wast here above the ground, I was 35 FTLN 0546 A morsel for a monarch. And great Pompey FTLN 0547 Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow; FTLN 0548 There would he anchor his aspect, and die FTLN 0549 With looking on his life.  ACT 1. SC. 5 45 Antony and Cleopatra Enter Alexas from Antony. FTLN 0550 ALEXAS Sovereign of Egypt, hail! 40 CLEOPATRA FTLN 0551 How much unlike art thou Mark Antony! FTLN 0552 Yet coming from him, that great med’cine hath FTLN 0553 With his tinct gilded thee. FTLN 0554 How goes it with my brave Mark Antony? FTLN 0555 ALEXAS Last thing he did, dear queen, 45 FTLN 0556 He kissed—the last of many doubled kisses— FTLN 0557 This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0558 Mine ear must pluck it thence. FTLN 0559 ALEXAS “Good friend,” quoth FTLN 0560 he, 50 FTLN 0561 “Say the firm Roman to great Egypt sends FTLN 0562 This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, FTLN 0563 To mend the petty present, I will piece FTLN 0564 Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the East, FTLN 0565 Say thou, shall call her mistress.” So he nodded 55 FTLN 0566 And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed, FTLN 0567 Who neighed so high that what I would have spoke FTLN 0568 Was beastly dumbed by him. FTLN 0569 CLEOPATRA What, was he sad, or merry? ALEXAS FTLN 0570 Like to the time o’ th’ year between th’ extremes 60 FTLN 0571 Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. CLEOPATRA FTLN 0572 O, well-divided disposition!—Note him, FTLN 0573 Note him, good Charmian, ’tis the man! But note FTLN 0574 him: FTLN 0575 He was not sad, for he would shine on those 65 FTLN 0576 That make their looks by his; he was not merry, FTLN 0577 Which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay FTLN 0578 In Egypt with his joy; but between both.  ACT 1. SC. 5 47 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0579 O, heavenly mingle!—Be’st thou sad or merry, FTLN 0580 The violence of either thee becomes, 70 FTLN 0581 So does it no man’s else.—Met’st thou my posts? ALEXAS FTLN 0582 Ay, madam, twenty several messengers. FTLN 0583 Why do you send so thick? FTLN 0584 CLEOPATRA Who’s born that day FTLN 0585 When I forget to send to Antony 75 FTLN 0586 Shall die a beggar.—Ink and paper, Charmian.— FTLN 0587 Welcome, my good Alexas.—Did I, Charmian, FTLN 0588 Ever love Caesar so? FTLN 0589 CHARMIAN O, that brave Caesar! CLEOPATRA FTLN 0590 Be choked with such another emphasis! 80 FTLN 0591 Say “the brave Antony.” FTLN 0592 CHARMIAN The valiant Caesar! CLEOPATRA FTLN 0593 By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth FTLN 0594 If thou with Caesar paragon again FTLN 0595 My man of men. 85 FTLN 0596 CHARMIAN By your most gracious pardon, FTLN 0597 I sing but after you. FTLN 0598 CLEOPATRA My salad days, FTLN 0599 When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, FTLN 0600 To say as I said then. But come, away, 90 FTLN 0601 Get me ink and paper. FTLN 0602 He shall have every day a several greeting, FTLN 0603 Or I’ll unpeople Egypt. They exit.  ACT 2 Scene 1 Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike manner. POMPEY FTLN 0604 If the great gods be just, they shall assist FTLN 0605 The deeds of justest men. FTLN 0606 MENAS Know, worthy Pompey, FTLN 0607 That what they do delay they not deny. POMPEY FTLN 0608 Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays 5 FTLN 0609 The thing we sue for. FTLN 0610 MENAS We, ignorant of ourselves, FTLN 0611 Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers FTLN 0612 Deny us for our good; so find we profit FTLN 0613 By losing of our prayers. 10 FTLN 0614 POMPEY I shall do well. FTLN 0615 The people love me, and the sea is mine; FTLN 0616 My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope FTLN 0617 Says it will come to th’ full. Mark Antony FTLN 0618 In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make 15 FTLN 0619 No wars without doors. Caesar gets money where FTLN 0620 He loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both, FTLN 0621 Of both is flattered; but he neither loves, FTLN 0622 Nor either cares for him. FTLN 0623 MENAS Caesar and Lepidus 20 FTLN 0624 Are in the field. A mighty strength they carry. 51  ACT 2. SC. 1 53 Antony and Cleopatra POMPEY FTLN 0625 Where have you this? ’Tis false. FTLN 0626 MENAS From Silvius, sir. POMPEY FTLN 0627 He dreams. I know they are in Rome together, FTLN 0628 Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love, 25 FTLN 0629 Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wanned lip! FTLN 0630 Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both; FTLN 0631 Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts; FTLN 0632 Keep his brain fuming. Epicurean cooks FTLN 0633 Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite, 30 FTLN 0634 That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor FTLN 0635 Even till a Lethe’d dullness— Enter Varrius. FTLN 0636 How now, Varrius? VARRIUS FTLN 0637 This is most certain that I shall deliver: FTLN 0638 Mark Antony is every hour in Rome 35 FTLN 0639 Expected. Since he went from Egypt ’tis FTLN 0640 A space for farther travel. FTLN 0641 POMPEY I could have given less matter FTLN 0642 A better ear.—Menas, I did not think FTLN 0643 This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm 40 FTLN 0644 For such a petty war. His soldiership FTLN 0645 Is twice the other twain. But let us rear FTLN 0646 The higher our opinion, that our stirring FTLN 0647 Can from the lap of Egypt’s widow pluck FTLN 0648 The ne’er lust-wearied Antony. 45 FTLN 0649 MENAS I cannot hope FTLN 0650 Caesar and Antony shall well greet together. FTLN 0651 His wife that’s dead did trespasses to Caesar; FTLN 0652 His brother warred upon him, although I think FTLN 0653 Not moved by Antony. 50 FTLN 0654 POMPEY I know not, Menas,  ACT 2. SC. 2 55 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0655 How lesser enmities may give way to greater. FTLN 0656 Were ’t not that we stand up against them all, FTLN 0657 ’Twere pregnant they should square between FTLN 0658 themselves, 55 FTLN 0659 For they have entertainèd cause enough FTLN 0660 To draw their swords. But how the fear of us FTLN 0661 May cement their divisions and bind up FTLN 0662 The petty difference, we yet not know. FTLN 0663 Be ’t as our gods will have ’t. It only stands 60 FTLN 0664 Our lives upon to use our strongest hands. FTLN 0665 Come, Menas. They exit. Scene 2 Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus. LEPIDUS FTLN 0666 Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed, FTLN 0667 And shall become you well, to entreat your captain FTLN 0668 To soft and gentle speech. FTLN 0669 ENOBARBUS I shall entreat him FTLN 0670 To answer like himself. If Caesar move him, 5 FTLN 0671 Let Antony look over Caesar’s head FTLN 0672 And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, FTLN 0673 Were I the wearer of Antonio’s beard, FTLN 0674 I would not shave ’t today. LEPIDUS FTLN 0675 ’Tis not a time for private stomaching. 10 FTLN 0676 ENOBARBUS Every time serves for the matter that is FTLN 0677 then born in ’t. LEPIDUS FTLN 0678 But small to greater matters must give way. FTLN 0679 ENOBARBUS Not if the small come first. LEPIDUS FTLN 0680 Your speech is passion; but pray you stir 15 FTLN 0681 No embers up. Here comes the noble Antony.  ACT 2. SC. 2 57 Antony and Cleopatra Enter, at one door, Antony and Ventidius. FTLN 0682 ENOBARBUS And yonder Caesar. Enter, at another door, Caesar, Maecenas, and Agrippa. ANTONY, to Ventidius FTLN 0683 If we compose well here, to Parthia. FTLN 0684 Hark, Ventidius. They talk aside. CAESAR, to Maecenas FTLN 0685 I do not know, Maecenas. Ask Agrippa. 20 FTLN 0686 LEPIDUS, to Caesar and Antony Noble friends, FTLN 0687 That which combined us was most great, and let not FTLN 0688 A leaner action rend us. What’s amiss, FTLN 0689 May it be gently heard. When we debate FTLN 0690 Our trivial difference loud, we do commit 25 FTLN 0691 Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners, FTLN 0692 The rather for I earnestly beseech, FTLN 0693 Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, FTLN 0694 Nor curstness grow to th’ matter. FTLN 0695 ANTONY ’Tis spoken well. 30 FTLN 0696 Were we before our armies, and to fight, FTLN 0697 I should do thus. Flourish. FTLN 0698 CAESAR Welcome to Rome. FTLN 0699 ANTONY Thank you. FTLN 0700 CAESAR Sit. 35 FTLN 0701 ANTONY Sit, sir. FTLN 0702 CAESAR Nay, then. They sit. ANTONY FTLN 0703 I learn you take things ill which are not so, FTLN 0704 Or, being, concern you not. FTLN 0705 CAESAR I must be laughed at 40 FTLN 0706 If or for nothing or a little, I FTLN 0707 Should say myself offended, and with you FTLN 0708 Chiefly i’ th’ world; more laughed at, that I should  ACT 2. SC. 2 59 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0709 Once name you derogately when to sound your FTLN 0710 name 45 FTLN 0711 It not concerned me. ANTONY FTLN 0712 My being in Egypt, Caesar, what was ’t to you? CAESAR FTLN 0713 No more than my residing here at Rome FTLN 0714 Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there FTLN 0715 Did practice on my state, your being in Egypt 50 FTLN 0716 Might be my question. FTLN 0717 ANTONY How intend you, practiced? CAESAR FTLN 0718 You may be pleased to catch at mine intent FTLN 0719 By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother FTLN 0720 Made wars upon me, and their contestation 55 FTLN 0721 Was theme for you; you were the word of war. ANTONY FTLN 0722 You do mistake your business. My brother never FTLN 0723 Did urge me in his act. I did inquire it, FTLN 0724 And have my learning from some true reports FTLN 0725 That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather 60 FTLN 0726 Discredit my authority with yours, FTLN 0727 And make the wars alike against my stomach, FTLN 0728 Having alike your cause? Of this my letters FTLN 0729 Before did satisfy you. If you’ll patch a quarrel, FTLN 0730 As matter whole you have to make it with, 65 FTLN 0731 It must not be with this. FTLN 0732 CAESAR You praise yourself FTLN 0733 By laying defects of judgment to me; but FTLN 0734 You patched up your excuses. FTLN 0735 ANTONY Not so, not so. 70 FTLN 0736 I know you could not lack—I am certain on ’t— FTLN 0737 Very necessity of this thought, that I, FTLN 0738 Your partner in the cause ’gainst which he fought, FTLN 0739 Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars  ACT 2. SC. 2 61 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0740 Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife, 75 FTLN 0741 I would you had her spirit in such another. FTLN 0742 The third o’ th’ world is yours, which with a snaffle FTLN 0743 You may pace easy, but not such a wife. FTLN 0744 ENOBARBUS Would we had all such wives, that the men FTLN 0745 might go to wars with the women! 80 ANTONY FTLN 0746 So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar, FTLN 0747 Made out of her impatience—which not wanted FTLN 0748 Shrewdness of policy too—I grieving grant FTLN 0749 Did you too much disquiet. For that you must FTLN 0750 But say I could not help it. 85 FTLN 0751 CAESAR I wrote to you FTLN 0752 When rioting in Alexandria; you FTLN 0753 Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts FTLN 0754 Did gibe my missive out of audience. FTLN 0755 ANTONY Sir, 90 FTLN 0756 He fell upon me ere admitted, then; FTLN 0757 Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want FTLN 0758 Of what I was i’ th’ morning. But next day FTLN 0759 I told him of myself, which was as much FTLN 0760 As to have asked him pardon. Let this fellow 95 FTLN 0761 Be nothing of our strife; if we contend, FTLN 0762 Out of our question wipe him. FTLN 0763 CAESAR You have broken FTLN 0764 The article of your oath, which you shall never FTLN 0765 Have tongue to charge me with. 100 FTLN 0766 LEPIDUS Soft, Caesar! FTLN 0767 ANTONY No, Lepidus, let him speak. FTLN 0768 The honor is sacred which he talks on now, FTLN 0769 Supposing that I lacked it.—But on, Caesar: FTLN 0770 The article of my oath? 105 CAESAR FTLN 0771 To lend me arms and aid when I required them, FTLN 0772 The which you both denied.  ACT 2. SC. 2 63 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0773 ANTONY Neglected, rather; FTLN 0774 And then when poisoned hours had bound me up FTLN 0775 From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may 110 FTLN 0776 I’ll play the penitent to you. But mine honesty FTLN 0777 Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power FTLN 0778 Work without it. Truth is that Fulvia, FTLN 0779 To have me out of Egypt, made wars here, FTLN 0780 For which myself, the ignorant motive, do 115 FTLN 0781 So far ask pardon as befits mine honor FTLN 0782 To stoop in such a case. FTLN 0783 LEPIDUS ’Tis noble spoken. MAECENAS FTLN 0784 If it might please you to enforce no further FTLN 0785 The griefs between you, to forget them quite 120 FTLN 0786 Were to remember that the present need FTLN 0787 Speaks to atone you. FTLN 0788 LEPIDUS Worthily spoken, Maecenas. FTLN 0789 ENOBARBUS Or, if you borrow one another’s love for FTLN 0790 the instant, you may, when you hear no more words 125 FTLN 0791 of Pompey, return it again. You shall have time to FTLN 0792 wrangle in when you have nothing else to do. ANTONY FTLN 0793 Thou art a soldier only. Speak no more. FTLN 0794 ENOBARBUS That truth should be silent I had almost FTLN 0795 forgot. 130 ANTONY FTLN 0796 You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more. FTLN 0797 ENOBARBUS Go to, then. Your considerate stone. CAESAR FTLN 0798 I do not much dislike the matter, but FTLN 0799 The manner of his speech; for ’t cannot be FTLN 0800 We shall remain in friendship, our conditions 135 FTLN 0801 So diff’ring in their acts. Yet if I knew FTLN 0802 What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to FTLN 0803 edge FTLN 0804 O’ th’ world I would pursue it.  ACT 2. SC. 2 65 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0805 AGRIPPA Give me leave, Caesar. 140 FTLN 0806 CAESAR Speak, Agrippa. AGRIPPA FTLN 0807 Thou hast a sister by the mother’s side, FTLN 0808 Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony FTLN 0809 Is now a widower. FTLN 0810 CAESAR Say not so, Agrippa. 145 FTLN 0811 If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof FTLN 0812 Were well deserved of rashness. ANTONY FTLN 0813 I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear FTLN 0814 Agrippa further speak. AGRIPPA FTLN 0815 To hold you in perpetual amity, 150 FTLN 0816 To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts FTLN 0817 With an unslipping knot, take Antony FTLN 0818 Octavia to his wife, whose beauty claims FTLN 0819 No worse a husband than the best of men; FTLN 0820 Whose virtue and whose general graces speak 155 FTLN 0821 That which none else can utter. By this marriage FTLN 0822 All little jealousies, which now seem great, FTLN 0823 And all great fears, which now import their dangers, FTLN 0824 Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales, FTLN 0825 Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both 160 FTLN 0826 Would each to other and all loves to both FTLN 0827 Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke, FTLN 0828 For ’tis a studied, not a present thought, FTLN 0829 By duty ruminated. FTLN 0830 ANTONY Will Caesar speak? 165 CAESAR FTLN 0831 Not till he hears how Antony is touched FTLN 0832 With what is spoke already. FTLN 0833 ANTONY What power is in Agrippa, FTLN 0834 If I would say “Agrippa, be it so,” FTLN 0835 To make this good? 170  ACT 2. SC. 2 67 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0836 CAESAR The power of Caesar, and FTLN 0837 His power unto Octavia. FTLN 0838 ANTONY May I never FTLN 0839 To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, FTLN 0840 Dream of impediment. Let me have thy hand. 175 FTLN 0841 Further this act of grace; and from this hour FTLN 0842 The heart of brothers govern in our loves FTLN 0843 And sway our great designs. FTLN 0844 CAESAR There’s my hand. They clasp hands. FTLN 0845 A sister I bequeath you whom no brother 180 FTLN 0846 Did ever love so dearly. Let her live FTLN 0847 To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never FTLN 0848 Fly off our loves again. FTLN 0849 LEPIDUS Happily, amen! ANTONY FTLN 0850 I did not think to draw my sword ’gainst Pompey, 185 FTLN 0851 For he hath laid strange courtesies and great FTLN 0852 Of late upon me. I must thank him only, FTLN 0853 Lest my remembrance suffer ill report; FTLN 0854 At heel of that, defy him. FTLN 0855 LEPIDUS Time calls upon ’s. 190 FTLN 0856 Of us must Pompey presently be sought, FTLN 0857 Or else he seeks out us. FTLN 0858 ANTONY Where lies he? FTLN 0859 CAESAR About the Mount Misena. FTLN 0860 ANTONY What is his strength by land? 195 FTLN 0861 CAESAR Great and increasing; FTLN 0862 But by sea he is an absolute master. FTLN 0863 ANTONY So is the fame. FTLN 0864 Would we had spoke together. Haste we for it. FTLN 0865 Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we 200 FTLN 0866 The business we have talked of. FTLN 0867 CAESAR With most gladness,  ACT 2. SC. 2 69 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0868 And do invite you to my sister’s view, FTLN 0869 Whither straight I’ll lead you. ANTONY FTLN 0870 Let us, Lepidus, not lack your company. 205 LEPIDUS FTLN 0871 Noble Antony, not sickness should detain me. Flourish. All but Enobarbus, Agrippa, and Maecenas exit. FTLN 0872 MAECENAS, to Enobarbus Welcome from Egypt, sir. FTLN 0873 ENOBARBUS Half the heart of Caesar, worthy FTLN 0874 Maecenas!—My honorable friend Agrippa! FTLN 0875 AGRIPPA Good Enobarbus! 210 FTLN 0876 MAECENAS We have cause to be glad that matters are so FTLN 0877 well digested. You stayed well by ’t in Egypt. FTLN 0878 ENOBARBUS Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance FTLN 0879 and made the night light with drinking. FTLN 0880 MAECENAS Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, 215 FTLN 0881 and but twelve persons there. Is this true? FTLN 0882 ENOBARBUS This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had FTLN 0883 much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily FTLN 0884 deserved noting. FTLN 0885 MAECENAS She’s a most triumphant lady, if report be 220 FTLN 0886 square to her. FTLN 0887 ENOBARBUS When she first met Mark Antony, she FTLN 0888 pursed up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. FTLN 0889 AGRIPPA There she appeared indeed, or my reporter FTLN 0890 devised well for her. 225 FTLN 0891 ENOBARBUS I will tell you. FTLN 0892 The barge she sat in like a burnished throne FTLN 0893 Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold, FTLN 0894 Purple the sails, and so perfumed that FTLN 0895 The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were 230 FTLN 0896 silver, FTLN 0897 Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made FTLN 0898 The water which they beat to follow faster,  ACT 2. SC. 2 71 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0899 As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, FTLN 0900 It beggared all description: she did lie 235 FTLN 0901 In her pavilion—cloth-of-gold, of tissue— FTLN 0902 O’erpicturing that Venus where we see FTLN 0903 The fancy outwork nature. On each side her FTLN 0904 Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, FTLN 0905 With divers-colored fans, whose wind did seem 240 FTLN 0906 To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, FTLN 0907 And what they undid did. FTLN 0908 AGRIPPA O, rare for Antony! ENOBARBUS FTLN 0909 Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, FTLN 0910 So many mermaids, tended her i’ th’ eyes, 245 FTLN 0911 And made their bends adornings. At the helm FTLN 0912 A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle FTLN 0913 Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands FTLN 0914 That yarely frame the office. From the barge FTLN 0915 A strange invisible perfume hits the sense 250 FTLN 0916 Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast FTLN 0917 Her people out upon her; and Antony, FTLN 0918 Enthroned i’ th’ market-place, did sit alone, FTLN 0919 Whistling to th’ air, which but for vacancy FTLN 0920 Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too 255 FTLN 0921 And made a gap in nature. FTLN 0922 AGRIPPA Rare Egyptian! ENOBARBUS FTLN 0923 Upon her landing, Antony sent to her, FTLN 0924 Invited her to supper. She replied FTLN 0925 It should be better he became her guest, 260 FTLN 0926 Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony, FTLN 0927 Whom ne’er the word of “No” woman heard speak, FTLN 0928 Being barbered ten times o’er, goes to the feast, FTLN 0929 And for his ordinary pays his heart FTLN 0930 For what his eyes eat only. 265 FTLN 0931 AGRIPPA Royal wench!  ACT 2. SC. 3 73 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0932 She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed; FTLN 0933 He ploughed her, and she cropped. FTLN 0934 ENOBARBUS I saw her once FTLN 0935 Hop forty paces through the public street, 270 FTLN 0936 And having lost her breath, she spoke and panted, FTLN 0937 That she did make defect perfection, FTLN 0938 And breathless pour breath forth. MAECENAS FTLN 0939 Now Antony must leave her utterly. FTLN 0940 ENOBARBUS Never. He will not. 275 FTLN 0941 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale FTLN 0942 Her infinite variety. Other women cloy FTLN 0943 The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry FTLN 0944 Where most she satisfies. For vilest things FTLN 0945 Become themselves in her, that the holy priests 280 FTLN 0946 Bless her when she is riggish. MAECENAS FTLN 0947 If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle FTLN 0948 The heart of Antony, Octavia is FTLN 0949 A blessèd lottery to him. FTLN 0950 AGRIPPA Let us go. 285 FTLN 0951 Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest FTLN 0952 Whilst you abide here. FTLN 0953 ENOBARBUS Humbly, sir, I thank you. They exit. Scene 3 Enter Antony, Caesar; Octavia between them. ANTONY FTLN 0954 The world and my great office will sometimes FTLN 0955 Divide me from your bosom. FTLN 0956 OCTAVIA All which time FTLN 0957 Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers FTLN 0958 To them for you. 5  ACT 2. SC. 3 75 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0959 ANTONY, to Caesar Goodnight, sir.—My Octavia, FTLN 0960 Read not my blemishes in the world’s report. FTLN 0961 I have not kept my square, but that to come FTLN 0962 Shall all be done by th’ rule. Good night, dear FTLN 0963 lady.— 10 FTLN 0964 Good night, sir. FTLN 0965 CAESAR Goodnight. Caesar and Octavia exit. Enter Soothsayer. ANTONY FTLN 0966 Now, sirrah, you do wish yourself in Egypt? FTLN 0967 SOOTHSAYER Would I had never come from thence, FTLN 0968 nor you thither. 15 FTLN 0969 ANTONY If you can, your reason? FTLN 0970 SOOTHSAYER I see it in my motion, have it not in my FTLN 0971 tongue. But yet hie you to Egypt again. ANTONY FTLN 0972 Say to me, whose fortunes shall rise higher, FTLN 0973 Caesar’s or mine? 20 FTLN 0974 SOOTHSAYER Caesar’s. FTLN 0975 Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side. FTLN 0976 Thy dæmon—that thy spirit which keeps thee—is FTLN 0977 Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable, FTLN 0978 Where Caesar’s is not. But near him, thy angel 25 FTLN 0979 Becomes afeard, as being o’erpowered. Therefore FTLN 0980 Make space enough between you. FTLN 0981 ANTONY Speak this no more. SOOTHSAYER FTLN 0982 To none but thee; no more but when to thee. FTLN 0983 If thou dost play with him at any game, 30 FTLN 0984 Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck FTLN 0985 He beats thee ’gainst the odds. Thy luster thickens FTLN 0986 When he shines by. I say again, thy spirit FTLN 0987 Is all afraid to govern thee near him; FTLN 0988 But he away, ’tis noble. 35  ACT 2. SC. 4 77 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 0989 ANTONY Get thee gone. FTLN 0990 Say to Ventidius I would speak with him. Soothsayer exits. FTLN 0991 He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap, FTLN 0992 He hath spoken true. The very dice obey him, FTLN 0993 And in our sports my better cunning faints 40 FTLN 0994 Under his chance. If we draw lots, he speeds; FTLN 0995 His cocks do win the battle still of mine FTLN 0996 When it is all to naught, and his quails ever FTLN 0997 Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. I will to Egypt. FTLN 0998 And though I make this marriage for my peace, 45 FTLN 0999 I’ th’ East my pleasure lies. Enter Ventidius. FTLN 1000 O, come, Ventidius. FTLN 1001 You must to Parthia; your commission’s ready. FTLN 1002 Follow me and receive ’t. They exit. Scene 4 Enter Lepidus, Maecenas, and Agrippa. LEPIDUS FTLN 1003 Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you hasten FTLN 1004 Your generals after. FTLN 1005 AGRIPPA Sir, Mark Antony FTLN 1006 Will e’en but kiss Octavia, and we’ll follow. LEPIDUS FTLN 1007 Till I shall see you in your soldiers’ dress, 5 FTLN 1008 Which will become you both, farewell. FTLN 1009 MAECENAS We shall, FTLN 1010 As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount FTLN 1011 Before you, Lepidus.  ACT 2. SC. 5 79 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1012 LEPIDUS Your way is shorter; 10 FTLN 1013 My purposes do draw me much about. FTLN 1014 You’ll win two days upon me. FTLN 1015 BOTH Sir, good success. FTLN 1016 LEPIDUS Farewell. They exit. Scene 5 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1017 Give me some music—music, moody food FTLN 1018 Of us that trade in love. FTLN 1019 ALL The music, ho! Enter Mardian the eunuch. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1020 Let it alone. Let’s to billiards. Come, Charmian. CHARMIAN FTLN 1021 My arm is sore. Best play with Mardian. 5 CLEOPATRA FTLN 1022 As well a woman with an eunuch played FTLN 1023 As with a woman.—Come, you’ll play with me, sir? FTLN 1024 MARDIAN As well as I can, madam. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1025 And when good will is showed, though ’t come too FTLN 1026 short, 10 FTLN 1027 The actor may plead pardon. I’ll none now. FTLN 1028 Give me mine angle; we’ll to th’ river. There, FTLN 1029 My music playing far off, I will betray FTLN 1030 Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce FTLN 1031 Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up 15 FTLN 1032 I’ll think them every one an Antony FTLN 1033 And say “Aha! You’re caught.”  ACT 2. SC. 5 81 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1034 CHARMIAN ’Twas merry when FTLN 1035 You wagered on your angling; when your diver FTLN 1036 Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he 20 FTLN 1037 With fervency drew up. FTLN 1038 CLEOPATRA That time?—O, times!— FTLN 1039 I laughed him out of patience; and that night FTLN 1040 I laughed him into patience; and next morn, FTLN 1041 Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed, 25 FTLN 1042 Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst FTLN 1043 I wore his sword Philippan. Enter a Messenger. FTLN 1044 O, from Italy! FTLN 1045 Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, FTLN 1046 That long time have been barren. 30 FTLN 1047 MESSENGER Madam, madam— CLEOPATRA FTLN 1048 Antonio’s dead! If thou say so, villain, FTLN 1049 Thou kill’st thy mistress. But well and free, FTLN 1050 If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here FTLN 1051 My bluest veins to kiss, a hand that kings 35 FTLN 1052 Have lipped and trembled kissing. FTLN 1053 MESSENGER First, madam, he is well. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1054 Why, there’s more gold. But sirrah, mark, we use FTLN 1055 To say the dead are well. Bring it to that, FTLN 1056 The gold I give thee will I melt and pour 40 FTLN 1057 Down thy ill-uttering throat. FTLN 1058 MESSENGER Good madam, hear me. FTLN 1059 CLEOPATRA Well, go to, I will. FTLN 1060 But there’s no goodness in thy face—if Antony FTLN 1061 Be free and healthful, so tart a favor 45 FTLN 1062 To trumpet such good tidings! If not well, FTLN 1063 Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes, FTLN 1064 Not like a formal man.  ACT 2. SC. 5 83 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1065 MESSENGER Will ’t please you hear me? CLEOPATRA FTLN 1066 I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak’st. 50 FTLN 1067 Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well, FTLN 1068 Or friends with Caesar or not captive to him, FTLN 1069 I’ll set thee in a shower of gold and hail FTLN 1070 Rich pearls upon thee. FTLN 1071 MESSENGER Madam, he’s well. 55 FTLN 1072 CLEOPATRA Well said. MESSENGER FTLN 1073 And friends with Caesar. FTLN 1074 CLEOPATRA Th’ art an honest man. MESSENGER FTLN 1075 Caesar and he are greater friends than ever. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1076 Make thee a fortune from me. 60 FTLN 1077 MESSENGER But yet, madam— CLEOPATRA FTLN 1078 I do not like “But yet.” It does allay FTLN 1079 The good precedence. Fie upon “But yet.” FTLN 1080 “But yet” is as a jailer to bring forth FTLN 1081 Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend, 65 FTLN 1082 Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, FTLN 1083 The good and bad together: he’s friends with Caesar, FTLN 1084 In state of health, thou say’st, and, thou say’st, free. MESSENGER FTLN 1085 Free, madam, no. I made no such report. FTLN 1086 He’s bound unto Octavia. 70 FTLN 1087 CLEOPATRA For what good turn? MESSENGER FTLN 1088 For the best turn i’ th’ bed. FTLN 1089 CLEOPATRA I am pale, Charmian. MESSENGER FTLN 1090 Madam, he’s married to Octavia.  ACT 2. SC. 5 85 Antony and Cleopatra CLEOPATRA FTLN 1091 The most infectious pestilence upon thee! 75 Strikes him down. FTLN 1092 MESSENGER Good madam, patience! FTLN 1093 CLEOPATRA What say you? Strikes him. FTLN 1094 Hence, horrible villain, or I’ll spurn thine eyes FTLN 1095 Like balls before me! I’ll unhair thy head! She hales him up and down. FTLN 1096 Thou shalt be whipped with wire and stewed in 80 FTLN 1097 brine, FTLN 1098 Smarting in ling’ring pickle. FTLN 1099 MESSENGER Gracious madam, FTLN 1100 I that do bring the news made not the match. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1101 Say ’tis not so, a province I will give thee 85 FTLN 1102 And make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou hadst FTLN 1103 Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage, FTLN 1104 And I will boot thee with what gift beside FTLN 1105 Thy modesty can beg. FTLN 1106 MESSENGER He’s married, madam. 90 CLEOPATRA FTLN 1107 Rogue, thou hast lived too long. Draw a knife. FTLN 1108 MESSENGER Nay then, I’ll run. FTLN 1109 What mean you, madam? I have made no fault. He exits. CHARMIAN FTLN 1110 Good madam, keep yourself within yourself. FTLN 1111 The man is innocent. 95 CLEOPATRA FTLN 1112 Some innocents ’scape not the thunderbolt. FTLN 1113 Melt Egypt into Nile, and kindly creatures FTLN 1114 Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again. FTLN 1115 Though I am mad, I will not bite him. Call! CHARMIAN FTLN 1116 He is afeard to come. 100  ACT 2. SC. 5 87 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1117 CLEOPATRA I will not hurt him. FTLN 1118 These hands do lack nobility that they strike FTLN 1119 A meaner than myself, since I myself FTLN 1120 Have given myself the cause. Enter the Messenger again. FTLN 1121 Come hither, sir. 105 FTLN 1122 Though it be honest, it is never good FTLN 1123 To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message FTLN 1124 An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell FTLN 1125 Themselves when they be felt. FTLN 1126 MESSENGER I have done my duty. 110 FTLN 1127 CLEOPATRA Is he married? FTLN 1128 I cannot hate thee worser than I do FTLN 1129 If thou again say “yes.” FTLN 1130 MESSENGER He’s married, madam. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1131 The gods confound thee! Dost thou hold there still? 115 MESSENGER FTLN 1132 Should I lie, madam? FTLN 1133 CLEOPATRA O, I would thou didst, FTLN 1134 So half my Egypt were submerged and made FTLN 1135 A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence. FTLN 1136 Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me 120 FTLN 1137 Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married? MESSENGER FTLN 1138 I crave your Highness’ pardon. FTLN 1139 CLEOPATRA He is married? MESSENGER FTLN 1140 Take no offense that I would not offend you. FTLN 1141 To punish me for what you make me do 125 FTLN 1142 Seems much unequal. He’s married to Octavia. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1143 O, that his fault should make a knave of thee  ACT 2. SC. 6 89 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1144 That art not what th’ art sure of! Get thee hence. FTLN 1145 The merchandise which thou hast brought from FTLN 1146 Rome 130 FTLN 1147 Are all too dear for me. Lie they upon thy hand, FTLN 1148 And be undone by ’em! Messenger exits. FTLN 1149 CHARMIAN Good your Highness, FTLN 1150 patience. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1151 In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar. 135 FTLN 1152 CHARMIAN Many times, madam. CLEOPATRA FTLN 1153 I am paid for ’t now. Lead me from hence; FTLN 1154 I faint. O, Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter.— FTLN 1155 Go to the fellow, good Alexas. Bid him FTLN 1156 Report the feature of Octavia, her years, 140 FTLN 1157 Her inclination; let him not leave out FTLN 1158 The color of her hair. Bring me word quickly. Alexas exits. FTLN 1159 Let him forever go—let him not, Charmian. FTLN 1160 Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, FTLN 1161 The other way ’s a Mars. ( To Mardian. ) Bid you 145 FTLN 1162 Alexas FTLN 1163 Bring me word how tall she is.—Pity me, FTLN 1164 Charmian, FTLN 1165 But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber. They exit. Scene 6 Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with Drum and Trumpet; at another Caesar, Lepidus, Antony, Enobarbus, Maecenas, and Agrippa, with Soldiers marching. POMPEY FTLN 1166 Your hostages I have, so have you mine, FTLN 1167 And we shall talk before we fight.  ACT 2. SC. 6 91 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1168 CAESAR Most meet FTLN 1169 That first we come to words, and therefore have we FTLN 1170 Our written purposes before us sent, 5 FTLN 1171 Which if thou hast considered, let us know FTLN 1172 If ’twill tie up thy discontented sword FTLN 1173 And carry back to Sicily much tall youth FTLN 1174 That else must perish here. FTLN 1175 POMPEY To you all three, 10 FTLN 1176 The senators alone of this great world, FTLN 1177 Chief factors for the gods: I do not know FTLN 1178 Wherefore my father should revengers want, FTLN 1179 Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar, FTLN 1180 Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, 15 FTLN 1181 There saw you laboring for him. What was ’t FTLN 1182 That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what FTLN 1183 Made the all-honored, honest, Roman Brutus, FTLN 1184 With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous FTLN 1185 freedom, 20 FTLN 1186 To drench the Capitol, but that they would FTLN 1187 Have one man but a man? And that is it FTLN 1188 Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden FTLN 1189 The angered ocean foams, with which I meant FTLN 1190 To scourge th’ ingratitude that despiteful Rome 25 FTLN 1191 Cast on my noble father. FTLN 1192 CAESAR Take your time. ANTONY FTLN 1193 Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails. FTLN 1194 We’ll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know’st FTLN 1195 How much we do o’ercount thee. 30 FTLN 1196 POMPEY At land indeed FTLN 1197 Thou dost o’ercount me of my father’s house; FTLN 1198 But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, FTLN 1199 Remain in ’t as thou mayst. FTLN 1200 LEPIDUS Be pleased to tell us— 35 FTLN 1201 For this is from the present—how you take FTLN 1202 The offers we have sent you.  ACT 2. SC. 6 93 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1203 CAESAR There’s the point. ANTONY FTLN 1204 Which do not be entreated to, but weigh FTLN 1205 What it is worth embraced. 40 FTLN 1206 CAESAR And what may follow FTLN 1207 To try a larger fortune. FTLN 1208 POMPEY You have made me offer FTLN 1209 Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must FTLN 1210 Rid all the sea of pirates; then to send 45 FTLN 1211 Measures of wheat to Rome. This ’greed upon, FTLN 1212 To part with unhacked edges and bear back FTLN 1213 Our targes undinted. FTLN 1214 ALL That’s our offer. FTLN 1215 POMPEY Know then 50 FTLN 1216 I came before you here a man prepared FTLN 1217 To take this offer. But Mark Antony FTLN 1218 Put me to some impatience.—Though I lose FTLN 1219 The praise of it by telling, you must know FTLN 1220 When Caesar and your brother were at blows, 55 FTLN 1221 Your mother came to Sicily and did find FTLN 1222 Her welcome friendly. FTLN 1223 ANTONY I have heard it, Pompey, FTLN 1224 And am well studied for a liberal thanks, FTLN 1225 Which I do owe you. 60 FTLN 1226 POMPEY Let me have your hand. They clasp hands. FTLN 1227 I did not think, sir, to have met you here. ANTONY FTLN 1228 The beds i’ th’ East are soft; and thanks to you, FTLN 1229 That called me timelier than my purpose hither, FTLN 1230 For I have gained by ’t. 65 FTLN 1231 CAESAR, to Pompey Since I saw you last, FTLN 1232 There’s a change upon you. FTLN 1233 POMPEY Well, I know not FTLN 1234 What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face,  ACT 2. SC. 6 95 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1235 But in my bosom shall she never come 70 FTLN 1236 To make my heart her vassal. FTLN 1237 LEPIDUS Well met here. POMPEY FTLN 1238 I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed. FTLN 1239 I crave our composition may be written FTLN 1240 And sealed between us. 75 FTLN 1241 CAESAR That’s the next to do. POMPEY FTLN 1242 We’ll feast each other ere we part, and let’s FTLN 1243 Draw lots who shall begin. FTLN 1244 ANTONY That will I, Pompey. POMPEY FTLN 1245 No, Antony, take the lot. But, first or last, 80 FTLN 1246 Your fine Egyptian cookery shall have FTLN 1247 The fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar FTLN 1248 Grew fat with feasting there. FTLN 1249 ANTONY You have heard much. FTLN 1250 POMPEY I have fair meanings, sir. 85 FTLN 1251 ANTONY And fair words to them. FTLN 1252 POMPEY Then so much have I heard. FTLN 1253 And I have heard Apollodorus carried— ENOBARBUS FTLN 1254 No more of that. He did so. FTLN 1255 POMPEY What, I pray you? 90 ENOBARBUS FTLN 1256 A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress. POMPEY FTLN 1257 I know thee now. How far’st thou, soldier? FTLN 1258 ENOBARBUS Well, FTLN 1259 And well am like to do, for I perceive FTLN 1260 Four feasts are toward. 95 FTLN 1261 POMPEY Let me shake thy hand. FTLN 1262 I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight FTLN 1263 When I have envied thy behavior.  ACT 2. SC. 6 97 Antony and Cleopatra FTLN 1264 ENOBARBUS Sir, FTLN 1265 I never loved you much, but I ha’ praised you 100 FTLN 1266 When you have well deserved ten times as much FTLN 1267 As I have said you did. FTLN 1268 POMPEY Enjoy thy plainness; FTLN 1269 It nothing ill becomes thee.— FTLN 1270 Aboard my galley I invite you all. 105 FTLN 1271 Will you lead, lords? FTLN 1272 ALL Show ’s the way, sir. FTLN 1273 POMPEY Come. They exit, except for Enobarbus and Menas. FTLN 1274 MENAS, aside Thy father, Pompey, would ne’er have FTLN 1275 made this treaty.—You and I have known, sir. 110 FTLN 1276 ENOBARBUS At sea, I think. FTLN 1277 MENAS We have, sir. FTLN 1278 ENOBARBUS You have done well by water. FTLN 1279 MENAS And you by land. FTLN 1280 ENOBARBUS I will praise any man that will praise me, 115 FTLN 1281 though it cannot be