Antony and Cleopatra: Act 1

SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO P ILO 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 pon a tawny front: his captain's heart, !hich in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, "nd is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust# Flourish. Enter ANTONY, LEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, !ith Eunu"hs #annin$ her $ook, where they come: Take but good note, and you shall see in him# The triple pillar of the world transform'd %nto a strumpet's fool: behold and see# CLEOPATRA %f it be love indeed, tell me how much# !AR" ANTON# There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd# CLEOPATRA %'ll set a bourn how far to be beloved# !AR" ANTON# Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth# Enter an Attendant Attendant News, my good lord, from &ome# !AR" ANTON# 'rates me: the sum# CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, "ntony: (ulvia perchance is angry) or, who knows %f the scarce*bearded +aesar have not sent His powerful mandate to you, ',o this, or this)

Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that) -erform't, or else we damn thee#' !AR" ANTON# How, my love. CLEOPATRA -erchance. nay, and most like: /ou must not stay here longer, your dismission %s come from +aesar) therefore hear it, "ntony# !here's (ulvia's process0 +aesar's % would say0 both0 +all in the messengers# "s % am 1gypt's 2ueen, Thou blushest, "ntony) and that blood of thine %s +aesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame !hen shrill*tongued (ulvia scolds# The messengers. !AR" ANTON# $et &ome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space# 3ingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike (eeds beast as man: the nobleness of life %s to do thus) when such a mutual pair E%&ra"in$ "nd such a twain can do't, in which % bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet !e stand up peerless# CLEOPATRA 14cellent falsehood. !hy did he marry (ulvia, and not love her0 %'ll seem the fool % am not) "ntony !ill be himself# !AR" ANTON# 5ut stirr'd by +leopatra# Now, for the love of $ove and her soft hours, $et's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives should stretch !ithout some pleasure now# !hat sport tonight0 CLEOPATRA Hear the ambassadors# !AR" ANTON# (ie, wrangling 2ueen. !hom 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 2ualities of people# +ome, my 2ueen) $ast night you did desire it: speak not to us# E'eunt MAR( ANTONY and LEOPATRA !ith their train $E!ETRI%S %s +aesar with "ntonius pri6ed so slight0 P ILO 7ir, sometimes, when he is not "ntony, He comes too short of that great property !hich still should go with "ntony# $E!ETRI%S % am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at &ome: but % will hope Of better deeds to*morrow# &est you happy. E'eunt

SCENE II. T&e same. Anot&er room

Enter HARMIAN, IRAS, ALE)AS, and a Soothsa*er C AR!IAN $ord "le4as, sweet "le4as, most any thing "le4as, almost most absolute "le4as, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the 2ueen0 O, that % knew this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands. ALE'AS 7oothsayer. Soot&sayer /our will0 C AR!IAN %s this the man0 %s't you, sir, that know things0 Soot&sayer %n nature's infinite book of secrecy " little % can read# ALE'AS 7how him your hand# Enter DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 5ring in the ban2uet 2uickly) wine enough +leopatra's health to drink# C AR!IAN 'ood sir, give me good fortune#

Soot&sayer % make not, but foresee# C AR!IAN -ray, then, foresee me one# Soot&sayer /ou shall be yet far fairer than you are# C AR!IAN He means in flesh# IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old# C AR!IAN !rinkles forbid. ALE'AS 8e4 not his prescience) be attentive# C AR!IAN Hush. Soot&sayer /ou shall be more beloving than beloved# C AR!IAN % had rather heat my liver with drinking# ALE'AS Nay, hear him# C AR!IAN 'ood now, some e4cellent fortune. $et me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of 9ewry may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius +aesar, and companion me with my mistress# Soot&sayer /ou shall outlive the lady whom you serve# C AR!IAN O e4cellent. % love long life better than figs# Soot&sayer /ou have seen and proved a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach# C AR!IAN Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee, how many boys and wenches must % have0 Soot&sayer %f every of your wishes had a womb# "nd fertile every wish, a million# C AR!IAN Out, fool. % forgive thee for a witch#

ALE'AS /ou think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes# C AR!IAN Nay, come, tell %ras hers# ALE'AS !e'll know all our fortunes# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Mine, and most of our fortunes, to*night, shall be**drunk to bed# IRAS There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else# C AR!IAN 1'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine# IRAS 'o, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay# C AR!IAN Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prognostication, % cannot scratch mine ear# -rithee, tell her but a worky*day fortune# Soot&sayer /our fortunes are alike# IRAS 5ut how, but how0 give me particulars# Soot&sayer % have said# IRAS "m % not an inch of fortune better than she0 C AR!IAN !ell, if you were but an inch of fortune better than %, where would you choose it0 IRAS Not in my husband's nose# C AR!IAN Our worser thoughts heavens mend. "le4as,**come, his fortune, his fortune. O, let him marry a woman that cannot go, sweet %sis, % 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, fifty*fold a cuckold. 'ood %sis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight) good %sis, % beseech thee. IRAS "men# ,ear goddess, hear that prayer of the people. for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man loose*wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear %sis, keep decorum, and fortune him accordingly. C AR!IAN "men#

ALE'AS $o, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but they'ld do't. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Hush. here comes "ntony# C AR!IAN Not he) the 2ueen# Enter LEOPATRA CLEOPATRA 7aw you my lord0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S No, lady# CLEOPATRA !as he not here0 C AR!IAN No, madam# CLEOPATRA He was disposed to mirth) but on the sudden " &oman thought hath struck him# 1nobarbus. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Madam0 CLEOPATRA 7eek him, and bring him hither# !here's "le4as0 ALE'AS Here, at your service# My lord approaches# CLEOPATRA !e will not look upon him: go with us# E'eunt Enter MAR( ANTONY !ith a Messen$er and Attendants !essen)er (ulvia thy wife first came into the field# !AR" ANTON# "gainst my brother $ucius0 !essen)er "y: 5ut soon that war had end, and the time's state Made friends of them, :oining their force 'gainst +aesar) !hose better issue in the war, from %taly, pon the first encounter, drave them# !AR" ANTON# !ell, what worst0

!essen)er The nature of bad news infects the teller# !AR" ANTON# !hen it concerns the fool or coward# On: Things that are past are done with me# 'Tis thus: !ho tells me true, though in his tale lie death, % hear him as he flatter'd# !essen)er $abienus** This is stiff news**hath, with his -arthian force, 14tended "sia from 1uphrates) His con2uering banner shook from 7yria To $ydia and to %onia) !hilst** !AR" ANTON# "ntony, thou wouldst say,** !essen)er O, my lord. !AR" ANTON# 7peak to me home, mince not the general tongue: Name +leopatra as she is call'd in &ome) &ail thou in (ulvia's phrase) and taunt my faults !ith such full licence as both truth and malice Have power to utter# O, then we bring forth weeds, !hen our 2uick minds lie still) and our ills told us %s as our earing# (are thee well awhile# !essen)er "t your noble pleasure# E'it !AR" ANTON# (rom 7icyon, ho, the news. 7peak there. *irst Attendant The man from 7icyon,**is there such an one0 Second Attendant He stays upon your will# !AR" ANTON# $et him appear# These strong 1gyptian fetters % must break, Or lose myself in dotage# Enter another Messen$er !hat are you0 Second !essen)er (ulvia thy wife is dead#

!AR" ANTON# !here died she0 Second !essen)er %n 7icyon: Her length of sickness, with what else more serious %mporteth thee to know, this bears# ,i-es a letter !AR" ANTON# (orbear me# E'it Se"ond Messen$er There's a great spirit gone. Thus did % desire it: !hat our contempt doth often hurl from us, !e wish it ours again) the present pleasure, 5y revolution lowering, does become The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone) The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on# % must from this enchanting 2ueen break off: Ten thousand harms, more than the ills % know, My idleness doth hatch# How now. 1nobarbus. Re.enter DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hat's your pleasure, sir0 !AR" ANTON# % must with haste from hence# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hy, then, we kill all our women: we see how mortal an unkindness is to them) if they suffer our departure, death's the word# !AR" ANTON# % must be gone# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S nder 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# +leopatra, catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly) % have seen her die twenty times upon far poorer moment: % do think there is mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon her, she hath such a celerity in dying# !AR" ANTON# 7he is cunning past man's thought# E'it ALE)AS $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "lack, 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 9ove# !AR" ANTON# !ould % had never seen her# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece of work) which not to have been blest withal would have discredited your travel# !AR" ANTON# (ulvia is dead# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 7ir0 !AR" ANTON# (ulvia is dead# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S (ulvia. !AR" ANTON# ,ead# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hy, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice# !hen it pleaseth 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# %f there were no more women but (ulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the 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# !AR" ANTON# The business she hath broached in the state +annot endure my absence# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "nd the business you have broached here cannot be without you) especially that of +leopatra's, which wholly depends on your abode# !AR" ANTON# No more light answers# $et our officers Have notice what we purpose# % shall break The cause of our e4pedience to the 2ueen, "nd get her leave to part# (or not alone The death of (ulvia, with more urgent touches, ,o strongly speak to us) but the letters too Of many our contriving friends in &ome -etition us at home: 7e4tus -ompeius Hath given the dare to +aesar, and commands The empire of the sea: our slippery people, !hose love is never link'd to the deserver Till his deserts are past, begin to throw

-ompey the 'reat and all his dignities pon his son) who, high in name and power, Higher than both in blood and life, stands up (or the main soldier: whose 2uality, going on, The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding, !hich, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life, "nd not a serpent's poison# 7ay, our pleasure, To such whose place is under us, re2uires Our 2uick remove from hence# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % shall do't# E'eunt

SCENE III. T&e same. Anot&er room

Enter LEOPATRA, HARMIAN, IRAS, and ALE)AS CLEOPATRA !here is he0 C AR!IAN % did not see him since# CLEOPATRA 7ee where he is, who's with him, what he does: % did not send you: if you find him sad, 7ay % am dancing) if in mirth, report That % am sudden sick: 2uick, and return# E'it ALE)AS C AR!IAN Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly, /ou do not hold the method to enforce The like from him# CLEOPATRA !hat should % do, % do not0 C AR!IAN %n each thing give him way, cross him nothing# CLEOPATRA Thou teachest like a fool) the way to lose him# C AR!IAN Tempt him not so too far) % wish, forbear: %n time we hate that which we often fear# 5ut here comes "ntony# Enter MAR( ANTONY

CLEOPATRA % am sick and sullen# !AR" ANTON# % am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,** CLEOPATRA Help me away, dear +harmian) % shall fall: %t cannot be thus long, the sides of nature !ill not sustain it# !AR" ANTON# Now, my dearest 2ueen,** CLEOPATRA -ray you, stand further from me# !AR" ANTON# !hat's the matter0 CLEOPATRA % know, by that same eye, there's some good news# !hat says the married woman0 /ou may go: !ould she had never given you leave to come. $et her not say 'tis % that keep you here: % have no power upon you) hers you are# !AR" ANTON# The gods best know,** CLEOPATRA O, never was there 2ueen 7o mightily betray'd. yet at the first % saw the treasons planted# !AR" ANTON# +leopatra,** CLEOPATRA !hy should % think you can be mine and true, Though you in swearing shake the throned gods, !ho have been false to (ulvia0 &iotous madness, To be entangled with those mouth*made vows, !hich break themselves in swearing. !AR" ANTON# Most sweet 2ueen,** CLEOPATRA Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, 5ut bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying, Then was the time for words: no going then) 1ternity was in our lips and eyes, 5liss in our brows' bent) none our parts so poor,

5ut was a race of heaven: they are so still, Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, "rt turn'd the greatest liar# !AR" ANTON# How now, lady. CLEOPATRA % would % had thy inches) thou shouldst know There were a heart in 1gypt# !AR" ANTON# Hear me, 2ueen: The strong necessity of time commands Our services awhile) but my full heart &emains in use with you# Our %taly 7hines o'er with civil swords: 7e4tus -ompeius Makes his approaches to the port of &ome: 12uality of two domestic powers 5reed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength, "re newly grown to love: the condemn'd -ompey, &ich in his father's honour, creeps apace, %nto the hearts of such as have not thrived pon the present state, whose numbers threaten) "nd 2uietness, grown sick of rest, would purge 5y any desperate change: my more particular, "nd that which most with you should safe my going, %s (ulvia's death# CLEOPATRA Though age from folly could not give me freedom, %t does from childishness: can (ulvia die0 !AR" ANTON# 7he's dead, my 2ueen: $ook here, and at thy sovereign leisure read The garboils she awaked) at the last, best: 7ee when and where she died# CLEOPATRA O most false love. !here be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill !ith sorrowful water0 Now % see, % see, %n (ulvia's death, how mine received shall be# !AR" ANTON# ;uarrel no more, but be prepared to know The purposes % bear) which are, or cease, "s you shall give the advice# 5y the fire That 2uickens Nilus' slime, % go from hence

Thy soldier, servant) making peace or war "s thou affect'st# CLEOPATRA +ut my lace, +harmian, come) 5ut let it be: % am 2uickly ill, and well, 7o "ntony loves# !AR" ANTON# My precious 2ueen, forbear) "nd give true evidence to his love, which stands "n honourable trial# CLEOPATRA 7o (ulvia told me# % prithee, turn aside and weep for her, Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears 5elong to 1gypt: good now, play one scene Of e4cellent dissembling) and let it look $ife perfect honour# !AR" ANTON# /ou'll heat my blood: no more# CLEOPATRA /ou can do better yet) but this is meetly# !AR" ANTON# Now, by my sword,** CLEOPATRA "nd target# 7till he mends) 5ut this is not the best# $ook, prithee, +harmian, How this Herculean &oman does become The carriage of his chafe# !AR" ANTON# %'ll leave you, lady# CLEOPATRA +ourteous lord, one word# 7ir, you and % must part, but that's not it: 7ir, you and % have loved, but there's not it) That you know well: something it is % would, O, my oblivion is a very "ntony, "nd % am all forgotten# !AR" ANTON# 5ut that your royalty Holds idleness your sub:ect, % should take you (or idleness itself#

CLEOPATRA 'Tis sweating labour To bear such idleness so near the heart "s +leopatra this# 5ut, sir, forgive me) 7ince my becomings kill me, when they do not 1ye well to you: your honour calls you hence) Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly# "nd all the gods go with you. upon your sword 7it laurel victory. and smooth success 5e strew'd before your feet. !AR" ANTON# $et us go# +ome) Our separation so abides, and flies, That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, "nd %, hence fleeting, here remain with thee# "way. E'eunt

SCENE I+. Rome. OCTA+I%S CAESAR's &o,se

Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, readin$ a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou may see, $epidus, and henceforth know, %t is not +aesar's natural vice to hate Our great competitor: from "le4andria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel) is not more man*like Than +leopatra) nor the 2ueen of -tolemy More womanly than he) hardly gave audience, or 8ouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there " man who is the abstract of all faults That all men follow# LEPI$%S % must not think there are 1vils enow to darken all his goodness: His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven, More fiery by night's blackness) hereditary, &ather than purchased) what he cannot change, Than what he chooses# OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou are too indulgent# $et us grant, it is not "miss to tumble on the bed of -tolemy) To give a kingdom for a mirth) to sit

"nd keep the turn of tippling with a slave) To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet !ith knaves that smell of sweat: say this becomes him,** "s his composure must be rare indeed !hom these things cannot blemish,**yet must "ntony No way e4cuse his soils, when we do bear 7o great weight in his lightness# %f he fill'd His vacancy with his voluptuousness, (ull surfeits, and the dryness of his bones, +all on him for't: but to confound such time, That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud "s his own state and ours,**'tis to be chid "s we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge, -awn their e4perience to their present pleasure, "nd so rebel to :udgment# Enter a Messen$er LEPI$%S Here's more news# !essen)er Thy biddings have been done) and every hour, Most noble +aesar, shalt thou have report How 'tis abroad# -ompey is strong at sea) "nd it appears he is beloved of those That only have fear'd +aesar: to the ports The discontents repair, and men's reports 'ive him much wrong'd# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % should have known no less# %t hath been taught us from the primal state, That he which is was wish'd until he were) "nd the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, +omes dear'd by being lack'd# This common body, $ike to a vagabond flag upon the stream, 'oes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion# !essen)er +aesar, % bring thee word, Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound !ith keels of every kind: many hot inroads They make in %taly) the borders maritime $ack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt: No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon

Taken as seen) for -ompey's name strikes more Than could his war resisted# OCTA+I%S CAESAR "ntony, $eave thy lascivious wassails# !hen thou once !ast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st Hirtius and -ansa, consuls, at thy heel ,id famine follow) whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle !hich beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign The roughest berry on the rudest hedge) /ea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, The barks of trees thou browsed'st) on the "lps %t is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, !hich some did die to look on: and all this** %t wounds thine honour that % speak it now** !as borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek 7o much as lank'd not# LEPI$%S 'Tis pity of him# OCTA+I%S CAESAR $et his shames 2uickly ,rive him to &ome: 'tis time we twain ,id show ourselves i' the field) and to that end "ssemble we immediate council: -ompey Thrives in our idleness# LEPI$%S To*morrow, +aesar, % shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly 5oth what by sea and land % can be able To front this present time# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Till which encounter, %t is my business too# (arewell# LEPI$%S (arewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime Of stirs abroad, % shall beseech you, sir, To let me be partaker# OCTA+I%S CAESAR ,oubt not, sir) % knew it for my bond#

E'eunt

SCENE +. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter LEOPATRA, HARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN CLEOPATRA +harmian. C AR!IAN Madam0 CLEOPATRA Ha, ha. 'ive me to drink mandragora# C AR!IAN !hy, madam0 CLEOPATRA That % might sleep out this great gap of time My "ntony is away# C AR!IAN /ou think of him too much# CLEOPATRA O, 'tis treason. C AR!IAN Madam, % trust, not so# CLEOPATRA Thou, eunuch Mardian. !AR$IAN !hat's your highness' pleasure0 CLEOPATRA Not now to hear thee sing) % take no pleasure %n aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee, That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts May not fly forth of 1gypt# Hast thou affections0 !AR$IAN /es, gracious madam# CLEOPATRA %ndeed. !AR$IAN Not in deed, madam) for % can do nothing 5ut what indeed is honest to be done:

/et have % fierce affections, and think !hat 8enus did with Mars# CLEOPATRA O +harmian, !here think'st thou he is now0 7tands he, or sits he0 Or does he walk0 or is he on his horse0 O happy horse, to bear the weight of "ntony. ,o bravely, horse. for wot'st thou whom thou movest0 The demi*"tlas of this earth, the arm "nd burgonet of men# He's speaking now, Or murmuring '!here's my serpent of old Nile0' (or so he calls me: now % feed myself !ith most delicious poison# Think on me, That am with -hoebus' amorous pinches black, "nd wrinkled deep in time0 5road*fronted +aesar, !hen thou wast here above the ground, % was " morsel for a monarch: and great -ompey !ould stand and make his eyes grow in my brow) There would he anchor his aspect and die !ith looking on his life# Enter ALE)AS, #ro% O TA/IUS AESAR ALE'AS 7overeign of 1gypt, hail. CLEOPATRA How much unlike art thou Mark "ntony. /et, coming from him, that great medicine hath !ith his tinct gilded thee# How goes it with my brave Mark "ntony0 ALE'AS $ast thing he did, dear 2ueen, He kiss'd,**the last of many doubled kisses,** This orient pearl# His speech sticks in my heart# CLEOPATRA Mine ear must pluck it thence# ALE'AS ''ood friend,' 2uoth he, '7ay, the firm &oman to great 1gypt sends This treasure of an oyster) at whose foot, To mend the petty present, % will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms) all the east, 7ay thou, shall call her mistress#' 7o he nodded, "nd soberly did mount an arm*gaunt steed,

!ho neigh'd so high, that what % would have spoke !as beastly dumb'd by him# CLEOPATRA !hat, was he sad or merry0 ALE'AS $ike to the time o' the year between the e4tremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry# CLEOPATRA O well*divided disposition. Note him, Note him good +harmian, '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, !hich seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay %n 1gypt with his :oy) but between both: O heavenly mingle. 5e'st thou sad or merry, The violence of either thee becomes, 7o does it no man else# Met'st thou my posts0 ALE'AS "y, madam, twenty several messengers: !hy do you send so thick0 CLEOPATRA !ho's born that day !hen % forget to send to "ntony, 7hall die a beggar# %nk and paper, +harmian# !elcome, my good "le4as# ,id %, +harmian, 1ver love +aesar so0 C AR!IAN O that brave +aesar. CLEOPATRA 5e choked with such another emphasis. 7ay, the brave "ntony# C AR!IAN The valiant +aesar. CLEOPATRA 5y %sis, % will give thee bloody teeth, %f thou with +aesar paragon again My man of men# C AR!IAN 5y your most gracious pardon, % sing but after you# CLEOPATRA My salad days,

!hen % was green in :udgment: cold in blood, To say as % said then. 5ut, come, away) 'et me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or %'ll unpeople 1gypt# E'eunt

Antony and Cleopatra: Act -

SCENE I. !essina. PO!PE#'s &o,se

Enter POMPEY, MENE RATES, and MENAS, in !arli0e %anner PO!PE# %f the great gods be :ust, they shall assist The deeds of :ustest men# !ENECRATES 3now, worthy -ompey, That what they do delay, they not deny# PO!PE# !hiles we are suitors to their throne, decays The thing we sue for# !ENECRATES !e, ignorant of ourselves, 5eg often our own harms, which the wise powers ,eny us for our good) so find we profit 5y losing of our prayers# PO!PE# % shall do well: The people love me, and the sea is mine)

My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope 7ays it will come to the full# Mark "ntony %n 1gypt sits at dinner, and will make No wars without doors: +aesar gets money where He loses hearts: $epidus flatters both, Of both is flatter'd) but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him# !ENAS +aesar and $epidus "re in the field: a mighty strength they carry# PO!PE# !here have you this0 'tis false# !ENAS (rom 7ilvius, sir# PO!PE# He dreams: % know they are in &ome together, $ooking for "ntony# 5ut all the charms of love, 7alt +leopatra, soften thy waned lip. $et witchcraft :oin with beauty, lust with both. Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, 3eep his brain fuming) 1picurean cooks 7harpen with cloyless sauce his appetite) That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour 1ven till a $ethe'd dulness. Enter /ARRIUS How now, 8arrius. +ARRI%S This is most certain that % shall deliver: Mark "ntony is every hour in &ome 14pected: since he went from 1gypt 'tis " space for further travel# PO!PE# % could have given less matter " better ear# Menas, % did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm (or such a petty war: his soldiership %s twice the other twain: but let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring +an from the lap of 1gypt's widow pluck The ne'er*lust*wearied "ntony# !ENAS % cannot hope

+aesar and "ntony shall well greet together: His wife that's dead did trespasses to +aesar) His brother warr'd upon him) although, % think, Not moved by "ntony# PO!PE# % know not, Menas, How lesser enmities may give way to greater# !ere't not that we stand up against them all, 'Twere pregnant they should s2uare between themselves) (or 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# 5e't as our gods will have't. %t only stands Our lives upon to use our strongest hands# +ome, Menas# E'eunt

SCENE II. Rome. T&e &o,se o. LEPI$%S

Enter DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US and LEPIDUS LEPI$%S 'ood 1nobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed, "nd shall become you well, to entreat your captain To soft and gentle speech# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % shall entreat him To answer like himself: if +aesar move him, $et "ntony look over +aesar's head "nd speak as loud as Mars# 5y 9upiter, !ere % the wearer of "ntonius' beard, % would not shave't to*day# LEPI$%S 'Tis not a time (or private stomaching# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 1very time 7erves for the matter that is then born in't# LEPI$%S 5ut small to greater matters must give way#

$O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Not if the small come first# LEPI$%S /our speech is passion: 5ut, pray you, stir no embers up# Here comes The noble "ntony# Enter MAR( ANTONY and /ENTIDIUS $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "nd yonder, +aesar# Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, ME AENAS, and A,RIPPA !AR" ANTON# %f we compose well here, to -arthia: Hark, 8entidius# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % do not know, Mecaenas) ask "grippa# LEPI$%S Noble friends, That which combined us was most great, and let not " leaner action rend us# !hat's amiss, May it be gently heard: when we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners, The rather, for % earnestly beseech, Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, Nor curstness grow to the matter# !AR" ANTON# 'Tis spoken well# !ere we before our armies, and to fight# % should do thus# Flourish OCTA+I%S CAESAR !elcome to &ome# !AR" ANTON# Thank you# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 7it# !AR" ANTON# 7it, sir# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Nay, then#

!AR" ANTON# % learn, you take things ill which are not so, Or being, concern you not# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % must be laugh'd at, %f, or for nothing or a little, % 7hould say myself offended, and with you +hiefly i' the world) more laugh'd at, that % should Once name you derogately, when to sound your name %t not concern'd me# !AR" ANTON# My being in 1gypt, +aesar, !hat was't to you0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR No more than my residing here at &ome Might be to you in 1gypt: yet, if you there ,id practise on my state, your being in 1gypt Might be my 2uestion# !AR" ANTON# How intend you, practised0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou may be pleased to catch at mine intent 5y what did here befal me# /our wife and brother Made wars upon me) and their contestation !as theme for you, you were the word of war# !AR" ANTON# /ou do mistake your business) my brother never ,id urge me in his act: % did in2uire it) "nd have my learning from some true reports, That drew their swords with you# ,id he not rather ,iscredit my authority with yours) "nd make the wars alike against my stomach, Having alike your cause0 Of this my letters 5efore did satisfy you# %f you'll patch a 2uarrel, "s matter whole you have not to make it with, %t must not be with this# OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou praise yourself 5y laying defects of :udgment to me) but /ou patch'd up your e4cuses# !AR" ANTON# Not so, not so)

% know you could not lack, % am certain on't, 8ery necessity of this thought, that %, /our partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought, +ould not with graceful eyes attend those wars !hich fronted mine own peace# "s for my wife, % would you had her spirit in such another: The third o' the world is yours) which with a snaffle /ou may pace easy, but not such a wife# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !ould we had all such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women. !AR" ANTON# 7o much uncurbable, her garboils, +aesar Made out of her impatience, which not wanted 7hrewdness of policy too, % grieving grant ,id you too much dis2uiet: for that you must 5ut say, % could not help it# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % wrote to you !hen rioting in "le4andria) you ,id pocket up my letters, and with taunts ,id gibe my missive out of audience# !AR" ANTON# 7ir, He fell upon me ere admitted: then Three kings % had newly feasted, and did want Of what % was i' the morning: but ne4t day % told him of myself) which was as much "s to have ask'd him pardon# $et this fellow 5e nothing of our strife) if we contend, Out of our 2uestion wipe him# OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou have broken The article of your oath) which you shall never Have tongue to charge me with# LEPI$%S 7oft, +aesar. !AR" ANTON# No, $epidus, let him speak: The honour is sacred which he talks on now, 7upposing that % lack'd it# 5ut, on, +aesar) The article of my oath#

OCTA+I%S CAESAR To lend me arms and aid when % re2uired them) The which you both denied# !AR" ANTON# Neglected, rather) "nd then when poison'd hours had bound me up (rom mine own knowledge# "s nearly as % may, %'ll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty 7hall not make poor my greatness, nor my power !ork without it# Truth is, that (ulvia, To have me out of 1gypt, made wars here) (or which myself, the ignorant motive, do 7o far ask pardon as befits mine honour To stoop in such a case# LEPI$%S 'Tis noble spoken# !ECAENAS %f it might please you, to enforce no further The griefs between ye: to forget them 2uite !ere to remember that the present need 7peaks to atone you# LEPI$%S !orthily spoken, Mecaenas# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Or, if you borrow one another's love for the instant, you may, when you hear no more words of -ompey, return it again: you shall have time to wrangle in when you have nothing else to do# !AR" ANTON# Thou art a soldier only: speak no more# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S That truth should be silent % had almost forgot# !AR" ANTON# /ou wrong this presence) therefore speak no more# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 'o to, then) your considerate stone# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his speech) for't cannot be !e shall remain in friendship, our conditions 7o differing in their acts# /et if % knew

!hat hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge O' the world % would pursue it# A/RIPPA 'ive me leave, +aesar,** OCTA+I%S CAESAR 7peak, "grippa# A/RIPPA Thou hast a sister by the mother's side, "dmired Octavia: great Mark "ntony %s now a widower# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 7ay not so, "grippa: %f +leopatra heard you, your reproof !ere well deserved of rashness# !AR" ANTON# % am not married, +aesar: let me hear "grippa further speak# A/RIPPA To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts !ith an unslipping knot, take "ntony Octavia to his wife) whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men) !hose virtue and whose general graces speak That which none else can utter# 5y this marriage, "ll little :ealousies, which now seem great, "nd all great fears, which now import their dangers, !ould then be nothing: truths would be tales, !here now half tales be truths: her love to both !ould, each to other and all loves to both, ,raw after her# -ardon what % have spoke) (or 'tis a studied, not a present thought, 5y duty ruminated# !AR" ANTON# !ill +aesar speak0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR Not till he hears how "ntony is touch'd !ith what is spoke already# !AR" ANTON# !hat power is in "grippa, %f % would say, '"grippa, be it so,' To make this good0

OCTA+I%S CAESAR The power of +aesar, and His power unto Octavia# !AR" ANTON# May % never To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, ,ream of impediment. $et me have thy hand: (urther this act of grace: and from this hour The heart of brothers govern in our loves "nd sway our great designs. OCTA+I%S CAESAR There is my hand# " sister % be2ueath you, whom no brother ,id ever love so dearly: let her live To :oin our kingdoms and our hearts) and never (ly off our loves again. LEPI$%S Happily, amen. !AR" ANTON# % did not think to draw my sword 'gainst -ompey) (or he hath laid strange courtesies and great Of late upon me: % must thank him only, $est my remembrance suffer ill report) "t heel of that, defy him# LEPI$%S Time calls upon's: Of us must -ompey presently be sought, Or else he seeks out us# !AR" ANTON# !here lies he0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR "bout the mount Misenum# !AR" ANTON# !hat is his strength by land0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR 'reat and increasing: but by sea He is an absolute master# !AR" ANTON# 7o is the fame# !ould we had spoke together. Haste we for it: /et, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talk'd of#

OCTA+I%S CAESAR !ith most gladness: "nd do invite you to my sister's view, !hither straight %'ll lead you# !AR" ANTON# $et us, $epidus, Not lack your company# LEPI$%S Noble "ntony, Not sickness should detain me# Flourish. E'eunt O TA/IUS AESAR, MAR( ANTONY, and LEPIDUS !ECAENAS !elcome from 1gypt, sir# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Half the heart of +aesar, worthy Mecaenas. My honourable friend, "grippa. A/RIPPA 'ood 1nobarbus. !ECAENAS !e have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested# /ou stayed well by't in 1gypt# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "y, sir) we did sleep day out of countenance, and made the night light with drinking# !ECAENAS 1ight wild*boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons there) is this true0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting# !ECAENAS 7he's a most triumphant lady, if report be s2uare to her# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hen she first met Mark "ntony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of +ydnus# A/RIPPA There she appeared indeed) or my reporter devised well for her# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % will tell you# The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, 5urn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold)

-urple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love*sick with them) the oars were silver, !hich to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, "s amorous of their strokes# (or her own person, %t beggar'd all description: she did lie %n her pavilion**cloth*of*gold of tissue** O'er*picturing that 8enus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her 7tood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling +upids, !ith divers*colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, "nd what they undid did# A/RIPPA O, rare for "ntony. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, 7o many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, "nd made their bends adornings: at the helm " seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle 7well with the touches of those flower*soft hands, That yarely frame the office# (rom the barge " strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the ad:acent wharfs# The city cast Her people out upon her) and "ntony, 1nthroned i' the market*place, did sit alone, !histling to the air) which, but for vacancy, Had gone to ga6e on +leopatra too, "nd made a gap in nature# A/RIPPA &are 1gyptian. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S pon her landing, "ntony sent to her, %nvited her to supper: she replied, %t should be better he became her guest) !hich she entreated: our courteous "ntony, !hom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak, 5eing barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast, "nd for his ordinary pays his heart (or what his eyes eat only# A/RIPPA &oyal wench.

7he made great +aesar lay his sword to bed: He plough'd her, and she cropp'd# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % saw her once Hop forty paces through the public street) "nd having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted, That she did make defect perfection, "nd, breathless, power breathe forth# !ECAENAS Now "ntony must leave her utterly# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Never) he will not: "ge cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry !here most she satisfies) for vilest things 5ecome themselves in her: that the holy priests 5less her when she is riggish# !ECAENAS %f beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle The heart of "ntony, Octavia is " blessed lottery to him# A/RIPPA $et us go# 'ood 1nobarbus, make yourself my guest !hilst you abide here# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Humbly, sir, % thank you# E'eunt

SCENE III. T&e same. OCTA+I%S CAESAR's &o,se

Enter MAR( ANTONY, O TA/IUS AESAR, O TA/IA &et!een the%, and Attendants !AR" ANTON# The world and my great office will sometimes ,ivide me from your bosom# OCTA+IA "ll which time 5efore the gods my knee shall bow my prayers To them for you# !AR" ANTON# 'ood night, sir# My Octavia,

&ead not my blemishes in the world's report: % have not kept my s2uare) but that to come 7hall all be done by the rule# 'ood night, dear lady# 'ood night, sir# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 'ood night# E'eunt O TA/IUS AESAR and O TA/IA Enter Soothsa*er !AR" ANTON# Now, sirrah) you do wish yourself in 1gypt0 Soot&sayer !ould % had never come from thence, nor you Thither. !AR" ANTON# %f you can, your reason0 Soot&sayer % see it in My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet Hie you to 1gypt again# !AR" ANTON# 7ay to me, !hose fortunes shall rise higher, +aesar's or mine0 Soot&sayer +aesar's# Therefore, O "ntony, stay not by his side: Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is Noble, courageous high, unmatchable, !here +aesar's is not) but, near him, thy angel 5ecomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore Make space enough between you# !AR" ANTON# 7peak this no more# Soot&sayer To none but thee) no more, but when to thee# %f thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose) and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens, !hen he shines by: % say again, thy spirit %s all afraid to govern thee near him) 5ut, he away, 'tis noble# !AR" ANTON# 'et thee gone: 7ay to 8entidius % would speak with him:

E'it Soothsa*er He shall to -arthia# 5e it art or hap, He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him) "nd in our sports my better cunning faints nder his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds) His cocks do win the battle still of mine, !hen it is all to nought) and his 2uails ever 5eat mine, inhoop'd, at odds# % will to 1gypt: "nd though % make this marriage for my peace, %' the east my pleasure lies# Enter /ENTIDIUS O, come, 8entidius, /ou must to -arthia: your commission's ready) (ollow me, and receive't# E'eunt

SCENE I+. T&e same. A street

Enter LEPIDUS, ME AENAS, and A,RIPPA LEPI$%S Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten /our generals after# A/RIPPA 7ir, Mark "ntony !ill e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow# LEPI$%S Till % shall see you in your soldier's dress, !hich will become you both, farewell# !ECAENAS !e shall, "s % conceive the :ourney, be at the Mount 5efore you, $epidus# LEPI$%S /our way is shorter) My purposes do draw me much about: /ou'll win two days upon me# !ECAENAS and A/RIPPA 7ir, good success. LEPI$%S (arewell# E'eunt

SCENE +. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter LEOPATRA, HARMIAN, IRAS, and ALE)AS CLEOPATRA 'ive me some music) music, moody food Of us that trade in love# Attendants The music, ho. Enter MARDIAN CLEOPATRA $et it alone) let's to billiards: come, +harmian# C AR!IAN My arm is sore) best play with Mardian# CLEOPATRA "s well a woman with an eunuch play'd "s with a woman# +ome, you'll play with me, sir0 !AR$IAN "s well as % can, madam# CLEOPATRA "nd when good will is show'd, though't come too short, The actor may plead pardon# %'ll none now: 'ive me mine angle) we'll to the river: there, My music playing far off, % will betray Tawny*finn'd fishes) my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy :aws) and, as % draw them up, %'ll think them every one an "ntony, "nd say '"h, ha. you're caught#' C AR!IAN 'Twas merry when /ou wager'd on your angling) when your diver ,id hang a salt*fish on his hook, which he !ith fervency drew up# CLEOPATRA That time,**O times.** % laugh'd him out of patience) and that night % laugh'd him into patience) and ne4t morn, 1re the ninth hour, % drunk him to his bed) Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst % wore his sword -hilippan# Enter a Messen$er

O, from %taly &am thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren# !essen)er Madam, madam,** CLEOPATRA "ntonius dead.**%f thou say so, villain, Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free, %f thou so yield him, there is gold, and here My bluest veins to kiss) a hand that kings Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing# !essen)er (irst, madam, he is well# CLEOPATRA !hy, there's more gold# 5ut, sirrah, mark, we use To say the dead are well: bring it to that, The gold % give thee will % melt and pour ,own thy ill*uttering throat# !essen)er 'ood madam, hear me# CLEOPATRA !ell, go to, % will) 5ut there's no goodness in thy face: if "ntony 5e free and healthful,**so tart a favour To trumpet such good tidings. %f not well, Thou shouldst come like a (ury crown'd with snakes, Not like a formal man# !essen)er !ill't please you hear me0 CLEOPATRA % have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st: /et if thou say "ntony lives, is well, Or friends with +aesar, or not captive to him, %'ll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail &ich pearls upon thee# !essen)er Madam, he's well# CLEOPATRA !ell said# !essen)er "nd friends with +aesar#

CLEOPATRA Thou'rt an honest man# !essen)er +aesar and he are greater friends than ever# CLEOPATRA Make thee a fortune from me# !essen)er 5ut yet, madam,** CLEOPATRA % do not like '5ut yet,' it does allay The good precedence) fie upon '5ut yet'. '5ut yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth 7ome monstrous malefactor# -rithee, friend, -our out the pack of matter to mine ear, The good and bad together: he's friends with +aesar: %n state of health thou say'st) and thou say'st free# !essen)er (ree, madam. no) % made no such report: He's bound unto Octavia# CLEOPATRA (or what good turn0 !essen)er (or the best turn i' the bed# CLEOPATRA % am pale, +harmian# !essen)er Madam, he's married to Octavia# CLEOPATRA The most infectious pestilence upon thee. Stri0es hi% do!n !essen)er 'ood madam, patience# CLEOPATRA !hat say you0 Hence, Stri0es hi% a$ain Horrible villain. or %'ll spurn thine eyes $ike balls before me) %'ll unhair thy head: She hales hi% u1 and do!n Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine, 7marting in lingering pickle#

!essen)er 'racious madam, % that do bring the news made not the match# CLEOPATRA 7ay 'tis not so, a province % will give thee, "nd make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst 7hall make thy peace for moving me to rage) "nd % will boot thee with what gift beside Thy modesty can beg# !essen)er He's married, madam# CLEOPATRA &ogue, thou hast lived too long# Dra!s a 0ni#e !essen)er Nay, then %'ll run# !hat mean you, madam0 % have made no fault# E'it C AR!IAN 'ood madam, keep yourself within yourself: The man is innocent# CLEOPATRA 7ome innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt# Melt 1gypt into Nile. and kindly creatures Turn all to serpents. +all the slave again: Though % am mad, % will not bite him: call# C AR!IAN He is afeard to come# CLEOPATRA % will not hurt him# E'it HARMIAN These hands do lack nobility, that they strike " meaner than myself) since % myself Have given myself the cause# Re.enter HARMIAN and Messen$er +ome hither, sir# Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news: give to a gracious message# "n host of tongues) but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt# !essen)er % have done my duty#

CLEOPATRA %s he married0 % cannot hate thee worser than % do, %f thou again say '/es#' !essen)er He's married, madam# CLEOPATRA The gods confound thee. dost thou hold there still0 !essen)er 7hould % lie, madam0 CLEOPATRA O, % would thou didst, 7o half my 1gypt were submerged and made " cistern for scaled snakes. 'o, get thee hence: Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me Thou wouldst appear most ugly# He is married0 !essen)er % crave your highness' pardon# CLEOPATRA He is married0 !essen)er Take no offence that % would not offend you: To punish me for what you make me do# 7eems much une2ual: he's married to Octavia# CLEOPATRA O, that his fault should make a knave of thee, That art not what thou'rt sure of. 'et thee hence: The merchandise which thou hast brought from &ome "re all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand, "nd be undone by 'em. E'it Messen$er C AR!IAN 'ood your highness, patience# CLEOPATRA %n praising "ntony, % have dispraised +aesar# C AR!IAN Many times, madam# CLEOPATRA % am paid for't now# $ead me from hence: % faint: O %ras, +harmian. 'tis no matter# 'o to the fellow, good "le4as) bid him

&eport the feature of Octavia, her years, Her inclination, let him not leave out The colour of her hair: bring me word 2uickly# E'it ALE)AS $et him for ever go:**let him not**+harmian, Though he be painted one way like a 'orgon, The other way's a Mars# 5id you "le4as To MARDIAN 5ring me word how tall she is# -ity me, +harmian, 5ut do not speak to me# $ead me to my chamber# E'eunt

SCENE +I. Near !isen,m

Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door, !ith dru% and tru%1et2 at another, O TA/IUS AESAR, MAR( ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US, ME AENAS, !ith Soldiers %ar"hin$ PO!PE# /our hostages % have, so have you mine) "nd we shall talk before we fight# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Most meet That first we come to words) and therefore have we Our written purposes before us sent) !hich, if thou hast consider'd, let us know %f 'twill tie up thy discontented sword, "nd carry back to 7icily much tall youth That else must perish here# PO!PE# To you all three, The senators alone of this great world, +hief factors for the gods, % do not know !herefore my father should revengers want, Having a son and friends) since 9ulius +aesar, !ho at -hilippi the good 5rutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him# !hat was't That moved pale +assius to conspire) and what Made the all*honour'd, honest &oman, 5rutus, !ith the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom, To drench the +apitol) but that they would Have one man but a man0 "nd that is it Hath made me rig my navy) at whose burthen

The anger'd ocean foams) with which % meant To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful &ome +ast on my noble father# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Take your time# !AR" ANTON# Thou canst not fear us, -ompey, with thy sails) !e'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st How much we do o'er*count thee# PO!PE# "t land, indeed, Thou dost o'er*count me of my father's house: 5ut, since the cuckoo builds not for himself, &emain in't as thou mayst# LEPI$%S 5e pleased to tell us** (or this is from the present**how you take The offers we have sent you# OCTA+I%S CAESAR There's the point# !AR" ANTON# !hich do not be entreated to, but weigh !hat it is worth embraced# OCTA+I%S CAESAR "nd what may follow, To try a larger fortune# PO!PE# /ou have made me offer Of 7icily, 7ardinia) and % must &id all the sea of pirates) then, to send Measures of wheat to &ome) this 'greed upon To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back Our targes undinted# OCTA+I%S CAESAR0 !AR" ANTON# and LEPI$%S That's our offer# PO!PE# 3now, then, % came before you here a man prepared To take this offer: but Mark "ntony -ut me to some impatience: though % lose The praise of it by telling, you must know, !hen +aesar and your brother were at blows,

/our mother came to 7icily and did find Her welcome friendly# !AR" ANTON# % have heard it, -ompey) "nd am well studied for a liberal thanks !hich % do owe you# PO!PE# $et me have your hand: % did not think, sir, to have met you here# !AR" ANTON# The beds i' the east are soft) and thanks to you, That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither) (or % have gain'd by't# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 7ince % saw you last, There is a change upon you# PO!PE# !ell, % know not !hat counts harsh fortune casts upon my face) 5ut in my bosom shall she never come, To make my heart her vassal# LEPI$%S !ell met here# PO!PE# % hope so, $epidus# Thus we are agreed: % crave our composition may be written, "nd seal'd between us# OCTA+I%S CAESAR That's the ne4t to do# PO!PE# !e'll feast each other ere we part) and let's ,raw lots who shall begin# !AR" ANTON# That will %, -ompey# PO!PE# No, "ntony, take the lot: but, first Or last, your fine 1gyptian cookery 7hall have the fame# % have heard that 9ulius +aesar 'rew fat with feasting there# !AR" ANTON# /ou have heard much#

PO!PE# % have fair meanings, sir# !AR" ANTON# "nd fair words to them# PO!PE# Then so much have % heard: "nd % have heard, "pollodorus carried** $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S No more of that: he did so# PO!PE# !hat, % pray you0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S " certain 2ueen to +aesar in a mattress# PO!PE# % know thee now: how farest thou, soldier0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !ell) "nd well am like to do) for, % perceive, (our feasts are toward# PO!PE# $et me shake thy hand) % never hated thee: % have seen thee fight, !hen % have envied thy behavior# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 7ir, % never loved you much) but % ha' praised ye, !hen you have well deserved ten times as much "s % have said you did# PO!PE# 1n:oy thy plainness, %t nothing ill becomes thee# "board my galley % invite you all: !ill you lead, lords0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR0 !AR" ANTON# and LEPI$%S 7how us the way, sir# PO!PE# +ome# E'eunt all &ut MENAS and ENO+AR+US !ENAS <"side= Thy father, -ompey, would ne'er have made this treaty#**/ou and % have known, sir#

$O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "t sea, % think# !ENAS !e have, sir# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S /ou have done well by water# !ENAS "nd you by land# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % will praise any man that will praise me) though it cannot be denied what % have done by land# !ENAS Nor what % have done by water# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S /es, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea# !ENAS "nd you by land# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S There % deny my land service# 5ut give me your hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing# !ENAS "ll men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 5ut there is never a fair woman has a true face# !ENAS No slander) they steal hearts# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !e came hither to fight with you# !ENAS (or my part, % am sorry it is turned to a drinking# -ompey doth this day laugh away his fortune# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S %f he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again# !ENAS /ou've said, sir# !e looked not for Mark "ntony here: pray you, is he married to +leopatra0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S +aesar's sister is called Octavia# !ENAS True, sir) she was the wife of +aius Marcellus# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 5ut she is now the wife of Marcus "ntonius#

!ENAS -ray ye, sir0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 'Tis true# !ENAS Then is +aesar and he for ever knit together# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S %f % were bound to divine of this unity, % would not prophesy so# !ENAS % think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % think so too# 5ut 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# !ENAS !ho would not have his wife so0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Not he that himself is not so) which is Mark "ntony# He will to his 1gyptian dish again: then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in +aesar) and, as % said before, that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance# "ntony will use his affection where it is: he married but his occasion here# !ENAS "nd thus it may be# +ome, sir, will you aboard0 % have a health for you# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S % shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in 1gypt# !ENAS +ome, let's away# E'eunt

SCENE +II. On 1oard PO!PE#'s )alley0 o.. !isen,m

Musi" 1la*s. Enter t!o or three Ser-ants !ith a &an3uet *irst Ser2ant Here they'll be, man# 7ome o' their plants are ill*rooted already: the least wind i' the world will blow them down# Second Ser2ant $epidus is high*coloured# *irst Ser2ant They have made him drink alms*drink#

Second Ser2ant "s they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out 'No more)' reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink# *irst Ser2ant 5ut it raises the greater war between him and his discretion# Second Ser2ant !hy, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship: % had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partisan % could not heave# *irst Ser2ant To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks# A sennet sounded. Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, MAR( ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, A,RIPPA, ME AENAS, DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US, MENAS, !ith other "a1tains !AR" ANTON# <To +"17"&= Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o' the Nile 5y certain scales i' the pyramid) they know, 5y the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells, The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman pon the slime and oo6e scatters his grain, "nd shortly comes to harvest# LEPI$%S /ou've strange serpents there# !AR" ANTON# "y, $epidus# LEPI$%S /our serpent of 1gypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile# !AR" ANTON# They are so# PO!PE# 7it,**and some wine. " health to $epidus. LEPI$%S % am not so well as % should be, but %'ll ne'er out# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Not till you have slept) % fear me you'll be in till then# LEPI$%S Nay, certainly, % have heard the -tolemies' pyramises are very goodly things) without contradiction, % have heard that# !ENAS <"side to -OM-1/= -ompey, a word#

PO!PE# <"side to M1N"7= 7ay in mine ear: what is't0 !ENAS <"side to -OM-1/= (orsake thy seat, % do beseech thee, captain, "nd hear me speak a word# PO!PE# <"side to M1N"7= (orbear me till anon# This wine for $epidus. LEPI$%S !hat manner o' thing is your crocodile0 !AR" ANTON# %t is shaped, sir, like itself) and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is :ust 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# LEPI$%S !hat colour is it of0 !AR" ANTON# Of it own colour too# LEPI$%S 'Tis a strange serpent# !AR" ANTON# 'Tis so# "nd the tears of it are wet# OCTA+I%S CAESAR !ill this description satisfy him0 !AR" ANTON# !ith the health that -ompey gives him, else he is a very epicure# PO!PE# <"side to M1N"7= 'o hang, sir, hang. Tell me of that0 away. ,o as % bid you# !here's this cup % call'd for0 !ENAS <"side to -OM-1/= %f for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me, &ise from thy stool# PO!PE# <"side to M1N"7= % think thou'rt mad# The matter0 Rises, and !al0s aside !ENAS % have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes# PO!PE# Thou hast served me with much faith# !hat's else to say0 5e :olly, lords#

!AR" ANTON# These 2uick*sands, $epidus, 3eep off them, for you sink# !ENAS !ilt thou be lord of all the world0 PO!PE# !hat say'st thou0 !ENAS !ilt thou be lord of the whole world0 That's twice# PO!PE# How should that be0 !ENAS 5ut entertain it, "nd, though thou think me poor, % am the man !ill give thee all the world# PO!PE# Hast thou drunk well0 !ENAS Now, -ompey, % have kept me from the cup# Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly 9ove: !hate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, %s thine, if thou wilt ha't# PO!PE# 7how me which way# !ENAS These three world*sharers, these competitors, "re in thy vessel: let me cut the cable) "nd, when we are put off, fall to their throats: "ll there is thine# PO!PE# "h, this thou shouldst have done, "nd not have spoke on't. %n me 'tis villany) %n thee't had been good service# Thou must know, 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour) Mine honour, it# &epent that e'er thy tongue Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown, % should have found it afterwards well done) 5ut must condemn it now# ,esist, and drink# !ENAS <"side= (or this, %'ll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more#

!ho seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd, 7hall never find it more# PO!PE# This health to $epidus. !AR" ANTON# 5ear him ashore# %'ll pledge it for him, -ompey# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Here's to thee, Menas. !ENAS 1nobarbus, welcome. PO!PE# (ill till the cup be hid# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S There's a strong fellow, Menas# Pointin$ to the Attendant !ho "arries o## LEPIDUS !ENAS !hy0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "' bears the third part of the world, man) see'st not0 !ENAS The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all, That it might go on wheels. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S ,rink thou) increase the reels# !ENAS +ome# PO!PE# This is not yet an "le4andrian feast# !AR" ANTON# %t ripens towards it# 7trike the vessels, ho0 Here is to +aesar. OCTA+I%S CAESAR % could well forbear't# %t's monstrous labour, when % wash my brain, "nd it grows fouler# !AR" ANTON# 5e a child o' the time# OCTA+I%S CAESAR -ossess it, %'ll make answer: 5ut % had rather fast from all four days Than drink so much in one#

$O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Ha, my brave emperor. To MAR( ANTONY 7hall we dance now the 1gyptian 5acchanals, "nd celebrate our drink0 PO!PE# $et's ha't, good soldier# !AR" ANTON# +ome, let's all take hands, Till that the con2uering wine hath steep'd our sense %n soft and delicate $ethe# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "ll take hands# Make battery to our ears with the loud music: The while %'ll place you: then the boy shall sing) The holding every man shall bear as loud "s his strong sides can volley# Musi" 1la*s. DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US 1la"es the% hand in hand <TH1 7ON'= +ome, thou monarch of the vine, -lumpy 5acchus with pink eyne. %n thy fats our cares be drown'd, !ith thy grapes our hairs be crown'd: +up us, till the world go round, +up us, till the world go round. OCTA+I%S CAESAR !hat would you more0 -ompey, good night# 'ood brother, $et me re2uest you off: our graver business (rowns at this levity# 'entle lords, let's part) /ou see we have burnt our cheeks: strong 1nobarb %s weaker than the wine) and mine own tongue 7plits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost "ntick'd us all# !hat needs more words0 'ood night# 'ood "ntony, your hand# PO!PE# %'ll try you on the shore# !AR" ANTON# "nd shall, sir) give's your hand# PO!PE# O "ntony, /ou have my father's house,**5ut, what0 we are friends# +ome, down into the boat#

$O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Take heed you fall not# E'eunt all &ut DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US and MENAS Menas, %'ll not on shore# !ENAS No, to my cabin# These drums. these trumpets, flutes. what. $et Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out. Sound a #lourish, !ith dru%s $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Ho. says a' There's my cap# !ENAS Ho. Noble captain, come# E'eunt

Antony and Cleopatra: Act 3

SCENE I. A plain in Syria

Enter /ENTIDIUS as it !ere in triu%1h, !ith SILIUS, and other Ro%ans, O##i"ers, and Soldiers4 the dead &od* o# PA ORUS &orne &e#ore hi% +ENTI$I%S Now, darting -arthia, art thou struck) and now -leased fortune does of Marcus +rassus' death Make me revenger# 5ear the king's son's body 5efore our army# Thy -acorus, Orodes, -ays this for Marcus +rassus#

SILI%S Noble 8entidius, !hilst yet with -arthian blood thy sword is warm, The fugitive -arthians follow) spur through Media, Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither The routed fly: so thy grand captain "ntony 7hall set thee on triumphant chariots and -ut garlands on thy head# +ENTI$I%S O 7ilius, 7ilius, % have done enough) a lower place, note well, May make too great an act: for learn this, 7ilius) 5etter to leave undone, than by our deed "c2uire too high a fame when him we serve's away# +aesar and "ntony have ever won More in their officer than person: 7ossius, One of my place in 7yria, his lieutenant, (or 2uick accumulation of renown, !hich he achieved by the minute, lost his favour# !ho does i' the wars more than his captain can 5ecomes his captain's captain: and ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him# % could do more to do "ntonius good, 5ut 'twould offend him) and in his offence 7hould my performance perish# SILI%S Thou hast, 8entidius, that !ithout the which a soldier, and his sword, 'rants scarce distinction# Thou wilt write to "ntony. +ENTI$I%S %'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 -arthia !e have :aded out o' the field# SILI%S !here is he now0 +ENTI$I%S He purposeth to "thens: whither, with what haste The weight we must convey with's will permit, !e shall appear before him# On there) pass along. E'eunt

SCENE II. Rome. An ante4c&am1er in OCTA+I%S CAESAR's &o,se

Enter A,RIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US at another A/RIPPA !hat, are the brothers parted0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S They have dispatch'd with -ompey, he is gone) The other three are sealing# Octavia weeps To part from &ome) +aesar is sad) and $epidus, 7ince -ompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled !ith the green sickness# A/RIPPA 'Tis a noble $epidus# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S " very fine one: O, how he loves +aesar. A/RIPPA Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark "ntony. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S +aesar0 !hy, he's the 9upiter of men# A/RIPPA !hat's "ntony0 The god of 9upiter# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 7pake you of +aesar0 How. the non*pareil. A/RIPPA O "ntony. O thou "rabian bird. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !ould you praise +aesar, say '+aesar:' go no further# A/RIPPA %ndeed, he plied them both with e4cellent praises# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 5ut he loves +aesar best) yet he loves "ntony: Ho. hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho. His love to "ntony# 5ut as for +aesar, 3neel down, kneel down, and wonder# A/RIPPA 5oth he loves# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S They are his shards, and he their beetle# Tru%1ets !ithin

7o) This is to horse# "dieu, noble "grippa# A/RIPPA 'ood fortune, worthy soldier) and farewell# Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, MAR( ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and O TA/IA !AR" ANTON# No further, sir# OCTA+I%S CAESAR /ou take from me a great part of myself) se me well in't# 7ister, prove such a wife "s my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band 7hall pass on thy approof# Most noble "ntony, $et not the piece of virtue, which is set 5etwi4t 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 cherish'd# !AR" ANTON# Make me not offended %n your distrust# OCTA+I%S CAESAR % have said# !AR" ANTON# /ou shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause (or what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you, "nd make the hearts of &omans serve your ends. !e will here part# OCTA+I%S CAESAR (arewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well: The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort. fare thee well# OCTA+IA My noble brother. !AR" ANTON# The "pril's in her eyes: it is love's spring, "nd these the showers to bring it on# 5e cheerful# OCTA+IA 7ir, look well to my husband's house) and** OCTA+I%S CAESAR !hat, Octavia0

OCTA+IA %'ll tell you in your ear# !AR" ANTON# 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, "nd neither way inclines# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side to "'&%--"= !ill +aesar weep0 A/RIPPA <"side to 1NO5"&5 7= He has a cloud in's face# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side to "'&%--"= He were the worse for that, were he a horse) 7o is he, being a man# A/RIPPA <"side to 1NO5"&5 7= !hy, 1nobarbus, !hen "ntony found 9ulius +aesar dead, He cried almost to roaring) and he wept !hen at -hilippi he found 5rutus slain# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side to "'&%--"= That year, indeed, he was troubled with a rheum) !hat willingly he did confound he wail'd, 5elieve't, till % wept too# OCTA+I%S CAESAR No, sweet Octavia, /ou shall hear from me still) the time shall not Out*go my thinking on you# !AR" ANTON# +ome, sir, come) %'ll wrestle with you in my strength of love: $ook, here % have you) thus % let you go, "nd give you to the gods# OCTA+I%S CAESAR "dieu) be happy. LEPI$%S $et all the number of the stars give light To thy fair way. OCTA+I%S CAESAR (arewell, fa rewell. (isses O TA/IA !AR" ANTON# (arewell.

Tru%1ets sound. E'eunt

SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter LEOPATRA, HARMIAN, IRAS, and ALE)AS CLEOPATRA !here is the fellow0 ALE'AS Half afeard to come# CLEOPATRA 'o to, go to# Enter the Messen$er as &e#ore +ome hither, sir# ALE'AS 'ood ma:esty, Herod of 9ewry dare not look upon you 5ut when you are well pleased# CLEOPATRA That Herod's head %'ll have: but how, when "ntony is gone Through whom % might command it0 +ome thou near# !essen)er Most gracious ma:esty,** CLEOPATRA ,idst thou behold Octavia0 !essen)er "y, dread 2ueen# CLEOPATRA !here0 !essen)er Madam, in &ome) % look'd her in the face, and saw her led 5etween her brother and Mark "ntony# CLEOPATRA %s she as tall as me0 !essen)er 7he is not, madam# CLEOPATRA ,idst hear her speak0 is she shrill*tongued or low0 !essen)er Madam, % heard her speak) she is low*voiced# CLEOPATRA That's not so good: he cannot like her long#

C AR!IAN $ike her. O %sis. 'tis impossible# CLEOPATRA % think so, +harmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish. !hat ma:esty is in her gait0 &emember, %f e'er thou look'dst on ma:esty# !essen)er 7he creeps: Her motion and her station are as one) 7he shows a body rather than a life, " statue than a breather# CLEOPATRA %s this certain0 !essen)er Or % have no observance# C AR!IAN Three in 1gypt +annot make better note# CLEOPATRA He's very knowing) % do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet: The fellow has good :udgment# C AR!IAN 14cellent# CLEOPATRA 'uess at her years, % prithee# !essen)er Madam, 7he was a widow,** CLEOPATRA !idow. +harmian, hark# !essen)er "nd % do think she's thirty# CLEOPATRA 5ear'st thou her face in mind0 is't long or round0 !essen)er &ound even to faultiness# CLEOPATRA (or the most part, too, they are foolish that are so# Her hair, what colour0

!essen)er 5rown, madam: and her forehead "s low as she would wish it# CLEOPATRA There's gold for thee# Thou must not take my former sharpness ill: % will employ thee back again) % find thee Most fit for business: go make thee ready) Our letters are prepared# E'it Messen$er C AR!IAN " proper man# CLEOPATRA %ndeed, he is so: % repent me much That so % harried him# !hy, methinks, by him, This creature's no such thing# C AR!IAN Nothing, madam# CLEOPATRA The man hath seen some ma:esty, and should know# C AR!IAN Hath he seen ma:esty0 %sis else defend, "nd serving you so long. CLEOPATRA % have one thing more to ask him yet, good +harmian: 5ut 'tis no matter) thou shalt bring him to me !here % will write# "ll may be well enough# C AR!IAN % warrant you, madam# E'eunt

SCENE I+. At&ens. A room in !AR" ANTON#'s &o,se

Enter MAR( ANTONY and O TA/IA !AR" ANTON# Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,** That were e4cusable, that, and thousands more Of semblable import,**but he hath waged New wars 'gainst -ompey) made his will, and read it To public ear: 7poke scantly of me: when perforce he could not 5ut pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly He vented them) most narrow measure lent me:

!hen the best hint was given him, he not took't, Or did it from his teeth# OCTA+IA O my good lord, 5elieve not all) or, if you must believe, 7tomach not all# " more unhappy lady, %f this division chance, ne'er stood between, -raying for both parts: The good gods me presently, !hen % shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband.' ndo that prayer, by crying out as loud, 'O, bless my brother.' Husband win, win brother, -rays, and destroys the prayer) no midway 'Twi4t these e4tremes at all# !AR" ANTON# 'entle Octavia, $et your best love draw to that point, which seeks 5est to preserve it: if % lose mine honour, % lose myself: better % were not yours Than yours so branchless# 5ut, as you re2uested, /ourself shall go between's: the mean time, lady, %'ll raise the preparation of a war 7hall stain your brother: make your soonest haste) 7o your desires are yours# OCTA+IA Thanks to my lord# The 9ove of power make me most weak, most weak, /our reconciler. !ars 'twi4t you twain would be "s if the world should cleave, and that slain men 7hould solder up the rift# !AR" ANTON# !hen it appears to you where this begins, Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults +an never be so e2ual, that your love +an e2ually move with them# -rovide your going) +hoose your own company, and command what cost /our heart has mind to# E'eunt

SCENE +. T&e same. Anot&er room

Enter DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US and EROS, %eetin$ $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S How now, friend 1ros.

EROS There's strange news come, sir# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hat, man0 EROS +aesar and $epidus have made wars upon -ompey# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S This is old: what is the success0 EROS +aesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst -ompey, 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 -ompey) upon his own appeal, sei6es him: so the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more) "nd throw between them all the food thou hast, They'll grind the one the other# !here's "ntony0 EROS He's walking in the garden**thus) and spurns The rush that lies before him) cries, '(ool $epidus.' "nd threats the throat of that his officer That murder'd -ompey# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Our great navy's rigg'd# EROS (or %taly and +aesar# More, ,omitius) My lord desires you presently: my news % might have told hereafter# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 'Twill be naught: 5ut let it be# 5ring me to "ntony# EROS +ome, sir# E'eunt

SCENE +I. Rome. OCTA+I%S CAESAR's &o,se

Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, A,RIPPA, and ME AENAS OCTA+I%S CAESAR +ontemning &ome, he has done all this, and more, %n "le4andria: here's the manner of't: %' the market*place, on a tribunal silver'd, +leopatra and himself in chairs of gold !ere publicly enthroned: at the feet sat

+aesarion, whom they call my father's son, "nd all the unlawful issue that their lust 7ince then hath made between them# nto her He gave the stablishment of 1gypt) made her Of lower 7yria, +yprus, $ydia, "bsolute 2ueen# !ECAENAS This in the public eye0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR %' the common show*place, where they e4ercise# His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings: 'reat Media, -arthia, and "rmenia# He gave to "le4ander) to -tolemy he assign'd 7yria, +ilicia, and -hoenicia: she %n the habiliments of the goddess %sis That day appear'd) and oft before gave audience, "s 'tis reported, so# !ECAENAS $et &ome be thus %nform'd# A/RIPPA !ho, 2ueasy with his insolence "lready, will their good thoughts call from him# OCTA+I%S CAESAR The people know it) and have now received His accusations# A/RIPPA !ho does he accuse0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR +aesar: and that, having in 7icily 7e4tus -ompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me 7ome shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets That $epidus of the triumvirate 7hould be deposed) and, being, that we detain "ll his revenue# A/RIPPA 7ir, this should be answer'd# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone# % have told him, $epidus was grown too cruel) That he his high authority abused, "nd did deserve his change: for what % have con2uer'd,

% grant him part) but then, in his "rmenia, "nd other of his con2uer'd kingdoms, % ,emand the like# !ECAENAS He'll never yield to that# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Nor must not then be yielded to in this# Enter O TA/IA !ith her train OCTA+IA Hail, +aesar, and my lord. hail, most dear +aesar. OCTA+I%S CAESAR That ever % should call thee castaway. OCTA+IA /ou have not call'd me so, nor have you cause# OCTA+I%S CAESAR !hy have you stol'n upon us thus. /ou come not $ike +aesar's sister: the wife of "ntony 7hould have an army for an usher, and The neighs of horse to tell of her approach $ong ere she did appear) the trees by the way 7hould have borne men) and e4pectation fainted, $onging for what it had not) nay, the dust 7hould have ascended to the roof of heaven, &aised by your populous troops: but you are come " market*maid to &ome) and have prevented The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, %s often left unloved) we should have met you 5y sea and land) supplying every stage !ith an augmented greeting# OCTA+IA 'ood my lord, To come thus was % not constrain'd, but did On my free will# My lord, Mark "ntony, Hearing that you prepared for war, ac2uainted My grieved ear withal) whereon, % begg'd His pardon for return# OCTA+I%S CAESAR !hich soon he granted, 5eing an obstruct 'tween his lust and him# OCTA+IA ,o not say so, my lord#

OCTA+I%S CAESAR % have eyes upon him, "nd his affairs come to me on the wind# !here is he now0 OCTA+IA My lord, in "thens# OCTA+I%S CAESAR No, my most wronged sister) +leopatra Hath nodded him to her# He hath given his empire p to a whore) who now are levying The kings o' the earth for war) he hath assembled 5occhus, the king of $ibya) "rchelaus, Of +appadocia) -hiladelphos, king Of -aphlagonia) the Thracian king, "dallas) 3ing Malchus of "rabia) 3ing of -ont) Herod of 9ewry) Mithridates, king Of +omagene) -olemon and "myntas, The kings of Mede and $ycaonia, !ith a more larger list of sceptres# OCTA+IA "y me, most wretched, That have my heart parted betwi4t two friends That do afflict each other. OCTA+I%S CAESAR !elcome hither: /our letters did withhold our breaking forth) Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led, "nd we in negligent danger# +heer your heart) 5e you not troubled with the time, which drives O'er your content these strong necessities) 5ut let determined things to destiny Hold unbewail'd their way# !elcome to &ome) Nothing more dear to me# /ou are abused 5eyond the mark of thought: and the high gods, To do you :ustice, make them ministers Of us and those that love you# 5est of comfort) "nd ever welcome to us# A/RIPPA !elcome, lady# !ECAENAS !elcome, dear madam# 1ach heart in &ome does love and pity you: Only the adulterous "ntony, most large

%n his abominations, turns you off) "nd gives his potent regiment to a trull, That noises it against us# OCTA+IA %s it so, sir0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR Most certain# 7ister, welcome: pray you, 5e ever known to patience: my dear'st sister. E'eunt

SCENE +II. Near Acti,m. !AR" ANTON#'s camp

Enter LEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US CLEOPATRA % will be even with thee, doubt it not# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 5ut why, why, why0 CLEOPATRA Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars, "nd say'st it is not fit# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !ell, is it, is it0 CLEOPATRA %f not denounced against us, why should not we 5e there in person0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side= !ell, % could reply: %f we should serve with horse and mares together, The horse were merely lost) the mares would bear " soldier and his horse# CLEOPATRA !hat is't you say0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S /our presence needs must pu66le "ntony) Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time, !hat should not then be spared# He is already Traduced for levity) and 'tis said in &ome That -hotinus an eunuch and your maids Manage this war# CLEOPATRA 7ink &ome, and their tongues rot That speak against us. " charge we bear i' the war, "nd, as the president of my kingdom, will

"ppear there for a man# 7peak not against it: % will not stay behind# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Nay, % have done# Here comes the emperor# Enter MAR( ANTONY and ANIDIUS !AR" ANTON# %s it not strange, +anidius, That from Tarentum and 5rundusium He could so 2uickly cut the %onian sea, "nd take in Toryne0 /ou have heard on't, sweet0 CLEOPATRA +elerity is never more admired Than by the negligent# !AR" ANTON# " good rebuke, !hich might have well becomed the best of men, To taunt at slackness# +anidius, we !ill fight with him by sea# CLEOPATRA 5y sea. what else0 CANI$I%S !hy will my lord do so0 !AR" ANTON# (or that he dares us to't# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S 7o hath my lord dared him to single fight# CANI$I%S "y, and to wage this battle at -harsalia# !here +aesar fought with -ompey: but these offers, !hich serve not for his vantage, be shakes off) "nd so should you# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S /our ships are not well mann'd) /our mariners are muleters, reapers, people %ngross'd by swift impress) in +aesar's fleet "re those that often have 'gainst -ompey fought: Their ships are yare) yours, heavy: no disgrace 7hall fall you for refusing him at sea, 5eing prepared for land# !AR" ANTON# 5y sea, by sea#

$O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Most worthy sir, you therein throw away The absolute soldiership you have by land) ,istract your army, which doth most consist Of war*mark'd footmen) leave une4ecuted /our own renowned knowledge) 2uite forego The way which promises assurance) and 'ive up yourself merely to chance and ha6ard, (rom firm security# !AR" ANTON# %'ll fight at sea# CLEOPATRA % have si4ty sails, +aesar none better# !AR" ANTON# Our overplus of shipping will we burn) "nd, with the rest full*mann'd, from the head of "ctium 5eat the approaching +aesar# 5ut if we fail, !e then can do't at land# Enter a Messen$er Thy business0 !essen)er The news is true, my lord) he is descried) +aesar has taken Toryne# !AR" ANTON# +an he be there in person0 'tis impossible) 7trange that power should be# +anidius, Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, "nd our twelve thousand horse# !e'll to our ship: "way, my Thetis. Enter a Soldier How now, worthy soldier0 Soldier O noble emperor, do not fight by sea) Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt This sword and these my wounds0 $et the 1gyptians "nd the -hoenicians go a*ducking) we Have used to con2uer, standing on the earth, "nd fighting foot to foot# !AR" ANTON# !ell, well: away. E'eunt MAR( ANTONY, 5UEEN LEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US

Soldier 5y Hercules, % think % am i' the right# CANI$I%S 7oldier, thou art: but his whole action grows Not in the power on't: so our leader's led, "nd we are women's men# Soldier /ou keep by land The legions and the horse whole, do you not0 CANI$I%S Marcus Octavius, Marcus 9usteius, -ublicola, and +aelius, are for sea: 5ut we keep whole by land# This speed of +aesar's +arries beyond belief# Soldier !hile he was yet in &ome, His power went out in such distractions as 5eguiled all spies# CANI$I%S !ho's his lieutenant, hear you0 Soldier They say, one Taurus# CANI$I%S !ell % know the man# Enter a Messen$er !essen)er The emperor calls +anidius# CANI$I%S !ith news the time's with labour, and throes forth, 1ach minute, some# E'eunt

SCENE +III. A plain near Acti,m

Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, and TAURUS, !ith his ar%*, %ar"hin$ OCTA+I%S CAESAR Taurus. TA%R%S My lord0 OCTA+I%S CAESAR 7trike not by land) keep whole: provoke not battle, Till we have done at sea# ,o not e4ceed

The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies pon this :ump# E'eunt

SCENE I'. Anot&er part o. t&e plain

Enter MAR( ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US !AR" ANTON# 7et we our s2uadrons on yond side o' the hill, %n eye of +aesar's battle) from which place !e may the number of the ships behold, "nd so proceed accordingly# E'eunt

SCENE '. Anot&er part o. t&e plain

ANIDIUS %ar"heth !ith his land ar%* one !a* o-er the sta$e4 and TAURUS, the lieutenant o# O TA/IUS AESAR, the other !a*. A#ter their $oin$ in, is heard the noise o# a sea.#i$ht Alaru%. Enter DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Naught, naught all, naught. % can behold no longer: The "ntoniad, the 1gyptian admiral, !ith all their si4ty, fly and turn the rudder: To see't mine eyes are blasted# Enter S ARUS SCAR%S 'ods and goddesses, "ll the whole synod of them. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S !hat's thy passion. SCAR%S The greater cantle of the world is lost !ith very ignorance) we have kiss'd away 3ingdoms and provinces# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S How appears the fight0 SCAR%S On our side like the token'd pestilence, !here death is sure# /on ribaudred nag of 1gypt,** !hom leprosy o'ertake.**i' the midst o' the fight, !hen vantage like a pair of twins appear'd, 5oth as the same, or rather ours the elder,

The breese upon her, like a cow in 9une, Hoists sails and flies# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S That % beheld: Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not 1ndure a further view# SCAR%S 7he once being loof'd, The noble ruin of her magic, "ntony, +laps on his sea*wing, and, like a doting mallard, $eaving the fight in height, flies after her: % never saw an action of such shame) 14perience, manhood, honour, ne'er before ,id violate so itself# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "lack, alack. Enter ANIDIUS CANI$I%S Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, "nd sinks most lamentably# Had our general 5een what he knew himself, it had gone well: O, he has given e4ample for our flight, Most grossly, by his own. $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "y, are you thereabouts0 !hy, then, good night indeed# CANI$I%S Toward -eloponnesus are they fled# SCAR%S 'Tis easy to't) and there % will attend !hat further comes# CANI$I%S To +aesar will % render My legions and my horse: si4 kings already 7how me the way of yielding# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S %'ll yet follow The wounded chance of "ntony, though my reason 7its in the wind against me# E'eunt

SCENE 'I. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter MAR( ANTONY !ith Attendants

!AR" ANTON# Hark. the land bids me tread no more upon't) %t is ashamed to bear me. (riends, come hither: % am so lated in the world, that % Have lost my way for ever: % have a ship $aden with gold) take that, divide it) fly, "nd make your peace with +aesar# All (ly. not we# !AR" ANTON# % have fled myself) and have instructed cowards To run and show their shoulders# (riends, be gone) % have myself resolved upon a course !hich has no need of you) be gone: My treasure's in the harbour, take it# O, % follow'd that % blush to look upon: My very hairs do mutiny) for the white &eprove the brown for rashness, and they them (or fear and doting# (riends, be gone: you shall Have letters from me to some friends that will 7weep your way for you# -ray you, look not sad, Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint !hich my despair proclaims) let that be left !hich leaves itself: to the sea*side straightway: % will possess you of that ship and treasure# $eave me, % pray, a little: pray you now: Nay, do so) for, indeed, % have lost command, Therefore % pray you: %'ll see you by and by# Sits do!n Enter LEOPATRA led &* HARMIAN and IRAS4 EROS #ollo!in$ EROS Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him# IRAS ,o, most dear 2ueen# C AR!IAN ,o. why: what else0 CLEOPATRA $et me sit down# O 9uno. !AR" ANTON# No, no, no, no, no# EROS 7ee you here, sir0

!AR" ANTON# O fie, fie, fie. C AR!IAN Madam. IRAS Madam, O good empress. EROS 7ir, sir,** !AR" ANTON# /es, my lord, yes) he at -hilippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer) while % struck The lean and wrinkled +assius) and 'twas % That the mad 5rutus ended: he alone ,ealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had %n the brave s2uares of war: yet now**No matter# CLEOPATRA "h, stand by# EROS The 2ueen, my lord, the 2ueen# IRAS 'o to him, madam, speak to him: He is un2ualitied with very shame# CLEOPATRA !ell then, sustain him: O. EROS Most noble sir, arise) the 2ueen approaches: Her head's declined, and death will sei6e her, but /our comfort makes the rescue# !AR" ANTON# % have offended reputation, " most unnoble swerving# EROS 7ir, the 2ueen# !AR" ANTON# O, whither hast thou led me, 1gypt0 7ee, How % convey my shame out of thine eyes 5y looking back what % have left behind '7troy'd in dishonour# CLEOPATRA O my lord, my lord, (orgive my fearful sails. % little thought /ou would have follow'd#

!AR" ANTON# 1gypt, thou knew'st too well My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, "nd thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods +ommand me# CLEOPATRA O, my pardon. !AR" ANTON# Now % must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge "nd palter in the shifts of lowness) who !ith half the bulk o' the world play'd as % pleased, Making and marring fortunes# /ou did know How much you were my con2ueror) and that My sword, made weak by my affection, would Obey it on all cause# CLEOPATRA -ardon, pardon. !AR" ANTON# (all not a tear, % say) one of them rates "ll that is won and lost: give me a kiss) 1ven this repays me# !e sent our schoolmaster) %s he come back0 $ove, % am full of lead# 7ome wine, within there, and our viands. (ortune knows !e scorn her most when most she offers blows# E'eunt

SCENE 'II. E)ypt. OCTA+I%S CAESAR's camp

Enter O TA/IUS AESAR, DOLA+ELLA, THYREUS, !ith others OCTA+I%S CAESAR $et him appear that's come from "ntony# 3now you him0 $OLA(ELLA +aesar, 'tis his schoolmaster: "n argument that he is pluck'd, when hither He sends so poor a pinion off his wing, !hich had superfluous kings for messengers Not many moons gone by# Enter EUPHRONIUS, a%&assador #ro% MAR( ANTONY OCTA+I%S CAESAR "pproach, and speak#

E%P RONI%S 7uch as % am, % come from "ntony: % was of late as petty to his ends "s is the morn*dew on the myrtle*leaf To his grand sea# OCTA+I%S CAESAR 5e't so: declare thine office# E%P RONI%S $ord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and &e2uires to live in 1gypt: which not granted, He lessens his re2uests) and to thee sues To let him breathe between the heavens and earth, " private man in "thens: this for him# Ne4t, +leopatra does confess thy greatness) 7ubmits her to thy might) and of thee craves The circle of the -tolemies for her heirs, Now ha6arded to thy grace# OCTA+I%S CAESAR (or "ntony, % have no ears to his re2uest# The 2ueen Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she (rom 1gypt drive her all*disgraced friend, Or take his life there: this if she perform, 7he shall not sue unheard# 7o to them both# E%P RONI%S (ortune pursue thee. OCTA+I%S CAESAR 5ring him through the bands# E'it EUPHRONIUS <To TH/&1 7= (rom "ntony win +leopatra: promise, "nd in our name, what she re2uires) add more, (rom thine invention, offers: women are not %n their best fortunes strong) but want will per:ure The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus) Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we !ill answer as a law# T #RE%S +aesar, % go# OCTA+I%S CAESAR Observe how "ntony becomes his flaw, "nd what thou think'st his very action speaks %n every power that moves#

T #RE%S +aesar, % shall# E'eunt

SCENE 'III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace

Enter LEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US, HARMIAN, and IRAS CLEOPATRA !hat shall we do, 1nobarbus0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S Think, and die# CLEOPATRA %s "ntony or we in fault for this0 $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S "ntony only, that would make his will $ord of his reason# !hat though you fled (rom that great face of war, whose several ranges (righted each other0 why should he follow0 The itch of his affection should not then Have nick'd his captainship) at such a point, !hen half to half the world opposed, he being The meered 2uestion: 'twas a shame no less Than was his loss, to course your flying flags, "nd leave his navy ga6ing# CLEOPATRA -rithee, peace# Enter MAR( ANTONY !ith EUPHRONIUS, the A%&assador !AR" ANTON# %s that his answer0 E%P RONI%S "y, my lord# !AR" ANTON# The 2ueen shall then have courtesy, so she !ill yield us up# E%P RONI%S He says so# !AR" ANTON# $et her know't# To the boy +aesar send this gri66led head, "nd he will fill thy wishes to the brim !ith principalities#

CLEOPATRA That head, my lord0 !AR" ANTON# To him again: tell him he wears the rose Of youth upon him) from which the world should note 7omething particular: his coin, ships, legions, May be a coward's) whose ministers would prevail nder the service of a child as soon "s i' the command of +aesar: % dare him therefore To lay his gay comparisons apart, "nd answer me declined, sword against sword, Ourselves alone# %'ll write it: follow me# E'eunt MAR( ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side= /es, like enough, high*battled +aesar will nstate his happiness, and be staged to the show, "gainst a sworder. % see men's :udgments are " parcel of their fortunes) and things outward ,o draw the inward 2uality after them, To suffer all alike# That he should dream, 3nowing all measures, the full +aesar will "nswer his emptiness. +aesar, thou hast subdued His :udgment too# Enter an Attendant Attendant " messenger from +"17"&# CLEOPATRA !hat, no more ceremony0 7ee, my women. "gainst the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds# "dmit him, sir# E'it Attendant $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side= Mine honesty and % begin to s2uare# The loyalty well held to fools does make Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord ,oes con2uer him that did his master con2uer "nd earns a place i' the story# Enter THYREUS CLEOPATRA +aesar's will0

T #RE%S Hear it apart# CLEOPATRA None but friends: say boldly# T #RE%S 7o, haply, are they friends to "ntony# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S He needs as many, sir, as +aesar has) Or needs not us# %f +aesar please, our master !ill leap to be his friend: for us, you know, !hose he is we are, and that is, +aesar's# T #RE%S 7o# Thus then, thou most renown'd: +aesar entreats, Not to consider in what case thou stand'st, (urther than he is +aesar# CLEOPATRA 'o on: right royal# T #RE%S He knows that you embrace not "ntony "s you did love, but as you fear'd him# CLEOPATRA O. T #RE%S The scars upon your honour, therefore, he ,oes pity, as constrained blemishes, Not as deserved# CLEOPATRA He is a god, and knows !hat is most right: mine honour was not yielded, 5ut con2uer'd merely# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side= To be sure of that, % will ask "ntony# 7ir, sir, thou art so leaky, That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for Thy dearest 2uit thee# E'it T #RE%S 7hall % say to +aesar !hat you re2uire of him0 for he partly begs To be desired to give# %t 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 "ntony, "nd put yourself under his shrowd, The universal landlord# CLEOPATRA !hat's your name0 T #RE%S My name is Thyreus# CLEOPATRA Most kind messenger, 7ay to great +aesar this: in deputation % kiss his con2uering hand: tell him, % am prompt To lay my crown at's feet, and there to kneel: Tell him from his all*obeying breath % hear The doom of 1gypt# T #RE%S 'Tis your noblest course# !isdom and fortune combating together, %f that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it# 'ive me grace to lay My duty on your hand# CLEOPATRA /our +aesar's father oft, !hen he hath mused of taking kingdoms in, 5estow'd his lips on that unworthy place, "s it rain'd kisses# Re.enter MAR( ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENO+AR+US !AR" ANTON# (avours, by 9ove that thunders. !hat art thou, fellow0 T #RE%S One that but performs The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest To have command obey'd# $O!ITI%S ENO(AR(%S <"side= /ou will be whipp'd# !AR" ANTON# "pproach, there. "h, you kite. Now, gods and devils. "uthority melts from me: of late, when % cried 'Ho.' $ike boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,

"nd cry '/our will0' Have you no ears0 % am "ntony yet# Enter Attendants Take hence this 9ack, and whip him# DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp lor34"