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Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO
| PHILO |
Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd 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 cool a gipsy's lust. |
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[Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,
the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her] |
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Look, where they come:
Take but good note, and you shall see in him.
The triple pillar of the world transform'd
Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see. |
| CLEOPATRA
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If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
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| MARK ANTONY
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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
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| CLEOPATRA
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I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
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| MARK ANTONY
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Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
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[Enter an Attendant] |
| Attendant
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News, my good lord, from Rome.
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| MARK ANTONY
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Grates me: the sum. |
| CLEOPATRA
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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;
Perform 't, or else we damn thee.' |
| MARK ANTONY
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How, my love! |
| CLEOPATRA
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Perchance! nay, and most like:
You must not stay here longer, your dismission
Is 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 homager: else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers! |
| MARK ANTONY
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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 |
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[Embracing] |
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And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless. |
| CLEOPATRA
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Excellent falsehood!
Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?
I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony
Will be himself. |
| MARK ANTONY
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But stirr'd by Cleopatra.
Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:
There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight? |
| CLEOPATRA
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Hear the ambassadors. |
| MARK ANTONY
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Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom every thing 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
To-night we'll wander through the streets and note
The qualities of people. Come, my queen;
Last night you did desire it: speak not to us. |
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[Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with
their train] |
| DEMETRIUS
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Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
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| PHILO |
Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,
He comes too short of that great property
Which still should go with Antony. |
| DEMETRIUS
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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! |
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[Exeunt] |
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Act III, Scene 7 Near Actium Mark Antony's camp. |
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Act I, Scene 1 Alexandria. A room in
Cleopatra's palace. |
Act III, Scene 8 A plain near
Actium/Act III, Scene 9 Another part of the plain./Act III, Scene 10.
Another part of the plain. |
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Act I, Scene 2 The same. Another room. |
Act III, Scene 11 Alexandria.
Cleopatra's palace./Act III, Scene 12 Egypt Octavius' camp. |
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Act I, Scene 3 The same. Another room. |
Act III, Scene 13 Alexandria.
Cleopatra's palace. |
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Act I, Scene 4 Rome. Octavius Caesar's house. |
Act IV, Scene 1 Before Alexandria.
Octavius' camp. /Act IV, Scene 2 Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace. |
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Act I, Scene 5 Alexandria Cleopatra's palace. |
Act IV, Scene 3 The same. Before the
palace./Act IV, Scene 4 The same. A room in the palace. |
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Act II, Scene 1 Messina Pompey's house. |
Act IV, Scene 5 Alexandria. Mark
Antony's camp/Act IV, Scene 6 Alexandria Octavius' camp. |
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Act II, Scene 2 Rome. The house of Lepidus. |
Act IV, Scene 7 Field of battle
between the camps./Act IV, Scene 8 Under the walls of Alexandria.
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Act II, Scene 3 The same Octavius Caesar's house./Act II, Scene 4 The
same. A street. |
Act IV, Scene 9 Octavius Caesar's
camp/Act IV, Scene 10 Between the two camps. /Act IV, Scene 11 Another
part of the same. |
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Act II, Scene 5 Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace. |
Act IV, Scene 12 Another part of
the same./Act IV, Scene 13 Alexandria Cleopatra's palace. |
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Act II, Scene 6 Near Misenum. |
Act IV, Scene 14 The same. Another
room. |
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Act II, Scene 7 On board Pompey's galley, off Misenum |
Act IV, Scene 15 The same. A
monument. |
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Act III, Scene 1 A plain in
Syria/ Act III Scene 2 An ante-chamber in Octavius Caesar's house. |
Act V, Scene 1 Octavius Caesar's camp. |
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Act III, Scene 3Alexandria
Cleopatra's palace./Act III, Scene 4 Athens. A room in Mark Antony's
house. |
Act V, Scene 2 A room in the monument. |
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Act III, Scene 5 The same.
Another room./Act III, Scene 6 Octavius Caesar's house. |
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