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act i of antony in cleopatra by william shakespeare act i scene i alexandria a room in cleopatra's palace

Enter Demetrius and Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our generals o'erflows the measure, those his goodly eyes, that o'er the files and musters of the war have glowed like plated mars. Now bend, now turn, the office and devotion of their view upon a tawny front, his captain's heart, which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst the buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, and is become the bellows and the fan to cooler Gypsy's lust.

Flourish. Enter Antony Cleopatra, her ladies, the train with eunuchs fanning her.

Look where they come. Take but good note, and you shall see in him the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool. Behold and see. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. I'll set a bourne how far to be beloved. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. Enter an attendant.

News, my good lord, from Rome. Gratis me, the sum. Nay, hear them, Antony. Fulvia perchance is angry, or who knows if the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent his powerful mandate to you. Do this, or this, take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that. Performed, or else we damn thee. How, my love! Perchance, nay, and most like, you must not stay here longer. Your dismission has come from Caesar.

Therefore hear it, Antony. Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's, I would say. Both. Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen, thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine is Caesar's armager. Else so thy cheek pays shame when shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers! Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.

kingdoms are clay our dungy earth alike feeds beast as man the nobleness of life is to do thus when such a mutual pair and such a twain can do't in which i bind on pain of punishment the world to wheat we stand up peerless excellent falsehood why did he marry fulvia and not love her i'll seem the fool i am not

Antony will be himself. But stirred by Cleopatra, now for the love of love and her soft hours, let's not confound the time with conference harsh, as not a minute of our lives should stretch without some pleasure now. What sport tonight? Hear the ambassadors.

Fie, wrangling queen, whom everything becomes to chide, to laugh, to weep, whose every passion fully strives to make itself in thee fair and admired. No messenger but thine, and all alone tonight will wander through the streets and note the qualities of people. Come, my queen, last night you did desire it.

speak not to us exeunt mark antony and cleopatra with their train is caesar with antonius prized so slight sir sometimes when he is not antony he comes too short of that great property which still should go with antony i am full sorry that he approves the common liar who thus speaks of him at rome but i will hope of better deeds to-morrow rest you happy exeunt scene two the same another room

Enter Carmion, Iris, Alexis, and a soothsayer.

Lord Alexis, sweet Alexis, most anything Alexis, almost most absolute Alexis, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which you say must charge his horns with garlands. Soothsayer. Your will? Is this the man? Ist you, sir, that know things? In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read.

Show him your hand. Entered Mityas Anababas. Bring in the banquet quickly. Wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. Good sir, give me good fortune. I make not, but foresee. Pray then, foresee me one. You shall be yet far fairer than you are. He means in flesh. No, you shall paint when you are old.

Rinkles forbid. Vex not his prescience. Be attentive. Hush. You shall be more beloving than beloved. I had rather heat my liver with drinking. Nay, hear him. Good now, some excellent fortune. Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. Let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage.

find me to marry me with octavius caesar and companion me with my mistress you shall outlive the lady whom you serve oh excellent i love long life better than figs you have seen and proved a fairer former fortune than that which is to approach then belike my children shall have no names prithee how many boys and wenches must i have if every of your wishes had a womb and fertile every wish a million

Out, fool, I forgive thee for a witch. You think none but your sheets Are privy to your wishes? Nay, come, tell Iris hers. We'll know all our fortunes.

Mine, and most of our fortunes, tonight shall be drunk to bed. There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else. E'en as the o'erflowing Nihilus presageth famine. Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay. Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee, tell her about a worky day fortune. Your fortunes are alike.

but how but how give me particulars i have said am i not an inch of fortune better than she well if you were but an inch of fortune better than i where would you choose it not in my husband's nose our worser thoughts heaven's mend alexis come his fortune his fortune

O let him marry a woman that cannot go, Sweet Isis, I beseech thee, And let her die too, and give him a worse, And let worst follow worse, Till the worst of all follow him laughing to his grave, Fiftyfold a cuckold. Good Isis, hear me this prayer, Though thou deny me a matter of more weight, Good Isis, I beseech thee. Amen.

Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people. For as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckleded. Therefore, dear Isis, keep decorum, and fortune him accordingly. Amen. Lo, now if it lay in their hands to make me a cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but they'll do it.

Hush, here comes Antony. Not he, the queen. Enter Cleopatra. Saw you, my lord? No, lady. Was he not here? No, madam. He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden a Roman thought hath struck him. Inobarbus. Madam? Seek him, and bring him hither. Where's Alexis? Here, at your service. My lord approaches. We will not look upon him. Go with us.

Exeunt. Enter Mark Antony with a messenger and attendants. Fulvia thy wife first came into the field. Against my brother Lucius? Ay, but soon that war had end, and the times state made friends of them, joining their force against Caesar, whose better issue in the war from Italy, upon the first encounter, drave them. Well, what worst?

The nature of bad news infects the teller. When it concerns the fool or coward, on, things that are past are done with me. Tis thus, who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, I hear him as he flattered.

Labienus, this is stiff news, hath, with his Parthian force, extended Asia from Euphrates. His conquering banner shook from Syria to Lydia and to Ionia, whilst— Antony, thou wouldst say? O my lord! Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue. Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome.

rail thou in fulvious frays and taunt my faults with such full license as both truth and malice have power to utter oh then we bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still and our ills told us is as our earing fare thee well awhile at your noble pleasure

From Sicyon. Ho, the news! Speak there! The man from Sicyon? Is there such a one? He stays upon your will. Let him appear. These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, or lose myself in dotage. Enter another messenger. What are you? Fulvia. My wife is dead. Where died she? In Sicyon.

her length of sickness, with what else more serious importeth thee to know, thus bears. GIVES A LETTER. FORBEAR ME. EXITS SECOND MESSENGER. There's a great spirit gone. Thus did I desire it. What our contempt doth often hurl from us, we wish it ours again. The present pleasure, by revolution lowering, does become the opposite of itself.

she's good being gone the hand could pluck her back that shov'd her on i must from this enchanting queen break off ten thousand harms more than the ills i know my idleness doth hatch how now

Re-enter Domitius Anabarbus. What's your pleasure, sir? I must with haste from hence. Why, then we kill all our women. We see how mortal and unkind it is to them. If they suffer our departure, death's the word. I must be gone. Under a compelling occasion, let women die. It were pity to cast them away for nothing, though between them and a great cause they should be esteemed nothing.

Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment. I do think there is metal in death which commits some loving act upon her. She hath such a celerity in dying. She is cunning past man's thought. Exit, Alexis. Alack, sir, no, her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love.

We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears. They are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot be cunning in her. If it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove. Would I had never seen her. Oh, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece of work, which not to have been blessed with all would have discredited your travel. Fulvia is dead. Sir? Fulvia is dead. Fulvia? Dead.

why sir give the gods a thankful sacrifice when it pleases their deities to take the wife of a man from him it shows to man the tailors of the earth comforting therein that when old robes are worn out there are members to make new if there were no more women but fulvia then had you indeed a cut and a case to be lamented

This grief is crowned with consolation. Your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. The business you have broached in the state cannot endure my absence. And the business you have broached here cannot be without you, especially that of Cleopatra's, which wholly depends on your abode.

no more light answers let our officers have notice what we purpose i shall break the cause our expedients to the queen and get her leave to part for not alone the lethophobia with more urgent touches do strongly speak to us but the letters too of our many contriving friends in rome petition us at home

Sextus Pompeius hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands the empire of the sea. Our slippery people, whose love is never linked to the deserver till his deserts are past, begin to throw Pompey the Great and all his dignities upon his son, who, high in name and power, higher than both in blood and life, stands up for the main soldier, whose quality going on the sides of the world made danger.'

Much is breeding which like the coarser's hair hath yet but life, and not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure to such whose place is under us requires our quick remove from hence. I shall do it. Exeunt. Scene 3. The same. Another room. Enter Cleopatra, Carmion, Iris, and Alexis. Where is he? I did not see him since.

see where he is who's with him what he does i did not send you if you find him sad say i am dancing if in mirth report that i am sudden sick quick and return exit alexis

madam methinks if you did love him dearly you do not hold the method to enforce the like from him ant in each thing give him way cross him nothing ant tempt him not so too far i wish forbear in time we hate that which we often fear but here comes antony enter mark antony

i am sick and sullen i am sorry to give breathing to my purpose helme away dear carmian i shall fall it cannot be thus long the sides of nature will not sustain it now my dearest queen pray you stand further from me what's the matter i know by that same eye there's some good news what says the married woman you may go would she had never given you leave to come let her not say tis i that keep you here

i have no power upon you hers you are the gods best know oh never was their queen so mightily betray'd yet at the first i saw the treasons planted cleopatra why should i think you can be mine and true though you in swearing shake the thron'd gods who have been false to fulvia

riotous madness to be entangled with those mouth made vows which break themselves in swearing most sweet queen nay pray you seek no colour for your going but bid farewell and go when you sued staying then was the time for words no going then eternity was in our lips and eyes bliss in our brows bent none our parts so poor but was a race of heaven they are so still

or thou the greatest soldier of the world art turn'd the greatest liar lear how now lady lady i would i had thy inches thou shouldst know there were a heart in egypt lear hear me queen the strong necessity of time commands our services awhile but my full heart remains in use with you

our italy shines o'er with civil swords sextus pompeius makes his approaches to the port of rome a quality of two domestic powers breeds scrupulous faction the hated grown to strength are newly grown to love the condemned pompey rich in his father's honour creeps apace into the hearts of such as have not thrived upon the present state whose numbers threaten

and quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge by any desperate change. My more particular, and that which most with you should safe my going, is Fulvia's death. Though age from folly could not give me freedom, it does from childishness. Can Fulvia die? She's dead, my queen. Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read the garboils she awaked.

At the last, best, see when and where she died. O most false love, where be the sacred vials Thou shouldst fill with sorrowful water? Now I see, I see, in Fulvia's death, How mine received shall be. Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know The purposes I bear, which are, or cease, As you shall give the advice.

By the fire that quickens nihilist slime I go from hence thy soldier's servant, Making peace or war as thou affectest. ANTONY. Cut my lace, Commie, and come, but let it be. I am quickly ill, and well, so Antony loves. FULVIA. My precious queen, forbear, And give true evidence to his love Which stands an honourable trial. ANTONY. So Fulvia told me. I prithee, turn aside and weep for her.

then bid adieu to me and say the tears belong to egypt good now play one scene of excellent dissembling and let it look life-perfect honour you'll heat my blood no more you can do better yet but this is meetly now by my sword and target still he mends but this is not the best

Look, prithee, Carmion, how this Herculean Roman Does become the carriage of his chaff. I'll leave you, lady. Courteous lord, one word. Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it. Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it. That you know well. Something it is I would. Oh, my oblivion is a very Antony, and I am all forgotten. But that your royalty holds idleness your subject, I should take you for idleness itself.

tis sweating labour to bear such idleness so near the heart as cleopatra this but sir forgive me since my becomings kill me when they do not eye well to you your honour calls you hence therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly

In all the gods go with you. Upon your sword sit laurel victory, And smooth success be strew'd before your feet. Let us go. Come, our separation so abides and flies, That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away! Exuant. Scene 4. Rome. Octavius Caesar's House.

enter octavius caesar reading a letter lepidus and their train lepidus you may see lepidus and henceforth know it is not caesar's natural vice to hate our great competitor

From Alexandria this is the news. He fishes, drinks, and wastes the lamps of night in revel. Is not more manlike than Cleopatra? Nor the queen of Ptolemy more womanly than he? Hardly gave audience, or vouchsafe to think he had partners. You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow."

i must not think there are evils in now to darken all his goodness his faults in him seem as the spots of heaven more fiery by night's blackness hereditary rather than purchased what he cannot change than what he chooses you are too indulgent

let us grant it is not amiss to tumble on the bed of ptolemy to give a kingdom for a mirth to sit and keep the turn of tippling with a slave to reel the streets at noon and stand the buffet with knaves that smell of sweat say this becomes him as his composure must be rare indeed whom these things cannot blemish

Yet must Antony no way excuse his soils, when we do bear so great weight in his lightness?

If he fill'd his vacancy with his voluptuousness, full surfits and the dryness of his bones call on him for it; but to confound such time, that drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud as his own state and ours, 'tis to be cheer'd as we rate boys, who being mature in knowledge, pawn their experience to their present pleasure, and so rebel to judgment.

Enter a messenger. Here's more news. Thy biddings have been done, and every hour, most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report how 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea, and it appears he is beloved of those that only have feared Caesar. To the ports the discontents repair, and men's reports give him much wronged.

i should have known no less it hath been taught us from the primal state that he which is was wish'd until he were and the ebb'd man ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love comes dared by being lack'd

This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lacquing the varying tide to rot itself with motion. Caesar, I bring thee word: Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound with keels of every kind. Many hot inroads they make in Italy.

the border's maritime lack blood to think on't and flush youth revolt no vessel can peep forth but tis as soon taken as seen for pompey's name strikes more than could his war resisted anthony leave thy lascivious wassails

when thou once wast beaten from medina where thou slewest hirtius and pansa consuls at thy heel did famine follow whom thou fought'st against though daintily brought up with patience more than savages could suffer thou didst drink the stale of horses and the gilded puddle which beasts would cough at

Thy palate then did deign the roughest berry on the rudest hedge; yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, the barks of trees thou browsedst. On the Alps, it is reported, thou didst eat strange flesh, which some did die to look on; and all this—it wounds thine honour that I speak it now—was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek so much as lanked not.

Let his shames quickly drive him to Rome. Tis time we twain did show ourselves in the field, and to that end assemble we immediate council. Pompey thrives in our idleness. Tomorrow, Caesar, I shall be furnished to inform you rightly both what by sea and land I can be able to front this present time. Till which encounter it is my business too. Farewell. Farewell, my lord.

what you shall know meantime of stirs abroad i shall beseech you sir to let me be partaker sire doubt not sir i knew it for my bond scene five alexandria cleopatra's palace enter cleopatra carmian iris and mardion

carmian madame ha ha give me to drink mandragora why madam that i might sleep out this great gap of time my antony is away you think of him too much oh tis treason madame i trust not so thou eunuch marion what's your highness pleasure not now to hear thee sing i take no pleasure in aught an eunuch has tis well for thee that being unseminar'd thy freer thoughts may not fly forth of egypt

Hast thou affections? Yes, gracious madam. Indeed. Not indeed, madam, for I can do nothing but what indeed is honest to be done. Yet I have fierce affections, and think what Venus did with Mars. O Carmion, where thinkest thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he, or does he walk, or is he on his horse?

oh happy horse to bear the weight of antony do bravely horse for what's thou whom thou movest the demi atlas of this earth the arm and burgeonette of men he's speaking now or murmuring where's my serpent of old nile for so he calls me now i feed myself with most delicious poison think on me that am with phoebus's amorous pinches black and wrinkled deep in time

Broad-fronted Caesar, when thou wast here above the ground, I was a morsel for a monarch, and great Pompey would stand and make his eyes grow on my brow. There would he anchor his aspect, and die, with looking on his life. Enter Alexis from Octavius Caesar. Sovereign of Egypt, hail! How much unlike art thou, Mark Antony! Yet coming from him that great medicine hath with his tinct gilded thee.

how goes it with my brave mark antony last thing he did dear queen he kissed the last of many doubled kisses this orient pearl his speech sticks in my heart mine ear must pluck it thence good friend quoth he say the firm roman to great egypt sends this treasure of an oyster at whose foot to mend the petty present i will piece her opulent thrones with kingdoms

all the east say thou shall call her mistress so he nodded and soberly did mount an arm gaunt steed who neighed so high that what i would have spoke was beastly dumbed by him what was he sad or merry like to the time of year between the extremes of hot and cold he was nor sad nor merry o well divided disposition note him note him good camion tis the man

but note him he was not sad for he would shine on those that make their looks by his he was not merry which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay in egypt with his joy but between both o heavenly mingle be'st thou sad or merry the violence of either thee becomes so does it no man else mettest thou my posts ay madam twenty several messengers why do you send so thick

who's born that day when i forget to send to antony shall die a beggar ink and paper carmian welcome my good alexis did i carmian ever love caesar so oh that brave caesar be choked with such another emphasis

Say, the brave Antony. The valiant Caesar. By Isis I will give thee bloody teeth, If thou wouldst seize a paragon again, My man of men. By your most gracious pardon, I sing but after you. My salad days when I was green in judgment, Cold in blood to say as I said then. But come away, get me ink and paper, He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll on people Egypt. Exuant.

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this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org act two scene one messina pompey's house enter pompey melichrates and menas in warlike manner

If the great gods be just, they shall assist the deeds of justest men. No, worthy Pompey, that what they do delay, they not deny. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays the thing we sue for. We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our own good. So fine we profit by losing of our prayers.

I shall do well. The people love me, and the sea is mine. My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope says it will come to the full.

"'Mark Antony in Egypt sits at dinner, and will make no wars without doors. Caesar gets money where he loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both. Of both is flattered, but he neither loves nor either cares for him.' "'Caesar and Lepidus are in the field, mighty strength they carry.' "'What have you this? Tis false.' "'From Silvius, sir.' "'He dreams. I know they are in Rome together, looking for Antony.'

But all the charms of love, salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip. Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both. Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts. Keep his brain fuming. Epicurean cooks sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. That sleep and feeding may prorog his honor even to lefed dullness. Enter Varius. How now, Varius? This is most certain that I should deliver.

"'Mark Antony is every hour in Rome expected. "'Since he went from Egypt, "'tis a space for further travel.' "'I could have given less matter a better ear,'

Menace, I did not think this amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm for such a petty war. His soldiership is twice the other twain. But let us rear the higher our opinion, that our stirring can, from the lap of Egypt's widow, pluck the ne'er-lust-wearied Antony. I cannot hope Caesar and Antony shall well greet together. His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar. His

His brother warred upon him, although I think not moved by Antony. I know not, Menace, how lesser enmities may give way to greater. Were it not that we stand up against them all, to a pregnant they should square between themselves. For they have entertained cause enough to draw their swords. But how the fear of us may cement their divisions and bind up the petty difference, we yet not know. Beat as our gods will have to.

it only stands our lives upon to use our strongest hands come menas scene two rome the house of lepidus enter domitius anababas and lepidus

Good Inobarbus, tis a worthy deed, and shall become you well to entreat your captain to soft and gentle speech. I shall entreat him to answer like himself. If Caesar move him, let Antony look over Caesar's head and speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, were I the wearer of Antonius's beard, I would not shave today. Tis not a time for private stomaching. Every time serves for the matter that is then born in't. But

But small to greater matters must give way. Not if the small comes first. Your speech is passion, but pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes the noble Anthony. Enter Mark Antony and Ventidius. And yonder Caesar. Enter Octavius Caesar, Machaenus, and Agrippa. If we compose well here, Depathia, hark Ventidius.

i do not know maecenas ask agrippa noble friends that which combined us was most great and let not a leaner action rend us what's amiss may it be gently heard when we debate our trivial difference loud we do not commit murder in healing wounds then noble partners the rather for i earnestly beseech

Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, nor cursedness grow to the matter. Tis spoken well. Were we before our armies, and to fight, I should do thus. Flourish. Welcome to Rome. Thank you. Sit. Sit, sir. Nay, then. I learn you take things ill which are not so, or being, concern you not.

i must be laughed at if or for nothing or a little i should say myself offended and with you chiefly o the world

More laughed at, that I should once name you derogately, when to sound your name it not concerned me. By being in Egypt, Caesar, what was to you? No more than my residing here at Rome might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there did practice on my state, your being in Egypt might be my question. How intend you practiced? You may be pleased to catch at mine intent by what did here before me.

your wife and brother made wars upon me and their contestation was theme for you you were the word of war you do mistake your business my brother never did urge me in his act i did inquire it and have my learning from some true reports that drew their swords with you

Did he not rather discredit my authority with yours, and make the wars alike against my stomach having alike your cause? Of this my letters before did satisfy you.

If you'll patch a quarrel, as matter hold you have not to make it with, it must not be with this. You praise yourself by laying defects of judgment to me, but you patched up your excuses. Not so, not so. I know you could not lack, I am certain, on't, very necessity of this thought, that I, your part in the cause against which he fought, could not with graceful eyes attend those wars which fronted mine own peace.'

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another. The third of the world is yours, which with a snaffle you may pace easy, but not such a wife. Would we had all such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women. So much uncurbable her garboils Caesar made out of her impatience, which not wanted shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant, did you too much disquiet.

For that you must but say I could not help it. I wrote to you when writing in Alexandria. You did pocket up my letters, and with taunts did gibe my missive out of audience. Sir, he fell upon me ere admitted. Then three kings I had newly feasted, and did want of what I was in the morning.'

but next day i told him of myself which was as much as to have asked him pardon let this fellow be nothing of our strife if we contend out of our question wipe him you have broken the article of your oath which you shall never have tongue to charge me with

Soft, Caesar. No, Lepidus, let him speak. The honour is sacred, which he talks on now, supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar, the article of my oath. To lend me arms and aid when I required them, the which you both denied. Neglected, rather, and then when poisoned hours had bound me up from mine own knowledge.

as nearly as i may i'll play the penitent to you but mine honesty shall not make poor my greatness nor my power work without it truth is that fulvia to have me out of egypt made wars here for which myself the ignorant motive do so far ask pardon as befits mine honour to stoop in such a case tis noble spoken if it might please you to enforce no further the griefs between ye

To forget them quite, were to remember That the present need speaks to atone you. Worthily spoken, Mercinus. Or, if you borrow one another's love for the instant, You may, when you hear no more words of Pompey, Return it again. You shall have time to wrangle in When you have nothing else to do. Thou art a soldier only. Speak no more. That truth should be silent. I had almost forgot. You wrong this presence. Therefore speak no more. Good.

Go to, then, your considerate stone. I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech. For it cannot be we shall remain in friendship, our condition so differing in their acts. Yet if I knew what hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge of the world I would pursue it. Give me leave, Caesar. Speak, Agrippa. Thou hast a sister by the mother's side, admired Octavia.

Great Mark Antony is now a widower. Say not so, Agrippa. If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof were well deserved of rashness. I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear Agrippa further speak. To hold you in perpetual amity, to make you brothers, and to knit your hearts with an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife, whose beauty claims no worse a husband than the best of men.

whose virtue and whose general graces speak that which none else can utter by this marriage all little jealousies which now seem great and all great fears which now import their dangers would then be nothing truths would be tales where now half-tales be truths her love to both would each to other and all loves to both draw after her

Pardon what I have spoke, for it is a studied, not a present thought, by duty ruminated. Will Caesar speak? Not till he hears how Antony is touched with what is spoke already. What power is in Agrippa, if I would say, Agrippa, be it so, to make this good? The power of Caesar, and his power unto Octavia. May I never to this good purpose, that so fairly shows, dream of impediment?

let me have thy hand further this act of grace and from this hour the heart of brothers govern in our loves and sway our great design there is my hand a sister i bequeath you whom no brother did ever love so dearly

let her live to join our kingdoms and our hearts and never fly off our loves again hap amen i did not think to draw my sword gainst pompey for he hath laid strange courtesies and great of late upon me i must thank him only lest my remembrance suffer ill report at heel of that defy him time calls upon's

Of us must Pompey presently be sought, or else he seeks out us. Where lies he? About the Mount Messinum. What is his strength by land? Great, and increasing. But by sea he is an absolute master. So is the fame. Would we had spoke together, haste we for it. Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we the business we have talked of.

with most gladness and do invite you to my sister's view with a strait i'll lead you lepidus let us lepidus not lack your company lepidus noble anthony not sickness should detain me flourish exeunt octavius caesar mark anthony and lepidus lepidus welcome from egypt sir lepidus half the heart of caesar worthy messianus my honorable friend agrippa agrippa good enobarbus

"'We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. You stayed well by it in Egypt.' "'Aye, sir. We did sleep day out of countenance, and made the night light with drinking.' "'Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons there? Is this true?' "'This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.'

She's a most triumphant lady. If report be square to her. When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Sindus. There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her. I will tell you. The barge she set in, like a burnished throne burned on the water, the poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed that the winds were lovesick with them.

the oars were silver which to the tune of flutes kept stroke and made the water which they beat to follow faster as amorous of their strokes

for her own person it beggared all description she did lie in her pavilion cloth of gold of tissue or picturing that venus which we see the fancy outwork nature on each side her stood pretty dimpled boys like smiling cupids were divers colour fans whose wind did seem to glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool and what they undid did oh rare for antony

her gentlewoman like the nereides so many mermaids tended her at the eyes and made their bends adornings at the helm a seeming mermaid steers the silken tackle swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands that yearly frame the office

from the barge a strange invisible perfume hits the sense of the adjacent wharfs the city cast her people out upon her and anthony enthroned ere the market-place did sit alone whistling to the air which but for vacancy had gone to gaze on cleopatra too and made a gap in nature rare egyptian upon her landing anthony sent to her invited her to supper she replied it should be better he became her guest

which she entreated our courteous antony who ne'er the word of no woman heard speak being barber'd ten times o'er goes to the feast and for his ordinary pays his heart for what his eyes eat only royal wench she made great caesar lay his sword to bed

He ploughed her, and she cropped. I saw her once hop forty paces through the public street, and having lost her breath, she spoke and panted that she did make defect perfection, and breathless, power-breathed force. Now Anthony must leave her utterly. Never, he will not. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but

But she makes hungry where most she satisfies, for vilest things become themselves in her that the holy priests bless her when she is rigish. If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle the heart of Anthony, Octavia is a blessed lottery to him. Let us go. Good Eno Barbus, make yourself my guest whilst you abide here. Humbly, sir, I thank you. Exeunt. Scene 3. The Same. Octavia Caesar's House.

enter mark antony octavius caesar octavia between them and attendants the world and my great office will sometimes divide me from your bosom all which time before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers to them for you good night sir my octavia read not my blemishes in the world's report i have not kept my square but that to come shall all be done by the rule good night dear lady

Good night, sir. Good night. Exuant Octavius Caesar and Octavia. Enter soothsayer. Now, sirrah, you do wish yourself in Egypt? Would I had never come from thence, nor you thither. If you can, your reason. I see it in my motion, have it not in my tongue, but yet, hie you to Egypt again. Say to me, whose fortune shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine? Caesar's.

therefore o antony stay not by his side thy demon that's thy spirit which keeps thee is noble courageous high unmatchable where caesar's is not but near him thy angel becomes a fear as being overpowered therefore make space enough between you speak this no more to none but thee no more but when to thee

If thou dost play with him at any game, thou art sure to lose, and of that natural luck he beats thee against the odds. Thy luster thickens when he shines by. I say again, thy spirit is all afraid to govern thee near him, but he away, tis noble. Get thee gone. Say to Ventidius I would speak with him. Exit soothsayer.

He shall to Parthia, be it art or hap, he hath spoken true. The very dice obey him, and in our sports my better cunning faints under his chance. If we draw lots, he speeds. His cocks do win the battle still of mine, when it is all to nought, and his quails ever beat mine in hoot at odds. I will to Egypt, and though I make this marriage for my peace, in the east my pleasure lie.

enter ventidius ventidius oh come ventidius you must a path here your commission's ready follow me and received scene for the same a street enter lepidus macanus and agrippa trouble yourselves no further pray you hasten your generals after sir mark antony will e'en but kiss octavia and will follow

till i shall see you in your soldier's dress which will become you both farewell we shall as i conceive the journey be at the mount before you lepidus your way is shorter my purposes do draw me much about you'll win two days upon me with agrippa sir good success farewell scene v alexandria cleopatra's palace

Enter Cleopatra, Carmion, Iris, and Alexis. Give me some music. Music. Moody food of us that trade in love. The music! Ho! Enter Mardian. Let it alone. Let's debiliate. Come, Carmion. My arm is sore. Best play with Mardian. As well a woman within eunuch played as with a woman.

come you'll play with me sir as well as i can madam and when good will is showed thought come too short the actor may plead pardon i'll none now give me mine angle we'll to the river there my music playing far off i will betray tawny finned fishes

my bended hook shall pierce their slimy jaws and as i draw them up i'll think them every one an antony and say aha you're caught lady corinth twas merry when you wagered on your angling when your diver did hang a salt fish on his hook which he with fervency drew up that time o times

i laughed him out of patience and that night i laughed him into patience and next morn ere the ninth hour i drunk him to his bed then put my tires and mantles on him whilst i wore his sword philippin enter a messenger oh from italy ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears that long time have been barren madame madame antonius dead if thou say so villain thou killest thy mistress

but well and free if thou so yield him there is gold in here my bluest veins to kiss a hand that kings have lipp'd and trembled kissing first madam he is well why there's more gold but sirrah mark we used to say the dead are well bring it to that the gold i give thee will i melt and pour down thy ill-uttering throat good madam hear me well go to i will

but there's no goodness in thy face if antony be free and healthful so tard a favour to trumpet such good tidings if not well thou shouldst come like a fury crowned with snakes not like a formal man will't please you hear me i have a mind to strike thee ere thou speakest

Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well, or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him, I'll set thee in a shower of gold and hail-rich pearls upon thee. Madam, he's well. Well said. And friends with Caesar. Thou art an honest man. Caesar and he are greater friends than ever. Make thee a fortune from me. But yet, madam. I do not like but yet. It does allay the good precedence.

fie upon but yet but yet is a jailer to bring forth some monstrous malefactor prithee friend pour out the pack of matter to mine ear the good and bad together

Heís friends with Caesar, and state of health thou sayíst, and thou sayíst free. Free, madam, no. I made no such report. Heís bound unto Octavia. For what good turn? For the best turn in the bed. I am pale, Carmion. Madam, heís married to Octavia. The most infectious pestilence upon thee! Good madam, patience!

What say you? Hence! Strikes him again. Horrible villain. Or I'll spurn thine eyes like balls before me. I'll unhair thy head. She hails him up and down.

Thou shalt be whipped with wire, and stewed in brine, smarting and lingering pickle. Gracious madam, I that do bring the news, made not the match. Say tis not so, a province I will give thee, and make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou hadst shall make thy peace for moving me to rage, and I will boot thee, with what gift beside thy modesty can beg. He's married, madam. Rogue, thou hast lived too long. Draws a knife.

nay then i'll run what mean you madam i have made no fault good madam keep yourself within yourself the man is innocent some innocents scape not the thunderbolt melt egypt into nile and kindly creatures turn all to serpents call the slave again

though i am mad i will not bite him call he is afeard to come i will not hurt him exit carmian these hands do lack nobility that they strike a meaner than myself since i myself have given myself the cause re-enter carmian and messenger come hither sir though it be honest it is never good to bring bad news give to a gracious message and host of tongues

"'But let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt.' "'I have done my duty.' "'Is he married? "'I cannot hate thee worse than I do, if thou again say yes.' "'He's married, madam.' "'The gods confound thee. Dost thou hold there still?' "'Should I lie, madam?' "'Oh, I would thou didst. "'So half my Egypt were submerged and made a cistern for scaled snakes. "'Go, get thee hence.'

Hattest thou Narcissus in thy face, to me thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married? I crave your Highness's pardon. He is married? Take no offence that I would not offend you. To punish me for what you make me do seems much unequal. He's married to Octavia. Oh, that his fault should make a knave of thee, that art not what thou art sure of. Get thee hence.

the merchandise which thou hast brought from rome are all too dear for me lie they upon thy hand and be undone by em exit messenger good your highness patience and praising antony i have dispraised caesar many times madam i am paid for't now lead me from hence i faint o iris come in tis no matter go to the fellow good alexis

bid him report the feature of octavia her years her inclination let him not leave out the colour of her hair bring me word quickly exit alexis let him for ever go let him not charmian though he be painted one way like a gorgon the other way is a mars bid you alexis tamardian bring me word how tall she is pity me charmian but do not speak to me lead me to my chamber

scene six near mycenum flourish enter pompey and minas at one door with drum and trumpet at another octavius caesar mark antony lepidus dimittius enababas mycanus with soldiers marching your hostages i have so have you mine and we shall talk before we fight

most meet that first we come to words and therefore have we our written purposes before us sent which if thou hast considered let us know if twill tie up thy discontented sword and carry back to sicily much tall youth that else must perish here

to you all three the senators alone of this great world chief factors for the gods i do not know wherefore my father should revengers want having a son and friends since julius caesar who at philippi the good brutus ghosted there saw you laboring for him

Take your time.

"'Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails. We'll speak with thee at sea. At land thou knowest how much we do or count thee.' "'At land? Indeed, thou dost or count me of my father's house. But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself, remain in't as thou mayest.' "'Be pleased to tell us, for this is from the present, how you take the offers we have sent you.' "'There's the point.'

which do not be entreated to but weigh what is worth embraced, and what may follow to try a larger fortune. You have made me offer of Sicily, Sardinia, and I must rid all the sea of pirates. Then, to send measures of wheat to Rome, this greed upon to part with unhacked edges, and bear back our targes undinted.

With Antony and Lepidus. That's our offer. No, then, I came before you here a man prepared to take this offer, but Mark Antony put me to some impatience, though I lose the praise of it by telling. You must know, when Caesar and your brother were at blows, your mother came to Sicily and did find her welcome friendly. I've heard it, Pompey, and I'm well studied for a liberal thanks which I do owe you.

let me have your hand i did not think sir to have met you here the beds i the east are soft and thanks to you that called me timelier than my purpose hither for i have gained by it since i saw you last there is a change upon you

well i know not what counts harsh fortune casts upon my face but in my bosom shall she never come to make my heart her vassal well meant here i hope so

thus we are agreed i crave our composition may be written and sealed between us that's the next to do we'll feast each other ere we part and let's draw lots who shall begin that will i pompey no antony take the lot but first or last your fine egyptian cookery shall have the fame

I have heard that Julius Caesar grew fat with feasting there. You have heard much. I have fair meanings, sir. And fair words to them.

Then so much have I heard, and I have heard Apollodorus carried— No more of that. He did so. What, I pray you? A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress. I know thee now. How fairest thou, soldier? Well, and well am like to do, for, I perceive, four feasts are toward. Let me shake thy hand.

I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight, when I have envied thy behavior. Sir, I never loved you much, but have praised ye, when you have well deserved ten times as much as I have said you did. Enjoy thy plainness. If nothing ill becomes thee, aboard my galley I invite you all. Will you lead, lords? With Antony and Lepidus. Come. Exuant all but Minas and Anababas. Aside.

"'Thy father, Pompey, would never have made this treaty. You and I have known, sir.'

At sea, I think. We have, sir. You have done well by water. And you by land. I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I have done by land. Nor what I have done by water. Yes, something you can deny for your own safety. You have been a great thief by sea. And you by land. There I deny my land service, but give me your hand, Menace.

if our eyes had authority here they might take two thieves kissing all men's faces are true whatsoever their hands are but there is never a fair woman has a true face no slander they steal hearts we came hither to fight with you for my part i'm sorry it is turned to a drinking pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune if he do sure he cannot weep back again

You've said, sir, we look not for Mark Antony here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra? Caesar's sister is called Octavia. True, sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

Pray ye, sir? 'Tis true. Then is Caesar and he forever knit together. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so. I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties. I think so too, but you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.

Who would not have his wife so? Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again, then shall the size of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony will use his affection where it is. He married but his occasion here.

and thus it may be come sir will you aboard i have a health for you i shall take it sir we have used our throats in egypt come let's away scene seven on board pompey's galley off my scenum music plays enter two or three servants with the banquet here they'll be man some of their plants are ill-rooted already the least wind of the world will blow them down

Lipidus is high-colored. They have made him drink alms-drink. As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out, "No more!" reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink. But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion. Why, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship. I had as lief have a rede that will do me no service as a partisan. I could not heave.

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move it, are the holes where I should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks. A senate sounded. Enter Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony, Lepidus, Pompey, Agrippa, Machaenus, Domitius Anabarbus, Minas, with other captains. To Octavius Caesar. Thus do they, sir. They take the flow of the Nile by certain scales of the pyramids.

they know by the height the lowness or the mean if dearth or foisoned follow the higher nilus swells the more it promises as it ebbs the seedsman upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain and shortly comes to harvest you've strange serpents there lepidus your serpent of egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your son so is your crocodile

Ah, sir. Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus. I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out. Not till you have slept. I fear me you'll be in till then. Nay, certainly I have heard the Ptolemies' pyramises are very goodly things. Without contradiction I have heard that. Aside to Pompey. Pompey, a word. Aside to Minas.

Say in mine ear, what is't? Aside to Pompey. Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain, and hear me speak a word. Aside to Minas. Forbear me till anon. This wine for Lapidus. What manner of thing is your crocodile? It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth.

It is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements, once out of it, it transmigrates. What colour is it of? Of its own colour, too. Tis a strange serpent. Tis so, and the tears of it are wet. Will this description satisfy him? With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a very epicure.

aside to minas go hang sir hang tell me of that away do as i bid you where's this cup i called for aside to pompey if for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me rise from thy stool aside to minas i think thou'rt mad the matter rises and walks aside i have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes thou hast served me with much faith

What else to say? Be jolly, lords. These quicksands, Lepidus, keep off them, for you sink.

Wilt thou be lord of all the world? What sayest thou? Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice. How should that be? But entertain it, and though thou think me poor, I am the man, will give thee all the world. Hast thou drunk well? Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.

Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove. Whatever the ocean pales or sky enclips, is thine if thou wilt act.

Show me which way. These three world-sharers, these competitors, are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable, and when we are put off, fall to their throats. All there is thine. Ah, this thou shouldst have done, and not have spoken on't. In me tis villainy. In thee t had been good service.'

thou must know tis not my profit that does lead mine honour mine honour it repent that ere thy tongue hath so betrayed thine act being done unknown i should have found it afterwards well done but must condemn it now desist and drink for this i'll never follow thy palled fortunes more

whose sexen will not take when once tis offered shall never find it more this health to lepidus bear him ashore i'll pledge it for him pompey here's to thee menas inobarbus welcome fill till the cut be hid there's a strong fellow menas pointing to the attendant who carries off lepidus

why obeys the third part of the world man seest not the third part then is drunk would it were all that it might go on wheels drink thou increase the reels come this is not yet an alexandrian feast it ripens towards it strike the vessels ho here is to caesar

i could well forbear it it's monstrous labour when i wash my brain and it grows fouler be a child of the time possess it i'll make answer

but i had rather fast from all four days than drink so much in one ha my brave emperor to mark antony shall we dance now the egyptian bacchanals and celebrate our drink let's hae it good soldier come let's all take hands till that conquering wine hath steeped our sense in soft and delicate lethe

all take hands make battery to our ears with the loud music the while i place you then the boy shall sing the holding every man shall bear as loud as his strong sides can volley music plays domitius anababas places them hand in hand the song thou monarch

What would you moor?

pompey good-night good brother let me request you off our graver business frowns at this levity gentle lords let's part you see we have burnt our cheeks strong enobarb is weaker than the wine and mine own tongue splits what it speaks the wild disguise hath almost anticked us all what needs more words good-night

good anthony your hand i'll try you on the shore and shall sir gives your hand oh anthony you have my father's house but what we are friends

come down into the boat take heed you fool not exeunt all but domitius and ababas and menas menas i'll not on shore no to my cabin these drums these trumpets flutes what let neptune hear we bid a loud farewell to these great fellows sound and be hanged sound out sound a flourish with drums ho caesar there's my cap

"Oh, noble captain, come!"

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This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Act III. Scene 1. A Plane in Syria. Enter Ventidius, as it were in triumph with Silius and other Romans, officers and soldiers, the dead body of Pecorus borne upon them. Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck?

and now pleased fortune does of marcus crassus death make me revenger bear the king's son's body before our army thy pacorus erotus pays this for marcus noble ventidius whilst yet with parthian blood thy sword is warm the fugitive parthians follow

Spur through media, Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither the rooted fly, so thy grand captain Antony shall set thee on triumphant chariots, and put garlands on thy head. O Silius, Silius, I have done enough. A lower place, note well, may make too great an act. For learn this, Silius, better to leave undone than by our deed acquire too high a fame when him we serves away. Caesar and Antony have ever won more in their officer than person.

saucius one of my place in syria his lieutenant for quick accumulation of renown which he achieved by the minute lost his favor who does in the wars more than his captain can becomes his captain's captain and ambition the soldier's virtue rather makes choice of loss than gain which darkens him

I could do more to do Antonius good, but twould offend him, and in his offence should my performance perish. Thou hast been tedious, that without the which a soldier and his sword grant scarce distinction. Thou wilt rate to Antony. I'll humbly signify what in his name that magical word of war we have effected.

how with his banners and his well-paid ranks the ne'er-yet-beaten horse of parthia we have jaded out of the field where is he now he purposeth to athens whither with what haste the weight we must convey with us will permit we shall appear before him on there pass along scene two rome an antechamber in octavius caesar's house enter agrippa at one door domitius anabarbus at another

What are the brothers parted? They have dispatched with Pompey. He is gone. The other three are sealing.

Octavia weeps to part from Rome. Caesar is sad, and Lepidus, since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled with the green sickness. "'Tis a noble Lepidus." "'A very fine one. Oh, how he loves Caesar!' "'Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!' "'Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men!' "'What's Antony the god of Jupiter?' "'Speak you of Caesar? How? The nonpareil!'

O Antony, O thou Arabian bird! Would you praise Caesar? Say Caesar. Go no further. Indeed he plied them both with excellent praises. But he loves Caesar best. Yet he loves Antony. Ho! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot think, speak, cast, write, sing, number. Ho! His love to Antony.

but as for caesar kneel down kneel down and wonder both he loves they are his shards and he their beetle trumpets within so this is to horse adieu noble agrippa good fortune worthy soldier and farewell enter octavius caesar mark antony lepidus and octavia no further sir

you take from me a great part of myself use me well and sister prove such a wife as my thoughts make thee and as my farthest band shall pass on thy approof most noble antony let not the peace of virtue which is set betwixt us as the cement of our love to keep it builded be the ram to batter the fortress of it

for better might we have loved without this mean if on both parts this be not cherisht phaedrus make me not offended in your distrust i have said you shall not find though you be there incurious the least cause for what you seem to fear so the gods keep you and make the hearts of romans serve your ends we will hear part phaedrus farewell my dearest sister

fare thee well the elements be kind to thee and make thy spirits all of comfort fare thee well my noble brother the april's in her eyes it is love's spring and these the showers to bring it on be cheerful sir look well to my husband's house and what octavia octavia i'll tell you in your ear

Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can her heart inform her tongue. The swan's down feather that stands upon the swell at full of tide, and neither way inclines. Will Caesar weep? He has a cloud in his face. He were the worse for that, were he a horse. So is he, being a man.

aside to domitius and obabus why you know barbus when antony found julius caesar dead he cried almost to roaring and he wept when at philippi he found brutus slain

aside to Agrippa. That year, indeed, he was troubled with a room. What willingly he did confound he wailed, believed till I wept too. No, sweet Octavia, you shall hear from me still. The time shall not outgo my thinking on you. Come, sir, come. I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love. Look, here I have you. Thus I let you go, and give you to the gods.

adieu be happy let all the number of the stars give light to thy fair way farewell farewell kisses octavia farewell trumpets sound scene three alexandria cleopatra's palace

enter cleopatra carmian iris and alexis where is the fellow half afeard to come go to go to enter the messenger as before come hither sir good majesty herod of drury dare not look upon you but when you are well pleased that herod's head i'll have but how when antony is gone through whom i might command it

come thou near most gracious majesty didst thou behold octavia i dread queen where madam in rome i looked her in the face and saw her led between her brother and mark antony is she as tall as me she is not madam didst hear her speak

is she shrill-tongued or low madame i heard her speak she is low-voiced that's not so good i cannot like her long like her o isis tis impossible i think so carmian dull of tongue and dwarfish what majesty is in her gait

"'Remember, if e'er thou lookest on Majesty—' "'She creeps. Her motion and her station are as one. "'She shows a body rather than a life, a statue than a breather.' "'Is this certain?' "'Or I have no observance.' "'Three in Egypt cannot make better note.' "'He's very knowing, I do perceived. There's nothing in her yet.'

the fellow has good judgment excellent guess at her years i prithee madam she was a widow widow come in hark and i do think she's thirty bearest thou her face and mind is't long or round round even to faultiness for the most part too they are foolish that are so

her hair what color brown madam and her forehead as low as she would wish it there's gold for thee thou must not take my former sharpness ill i will employ thee back again i find thee most fit for business go make thee ready our letters are prepared exit messenger a proper man indeed he is so i repent me much that so i harried him

"'Why, methinks, by him. This creature's no such thing.' "'Nothing, madam.' "'The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.' "'Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend, and serving you so long?' "'I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Carmion. But tis no matter. Thou shalt bring him to me where I will write. All may be well enough.' "'I warrant you, madam.' EXUENT SCENE IV ATHENS A ROOM IN MARK ANTONY'S HOUSE

Enter Mark Antony and Octavia.

Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that, that were excusable, that and thousands more of semblable import. But he hath waged new wars against Pompey, made his will, and read it to public ear, spoke scantily of me, when perforce he could not but pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly he vented them. Most narrow measure lent me, when the best hint was given him, he not took'd, or did it from his teeth.

o my good lord believe not all or if you must believe stomach not all a more unhappy lady if this division chanced nea stood between praying for both parts

the good gods me presently when i shall pray oh bless my lord and husband undo that prayer by crying out as loud oh bless my brother husband win win brother prays and destroys the prayer no midway twixt these extremes at all gentle octavia let your best love draw to that point which seeks best to preserve it if i lose mine honour i lose myself

better i were not yours then yours so branchless but as you requested yourself shall go betweens the meantime lady or raise a preparation of a war shall stain your brother make your soonest haste so your desires are yours lady th thanks to my lord the jove of power make me most weak most weak your reconciler

Worst, twixt you twain, would be, As if the world should cleave, And that slain man should solder up the rift. When it appears to you where this begins, Turn your displeasure that way, For our faults can never be so equal That your love can equally move with them. Provide your going, choose your own company, And command what cost your heart has mind to. Exuant. Scene 5. The Same. Another Room.

Enter Domitius Anabarbus and Eros, meeting.

How now, friend Eros? There's strange news come, sir. What, man? Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey. This is old. What is the success? Caesar, having made use of him in the wars against Pompey, presently denied him rivality, would not let him partake in the glory of the action, and, not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey, upon his own appeal seizes him.

So the poor third is up, till death enlarges confine. Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps no more, and throw between them all the food thou hast. They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony? He's walking in the garden. Thus, and spurns the rush that lies before him, cries, Fool Lepidus! and threats the throat of that his officer that murdered Pompey. Our great navy's rigged. For Italy and Caesar. More Domitius.

My lord desires you presently. My news I might have told hereafter. T'will be nought. But let it be. Bring me to Antony. Come, sir. Exuant. Scene 6. Rome. Octavius Caesar's house. Enter Octavius Caesar, Agrippa, and Bacchanus. Contemning Rome he has done all this and more in Alexandria.

here is the manner of it in the market-place on a tribunal silvered cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold were publicly enthroned at the feet sat caesarion whom they call my father's son and all the unlawful issue that their lust since then hath made between them

Unto her he gave the establishment of Egypt, Made her of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, absolute queen. This in the public eye? Ithacomen show place where they exercise. His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings, Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia he gave to Alexander, To Ptolemy he assigned Syria, Sicilia, and Phoenicia. She in the habiliments of the goddess Isis that day appear'd,

and oft before gave audience, as tis reported so. Let Rome be thus informed. Who, queasy with his insolence already, will their good thoughts call from him? The people know it, and have now received his accusations. Who does he accuse? Caesar.

and that having in sicily sextus pompeius spoil'd we had not rated him his part of the isle then does he say he lent me some shipping unrestor'd lastly he frets that lepidus of the triumvirate should be depos'd and being that we detain all his revenue sir this should be answer'd tis done already and the messenger gone

i have told him lepidus was grown too cruel that he his high authority abused and did deserve his change for what i have conquered i grant him part but then in his armenia and other of his conquered kingdoms i demand the like he'll never yield to that nor must not then be yielded to in this enter octavia with her train hail caesar and my lord hail most dear caesar

ever i should call thee cast away you have not called me so nor have you cause why have you stolen upon us thus you come not like caesar's sister the wife of antony should have an army for an usher and the knaves of horse to tell of her approach long ere she did appear

"'The trees, by the way, should have borne men, and expectation fainted longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust should have ascended to the roof of heaven raised by your populous troops. But you are come a market made to Rome, and have prevented the ostentation of our love, which left unshown is often left unloved. We should have met you by sea and land, supplying every stage with an augmented greeting.'

good my lord to come thus was i not constrain'd but did on my free will my lord mark antony hearing that you prepar'd for war acquainted my griev'd ear withal whereon i beg'd his pardon for return which soon he granted being an obstruct tween his lust and him do not say so my lord i have eyes upon him and his affairs come to me on the wind

where is he now my lord in athens no my most wrong'd sister cleopatra hath nodded him to her he hath giv'n his empire up to a whore who now are levying the kings of the earth for war

heath assembled bochus the king of libya archelaus of cappadocia philadelphos king of paphlagonia the thracian king adalus king malchus of arabia king of pont herod of jewry mithridates king of comagene polymon and amyntas the kings of media and laconia

more large a list of sceptres a me most wretched that have my heart parted betwixt two friends that do afflict each other welcome hither your letters did withhold our breaking forth till we perceived both how you were wrong led and we in negligent danger

cheer your heart be you not troubled with the time which drives o'er your content these strong necessities but let determined things to destiny hold unbewailed their way welcome to rome nothing more dear to me you are abused beyond the mark of thought and the high gods to do you justice make them ministers of us and those that love you

"'Best of comfort and ever welcome to us.' "'Welcome, lady.' "'Welcome, dear madam. Each heart in Rome does love and pity you. Only the adulterous Antony, most large in his abominations, turns you off, and gives his potent regiment to a troll that noises it against us.' "'Is it so, sir?' "'Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you be ever known to patience, my dearest sister.' "'Excellent.'

Scene 7. Near Actium. Mark Antony's camp.

Enter Cleopatra and Domitius and Ababas. I will be even with thee, doubt it not. But why, why, why? Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars, and sayest it is not fit. Well, is it, is it? If not denounced against us, why should not we be there in person? Aside. Well, I could reply, if we should serve with horse and mares together, the horse were merely lost, the mares would bear a soldier and his horse.

What is't you say? Your presence needs must puzzle Antony. Take from his heart, take from his brain, from't time. What should not then be spared? He is already traduced for levity, and 'tis said in Rome that Photonus and Eunuch and your maids manage this war. Sink, Rome, in their tongues wrought that speak against us. A charge we bear in the war, and, as the president of my kingdom, will appear there for a man.

speak not against it i will not stay behind nay i have done here comes the emperor enter mark antony and canisius canisius is it not strange canidius that from tarentum and brundusium he could so quickly cut the ionian sea and take in taurine

you have heard on't sweet celerity is never more admired than by the negligent a good rebuke which might well become the best of men to taunted slackness canidius we will fight with him by sea by sea what else

why will my lord do so for that he dares us to it so hath my lord dared him to single fight i and to wage this battle at pharsalia where caesar fought with pompey but these offers which serve not for his vantage he shakes off and so should you your ships are not well manned

your mariners are muleteers reapers people engrossed by swift impress in caesar's fleet are those that often have gainst pompey fought their ships are yarr yours heavy no disgrace shall fall you for refusing him at sea being prepared for land by sea by sea most worthy sir you therein throw away the absolute soldiership you have by land

distract your army which doth most consist of war-marked footmen leave unexecuted your own renowned knowledge quite forego the way which promises assurance and give up yourself merely to chance and hazard from firm security i'll fight at sea i have sixty sails caesar none better howe'er plus of shipping will we burn and with rest full manned from the head of axiom beat the approaching caesar

But if we fail, we then can do't at land. Enter a messenger. Thy business? The news is true, my lord. He is descried. Caesar has taken Torrine. Can he be there in person? 'Tis impossible. Strange that power should be. Canidias, our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, and our twelve thousand horse. Will to our ship. Away, my Thetis. Enter a soldier.

How now, worthy soldier? O noble emperor, do not fight by sea. Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt this sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians and the Phoenicians go a-ducking. We have used to conquer standing on the earth and fighting foot to foot. Well, well, away! Exuant Mark Antony, Queen Cleopatra, and Domitius Anabarbus.

By Hercules, I think I am in the right. Soldier, thou art, but his whole action grows not in the power on't. So our leader's led, and we are women's men. You keep by land the legions and the horse whole, do you not? Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justius, Publicola, and Callius are for sea, but we keep whole by land.

This speed of Caesar's carries beyond belief. While he was yet in Rome, his power went out in such distractions as beguiled all spies. Who's his lieutenant here? They say, one Taurus. Well, I know the man. Enter a messenger. The emperor calls Canidius. With news the times with labor, and throws forth each minute some. Exeunt. Scene 8. A plane near Actium.

enter octavius caesar and taurus with his army marching taurus my lord strike not by land keep whole provoke not battle till we have done at sea do not exceed the pre-script of this scroll our fortune lies upon this jump scene nine another part of the plain enter mark antony and demetius anababas

set we our squadrons on yon side of the hill in eye of caesar's battle from which place we may the number of the ships behold and so proceed accordingly scene ten another part of the plain canadeus marcheth with his land army one way over the stage and taurus the lieutenant of octavius caesar the other way after their going in is heard the noise of a sea-fight alarum enter dimittius and

Nought, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer. The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, with all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder. To see it, mine eyes are blasted. Enter Scarus. Gods and goddesses, all the whole synod of them. What's thy passion? The greater cantle of the world is lost with very ignorance. We have kissed away kingdoms and provinces.

How appears the fight? On our side like the tokened pestilence, Where death is sure. Yon ribadred nag of Egypt, Whom leprosy o'ertake, I the midst o' the fight, When vantage like a pair of twins appeared, Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, The breeze upon her like a cow in June, Hoist sails and flies. That I beheld.

mine eyes did sicken at the sight and could not endure a further view she once been loofed the noble ruin of her magic anthony claps on his sea-wing and like a doting mallard leaving the fight in height flies after her i never saw an action of such shame experience manhood honor ne'er before did violate so itself alack alack enter conigius

our fortune on the sea is out of breath and sinks most lamentably had our general been what he knew himself it had gone well oh he has given us example for our flight most grossly by his own aye are you thereabouts why then good night indeed toward peloponnesus are they fled tis easy toot and there i will attend what further comes

To Caesar will I render my legions and my horse. Six kings already show me the way of yielding. I'll yet follow the wounded chance of Antony, though my reason sits in the wind against me. Exuant. Scene 11. Alexandria. Cleopatra's Palace. Enter Mark Antony with attendance. Hark! The land bids me tread no more upon't.

It is a shame to bear me. Friends, come hither. I am so lated in the world that I have lost my way for ever. I have a ship laden with gold. Take that, divide it, fly, and make your peace with Caesar. Fly, not we. I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards to run and show their shoulders. Friends, beware.

"'Begone! I have myself resolved upon a course which has no need of you. "'Begone! My treasure's in the harbour. Take it. "'Oh, I followed that I blushed to look upon. "'My very hairs do mutiny, for the white reprove the brown for rashness, "'and they them for fear and doting. "'Friends, begone! You shall have letters from me to some friends that will sweep your way for you.'

"'Pray you, look not sad, nor make replies of loathness. "'Take the hint which my despair proclaims. "'Let that be left which leaves itself. "'To the seaside straightway. "'I will possess you of that ship and treasure. "'Leave me, I pray, a little. "'Pray you now. "'Nay, do so, for indeed I have lost command. "'Therefore I pray you. "'I'll see you by and by.' "'Sit's down.'

Enter Cleopatra, led by Carmion and Iris, Eros following. Nay, gentle madam, to him. Comfort him. Do, most dear queen. Do? Why, what else? Let me sit down. O Juno! No, no, no, no, no. See you here, sir? O fie, fie, fie. Madam! Madam, O good empress! Sir, sir!

Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept his sword in like a dancer, while I struck the lean and wrinkled Cassius. And twas I that the mad Brutus ended. He alone dwelt on left tenantry, and no practice had in the brave squares of war. Yet now—

no matter ah stand by the queen my lord the queen go to him madam speak to him he is unqualified with very shame well then sustain him oh most noble sir arise the queen approaches her head's declined and death will seize her

but your comfort makes the rescue i have offended reputation a most unnerble swerving sir the queen oh whither hast thou led me egypt

See how I do convey my shame out of thine eyes by looking back what I have left behind, stroid in dishonour. O my lord, my lord, forgive my fearful sails. I little thought you would have followed. Egypt, thou knew'st too well my heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, and thou shouldst tow me after. O my spirit, thy full supremacy thou knew'st.

and that thy beck might from the bidding of the gods command me. Oh, my pardon! Now I must to the young man send humble treaties, dodge and palter in the shifts of lowness, who, with half the bulk of the world, played as I pleased, making admiring fortunes. You did know how much you were my conqueror, and that my sword, made weak by my affection, would obey it on all cause. Pardon!

Pardon. Fall not a tear, I say. One of them rates all that is won and lost. Give me a kiss. Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster. Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead. Some wine. Within there are Narvaeans. Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows. Exuant Scene 12 Egypt Octavius Caesar's Camp

enter octavius caesar dolabella thyrius with others let him appear that's come from antony know you him caesar tis his schoolmaster an argument that he is plucked when hither he sends so poor a pinion of his wing which had superfluous kings for messengers not many moons ago

enter euphronius ambassador from mark antony approach and speak such as i am i come from antony i was of late as petty to his ends as the morn due on the myrtle leaf to his grand sea

be it so declare thine office lord of his fortunes he salutes thee and requires to live in egypt which not granted he lessens his requests and to thee sues to let him breathe between the heavens and earth a private man in athens this for him next cleopatra does confess thy greatness submits her to thy might and of thee craves the circle of the ptolemies for her heirs now hazarded to thy grace

For Antony I have no ears to his request. The queen of audience nor desire shall fail, So she from Egypt drive her all disgraced friend, Or take his life there. This, if she perform, she shall not sue unheard. So to them both. Fortun pursue thee. Bring him through the bands. Exit Euphronius to Thyreus. To try eloquence now tis time.

dispatch from antony win cleopatra promise and in our name what she requires add more from thine invention offers women are not in their best fortunes strong but want will perjure the ne'er-touch'd vestal

Try thy cunning, Thyreus, make thine own edict for thy paints, which we will answer as a law. Caesar, I go. Observe how Antony becomes his flaw, and what thou think'st his very action speaks in every power that moves. Caesar, I shall. Exeunt Scene XIII Alexandria, Cleopatra's Palace

Enter Cleopatra, Domitius Anabarbus, Carmion, and Iris. What shall we do, Anabarbus?

think and die is antony all we in fault for this antony only that would make his will lord of his reason what though you fled from the great face of war whose several ranges frightened each other why should he follow the itch of his affection should not then have nicked his captainship at such a point when half to half the world opposed he being the mirrored question

Twas a shame no less that was his loss, to course your flying flags and leave his navy gazing. Prithee, peace. Enter Mark Antony with Euphronius the ambassador. Is that his answer? Aye, my lord. The queen shall then have courtesy, so she will yield us up. He says so. Let her know't.

To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head, and he will fill thy wishes to the brim with principalities. That head, my lord? To him again. Tell him he wears the rose of youth upon him, the which the world should note something particular. His coins, ships, legions may be a coward's, whose ministers would prevail under the service of a child as soon as he the command of Caesar.'

i dare him therefore to lay his gay comparisons apart and answer me declined sword against sword ourselves alone or write it follow me mark antony and euphronius aside yes like enough high-battled caesar will unstate his happiness and be staged to the show against a

i see men's judgments are a parcel of their fortunes and things outward do draw the inward quality after them to suffer all alike that he should dream knowing all measure the false caesar will answer his emptiness caesar thou hast subdued his judgment too enter an attendant a messenger from caesar what no more ceremony see my women against the blown rose may they stop their nose that kneelt unto the buds

admit him sir exit attendant aside thyrrho myn honesty and i begin to square the loyalty well held to fools does make our faith mere folly yet he that can endure to follow with allegiance a fallen lord does conquer him that did his master conquer and earn a place ever story enter

Caesar's will? Hear it apart. None but friends, say boldly. So haply are they friends to Antony. He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has. Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master will leap to be his friend. For us you know whose he is we are, and that is Caesar's.

So thus then thou most renowned, Caesar entreats not to consider in what case thou stand'st further than he is Caesar. Go on, right royal. He knows that you embrace not Antony as you did love, but as you feared him. Oh. The scars upon your honor, therefore, he does pity as constrained blemishes, not as deserved. He is a god and knows what is most right.

mine honour was not yielded but conquered merely to be sure of that i will ask antony sir sir thou art so leaky that we must leave thee to thy sinking for thy dearest quit thee shall i say to caesar what you require of him for he partly begs to be desired to give it much would please him that of his fortunes you should make a staff to lean upon

but it would warm his spirits to hear from me you had left antony and put yourself under his shroud the universal landlord thyrius what's your name my name is thyrius most kind messenger say to great caesar this in deputation i kiss his conquering hand tell him i am prompt to lay my crown at s feet and there to kneel tell him from his all-obeying breath i hear the doom of egypt thyrius tis your noblest course

wisdom and fortune combating together if that the former dare but what it can no chance may shake it give me grace to lay my duty on your hand your caesar's father oft when he hath mused of taking kingdoms in bestowed his lips on that unworthy place as it rain'd kisses re-enter mark antony and demetius

favours by jove that thunders what art thou fellar one that but performs the bidding of the fullest man and worthiest to have command obey'd you will be whipped approach there ah you kite

now gods and devils authority melts from me of late when i cried ho like boys unto a moose kings would start forth and cry your will have you no ears i am antony yet

enter attendance take hence this jack and whip him aside tis better playing with a lion's whelp than with an old one dying moons and stars whip him were twenty of the greatest tributaries that do acknowledge caesar should i find them so saucy with the hand of she here what's her name since she was cleopatra

whip him fellows till like a boy you see him cringe his face and whine aloud for mercy take him hence mark antony tug him away being whipped bring him again this jacob caesar shall bear us an errand to him exeunt attendants with thyrius you are half blasted ere i knew you

Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, Forborne the getting of a lawful race, And by a gem of women to be abused By one that looks on feeders? Good my lord. You have been a boggler ever. But when we in our viciousness grow hard, O misery aunt, the wise gods seal our eyes, In our own filth drop our clear judgments, Make us adore our errors, laugh at sin,

while we strut to our confusion oh is it come to this i found you as a morsel cold upon dead caesar's trencher nay you were a fragment of ceneus pompey's besides what hotter hours unregistered in vulgar fame you have luxuriously picked out

for i am sure though you can guess what temperance should be you know not what it is lady utterword wherefore is this to let a fellow that will take rewards and say god quit you be familiar with my playfellow your hand this kingly seal and plighter of high hearts

O, that I were upon the hill of Bazan to outroar the horned herd! For I have savage cause, and to proclaim it civilly were like a halted neck, which does the hangman thank for being here about him. Is he whipped? Soundly, my lord. Cried he, and begged a pardon? He did ask favour. If that thy father live, let him repent thou wast not made his daughter.

And be thou sorry to follow Caesar in his triumph, Since thou hast been whipped for following him. Henceforth the white hand of a lady fever thee, Shake thou to look on't. Get thee back to Caesar, Tell him thy entertainment. Look, thou say, he makes me angry with him, For he seems proud and disdainful, Harpy on what I am, not what he knew I was. He makes me angry, And at this time most easy tis to do it.

when my good stars that were my former guides have empty left their orbs and shot their fires into the abysm of hell if he mislike my speech and what is done tell him he has hipparchus my enfranch'd bondman whom he may at pleasure whip or hang or torture as he shall like to quit me urge it thou hence with thy stripes begone exit thyreus

Have you done yet? Alack, our serene moon is now eclipsed, and it portends alone the fall of Antony. I must stay his time. To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes with one that ties his points? Not know me yet. Cold-hearted toward me? Ah, dear, if I be so, from my cold heart let heaven engender hail, and poison it in the source, and the first stone drop in my neck, as it determines so dissolve my life.

the next caesarean smite till by degrees the memory of my womb together with my brave egyptians all by the discandying of this pellated storm lie graveless till the flies and gnats of nile have buried them for prey caesar i am satisfied caesar sits down in alexandria where i will oppose his fate

our force by land hath nobly held our sever'd navy too hath knit again and fleet threatening most sea-like where hast thou been my heart dost thou hear lady if from the field i shall return once more to kiss these lips i will appear in blood

I and my sword will earn our chronicle. There's hope in't yet. That's my brave lord. I will be trebled, sinewed, hearted, breathed, and fight maliciously. For when mine hours were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives of me for jests. But now I'll set my teeth and send to darkness all that stop me. Come, let's have one other gaudy night.

call to me all my sad captains fill our bowls once more let's mock the midnight bell it is my birthday i had thought to have held it poor

But since my lord is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra. We will yet do well. Call all his noble captains to my lord. Do so. We'll speak to them, and tonight I'll force the wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen, the sap ain't yet. The next time I do fight, I'll make death love me, for I will contend even with his pestilent scythe. EXUANT ALL BUT DOMITIUS ANABARBUS

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood the dove will peck the estridge. And I see still, a diminution in our captain's brain restores his heart. When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with. I will seek some way to leave him. Exit. End of Act 3.

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this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox dot org act four scene one before alexandria octavius caesar's camp enter octavius caesar agrippa and mccanus with his army octavius caesar reading a letter he calls me boy and chides as he has power to beat me out of egypt

my messenger he hath whipped with rods dares me to personal combat caesar to antony let the old ruffian know i have many other ways to die meantime laugh at his challenge caesar must think when one so great begins to rage he's hunted even to falling give him no breath but now make boot of his distraction

Never anger made good guard for itself. LADY MACBETH: Let our best heads know That to-morrow the last of many battles We mean to fight. Within our files there are Of those that served Mark Antony but late Enough to fetch him in. See it done, and feast the army. We have store to do it, and they have Earníd the waste. Poor Antony!

Enter Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Domitius Anabarbus, Carmion, Iris, Alexis, with others. He will not fight with me, Domitius. No. Why should he not? He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune, he is twenty men to one. Tomorrow, soldier, by sea and land I'll fight, or I will live, or bathe my dying honour in the blood that shall make it live again.

Wilt thou fight well? I'll strike, and cry, Take all. Well said. Come on, call forth my household servants. Let's tonight be bounteous at our meal. Enter three or four servitors. Give me thy hand. Thou hast been rightly honest. So hast thou, thou, and thou, and thou. You have served me well, and kings have been your fellows. Aside to Domitius and Ababas.

What means this? Aside to Cleopatra. Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow shoots out of the mind. And thou art honest too. I wish I could be made so many men, and all of you clapped up together in an antony, that I might do you service so good as you have done. The gods forbid. Well, my good fellows, wait on me tonight. Scant not my cups.

and make as much of me as when mine empire was your fellow too, and suffered my command. What does he mean? To make his followers weep. Tend me to night. May it be the period of your duty. Happily you shall not see me more, or if a mangled shadow.

perchance to-morrow you'll serve another master i look on you as one that takes his leave mine honest friends i turn you not away but like a master married to your good service stay till death tend me to-night two hours i ask no more and the gods yield you for't what mean you sir to give them this discomfort

look they weep and i an ass am onion eyed for shame transform us not to women ho ho ho now the witch take me if i meant it thus grace grow where those drops fall my hearty friends you take me in too dolorous a sense for i speak to you for your comfort

did desire you to burn this night with torches no my hearts i hope well of to-morrow and will lead you where rather i expect victorious life than death and honour let's to supper come and drown consideration scene three the same before the palace enter two soldiers to their guard

Brother, good night. Tomorrow is the day. It will determine one way. Fare you well. Heard you of nothing strange about the streets? Nothing? What news? Be like 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you. Well, sir, good night. Enter two other soldiers. Soldiers, have careful watch. And you. Good night. Good night. They place themselves in every corner of the stage.

Here we, and if tomorrow our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope our landmen will stand up. This is a brave arm. I'm full of purpose.

Music of the Hortboys as under the stage. Peace? What noise? List! List! Hark! Music i' the air. Under the earth? It signs well, does it not? No. Peace, I say! What should this mean? 'Tis the god Hercules, whom Anthony loved, now leaves him. Walk. Let's see if other watchmen do hear what we do. They advance to another post.

How now, masters? Speaking together. How now, how now, do you hear this? Aye, it's not strange. Do you hear, masters, do you hear? Follow the noise so far as we have quarter. Let's see how it will give off. Content. Tis strange. Exuant. Scene 4. The same. A room in the palace. Enter Mark Antony and Cleopatra, Carmion, and others attending.

Eros, mine armour, Eros. Sleep a little. No, my chuck, Eros, come. Mine armour, Eros. Enter Eros with armour. Come, good fellow, put mine iron on. If fortune be not ours today, it is because we brave her. Nay, I'll help too. What's this for? Let be, let be, thou art the armourer of my heart. False, false, this, this.

"'Sooth, la, I'll help. Thus it must be.' "'Well, well, we shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow, go put on thy defences.' "'Briefly, sir.' "'Is not this buckled well?' "'Rarely, rarely. He that unbuckles this till we do please to daft through our repose shall hear a storm. Thou fumblest hear us, and my queen's a squire more tight at this than thou. Dispatch.'

"'Oh, love, that thou couldst see my wars to-day, and use the royal occupation. Thou shouldst see a workman int.' "'Enter an armed soldier.' "'Good morrow to thee. Welcome. Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge. To business that we love we rise betime, and go to it with delight.' "'A thousand, sir. Early thought be have on their riveted trim, and at the port expect you.'

shout trumpets flourish enter captains and soldiers the morn is fair good morrow general good morrow general tis well blown lads this morning like the spirit of a youth that means to be of note begins betimes so so come give me that this way well said fare thee well dame whate'er becomes of me this is the soldier's kiss

"'Rebukeable!' kisses her. "'Unworthy shameful check it were to stand on more mechanic compliment. "'I'll leave thee now like a man of steel. "'You that will fight, follow me close. "'I'll bring you to it. Adieu!' "'Excellent Mark Antony, Eros, captains and soldiers. "'Please you, retire to your chamber.' "'Lead me.' He goes forth gallantly. "'That he and Caesar might determine this great war in single fight. "'Then Antony—'

But now, well on. Exuant. Scene 5. Alexandria. Mark Antony's camp. Trumpets sound. Enter Mark Antony and Eros, a soldier meeting them. The gods make this a happy day to Antony. Would thou and those thy scars have once prevailed to make me fight at land?

Hadst thou done so, the kings that have revolted and the soldier that has this morning left thee would have still followed thy heels. Who's gone this morning? Who? One ever near thee.

Call for Eno Barbus. He shall not hear thee, or from Caesar's camp, say, I am none of thine. What sayest thou? Sir, he is with Caesar. Sir, his chests and treasure he has not with him. Is he gone? Most certain. Go, Eros, send his treasure after. Do it. Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him. I will subscribe. Gentle adieus and greetings. Send him.

say that i wish ye never find more cause to change a master my fortunes have corrupted honest men despatch enobarbus exeunt scene six alexandria octavius caesar's camp flourish enter octavius caesar agrippa with demetius enobarbus and others

go forth agrippa and begin the fight our will is antony betook alive make it so known caesar i shall exit the time of universal peace is near prove this a prosperous day the three nook'd world shall bear the olive freely

enter a messenger anthony is come into the field go charge agrippa plant those that have revolted in the van that anthony may seem to spend his fury upon himself

Excerpt all but to Mityus Anabarbus. Enter a soldier of Caesar's.

"Inubarbus, Antony hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with his bounty overplus. The messenger came on my guard, and at thy tent is now unloading of his mules." "I give it you." "Mock not, Inubarbus. I tell you true. Best you safe the bringer out of the host. I must attend mine office, or would have done it myself. Your emperor continues still a jove."

Exit. Exit.

scene seven field of battle between the camps alarum drums and trumpets enter agrippa and others agrippa retire we have engaged ourselves too far caesar himself has work and our oppression exceeds what we expected

Alarms. Enter Marc Antony and Scarus wounded. Oh, my brave Emperor, this is fought indeed. Had we done so at first, we had deroven them home with clouts about their heads. Thou bleedest apace. I had a wound here that was like a T, but now 'tis made an H. They do retire. We'll beat 'em into bench holes. I have yet room for six scotches more. Enter Eros.

they are beaten sir and our advantage serves for a fair victory let us score their backs and snatch em up as we take hares behind tis sport to maul a runner i will reward thee once for thy sprightly comfort and tenfold for thy good valour come thee on i'll halt after scene eight under the walls of alexandria alarum

enter mark antony in a march scar us with others we have beat him to his camp run one before and let the queen know of our guests to-morrow before the sun shall see us we will spill the blood that has to-day escaped

I thank you all, for doughty-handed are you, and have fought not as you served the cause, but as it had been each man's like mine. You have shown all Hector's. Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, tell them your feats, whilst they with joyful tears wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss the honoured gash's hole. TOSCARUS Give me thy hand.

and to cleopatra attended to this great fairy i'll commend thy acts make her thanks bless thee to cleopatra o thou day of the world chain mine armed neck leap thou attire and all through proof of harness to my heart and there ride on the pants triumphing

lord of lords o infinite virtue comest thou smiling from the world's greatest snare uncaught my nightingale we have beat them to their beds what girl though grey do sometime mingle with our younger brown yet are we a brain that nourishes our nerves and can get gold for gold of youth

Behold this man. Commend unto his lips thy favoring hand. Kiss it, my warrior. He hath fought today as if a god in hate of mankind had destroyed in such a shape. I'll give thee, friend, an armor all of gold. It was a king's. He has deserved it, were a car bunkled like holy Phoebus' car.

Give me thy hand, though Alexandria make a jolly march. Be at our hacked targets like the men that owe them. Had our great palace the capacity to camp this host, we all would sup together and drink carouses to the next day's fate which promises royal peril.

Trumpeters with brazen dint blast through the city's ear, make mingle with rattling tambourines, that heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, applauding our approach. Exuant. Scene 9. Octavius Caesar's Camp.

Sentinels at their post. If we be not relieved within this hour, we must return to the court of guard. The night is shiny and they say we shall embattle by the second hour of the morn. This last day was a shrewd one-two's.

Enter Domitius Anobarbus. O bear me witness, knight. What man is this? Stand close and list him. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon. When men revolted shall upon record bear hateful memory. Poor Anobarbus did before thy face repent. Anobarbus, peace. Hark further. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy.

the poisonous damp of night dispunge upon me that life a very rebel to my will may hang no longer on me throw my heart against the flint and hardness of my fault which being dried with grief will break to powder and finish all foul thoughts o antony nobler than my revolt is infamous forgive me in thine own particular but let the world rank me in register a master lever and a fugitive o antony

O Antony! Let's speak to him. Let's hear him for the things he speaks, may concern Caesar. Let's do so, but he sleeps. Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his was never yet for sleep. Go we to him. Awake, sir, awake! Speak to us. Hear you, sir? The hand of death hath wrought him. Drums afar off.

hark the drums demurely wake the sleepers let us bear him to the court of guard he is of note our hour is fully out come on then he may recover yet exeunt with the body scene ten between the two camps enter mark antony and scaris with their army their preparation is to-day by sea we please them not by land

for both my lord i would they'll fight i the fire or i the air we'll fight them there too but this it is our foot upon the hills adjoining to the city shall stay with us order for sea is given we have put forth the haven where their appointment we may best discover and look on their endeavour scene eleven another part of the same enter octavius caesar and his army

But being charged, we will be still by land, Which, as I take it, we shall, For his best force is forth to man his galleys, To the vales, and hold our best advantage. Exeunt Scene 12 Another part of the same Enter Mark Antony and Scarus. Yet they are not joined. Where yon pinder stand, I shall discover all, Or bring thee word straight how tis like to go. Exit

Swallows have built and Cleopatra sails their nests. The augurers say they know not, they cannot tell, look grimly and dare not speak their knowledge. Antony is valiant and dejected, and by starts his fretted fortunes give him hope and fear of what he has and has not. Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight, re-enter Mark Antony.

Exit Scaris.

o sun thy uprise shall i see no more fortune and antony part here even here do we shake hands all come to this the hearts that spanieled me at heels to whom i gave their wishes do to scandi melt their sweets on blossoming caesar and his pine is barked that overtopped them all betrayed i am

O, this false soul of Egypt, this grave charm, whose eye beck'd forth my wars and call'd them home, whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end, like a right gipsy hath at fast and loose beguil'd me to the very heart of loss. What? Eros? Eros? Enter Cleopatra. Ah, thou spell! Avant! Why is my lord enraged against his love?

vanish or i shall give thee thy deserving and unblemished caesar's triumph let him take thee and hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians follow his chariot like the greatest spot of all thy sex most monster-like be shown for poorest diminutives for duits and let patient octavia plough thy visits up with her prepared nails

Exit Cleopatra. Tis well thou art gone, if it be well to live. But better twere thou fellest into my fury, for one death might have prevented many. Eros, ho! The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me, Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage. Let me lodge like us on the horns of the moon, and with those hands that grasp the heaviest club, subdue my worthiest self, the which shall die.

to this young roman boy she hath sold me and i fall under this plot she dies for eros ho exit scene thirteen alexandria cleopatra's palace enter cleopatra carmian iris and mardian help me my women oh he is more mad than telamon for his shield the boar of thessaly was never so embossed to the monument there lock yourself and send him word you are dead

The soul and body writhe not more in parting than greatness going off. To the monument. Marion, go tell him I have slain myself. Say that the last word I spoke was Antony. I word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Marion, and bring me how he takes my death. To the monument. Exeunt. Scene 14. The same, another room. Enter Mark Antony and Eros.

eros thou yet beholdest me eros ay noble lord sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish a vapour sometimes like a bear or lion a tower'd citadel a pendant rock a forked mountain or blue promontory with trees upon't that nod unto the world and mock our eyes with air

Thou hast seen these signs. They are black Vespers' pageants. Aye, my lord. That which is now a horse, even with a thought the rack dislims, and makes it indistinct as water is in water. It does, my lord. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is even such a body. Here I am Antony. It cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.

i made these wars for egypt and the queen whose heart i thought i had for she had mine which whilst it was mine had annexed unto it a million more now lost she eros has packed cards with caesar and false played my glory unto an enemy's triumph weep not gentle eros there is left us ourselves to end ourselves

enter martian oh thy vile lady she has robbed me of my sword no anthony my mistress loved thee and her fortunes mingled with thine entirely hence saucy eunuch peace she hath betrayed me and shall die the death anthony death of one person can be paid but once and that she has discharged

what thou wouldst do is done unto thy hand the last she spake was antony most noble antony

then in the midst a tearing groan did break the name of anthony it was divided between her heart and lips she rendered life thy name so buried in her dead then anthony dead on arm eros the long day's task is done and we must sleep

to mardion that thou departest hence safe does pay thy labor richly go exit mardion off pluck off the sevenfold shield of adax cannot keep the battery from my heart cleave my sides once be stronger than thy continent crack thy frail case apace eros apace

No more a soldier, bruised pieces, go. You have been nobly born, from me a while. I will all take thee, Cleopatra, and weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now all length is torture. Since the torch is out, lie down and stray no farther. Now all labour mars what it does. Yea, very force entangles itself with strength.

seal then and all is done eros i come my queen eros stay for me where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand and with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze dido and hereneas shall want troops and all the haunt be ours come eros eros re-enter eros

What would, my lord? Since Cleopatra died, I have lived in such dishonor that the gods detest my baseness. I, that with my sword quartered the world and all green Neptunes backed with ships made cities, condemn myself to lack the courage of a woman, less noble mind than she which by her death, our Caesar tells, I am the conqueror of myself.

"'Thou art sworn, Eros, that when the exigent should come, "'which now is come indeed, when I should see behind me "'the inevitable prosecution of disgrace and horror, "'that on my command thou then wouldst kill me. "'Do it. The time is come. "'Thou strikest not me, tis Caesar thou defeatest. "'Put colour in thy cheek.' "'The gods withhold me.'

Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts, though enemy, lost aim and could not? Eros, wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see thy master thus, with pleachered arms, bending down his courageable neck, his face subdued to penetrative shame, whilst the wheeled seat of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded his baseness that ensued? I would not see it. Come then.

For with a wound I must be cured. Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn, most useful for thy country. Oh, sir, pardon me. When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then to do this when I bade thee? Do it at once, or thy precedent services are all but accidents unpurposed. Draw and come. Turn from me, then, that noble countenance wherein the worship of the whole world lies. Lo, thee!

Turning from him. My sword is drawn. Then do it at once, the thing why thou hast drawn it. My dear master, my captain, and my emperor, let me say, before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell. It is said, man, and farewell. Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now? Now, Eros. Why, there then.

Thus I do escape the sorrow of Antony's death. Kills himself. Thrice nobler than myself, thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what I should and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros have by their brave instruction got upon me a nobleness in record. But I will be a bridegroom in my death and run into it as to a lover's bed.

come then and eros thy master dies thy scholar to do thus falling on his sword i learnt of thee how not dead

not dead the guard ho oh dispatch me enter de cetis and guard what's the noise i've done my work in friends oh make an end of what i've begun the star is fallen and time is at its period alas and woe let him that loves me strike me dead not i nor i nor anyone

exeunt guard thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly this sword but shown to caesar with his tidings shall enter me with him enter diomedes where is anthony diomedes there diomedes there libsi wilt thou not answer man exit d'ercetus art thou there diomed draw thy sword and give me sufficing strokes

Most absolute Lord, my mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee. When did she send thee? Now, my lord. Where is she? Locked in her monument. She had a prophesying fear of what hath come to pass. For when she saw, which never shall be found, you did suspect she had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead.

But fearing since how it might work, hath sent me to proclaim the truth, and I am come, I dread, too late. MARCO Too late, good diamond. Call thy guard, I prithee. MARCO Wat ho, the emperor's guard! The guard! What ho! Come, your lord calls. Enter four or five of the guard of Mark Antony. MARCO Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides.

"'tis the last service that I shall command you.' "'Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear all your true followers out. "'Most heavy day!' "'Nay, my good fellows, do not please sharp fate to grace it with your sorrows. "'Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it seeming to bear it lightly. "'Take me up, I have led you oft. "'Carry me now, good friends, and have my thanks for all.'

Exuant bearing Mark Antony. Scene 15. The same. A monument. Enter Cleopatra and her maids aloft with Carmion and Iris. Oh, Carmion, I will never go from hence. Be comforted, dear madam. No, I will not. All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise. A size of sorrow proportioned to our cause must be as great as that which makes it. Enter below Diomedes.

How now? Is he dead? His death's upon him, but not dead. Look out, O the other side your monument. His guard hath brought him thither. Enter below Mark Antony, borne by the guard. O sun, burn the great sphere thou movest in. Darkling, stand the varying shore of the world. O Antony, Antony, Antony! Help, Commian, help, Iris, help! Help, friends below. Let's draw him hither. Ah!

not caesar's valour hath overthrown antony but antony's hath triumphed on itself so it should be that none but antony should conquer antony but woe tis so i am dying egypt dying only i hear th importune death awhile until of many thousand kisses the poor last i lay up thy lips i dare not dear

"'Dear my lord, pardon. I dared not, lest I be taken. Not the imperious show of the full-fortune Caesar ever shall be broached with me. If knife, drugs, serpents have edge, sting, or operation, I am safe. Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes and still conclusion, shall acquire no honor demurring upon me. But come, come, Antony. Help me, my women. We must draw thee up.'

assist good friends allmers oh quick or i'm gone here sport indeed how heavy weighs my lord our strength is all gone into heaviness that makes the weight had i great juno's power the strong-winged mercury should fetch thee up and set thee by jove's side yet come a little wishes were ever fools oh come come come they heaved mark hansny aloft to cleopatra and welcome welcome

die where thou hast lived quicken with kissing had my lips that power thus would i wear them out i am dying egypt dying give me some wine and let me speak a little no let me speak and let me rail so high that the false housewife fortune break her will provoked by my offense one word sweet queen of caesar seek your honor with your safety

not go together. Gentle, hear me. None about Caesar trust but Proculeus. My resolution in my hands I'll trust. None about Caesar. Miserable change, now at my end lament nor sorrow at, but please your thoughts in feeding them with those, my former fortunes wherein I lived, the greatest prince of the world, the noblest.

and do now not beastly die nor cowardly put my helmet off to my countrymen a roman by a roman valiantly vanquished now my spirit is going i can no more noblest of men wilt die hast thou no care of me shall i abide in this dull world which in thy absence is no better than a sty

mark antony dies the crown of the earth doth melt my lord with it is the garland of the war the soldier's pole is fallen young boys and girls are level now with men the odds is gone and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon

faints oh quietness lady she is dead too our sovereign lady madam oh madam madam madam royal egypt empress peace peace iris no more but e'en a woman and commanded by such poor passion as the maid that milks and does the meanest chairs

it were for me to throw my sceptre at the injurious gods to tell them that this world did equal theirs till they had stolen our jewel all's but not patience is Scottish and impatience does become a dog that's mad sin to rush into the secret house of death may come to us how do you women what what good cheer how come in my noble girls ah women women look

"'A lamp is spent. It's out. Good sirs, take heart. We'll bury him, and then what's brave, what's noble. Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us. Come away. This case of that huge spirit now is cold. Oh, women, women, come. We have no friend but resolution, and the briefest end.'" "'Exuant those above bearing off Mark Antony's body.'

End of Act 4. You're listening to Classic Audiobook Collection. Give us five stars and share with a friend who likes free audiobooks as much as we do. Now back to the show. Act 5 of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Act 5. Scene 1.

Alexandria, Octavius Caesar's camp. Enter Octavius Caesar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Machaenus, Gallus, Proculeus, and others, his council of war. Go to him, Dolabella. Bid him yield. Being so frustrated, tell him he mocks the pauses that he makes. Caesar, I shall. Exit.

enter dorsetus with the sword of mark antony dorset wherefore is that and what art thou that darest appear thus to us i am call'd dorsetus mark antony i serv'd who best was worthy best to be serv'd whilst he stood up and spoke he was my master and i wore my life to spend upon his haters

if thou please to take me to thee as i was to him i'll be to caesar if thou pleasest not i yield thee up my life what is't thou say'st i say o caesar antony is dead the breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack the round world should have shook lions into civil streets and citizens to their dens the death of antony is not a single doom

In the name lay a moiety of the world. He is dead, Caesar, not by a public minister of justice, nor by a hired knife, but that self-hand which writ his honor in the axe it did, hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, splitted the heart. This is his sword. I robbed his wound of it. Behold, it's stained with his most noble blood. Look you sad, friends. The gods rebuke me.

But it is tidings to wash the eyes of kings. And strange it is that nature must compel us to lament our most persisted deeds. His taints and honors waged equal with him. A rarer spirit never did steer humanity. But you gods will give us some faults to make us men. Caesar is touched. When such a spacious mirror is set before him, he needs must see himself. O Antony!

i have followed thee to this but we do lance diseases in our bodies i must perforce have shown to thee such a declining day or look on thine we could not stall together in the whole world

But yet let me lament with tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts that thou, my brother, my competitor in top of all design, my mate in empire, friend and companion in the front of war, the arm of mine own body, and the heart where mine his thoughts did kindle, that our stars, unreconcilable, should divide our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends."

but i will tell you at some meter season enter an egyptian the business of this man looks out of him will hear him what he says whence are you

A poor Egyptian yet, the queen, my mistress, can find in all she hath her monument of thy intense desire's instruction, that she preparedly may frame herself to the way she's forced to. BID HER HAVE GOOD HEART. She soon shall know of us, by some of ours, how honourable and how kindly we determine for her, for Caesar cannot live to be ungentle. So the gods preserve thee. COMPUTER.

come hither preculius go and say we purpose her no shame give her what comforts the quality of her passion shall require lest in her greatness by some mortal stroke she do defeat us for her life in rome would be eternal in our triumph

"'Go, and with your speediest bring us what she says and how you find of her.' "'Caesar, I shall.' "'Exit.' "'Gallus, go you along.' "'Exit, Gallus.' "'Where's Dolabella to second Proculeus?' "'Dolabella!' "'Let him alone, for I remember now how he's employed. He shall in time be ready.'

go with me to my tent where you shall see how hardly i was drawn to this war how calm and gentle i proceeded still in all my writings go with me and see what i can show in this scene two alexandria a room in the monument enter cleopatra carmian and iris my desolation does begin to make a better life tis paltry to be caesar

not being fortune he's but fortune's knave a minister of her will and it is great to do that thing that ends all other deeds which shackles accidents and bolts up change which sleeps and never pallets more the dug the beggar's nurse and caesar's enter'd the gates of the monument proculeus gallus and soldiers

"'Caesar sends greeting to the queen of Egypt, and bids thee study on what fair demands thou meanst to have him grant thee.' "'What's thy name?' "'My name is Proculeus.' "'Antony did tell me of you, bade me trust you. But I do not greatly care to be deceived, that have no use for trusting. If your master would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him that majesty, to keep decorum, must no less beg than a kingdom.'

"'If he please to give me conquered Egypt for my son, "'he gives me so much of mine own, "'as I will kneel to him with thanks.' "'Be of good cheer. "'You've fallen into a princely hand. "'Fear nothing.'

"'Make your full reference freely to my lord, who is so full of grace that it flows over on all that need. Let me report to him your sweet dependency, and you shall find a conqueror that will play in aid for kindness, where he for grace is kneeled to.' "'Pray you, tell him I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him the greatness he has got. I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.'

and would gladly look him in the face. This I'll report, dear lady. Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied of him that caused it. You see how easily she may be surprised. Here Proculeus and two of the guard ascend the monument by a ladder placed against a window, and having descended, come behind Cleopatra. Some of the guard unbar and open the gates.

to proculeus and the guard guard her till caesar come exit royal queen queen oh cleopatra thou art taken queen quick quick good hands drawing a dagger hold worthy lady hold

"'Ceases and disarms her. "'Do not yourself such wrong, "'who are in this relieved, but not betrayed. "'What, of death too, that rids our dogs of languish? "'Cleopatra, do not abuse my master's bounty "'by the undoing of yourself. "'Let the world see his nobleness well acted, "'which your death will never let come forth. "'Where art thou, death? "'Come hither, come, come, come, "'and take a queen, worthy many babes and beggars.'

"'Oh, temperance, lady!' "'Sir, I will eat no meat. "'I'll not drink, sir. "'If idle talk will once be necessary, "'I'll not sleep neither. "'This mortal house I'll ruin. "'Do Caesar what he can. "'Know, sir, that I will not wait "'pinioned at your master's court, "'nor once be chastised "'with the sober eye of dull Octavia. "'Shall they hoist me up "'and show me to the shouting violetry "'of censuring Rome?'

rather a ditch in egypt be gentle grave unto me rather on nilus mud lay me stark naked and let the water-flies blow me into abhorring rather make my country's high pyramids my gibbet and hang me up in chains

"'You do extend these thoughts of horror "'further than you shall find cause in Caesar.' "'Enter Dolabella.' "'Proculeus, what thou hast done thy master Caesar knows, "'and he hath sent for thee, for the queen. "'I'll take her to my guard.' "'So, Dolabella, it shall content me best. "'Be gentle to her.' "'To Cleopatra.' "'To Caesar I will speak what ye shall please, "'if you'll employ me to him.' "'Say I would die.'

Exuant Proculeus and soldiers. Most noble Empress, you have heard of me? I cannot tell. Assuredly you know me. No matter, sir, what I have heard or known. You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams. Is it not your trick? I understand not, madam. I dreamed there was an emperor, Antony.

"'Oh, such another sleep, that I might see but such another man!' "'If it might please ye!' "'His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck a sun and moon, "'which kept their course, and lighted the little O, the earth.' "'Most sovereign creature!' "'His legs bestrew the ocean, his reared arm crested the world, "'his voice was propertied, as all the tombs fears, and that to friends.'

but when he meant to quail and shake the orb he was as rattling thunder for his bounty there was no winter in't and autumn twas that grew the more by reaping his delights were dolphin-like they showed his back above the element they lived in in his livery walked crowns and crownets

realms and islands were as plates dropped from his pocket cleopatra think you there was or might be such a man as this i dreamed of gentle madam no you lie up to the hearing of the gods but if there be or ever were one such it's past the size of dreaming nature wants stuff to vie strange forms with fancy

yet to imagine an antony where nature's peace skin's fancy condemning shadows quite hear me good madam your loss is as yourself great and you bear it as answering to the weight what i might never o'ertake pursued success but i do feel by the rebound of yours a grief that smites my very heart at root i thank you sir

know you what caesar means to do with me i am loath to tell you what i would you knew nay pray you sir though he be honourable he'll lead me then in triumph madam he will i know it flourish and shout within make way there octavius caesar enter octavius caesar gallus proculeus mccanus seleucus and others of his train

Which is the queen of Egypt? It is the emperor, madam. Cleopatra kneels.

arise you shall not kneel i pray you rise rise egypt egypt sir the gods will have it thus my master and my lord i must obey take to you no hard thoughts the record of what injuries you did us though written in our flesh we shall remember as things but done by chance egypt soul sir of the world i cannot project mine own cause so well to make it clear

but do confess i have been laden with like frailties which before have often shamed our sex cleopatra no we will extenuate rather than enforce if you apply yourself to our intents which towards you are most gentle you shall find a benefit in this change

but if you seek to lay on me a cruelty by taking antony's course you shall bereave yourself of my good purposes and put your children to that destruction which i'll guard them from if thereon you rely

i'll take my leave and may through all the world tis yours and we your scutcheons and your signs of conquest shall hang in what place you please here my good lord you shall advise me in all for this is the brief of money plate and jewels i am possessed of tis exactly valued not petty things admitted

where is seleucus here madam this is my treasurer let him speak my lord upon his peril that i have reserved to myself nothing speak the truth seleucus madam

I had rather seal my lips than to my peril speak that which is not. What have I kept back? Enough to purchase what you had made known. Nay, blush not, Cleopatra. I approve your wisdom in the deed. See, Caesar? Oh, behold how pomp is followed! Mine will now be yours, and should we shift estates, yours would be mine.

the ingratitude of this lucius does even make me wild o slave of no more trust than love that's hired what goest thou back thou shalt go back i warrant thee but i'll catch thine eyes though they had wings slave soulless villain dog o raleigh base good queen let us entreat you o caesar what a wounding shame is this that thou vouchsafing here to visit me

doing the honour of thy lordliness to one so meek that mine own servant should parcel the sum of my disgraces by addition of his envy say good caesar that i some lady trifles have reserved immoment toys things of such dignity as we greet modern friends withal and say some nobler token i have kept apart for livia and octavia to induce their mediation must i be unfolded with one that i have bred

the gods it smites me beneath the fall i have to seleucus pray thee go hence or i shall show the senders of my spirits through the ashes of my chance wert thou a man thou wouldst have mercy on me forbear seleucus exits seleucus be it known that we the greatest are misthought for things that others do

and when we fall we answer others merits in our name are therefore to be pitied cleopatra not what you have reserved nor what acknowledged put we the roll of conquest still be it yours bestow it at your pleasure and believe caesars no merchant to make prize with you of things that merchants sold

therefore be cheered make not your thoughts your prisons no dear queen for we intend so to dispose you as yourself shall give us counsel

feed and sleep our care and pity is so much upon you that we remain your friend and so adieu my master and my lord not so adieu flourish exultant octavius caesar and his train he words me girls he words me that i should not be noble to myself

but hark thee, Carmion. Whispers Carmion. Finish, good lady, the bright day is done, and we are for the dark. Hithy again, I have spoke already, and it is provided. Go put it to the haste. Madam, I will. We enter Dolabella. Where is the queen? Behold, sir. Exit. Dolabella. Madam, as thereto sworn by your command, which my love makes religion to obey, I tell you this.

Caesar, through Syria, intends his journey, and within three days you with your children will he send before. Make your best use of this. I have performed your pleasure and my promise. Dolabella, I shall remain your debtor. Ah, your servant. Adieu, good queen. I must attend on Caesar. Farewell and thanks.

exit dolabella now iris what thinkest thou thou an egyptian puppet shalt be shown in rome as well as i mechanic slaves with greasy aprons rules and hammers shall uplift us to the view and their thick-breathed rank of gross diet shall be enclouded and forced to drink their vapour but gods forbid nay tis most certain iris

saucy lictors will catch at us like strumpets and scald rhymers ballad us out of tune the quick comedians extemporally will stage us and present our alexandrian revels antony shall be brought drunken forth and i shall see some squeaking cleopatra boy my greatness in the posture of a whore oh the good gods nay that's certain i'll never see it

for i am sure my nails are stronger than mine eyes why that's the way to fool their preparation and to conquer their most absurd intents re-enter carmian now carmian show me my women like a queen go fetch my best attires i am again for sydnus to meet mark antony sirrah iris go

now noble camion we'll despatch indeed and when thou hast done this chair i'll give thee leave to play till doomsday bring our crown and all wherefore's this noise exit iris a noise within enter a guardsman here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your highness presence he brings you figs let him come in

exit guardsman what poor an instrument may do a noble deed he brings me liberty my resolution's placed and i have nothing of woman in me now from head to foot i am marble constant now the fleeting moon no planet is of mine re-enter guardsman with clown bringing in a basket

this is the man avoid and leave him exit guardsman hast thou the pretty worm of nilus there that kills and pains not truly i have him but i would not be the party that should desire you to touch him for his biting is immortal those that do die of it do seldom or never recover rememberest thou any that have died on it very many men and women too i heard of one of them no longer than yesterday

A very honest woman, but something given to lie. As a woman should not do, but in the way of honesty, how she died of the biting of it, what pain she felt. Truly she makes a very good report of the worm. But he that will believe all that they say shall never be saved by half that they do. But this is most fallible. The worm's an odd worm. Get thee hence. Farewell. I wish you all joy of the worm. Setting down his basket-

"'Farewell.' "'You must think this, look you, that the worm will do his kind?' "'Aye, aye, farewell.' "'Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the keeping of wise people, for indeed there is no goodness in worm.' "'Take thou no care. It shall be heeded.' "'Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is not worth the feeding.' "'Will it eat me?' "'You must not think I am so simple, but I know the devil himself will not eat a woman. I know that a woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.'

But truly, these same whoreson devils do the gods great harm in their women, for in every ten that they make the devils mar five. Well, get thee gone. Farewell. Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy, O the worm. Exit. Re-enter Iris with a robe, crown, etc. Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.

now no more the juice of egypt's grape shall moist this lip yea yea good iris quick methinks i hear antony call i see him rouse himself to praise my noble act i hear him mock the luck of caesar which the gods give men to excuse thereafter wrath husband i come now to that name my courage prove my title i am fire and air my other elements i give to baser life so have you done

Come, then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Carmion. Iris, long farewell. Kisses them. Iris falls and dies. Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? If thou in nature can so gently part, The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. Dost thou lie still?

if thus thou vanishest thou tellest the world it is not worth leave-taking dissolve thick cloud and rain that i may say the gods themselves do weep this proves me base if she first meet the curled antony he'll make demand of her and spend that kiss which is my heaven to have come thou mortal wretch

to an asp which she applies to her breast with thy sharp teeth this naught intrinsicated life at once untie poor venomous fool be angry and despatch o couldst thou speak that i might hear thee call great caesar ass unpoliced o eastern star peace peace dost thou not see my baby at my breast that sucks the nurse asleep o break

O break! As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle. O Antony! Nay, I will take thee too. Applying another asp to her arm. What should I say? Dies. In this vile world, so fare thee well. Now boast thee death. In thy possession lies, alas, unparalleled, downy windows, clothes, and golden Phoebus never be beheld of eyes again so royal.

your crown's awry i'll mend it and then play enter the guard rushing in where is the queen speak softly wake her not caesar hath sent too slow a messenger applies an asp oh come apace dispatch

i partly feel thee approach ho all's not well caesar's beguiled there's dolabella sent from caesar call him what work is here charmian is this well done it is well done and fitting for a princess descended of so many royal kings ah soldier dies

reenter dolabella how goes it here all dead caesar thy thoughts touch their effects in this thyself art coming to see performed the dreaded act which thou so soughtest to hinder within away there away for caesar reenter octavius caesar and all his train marching oh sir you are too sure an augurer

that you did fear is done bravest at the last she levelled at our purposes and being royal took her own way

"'The manner of their deaths! I do not see them bleed.' "'Who was last with them?' "'A simple countryman that brought her figs. This was his basket.' "'Poisoned, then?' "'O Caesar, this charmian lived, but now she stood and spake. I found her trimming up the diadem on her dead mistress. Tremblingly she stood, and not a sudden dropped.' "'O noble weakness! If they had swallowed poison to it appear by external swelling—'

but she looks like sleep as she would catch another antony in her strong toil of grace here on her breast there is a vent of blood and something blown the like is on her arm this is an aspic's trail and these fig-leaves have slime upon them such as the aspic leaves upon the caves of nile most probable that so she died for her physician tells me she hath pursued conclusions infinite of easy ways to die

take up her bed and bear her women from the monument she shall be buried by her antony no grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous high events as these strike those that make them and their story is no less in pity than his glory which brought them to be lamented our army shall in solemn show attend this funeral and then to rome come dolabella

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