4Nay, but this dotage of our general's

1.1.45O'er-flows the measure. Those his goodly eyes,

1.1.56That o'er the files and musters of the war

1.1.67Have glowed like plated Mars 8now bend, now turn

1.1.79The office and devotion of their view

1.1.810Upon a tawny front. His captain's heart,

1.1.911Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst

1.1.1012The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,

1.1.1113And is become the bellows and the fan

1.1.1214To cool a gypsy's lust.

To cool a gypsy's lust. 17Look where they come.

1.1.1318Take but good note, and you shall see in him

1.1.1419The triple pillar of the world transformed

1.1.1520Into a strumpet's fool. Behold and see.

If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.

Then must thou needs find out new heaven, 25new earth.

News, my good lord, from Rome.

Grates me; the sum.

Nay, hear them, Antony.

1.1.2430Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows

1.1.2531If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent

1.1.2632His powerful mandate to you: "Do this, or this;

1.1.2733Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;

1.1.2834Perform't, or else we damn thee."

How, my love?

Perchance? Nay, and most like.

1.1.3137You must not stay here longer. Your dismission

1.1.3238Is come from Caesar. Therefore hear it, Antony.

1.1.3339Where's Fulvia's process?--Caesar's, I would say. Both?

1.1.3440Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,

1.1.3541Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine

1.1.3642Is Caesar's homager; else so thy cheek pays shame

1.1.3743When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!

Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch

1.1.3945Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space.

1.1.4046Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike

1.1.4147Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life

1.1.4248Is to do thus [embracing Cleopatra], when such a mutual pair

1.1.4349And such a twain can do't--in which I bind,

1.1.4450On pain of punishment, the world to weet,

1.1.4551We stand up peerless.

We stand up peerless. Excellent falsehood!

1.1.4653Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her?

1.1.4754I'll seem the fool I am not. Antony

1.1.48Will be himself.

Will be himself. But stirred by Cleopatra.

1.1.4956Now for the love of Love and her soft hours,

1.1.5057Let's not confound the time with conference harsh.

1.1.5158There's not a minute of our lives should stretch

1.1.5259Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?

Hear the ambassadors.

Hear the ambassadors. Fie, wrangling queen

1.1.5462Whom everything becomes--to chide, to laugh,

1.1.5563To weep. How every passion fully strives

1.1.5664To make itself in thee fair and admired.

1.1.5765No messenger but thine; and all alone,

1.1.58Tonight 66we'll wander through the streets and note

1.1.5967The qualities of people. Come, my queen,

1.1.6068Last night you did desire it. [To the Messenger] Speak not to us.

Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?

Sir, sometimes when he is not Antony

1.1.6472He comes too short of that great property

1.1.6573Which still should go with Antony.

Which still should go with Antony. I am full sorry,

1.1.66That he approves the common 75liar who

1.1.67Thus speaks of him at Rome. But I will hope

1.1.6876Of better deeds tomorrow. Rest you happy.

1.1.69Exeunt.

Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, 81almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer 82that you praised so to th'queen? Oh, that I knew this 83husband which you say must change his horns with 84garlands!

Soothsayer!

[Coming towards them.] Your will?

Is this the man? [To the Soothsayer] Is't you, sir, that know things?

In Nature's infinite book of secrecy,

1.2.8A little I 89can read.

A little I can read. [To Charmian] Show him your hand.

1.2.991Enobarbus[Calling] Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough

1.2.1092Cleopatra's health to drink!

Good sir, give me good fortune.

I make not, but foresee.

Pray then, foresee me one.

You shall be yet far fairer than you are.

He means in flesh.

No, you shall paint when you are old.

Wrinkles forbid!

Vex not his prescience, be attentive.

Hush.

You shall be more beloving than beloved.

I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

Nay, hear him.

Good now, some excellent fortune. Let me 106be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow 107them all. Let me have a child at fifty to whom Herod 108of Jewry may do homage. Find me to marry me with 109Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.

You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.

Oh excellent! I love long life better than figs.

You have seen and proved a fairer former for113tune

1.2.28Than that which is to approach.

Then belike my children shall have no names. 115Prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?

If every of your wishes had a womb,

1.2.31And fer117tile every wish, a million.

Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.

You think none but your sheets are privy to 120your wishes.

Nay, come, tell Iras hers.

We'll know all our fortunes.

Mine, and most of our fortunes tonight, shall 124be drunk to bed.

[Showing her hand to the Soothsayer] There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.

E'en as the o'er-flowing Nilus presageth fa127mine.

Go, you wild bedfellow! You cannot soothsay.

Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful prog130nostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. [To Soothsayer] Prithee, tell her 131but a workaday fortune.

Your fortunes are alike.

But how, but how? Give me particulars.

I have said.

Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?

Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better 137than I, where would you choose it?

Not in my husband's nose.

Our worser thoughts Heavens mend! 140Alexas--come, his fortune, his fortune! Oh let him 141marry a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, 142and let her die too, and give him a worse, and let worse 143follow worse till the worst of all follow him laughing to 144his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold. Good Isis, hear me this 145prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight. 146Good Isis, I beseech thee.

Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the 148people. For, as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome 149man loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a 150foul knave uncuckolded. Therefore, dear Isis, keep de151corum, and fortune him accordingly.

Amen.

Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make me a 154cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but 155they'd do't.

Hush, here comes Antony.

Hush, here comes Antony. Not he--the Queen.

Saw you my lord?

Saw you my lord? No, lady.

Was he not here?

Was he not here? No, madam.

He was disposed to mirth, but on the sudden

1.2.56164A Roman thought hath struck him. 165Enobarbus?

Madam?

Seek him, and bring him hither. Where's Alexas?

Here at your service.--169My lord approaches.

We will not look upon him. 172Go with us.

Fulvia thy wife 174first came into the field.

Against my brother Lucius?

Against my brother Lucius? Ay.

1.2.65But soon that war had end, 177and the time's state

1.2.66178Made friends of them, jointing their force 'gainst Caesar,

1.2.67179Whose better issue in the war from Italy

1.2.68180Upon the first encounter drave them.

Upon the first encounter drave them. Well, what worst?

The nature of bad news infects the teller.

When it concerns the fool or coward. On.

1.2.71184Things that are past are done. With me 'tis thus:

1.2.72185Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,

1.2.73186I hear him as he flattered.

I hear him as he flattered. Labienus--this is stiff news--

1.2.74188Hath with his Parthian force 189extended Asia.

1.2.75From Euphrates his conquering 190banner shook,

1.2.76From Syria to Lydia, 191and to Ionia, whilst--

Antony, thou wouldst say.

Antony, thou wouldst say. Oh, my Lord.

Speak to me home. 195Mince not the general tongue,

1.2.79Name 196Cleopatra as she is called in Rome,

1.2.80197Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase and taunt my faults

1.2.81198With such full licence as both truth and malice

1.2.82199Have power to utter. Oh, then we bring forth weeds

1.2.83200When our quick winds lie still and our ills told us

1.2.84201Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.

At your noble pleasure.

From Sicyon how the news? Speak there.

The man from Sicyon--

The man from Sicyon-- 206Is there such an one?

He stays upon your will.

He stays upon your will. Let him appear.

1.2.92209These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,

1.2.93210Or lose my self in dotage.

Or lose my self in dotage. 212What are you?

Fulvia thy wife is dead.

Fulvia thy wife is dead. Where died she?

In Sicyon.

1.2.96Her length of sickness, 216with what else more serious

1.2.97217Importeth thee to know, [Handing him a letter] this bears.

Importeth thee to know, [Handing him a letter] this bears. Forbear me.

1.2.99219There's a great spirit gone. Thus did I desire it.

1.2.100220What our contempts doth often hurl from us,

1.2.101221We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,

1.2.102222By revolution lowering, does become

1.2.103223The opposite of itself. She's good, being gone;

1.2.104224The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.

1.2.105225I must from this enchanting queen break off.

1.2.106226Ten thousand harms more than the ills I know

1.2.107227My idleness doth hatch. 229[Calling] How now, Enobarbus!

What's your pleasure, sir?

What's your pleasure, sir? I must with haste from hence.

Why, then we kill all our women. We see how 233mortal an unkindness is to them; if they suffer our de234parture, death's the word.

I must be gone.

Under a compelling occasion, let women die. 237It were pity to cast them away for nothing, though be238tween them and a great cause they should be esteemed 239nothing. Cleopatra catching but the least noise of this, 240dies instantly. I have seen her die twenty times upon 241far poorer moment. I do think there is mettle in death, 242which commits some loving act upon her, she hath such 243a celerity in dying.

She is cunning past man's thought.

Alack, sir, no. Her passions are made of nothing 246but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds 247and waters sighs and tears: they are greater storms 248and tempests than almanacs can report. This cannot 249be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain 250as well as Jove.

Would I had never seen her.

Oh sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful 253piece of work, which not to have been blest withal 254would have discredited your travel.

Fulvia is dead.

Sir?

Fulvia is dead.

Fulvia?

Dead.

Why sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. 261When it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man 262from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth--com263forting therein, that when old robes are worn out, 264there are members to make new. If there were no more 265women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the 266case to be lamented. This grief is crowned with conso267lation: your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, 268and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water (269" />this sorrow.

The business she hath broachèd in the state

1.2.124271Cannot endure my absence.

And the business you have broached here can273not be without you, especially that of Cleopatra's, which 274wholly depends on your abode.

No more light answers. 276Let our officers

1.2.127277Have notice what we purpose. I shall break

1.2.128278The cause of our expedience to the queen,

1.2.129279And get her leave to part. For not alone

1.2.130280The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,

1.2.131281Do strongly speak to us, but the letters too

1.2.132282Of many our contriving friends in Rome

1.2.133283Petition us at home. Sextus Pompeius

1.2.134284Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands

1.2.135285The empire of the sea. Our slippery people,

1.2.136286Whose love is never linked to the deserver

1.2.137287Till his deserts are past, begin to throw

1.2.138288Pompey the Great and all his dignities

1.2.139289Upon his son, who high in name and power--

1.2.140290Higher than both in blood and life--stands up

1.2.141291For the main soldier; whose quality going on

1.2.142292The sides o'th'world may danger. Much is breeding,

1.2.143293Which like the courser's hair hath yet but life

1.2.144294And not a serpent's poison. Say our pleasure,

1.2.145295To such whose place is under us, requires

1.2.146296Our quick remove from hence.

Our quick remove from hence. I shall do't.

Where is he?

Where is he? I did not see him since.

[To Alexas] See where he is, 302who's with him, what he does;

1.3.5303I did not send you. If you find him sad,

1.3.6304Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report

1.3.7305That I am sudden sick. Quick, and return.

Madam, methinks if you did love him dearly,

1.3.10307You do not hold the method to enforce

1.3.11308The like from him.

The like from him. What should I do I do not?

In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.

Thou teachest like a fool the way to lose him.

Tempt him not so too far. I wish, forbear.

1.3.15313In time we hate that which we often fear.

1.3.17315But here comes Antony.

But here comes Antony. I am sick, and sullen.

I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose.

Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall.

1.3.20319It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature

1.3.21320Will not sustain it.

Will not sustain it. Now my dearest queen--

Pray you stand farther from me.

Pray you stand farther from me. What's the matter?

I know by that same eye there's some good news.

1.3.24325What, says the married woman you may go?

1.3.25326Would she had never giv'n you leave to come.

1.3.26327Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here.

1.3.27328I have no power upon you. Hers you are.

The gods best know--

The gods best know-- Oh never was there queen

1.3.29331So mightily betrayed; yet at the first

1.3.30332I saw the treasons planted.

I saw the treasons planted. Cleopatra.

Why should I think you can be mine, and true--

1.3.32335Though you in swearing shake the thronèd gods--

1.3.33336Who have been false to Fulvia? 337Riotous madness,

1.3.34338To be entangled with those mouth-made vows

1.3.35339Which break themselves in swearing.

Which break themselves in swearing. Most sweet queen--

Nay, pray you seek no color for your going,

1.3.37342But bid farewell and go. 343When you sued staying,

1.3.38344Then was the time for words, no going then.

1.3.39345Eternity was in our lips and eyes,

1.3.40346Bliss in our brows bent; none our parts so poor

1.3.41347But was a race of heaven. They are so still,

1.3.42348Or thou the greatest soldier of the world

1.3.43349Art turned the greatest liar.

Art turned the greatest liar. How now, lady?

I would I had thy inches, thou should'st know

1.3.45352There were a heart in Egypt.

There were a heart in Egypt. Hear me, queen:

1.3.46354The strong necessity of time commands

1.3.47355Our services awhile, but my full heart

1.3.48356Remains in use with you. Our Italy

1.3.49357Shines o'er with civil swords; Sextus Pompeius

1.3.50358Makes his approaches to the port of Rome;

1.3.51359Equality of two domestic powers

1.3.52360Breed scrupulous faction; the hated, grown to strength,

1.3.53361Are newly grown to love; the condemned Pompey,

1.3.54362Rich in his father's honor, creeps apace

1.3.55363Into the hearts of such as have not thrived

1.3.56364 Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;

1.3.57365And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge

1.3.58366By any desperate change. My more particular,

1.3.59367And that which most with you should safe my going,

1.3.60368Is Fulvia's death.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom,

1.3.62370It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die?

She's dead, my queen. [He shows her letters].

1.3.64372Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read

1.3.65373The garboils she awaked. At the last, best:

1.3.66374See when and where she died.

See when and where she died. Oh most false love!

1.3.67376Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill

1.3.68377With sorrowful water? Now I see--I see,

1.3.69378In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.

Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know

1.3.71380The purposes I bear, which are or cease

1.3.72381As you shall give th'advice. By the fire

1.3.73382That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence

1.3.74383Thy soldier-servant, making peace or war

1.3.75384As thou affects.

As thou affects. Cut my lace, Charmian, come.

1.3.76386But let it be; I am quickly ill and well,

1.3.77387So Antony loves.

So Antony loves. My precious Queen, forbear,

1.3.78389And give true evidence to his love, which stands

1.3.79390An honorable trial.

An honorable trial. So Fulvia told me.

1.3.80392I prithee, turn aside, and weep for her,

1.3.81393Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears

1.3.82394Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one scene

1.3.83395Of excellent dissembling, and let it look

1.3.84396Like perfect honor.

Like perfect honor. You'll heat my blood. No more!

You can do better yet; but this is meetly.

Now by my sword--

Now by my sword-- And target. Still he mends.

1.3.87401But this is not the best. Look, prithee Charmian,

1.3.88402How this Herculean Roman does become

1.3.89403The carriage of his chafe.

The carriage of his chafe. I'll leave you, lady.

Courteous lord, one word:

1.3.91406Sir, you and I must part--but that's not it;

1.3.92407Sir, you and I have loved--but there's not it;

1.3.93408That you know well. Something it is I would--

1.3.94409Oh, my oblivion is a very Antony,

1.3.95410And I am all forgotten.

And I am all forgotten. But that your royalty

1.3.96412Holds idleness your subject, I should take you

1.3.97413For idleness itself.

For idleness itself. 'Tis sweating labor,

1.3.98415To bear such idleness so near the heart

1.3.99416As Cleopatra this. But sir, forgive me,

1.3.100417Since my becomings kill me when they do not

1.3.101418Eye well to you. Your honor calls you hence.

1.3.102419Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly,

1.3.103420And all the gods go with you. Upon your sword

1.3.104421Sit laurel victory, and smooth success

1.3.105422Be strewed before your feet.

Be strewed before your feet. Let us go. 424Come,

1.3.106Our separation so abides and flies

1.3.107425That thou, residing here, goes yet with me;

1.3.108426And I hence fleeting here remain with thee.

1.3.109427Away.

You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,

1.4.4431It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate

1.4.5432One great competitor. From Alexandria

1.4.6433This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes

1.4.7434The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike

1.4.8435Than Cleopatra, nor the Queen of Ptolemy

1.4.9436More womanly than he; hardly gave audience

1.4.10437Or vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall

1.4.11438Find there a man who is the abstract of all faults

1.4.12439That all men follow.

That all men follow. I must not think 441there are

1.4.13Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

1.4.14442His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,

1.4.15443More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary

1.4.16444Rather than purchased; what he cannot change

1.4.17445Than what he chooses.

You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not

1.4.19447Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,

1.4.20448To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit

1.4.21449And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,

1.4.22450To reel the streets at noon and stand the buffet

1.4.23451With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him--

1.4.24452As his composure must be rare indeed

1.4.25453Whom these things cannot blemish--yet must Anthony

1.4.26454No way excuse his foils when we do bear

1.4.27455So great weight in his lightness. If he filled

1.4.28456His vacancy with his voluptuousness,

1.4.29457Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones

1.4.30458Call on him for't. But to confound such time

1.4.31459That drums him from his sport and speaks as loud

1.4.32460As his own state and ours, 'tis to be chid

1.4.33461As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge,

1.4.34462Pawn their experience to their present pleasure

1.4.35463And so rebel to judgment.

And so rebel to judgment. Here's more news.

Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,

1.4.37467Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report

1.4.38468How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea

1.4.39469And it appears he is beloved of those

1.4.40470That only have feared Caesar. To the ports

1.4.41471The discontents repair, and men's reports

1.4.42472Give him much wronged.

Give him much wronged. I should have known no less.

1.4.43474It hath been taught us from the primal state

1.4.44475That he which is was wished until he were;

1.4.45476And the ebbed man, 477ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,

1.4.46478Comes feared by being lacked. This common body,

1.4.47479Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,

1.4.48480Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide

1.4.49481To rot itself with motion.

1.4.50Enter Second Messenger.

Caesar, I bring thee word

1.4.52483Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,

1.4.53484Makes the sea serve them, which they ear and wound

1.4.54485With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads

1.4.55486They make in Italy; the borders maritime

1.4.56487Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt.

1.4.57488No vessel can peep forth but 'tis as soon

1.4.58489Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more

1.4.59490Than could his war resisted.

Than could his war resisted. Exit Second Messenger.

Than could his war resisted. Exit Second Messenger. Antony,

1.4.60492Leave thy lascivious vassals. When thou once

1.4.61493Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st

1.4.62494Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel

1.4.63495Did Famine follow, whom thou fought'st against,

1.4.64496Though daintily brought up, with patience more

1.4.65497Then savages could suffer. Thou didst drink

1.4.66498The stale of horses and the gilded puddle

1.4.67499Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign

1.4.68500The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.

1.4.69501Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,

1.4.70502The barks of trees thou browsed. On the Alps,

1.4.71503It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,

1.4.72504Which some did die to look on. And all this--

1.4.73505It wounds thine honor that I speak it now--

1.4.74506Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek

1.4.75507So much as lanked not.

So much as lanked not. 'Tis pity of him.

Let his shames quickly 510drive him to Rome.

1.4.77'Tis time we twain 511did show ourselves i'th'field;

1.4.78And to that end 512assemble we immediate counsel.

1.4.79Pompey 513thrives in our idleness.

Pompey thrives in our idleness. Tomorrow, Caesar,

1.4.80515I shall be furnished to inform you rightly

1.4.81516Both what by sea and land I can be able

1.4.82517To front this present time.

To front this present time. Till which encounter,

1.4.83It is my business too. Farewell.

It is my business too. Farewell. Farewell, my lord.

1.4.84What you shall know meantime 520of stirs abroad,

1.4.85I shall beseech you, sir, 521to let me be partaker.

Doubt not sir. I knew it for my bond.

1.4.87Exeunt [by different doors].

Charmian.

Madam?

Ha, ha. Give me to drink mandragora.

Why, madam?

That I might sleep out this great gap of time

1.5.8529My Antony is away.

My Antony is away. You think of him too much.

Oh, 'tis treason.

Oh, 'tis treason. Madam, I trust not so.

Thou eunuch, Mardian!

Thou eunuch, Mardian! What's your highness' pleasure?

Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure

1.5.12536In aught an eunuch has. 'Tis well for thee

1.5.13537That being unseminared, thy freer thoughts

1.5.14538May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?

Yes, gracious madam.

Yes, gracious madam. Indeed?

Not in deed, madam, for I can do nothing

1.5.17542But what indeed is honest to be done;

1.5.18543Yet have I fierce affections, and think

1.5.19544What Venus did with Mars.

What Venus did with Mars. Oh, Charmian,

1.5.20546Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?

1.5.21547Or does he walk? Or is he on his horse?

1.5.22548Oh, happy horse to bear the weight of Antony!

1.5.23549Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st?

1.5.24550The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm

1.5.25551And burgonet of men. He's speaking now

1.5.26552Or murmuring, "Where's my serpent of old Nile?"

1.5.27553For so he calls me. Now I feed myself

1.5.28554With most delicious poison. Think on me

1.5.29555That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,

1.5.30556And wrinkled deep in time. Broad-fronted Caesar,

1.5.31557When thou wast here above the ground, I was

1.5.32558A morsel for a monarch; and great Pompey

1.5.33559Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow.

1.5.34560There would he anchor his aspect, and die

1.5.35561With looking on his life.

Sovereign of Egypt, hail.

How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!

1.5.39565Yet coming from him, that great med'cine hath

1.5.40566With his tinct gilded thee.

1.5.41567How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?

Last thing he did, dear queen,

1.5.43569He kissed--the last of many doubled kisses--

1.5.44570This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.

Mine ear must pluck it thence.

Mine ear must pluck it thence. "Good friend," quoth he,

1.5.46573"Say the firm Roman to great Egypt sends

1.5.47574This treasure of an oyster, at whose foot,

1.5.48575To mend the petty present, I will piece

1.5.49576Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the East,

1.5.50577Say thou, shall call her mistress." So he nodded,

1.5.51578And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed

1.5.52579Who neighed so high that what I would have spoke

1.5.53580Was beastly dumbed by him.

Was beastly dumbed by him. What was he, sad or merry?

Like to the time o'th'year between the extremes

1.5.55583Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.

Oh well-divided disposition! Note him,

1.5.57585Note him, good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him.

1.5.58586He was not sad, for he would shine on those

1.5.59587That make their looks by his; he was not merry,

1.5.60588Which seemed to tell them his remembrance lay

1.5.61589In Egypt with his joy, but between both.

1.5.62590Oh heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,

1.5.63591The violence of either thee becomes,

1.5.64592So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?

Ay, madam, twenty several messengers.

1.5.66594Why do you send so thick?

Why do you send so thick? Who's born that day

1.5.67When I forget to send 596to Antony

1.5.68Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Char597mian.

1.5.69Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,

1.5.70E598ver love Caesar so?

Ever love Caesar so? Oh that brave Caesar!

Be choked with such another emphasis.

1.5.72601Say "the brave Antony."

Say "the brave Antony." The "valiant Caesar."

By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth

1.5.74604If thou with Caesar paragon again

1.5.75605My man of men.

My man of men. By your most gracious pardon,

1.5.76607I sing but after you.

I sing but after you. My salad days,

1.5.77609When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,

1.5.78610To say as I said then. But come, away,

1.5.79611Get me ink and paper;

1.5.80612He shall have every day a several greeting,

1.5.81Or I'll unpeo613ple Egypt.

1.5.82Exeunt.

2.1.2Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in 615warlike manner.

If the great gods be just, they shall assist

2.1.4617The deeds of justest men.

The deeds of justest men. Know, worthy Pompey,

2.1.5That what they do de619lay, they not deny.

Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decay's

2.1.7621The thing we sue for.

The thing we sue for. We, ignorant of ourselves,

2.1.8623Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers

2.1.9624Deny us for our good; so find we profit

2.1.10625By losing of our prayers.

By losing of our prayers. I shall do well.

2.1.11627The people love me and the sea is mine;

2.1.12628My powers are crescent and my auguring hope

2.1.13629Says it will come to'th'full. Mark Antony

2.1.14630In Egypt sits at dinner and will make

2.1.15631No wars without doors; Caesar gets money where

2.1.16632He loses hearts; Lepidus flatters both,

2.1.17633Of both is flattered: but he neither loves,

2.1.18634Nor either cares for him.

Nor either cares for him. Caesar and Lepidus are in the field,

2.1.19636A mighty strength they carry.

Where have you this? 'Tis false.

Where have you this? 'Tis false. From Silvius, sir.

He dreams. I know they are in Rome together

2.1.22640Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,

2.1.23641Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!

2.1.24642Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both;

2.1.25643Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,

2.1.26644Keep his brain fuming! Epicurean cooks,

2.1.27645Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,

2.1.28646That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor

2.1.29647Even till a Lethe'd dullness---

Even till a Lethe'd dullness--- 649How now, Varrius?

This is most certain that I shall deliver:

2.1.31651Mark Antony is every hour in Rome

2.1.32652Expected. Since he went from Egypt, 'tis

2.1.33653A space for farther travel.

A space for farther travel. I could have given less matter

2.1.34655A better ear. Menas, I did not think

2.1.35656This amorous surfeiter would have donned his helm

2.1.36657For such a petty war. His soldiership

2.1.37658Is twice the other twain. But let us rear

2.1.38659The higher our opinion, that our stirring

2.1.39660Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck

2.1.40661The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.

The ne'er lust-wearied Antony. I cannot hope

2.1.41663Caesar and Antony shall well greet together.

2.1.42664His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;

2.1.43665His brother warred upon him, although (I think)

2.1.44666Not moved by Antony.

Not moved by Antony. I know not, Menas,

2.1.45668How lesser enmities may give way to greater

2.1.46669Were't not that we stand up against them all.

2.1.47670'Twere pregnant they should square between themselves,

2.1.48671For they have entertained cause enough

2.1.49672To draw their swords; but how the fear of us

2.1.50673May cement their divisions and bind up

2.1.51674The petty difference, we yet not know.

2.1.52675Be't as our gods will have't; it only stands

2.1.53676Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.

2.1.54677Come, Menas.

Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed

2.2.4680And shall become you well to entreat your captain

2.2.5681To soft and gentle speech.

To soft and gentle speech. I shall entreat him

2.2.6683To answer like himself. If Caesar move him,

2.2.7684Let Antony look over Caesar's head

2.2.8685And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,

2.2.9686Were I the wearer of Antonio's beard,

2.2.10687I would not shave't today.

I would not shave't today. 'Tis not a time

2.2.11For private stomaching.

For private stomaching. Every time

2.2.12Serves for the matter that is then 690born in't.

But small to greater matters must give way.

Not if the small come first.

Not if the small come first. Your speech is passion.

2.2.15But pray you stir 694no embers up. Here comes

2.2.16The noble Antony.

The noble Antony. And yonder Caesar.

If we compose well here, to Parthia.

2.2.19699Hark, Ventidius.

I do not know, Maecenas; ask Agrippa.

Noble friends:

2.2.22702That which combined us was most great, and let not

2.2.23703A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,

2.2.24704May it be gently heard. When we debate

2.2.25705Our trivial difference loud, we do commit

2.2.26706Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners,

2.2.27707The rather for I earnestly beseech,

2.2.28708Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,

2.2.29709Nor curstness grow to'th'matter.

Nor curstness grow to'th'matter. 'Tis spoken well.

2.2.30711Were we before our armies, and to fight,

2.2.31712I should do thus. [Embracing Caesar]

Welcome to Rome.

Thank you.

Sit.

Sit, sir.

Nay, then.

I learn you take things ill which are not so,

2.2.40719Or, being, concern you not.

Or, being, concern you not. I must be laughed at

2.2.41If, or for nothing or a little,

2.2.42I 721should say myself offended, and with you

2.2.43722Chiefly i'th'world. More laughed at that I should

2.2.44723Once name you derogately, when to sound your name

2.2.45724It not concerned me.

My being in Egypt, Caesar, what was't to you?

No more than my residing here at Rome

2.2.48727Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there

2.2.49728Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt

2.2.50729Might be my question.

Might be my question. How intend you "practised"?

You may be pleased to catch at mine intent

2.2.52732By what did here befall me. Your wife and brother

2.2.53733Made wars upon me, and their contestation

2.2.54734Was theme for you. You were the word of war.

You do mistake your business. My brother never

2.2.56736Did urge me in his act. I did enquire it,

2.2.57737And have my learning from some true reports

2.2.58738That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather

2.2.59739Discredit my authority with yours,

2.2.60740And make the wars alike against my stomach,

2.2.61741Having alike your cause? Of this, my letters

2.2.62742Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel--

2.2.63743As matter whole you have to make it with--

2.2.64744It must not be with this.

It must not be with this. You praise yourself

2.2.65By laying defects of judge746ment to me;

2.2.66But you patched up your excuses.

But you patched up your excuses. Not so, not so:

2.2.67748I know you could not lack--I am certain on't--

2.2.68749Very necessity of this thought, that I,

2.2.69750Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,

2.2.70751Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars

2.2.71752Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,

2.2.72753I would you had her spirit in such another;

2.2.73754The third o'th'world is yours, which with a snaffle

2.2.74755You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

Would we had all such wives, that the men 757might go to wars with the women.

So much uncurbable her garboils, Caesar--

2.2.77759Made out of her impatience, which not wanted

2.2.78760Shrewdness of policy too--I grieving grant

2.2.79761Did you too much disquiet. For that you must

2.2.80762But say I could not help it.

But say I could not help it. I wrote to you,

2.2.81When rioting in Alexandria you

2.2.82764Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts

2.2.83765Did gibe my missive out of audience.

Did gibe my missive out of audience. Sir,

2.2.84He fell upon me ere admitted, then.

2.2.85767Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want

2.2.86768Of what I was i'th'morning; but next day

2.2.87769I told him of myself, which was as much

2.2.88770As to have asked him pardon. Let this fellow

2.2.89771Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,

2.2.90772Out of our question wipe him.

You have broken the article of your oath,

2.2.92774Which you shall never have tongue to charge me with.

Soft, Caesar.

Soft, Caesar. No, Lepidus, let him speak:

2.2.94777The honor is sacred which he talks on now,

2.2.95778Supposing that I lacked it. But on, Caesar:

2.2.96779The article of my oath.

To lend me arms and aid when I required 781them,

2.2.98The which you both denied.

The which you both denied. Neglected, rather;

2.2.99783And then when poisoned hours had bound me up

2.2.100784From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may

2.2.101785I'll play the penitent to you. But mine honesty

2.2.102786Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power

2.2.103787Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,

2.2.104788To have me out of Egypt, made wars here

2.2.105789For which myself, the ignorant motive, do

2.2.106790So far ask pardon as befits mine honor

2.2.107791To stoop in such a case.

To stoop in such a case. 'Tis noble spoken.

If it might please you to enforce no further

2.2.109794The griefs between ye. To forget them quite

2.2.110795Were to remember that the present need

2.2.111796Speaks to atone you.

Speaks to atone you. Worthily spoken, Maecenas.

Or if you borrow one another's love for the 799instant, you may when you hear no more words of 800Pompey return it again. You shall have time to wrangle 801in when you have nothing else to do.

Thou art a soldier only; speak no more.

That truth should be silent, I had almost for804got.

You wrong this presence, therefore speak no 806more.

Go to, then. Your considerate stone.

I do not much dislike the matter but

2.2.118809The manner of his speech. For't cannot be

2.2.119810We shall remain in friendship, our conditions

2.2.120811So diff'ring in their acts. Yet if I knew

2.2.121812What hoop should hold us staunch, from edge to edge

2.2.122813O'th'world I would pursue it.

Give me leave, Caesar.

Speak, Agrippa.

Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,

2.2.126Admired 817Octavia. Great Mark Antony

2.2.127Is now a widower.

Is now a widower. Say not so, Agrippa;

2.2.128If Cleopatra heard you, your 819proof

2.2.129Were well deserved of rashness.

I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear

2.2.131Agrippa 821further speak.

To hold you in perpetual amity,

2.2.133823To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts

2.2.134824With an unslipping knot, take Antony

2.2.135825Octavia to his wife, whose beauty claims

2.2.136826No worse a husband than the best of men,

2.2.137827Whose virtue and whose general graces speak

2.2.138828That which none else can utter. By this marriage,

2.2.139829All little jealousies which now seem great

2.2.140830And all great fears which now import their dangers

2.2.141831Would then be nothing. Truth's would be tales,

2.2.142832Where now half tales be truth's. Her love to both

2.2.143833Would each to other, and all loves to both

2.2.144834Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,

2.2.145835For 'tis a studied not a present thought,

2.2.146836By duty ruminated.

Will Caesar speak?

Not till he hears how Antony is touched

2.2.149839With what is spoke already.

What power is in Agrippa,

2.2.151841If I would say "Agrippa, be it so"

2.2.152842To make this good?

To make this good? The power of Caesar,

2.2.153844And his power unto Octavia.

And his power unto Octavia. May I never

2.2.154846To this good purpose that so fairly shows

2.2.155847Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand

2.2.156848Further this act of grace, and from this hour

2.2.157849The heart of brothers govern in our loves

2.2.158850And sway our great designs.

And sway our great designs. There's my hand.

2.2.159[Caesar and Antony shake hands.]

2.2.160852A sister I bequeath you whom no brother

2.2.161853Did ever love so dearly. Let her live

2.2.162854To join our kingdoms and our hearts, and never

2.2.163855Fly off our loves again.

Fly off our loves again. Happily, amen.

I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey,

2.2.165858For he hath laid strange courtesies and great

2.2.166859Of late upon me. I must thank him only,

2.2.167860Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;

2.2.168861At heel of that, defy him.

At heel of that, defy him. Time calls upon's.

2.2.169863Of us must Pompey presently be sought,

2.2.170864Or else he seeks out us.

Or else he seeks out us. Where lies he?

About the Mount Misena.

About the Mount Misena. What is his strength

2.2.172By land?

By land? Great and increasing, 869but by sea

2.2.173He is an absolute master.

He is an absolute master. So is the fame.

2.2.174871Would we had spoke together. Haste we for it.

2.2.175872Yet ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we

2.2.176873The business we have talked of.

The business we have talked of. With most gladness;

2.2.177875And do invite you to my sister's view,

2.2.178876Whither straight I'll lead you.

Whither straight I'll lead you. Let us, Lepidus,

2.2.179Not lack your company.

Not lack your company. Noble Antony,

2.2.180Not sickness should detain 879me.

Welcome from Egypt, sir.

Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas! My 884honorable friend Agrippa!

Good Enobarbus!

We have cause to be glad that matters are so 887well digested. You stayed well by't in Egypt.

Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance, 889and made the night light with drinking.

Eight wild boars roasted whole at a break891fast, and but twelve persons there. Is this true?

This was but as a fly by an eagle. We had much 893more monstrous matter of feast which worthily deser894ved noting.

She's a most triumphant lady, if report be 896square to her.

When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed 898up his heart upon the river of Cydnus.

There she appeared indeed, or my reporter de900vised well for her.

I will tell you:

2.2.193902The barge she sat in like a burnished throne

2.2.194903Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold,

2.2.195904Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that

2.2.196905The winds were love-sick 906with them. The oars were silver,

2.2.197907Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made

2.2.198908The water which they beat to follow faster,

2.2.199909As amorous of their strokes. For her own person--

2.2.200910It beggared all description. She did lie

2.2.201911In her pavilion, cloth of gold, of tissue,

2.2.202912O'er-picturing that Venus where we see

2.2.203913The fancy outwork nature. On each side her

2.2.204914Stood pretty dimpled boys like smiling Cupids,

2.2.205915With divers-colored fans whose wind did seem

2.2.206916To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,

2.2.207917And what they undid did.

And what they undid did. O rare for Antony!

Her gentlewomen, like the Nereïdes,

2.2.209920So many mermaids, tended her i'th'eyes,

2.2.210921And made their bends adornings. At the helm

2.2.211922A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle

2.2.212923Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands

2.2.213924That yarely frame the office. From the barge

2.2.214925A strange invisible perfume hits the sense

2.2.215926Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast

2.2.216927Her people out upon her; and Antony

2.2.217928Enthroned i'th'marketplace did sit alone,

2.2.218929Whistling to'th'air, which but for vacancy

2.2.219930Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,

2.2.220931And made a gap in nature.

And made a gap in nature. Rare Egyptian!

Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,

2.2.222934Invited her to supper. She replied

2.2.223935It should be better he became her guest,

2.2.224936Which she entreated. Our courteous Antony,

2.2.225937Whom ne'er the word of 'no' woman heard speak,

2.2.226938Being barbered ten times o'er goes to the feast;

2.2.227939And for his ordinary, pays his heart

2.2.228940For what his eyes eat only.

For what his eyes eat only. Royal wench!

2.2.229942She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed;

2.2.230943He ploughed her and she cropped.

He ploughed her and she cropped. I saw her once

2.2.231945Hop forty paces through the public street;

2.2.232946And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,

2.2.233947That she did make defect perfection,

2.2.234948And breathless power breathe forth.

Now Antony must leave her utterly.

Never. He will not.

2.2.237951Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

2.2.238952Her infinite variety; other women cloy

2.2.239953The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry

2.2.240954Where most she satisfies. For vilest things

2.2.241955Become themselves in her, that the holy priests

2.2.242956Bless her when she is riggish.

If beauty, wisdom, modesty can settle

2.2.244958The heart of Antony, Octavia is

2.2.245959A blessèd lottery to him.

A blessèd lottery to him. Let us go.

2.2.246Good Enobarbus, make yourself 961my guest

2.2.247Whilst you abide here.

Whilst you abide here. Humbly, sir, I thank you.

2.2.248Exeunt.

964The world and my great office will965sometimes

2.3.4Divide me from your bosom.

Divide me from your bosom. All which time,

2.3.5Before the Gods my knee shall 967bow my prayers

2.3.6To them for you.

To them for you. Goodnight, sir. My Octavia,

2.3.7969Read not my blemishes in the world's report.

2.3.8970I have not kept my square, but that to come

2.3.9971Shall all be done by th'rule. Good night, dear lady.

972Good night, sir.

Goodnight.

Now sirrah, you do wish yourself in Egypt?

Would I had never come from thence, nor you

2.3.16Gone977thither.

Gonethither. If you can, your reason?

Gonethither. If you can, your reason? 979SoothsayerI see

It in my motion, have it not in my tongue.

2.3.17980But yet hie you to Egypt again.

But yet hie you to Egypt again. Say to me

2.3.18Whose fortunes shall rise higher: 982Caesar's or mine?

Caesar's.

2.3.20Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side.

2.3.21984Thy daemon, that thy spirit which keeps thee, is

2.3.22985Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable,

2.3.23986Where Caesar's is not. But near him thy angel

2.3.24987Becomes afeared, as being o'er-powered. Therefore

2.3.25988Make space enough between you.

Make space enough between you. Speak this no more.

To none but thee; no more but when to thee.

2.3.27991If thou dost play with him at any game,

2.3.28992Thou art sure to lose. And of that natural luck,

2.3.29993He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Thy lustre thickens

2.3.30994When he shines by. I say again, thy spirit

2.3.31995Is all afraid to govern thee near him,

2.3.32996But he away 'tis noble.

But he away 'tis noble. Get thee gone.

2.3.33998Say to Ventidius I would speak with him.

2.3.34999He shall to Parthia.

He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,

2.3.351000He hath spoken true. The very dice obey him,

2.3.361001And in our sports my better cunning faints

2.3.371002Under his chance. If we draw lots he speeds;

2.3.381003His cocks do win the battle still of mine,

2.3.391004When it is all to naught; and his quails ever

2.3.401005Beat mine, inhooped, at odds. I will to Egypt;

2.3.411006And though I make this marriage for my peace,

2.3.421007I'th'East my pleasure lies.

I'th'East my pleasure lies. Oh, come Ventidius.

2.3.431009You must to Parthia. Your commission's ready.

2.3.441010Follow me, and receive't.

2.3.45Exeunt.

Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you 1013hasten

2.4.4Your generals after.

Your generals after. Sir, Mark Antony

2.4.5Will e'en but kiss Octavia, 1015and we'll follow.

Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,

2.4.71017Which will become you both, farewell.

Which will become you both, farewell. We shall,

2.4.8As I conceive the journey, be at the 1019Mount

2.4.9Before you, Lepidus.

Before you, Lepidus. Your way is shorter:

2.4.10My purposes do draw me 1021much about.

2.4.11You'll win two days upon me.

You'll win two days upon me. Sir, good success.

Farewell.

Give me some music, music, moody food

2.5.41026Of us that trade in love.

Of us that trade in love. The music, ho!

Let it alone, let's to billiards. Come, Charmian.

My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.

As well a woman with an eunuch played,

2.5.9As 1032with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?

As well as I can, madam.

And when good will is showed, 1035though't come too short

2.5.121036The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now.

2.5.131037Give me mine angle, we'll to'th'river: there,

2.5.141038My music playing far off, I will betray

2.5.151039Tawny fine fishes; my bended hook shall pierce

2.5.161040Their slimy jaws, and as I draw them up,

2.5.171041I'll think them every one an Antony,

2.5.181042And say "ah ha! y'are caught!"

And say "ah ha! y'are caught!" 'Twas merry when

2.5.19You wagered on your ang1044ling, when your diver

2.5.20Did hang a salt fish on his hook, 1045which he

2.5.21With fervency drew up.

With fervency drew up. That time? Oh times!

2.5.221047I laughed him out of patience, and that night

2.5.231048I laughed him into patience, and next morn,

2.5.241049Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;

2.5.251050Then put my 'tires and mantles on him whilst

2.5.261051I wore his sword Phillipan.

I wore his sword Phillipan. Oh, from Italy!

2.5.271053Ram thou the fruitful tidings in mine ears

2.5.281054That long time have been barren.

That long time have been barren. Madam, madam--

Antonio's dead. 1057If thou say so, villain,

2.5.30Thou kill'st thy mistress. 1058But well and free,

2.5.31If thou so yield him, 1059there is gold, and here

2.5.321060My bluest veins to kiss, a hand that kings

2.5.331061Have lipped, and trembled kissing.

Have lipped, and trembled kissing. First, madam, he is well.

Why, there's more gold. 1064But sirrah, mark, we use

2.5.351065To say the dead are well. Bring it to that,

2.5.361066The gold I give thee will I melt and pour

2.5.371067Down thy ill-uttering throat.

Down thy ill-uttering throat. Good madam, hear me.

Well, go to, I will.

2.5.391070But there's no goodness in thy face if Antony

2.5.401071Be free and healthful--so tart a favor

2.5.411072To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,

2.5.421073Thou shouldst come like a Fury crowned with snakes,

2.5.431074Not like a formal man.

Not like a formal man. Wilt please you hear me?

I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:

2.5.451077Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well;

2.5.461078Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,

2.5.471079I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail

2.5.481080Rich pearls upon thee.

Rich pearls upon thee. Madam, he's well.

Rich pearls upon thee. Madam, he's well. Well said.

And friends with Caesar.

And friends with Caesar. Th'art an honest man.

Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.

Make thee a fortune from me.

Make thee a fortune from me. But yet, madam--

I do not like "but yet"; it does allay

2.5.531089The good precedence. Fie upon "but yet'"!

2.5.541090"But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth

2.5.551091Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,

2.5.561092Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,

2.5.571093The good and bad together. He's friends with Caesar,

2.5.581094In state of health, thou say'st, and, thou say'st, free.

Free, madam, no. I made no such report.

2.5.601096He's bound unto Octavia.

He's bound unto Octavia. For what good turn?

For the best turn i'th'bed.

For the best turn i'th'bed. I am pale, Charmian.

Madam, he's married to Octavia.

The most infectious pestilence upon thee!

Good madam, patience!

Good madam, patience! What say you?

Good madam, patience! What say you? 1105Hence,

2.5.66Horrible villain, or I'll spurn thine eyes

2.5.671106Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head,

2.5.691108Thou shalt be whipped with wire, and stewed in brine,

2.5.701109Smarting in ling'ring pickle.

Smarting in ling'ring pickle. Gracious madam,

2.5.711111I that do bring the news made not the match.

Say 'tis not so. A province I will give thee,

2.5.731113And make thy fortunes proud. The blow thou had'st

2.5.741114Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage,

2.5.751115And I will boot thee with what gift beside

2.5.761116Thy modesty can beg.

Thy modesty can beg. He's married, madam.

Rogue, thou hast lived too long.

Rogue, thou hast lived too long. Nay then, I'll run! [He starts to run away].

2.5.781120What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.

Good madam, keep yourself within yourself.

2.5.811122The man is innocent.

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

2.5.831124Melt Egypt into Nile! And kindly creatures

2.5.841125Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again.

2.5.851126Though I am mad, I will not bite him. Call!

He is afeared to come.

He is afeared to come. I will not hurt him. [Exit Charmian].

2.5.871129These hands do lack nobility, that they strike

2.5.881130A meaner than myself, since I myself

2.5.891131Have given myself the cause. 1132

Have given myself the cause. Come hither, sir.

2.5.901133Though it be honest, it is never good

2.5.911134To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message

2.5.921135An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell

2.5.931136Themselves, when they be felt.

I have done my duty.

I have done my duty. Is he married?

2.5.951139I cannot hate thee worser than I do,

2.5.961140If thou again say yes.

If thou again say yes. He's married, madam.

The Gods confound thee, 1143dost thou hold there still?

Should I lie, madam?

Should I lie, madam? Oh, I would thou didst,

2.5.991146So half my Egypt were submerged and made

2.5.1001147A cistern for scaled snakes. Go, get thee hence.

2.5.1011148Had'st thou Narcissus in thy face, to me

2.5.1021149Thou would'st appear most ugly. He is married?

I crave your highness' pardon.

I crave your highness' pardon. He is married?

Take no offence, that I would not offend you.

2.5.1051153To punish me for what you make me do

2.5.1061154Seems much unequal. He's married to Octavia.

Oh, that his fault should make a knave of thee,

2.5.1081156That act not what th'art sure of. Get thee hence.

2.5.1091157The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome

2.5.1101158Are all too dear for me. 1159Lie they upon thy hand

2.5.111And be undone by 'em.

And be undone by 'em. Good your highness, patience.

In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.

Many times, madam.

I am paid for't now. Lead me from hence--

2.5.1151164I faint--oh Iras, Charmian! 'Tis no matter.

2.5.1161165Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him

2.5.1171166Report the feature of Octavia. Her years,

2.5.1181167Her inclination--let him not leave out

2.5.1191168The color of her hair. Bring me word quickly.

2.5.1211169Let him for ever go. Let him not, Charmian!

2.5.1221170Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,

2.5.1231171The other way's a Mars. [To Mardian] Bid you Alexas

2.5.1241172Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,

2.5.1251173But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.

Your hostages I have, so have you mine;

2.6.41179And we shall talk before we fight.

And we shall talk before we fight. Most meet

2.6.5That first we come to words; 1181and therefore have we

2.6.61182Our written purposes before us sent,

2.6.71183Which if thou hast considered, let us know

2.6.81184If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword

2.6.91185And carry back to Sicily much tall youth,

2.6.101186That else must perish here.

That else must perish here. To you, all three,

2.6.111188The senators alone of this great world,

2.6.121189Chief factors for the gods: I do not know

2.6.131190Wherefore my father should revengers want,

2.6.141191Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar

2.6.151192Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted

2.6.161193There saw you laboring for him. What was't

2.6.171194That moved pale Cassius to conspire? And what

2.6.181195Made all-honored, honest, Roman Brutus,

2.6.191196With the armed rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,

2.6.201197To drench the Capitol, but that they would

2.6.211198Have one man but a man? And that is it

2.6.221199Hath made me rig my navy at whose burden

2.6.231200The angered ocean foams, with which I meant

2.6.241201To scourge th'ingratitude that despiteful Rome

2.6.251202Cast on my noble father.

Cast on my noble father. Take your time.

Thou can'st not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails.

2.6.271205We'll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know'st

2.6.281206How much we do o'er-count thee.

How much we do o'er-count thee. At land indeed

2.6.291208Thou dost o'ercount me of my father's house;

2.6.301209But since the cuckoo builds not for himself,

2.6.311210Remain in't as thou mayst.

Remain in't as thou mayst. Be pleased to tell us--

2.6.321212For this is from the present--how you take

2.6.331213The offers we have sent you.

The offers we have sent you. There's the point.

Which do not be entreated to, 1216but weigh

2.6.35What it is worth embraced.

What it is worth embraced. And what may follow

2.6.36To try a larger fortune.

To try a larger fortune. You have made me offer

2.6.371219Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must

2.6.381220Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send

2.6.391221Measures of wheat to Rome. This 'greed upon,

2.6.401222To part with unhacked edges and bear back

2.6.411223Our targes undinted.

Our targes undinted. That's our offer.

Our targes undinted. That's our offer. Know then,

2.6.42I came before you here 1226a man prepared

2.6.431227To take this offer. But Mark Antony

2.6.441228Put me to some impatience. Though I lose

2.6.451229The praise of it by telling, you must know,

2.6.461230When Caesar and your brother were at blows,

2.6.471231Your mother came to Sicily and did find

2.6.481232Her welcome friendly.

Her welcome friendly. I have heard it, Pompey,

2.6.491234And am well studied for a liberal thanks

2.6.501235Which I do owe you.

Which I do owe you. Let me have your hand.

2.6.521237I did not think, sir, to have met you here.

The beds i'th'East are soft; and thanks to you,

2.6.541239That called me timelier than my purpose hither,

2.6.551240For I have gained by't.

For I have gained by't. Since I saw you last,

2.6.56There's a change upon you.

There's a change upon you. Well, I know not

2.6.571243What counts harsh Fortune casts upon my face,

2.6.581244But in my bosom shall she never come

2.6.591245To make my heart her vassal.

To make my heart her vassal. Well met, here.

I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed.

2.6.611248I crave our composition may be written

2.6.621249And sealed between us.

And sealed between us. That's the next to do.

We'll feast each other, ere we part; and let's

2.6.641252Draw lots who shall begin.

Draw lots who shall begin. That will I, Pompey.

No, Antony, take the lot. But first or last,

2.6.661255Your fine Egyptian cookery shall have

2.6.67The fame. I have heard 1256that Julius Caesar

2.6.68Grew fat with feasting there.

Grew fat with feasting there. You have heard much.

I have fair meanings, sir.

I have fair meanings, sir. And fair words to them.

Then so much have I heard.

2.6.711261And I have heard Apollodorus carried--

No more of that. He did so.

No more of that. He did so. What, I pray you?

A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.

I know thee now. How far'st thou, soldier?

Well,

2.6.76And well am like to do, for I perceive

2.6.771267Four feasts are toward.

Four feasts are toward. Let me shake thy hand.

2.6.781269I never hated thee; I have seen thee fight,

2.6.791270When I have envied thy behavior.

When I have envied thy behavior. Sir,

2.6.80I never loved you much, but I ha' praised ye

2.6.811272When you have well deserved ten times as much

2.6.821273As I have said you did.

As I have said you did. Enjoy thy plainness,

2.6.831275It nothing ill becomes thee.

2.6.841276Aboard my galley, I invite you all.

2.6.851277Will you lead, lords?

Will you lead, lords? Show's the way, sir.

Will you lead, lords? Show's the way, sir. Come.

2.6.86Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas.

2.6.871280Menas[Aside]

2.6.88Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this 1281treaty.

2.6.89[To Enobarbus] You and I have known, sir.

At sea, I think.

We have, sir.

You have done well by water.

And you by land.

I will praise any man that will praise me, though 1287it cannot be denied what I have done by land.

Nor what I have done by water.

Yes, something you can deny for your own 1290safety: you have been a great thief by sea.

And you by land.

There I deny my land service. But give me 1293your hand, Menas; if our eyes had authority, here they 1294might take two thieves kissing.

All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands 1296are.

But there is never a fair woman has a true 1298face.

No slander: they steal hearts.

We came hither to fight with you.

For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drink1302ing. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.

If he do, sure he cannot weep't back again.

You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark An1305tony here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?

Caesar's sister is called Octavia.

True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus.

But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

Pray ye, sir?

'Tis true.

Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.

If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would 1313not prophesy so.

I think the policy of that purpose made more 1315in the marriage than the love of the parties.

I think so too. But you shall find the band 1317that seems to tie their friendship together will be the 1318very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, 1319and still conversation.

Who would not have his wife so?

Not he that himself is not so, which is Mark 1322Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again. Then shall 1323the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as I 1324said before, that which is the strength of their amity, 1325shall prove the immediate author of their variance. An1326tony will use his affection where it is. He married but 1327his occasion here.

And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? 1329I have a health for you.

I shall take it, sir; we have used our throats in 1331Egypt.

Come, let's away.

Here they'll be, man. Some o'their plants are ill-1336rooted already. The least wind i'th'world will blow them 1337down.

Lepidus is high-colored.

They have made him drink alms-drink.

As they pinch one another by the disposition, he 1341cries out "No more", reconciles them to his entreaty and 1342himself to'th'drink.

But it raises the greatest war between him and his 1344discretion.

Why, this it is to have a name in great men's fel1346lowship. I had as lief have a reed that will do me no 1347service as a partisan I could not heave.

To be called into a huge sphere and not to be seen 1349to move in't are the holes where eyes should be, which 1350pitifully disaster the cheeks.

Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o'th'Nile

2.7.141355By certain scales i'th'pyramid; they know

2.7.151356By th'height, the lowness, or the mean if dearth

2.7.161357Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells,

2.7.171358The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman

2.7.181359Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,

2.7.191360And shortly comes to harvest.

You've strange serpents there?

You've strange serpents there? Ay, Lepidus.

Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud 1364by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile.

They are so.

Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus! [They drink.]

I am not so well as I should be, 1368but I'll ne'er out.

Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in 1370till then.

Nay certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies' pyra1372mises are very goodly things. Without contradiction I 1373have heard that.

[Aside to Pompey] Pompey, a word.

[Aside to Pompey] Pompey, a word. [Aside to Menas] Say in mine ear what is't.

[Aside to Pompey] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain,

2.7.291377And hear me speak a word.

And hear me speak a word. [Aside to Menas] Forbear me till anon.

2.7.30[Aloud]1379 This wine for Lepidus.

What manner o'thing is your crocodile?

It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it 1382hath breadth; it is just so high as it is, and moves with it 1383own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and 1384the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.

What color is it of?

Of it own color too.

'Tis a strange serpent.

'Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.

[To Antony] Will this description satisfy him?

[To Caesar] With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is 1391a very epicure.

[Aside to Menas] Go hang sir, hang! Tell me of that? Away!

2.7.411393Do as I bid you! [Aloud] Where's this cup I called for?

2.7.421394Menas [Aside to Pompey]

2.7.43If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me,

2.7.441395Rise from thy stool.

Rise from thy stool. 1396Pompey [Aside to Menas]

2.7.45I think th'art mad.

I think th'art mad. The matter?

I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.

Thou hast served me with much faith. What's 1399else to say?

2.7.48[Aloud] Be jolly, lords.

These quicksands, Lepidus, 1401Keep off them, for you sink.

Wilt thou be lord of all the world?

Wilt thou be lord of all the world? What say'st thou?

Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? 1405That's twice.

How should that be?

How should that be? But entertain it,

2.7.54And though thou think me 1408poor, I am the man

2.7.55Will give thee all the world.

Will give thee all the world. Hast thou drunk well?

No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.

2.7.571411Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove:

2.7.581412Whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips

2.7.591413Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.

Is thine, if thou wilt ha't. Show me which way.

These three world-sharers, these competitors

2.7.611416Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable,

2.7.621417And when we are put off, fall to their throats.

2.7.631418All there is thine.

All there is thine. Ah, this thou shouldst have done

2.7.641420And not have spoke on't. In me, 'tis villainy;

2.7.651421In thee't had been good service. Thou must know

2.7.661422'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honor;

2.7.671423Mine honor, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue

2.7.681424Hath so betrayed thine act. Being done unknown,

2.7.691425I should have found it afterwards well done,

2.7.701426But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.

2.7.721427Menas[Aside]

2.7.73For this, I'll never follow 1428thy palled fortunes more.

2.7.741429Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offered

2.7.751430Shall never find it more.

Shall never find it more. This health to Lepidus.

[To a servant] Bear him ashore.

2.7.771433I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.

Here's to thee, Menas!

Here's to thee, Menas! Enobarbus, welcome.

Fill till the cup be hid.

[Pointing to the servant carrying off Lepidus] There's a strong fellow, Menas.

[Pointing to the servant carrying off Lepidus] There's a strong fellow, Menas. Why?

A bears the third part of the world, man, seest 1440not?

The third part, then, he is drunk. Would it were 1442all,

2.7.83That it might go on wheels.

That it might go on wheels. Drink thou, increase the reels.

Come.

Come. This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.

It ripens towards it; strike the vessels, ho!

2.7.861447Here's to Caesar!

Here's to Caesar! I could well forbear't:

2.7.87It's monstrous labor 1449when I wash my brain

2.7.88And it grow fouler.

And it grow fouler. Be a child o'th'time.

Possess it, I'll make answer;

2.7.90But I had rather 1452fast from all, four days,

2.7.91Than drink so much in one.

Than drink so much in one. [To Antony] Ha, my brave emperor,

2.7.92Shall we dance now 1454the Egyptian Bacchanals,

2.7.93And celebrate our drink?

And celebrate our drink? Let's ha't, good soldier!

Come, let's all take hands,

2.7.951457Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense

2.7.961458In soft and delicate Lethe.

In soft and delicate Lethe. All take hands!

2.7.971460Make battery to our ears with the loud music.

2.7.981461The while I'll place you, then the boy shall sing.

2.7.991462The holding every man shall beat as loud

2.7.1001463As his strong sides can volley.

2.7.1031465The Song.

2.7.1051466Come thou monarch of the vine,

2.7.1061467Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

2.7.1071468In thy vats our cares be drowned,

2.7.1081469With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.

1470Cup us till the world go round,

2.7.1101471Cup us till the world go round!

What would you more? 1473Pompey, goodnight. Good brother,

2.7.1121474Let me request you off: our graver business

2.7.1131475Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part.

2.7.1141476You see we have burnt our cheeks. Strong Enobarb

2.7.1151477Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue

2.7.1161478Splits what it speaks. The wild disguise hath almost

2.7.1171479Anticked us all. What needs more words? Goodnight.

2.7.1181480Good Antony, your hand.

Good Antony, your hand. I'll try you on the shore.

And shall, sir. Give's your hand.

And shall, sir. Give's your hand. Oh, Antony,

2.7.120You have my father's house. 1484But what--we are friends!

2.7.1211485Come down into the boat.

Come down into the boat. Take heed you fall not.

2.7.122Menas, I'll not on shore.

Menas, I'll not on shore. 1487No, to my cabin; these drums,

2.7.1231488These trumpets, flutes--what,

2.7.1241489Let Neptune hear, we bid a loud farewell

2.7.1251490To these great fellows. Sound and be hanged, sound out!

Hoo, says a! There's my cap!

Hoa! Noble captain, come.

Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck, and now

3.1.41497Pleased Fortune does of Marcus Crassus's death

3.1.51498Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body

3.1.61499Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,

3.1.71500Pays this for Marcus Crassus.

Pays this for Marcus Crassus. Noble Ventidius,

3.1.81502Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,

3.1.91503The fugitive Parthians follow. Spur through Media,

3.1.101504Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither

3.1.111505The routed fly. So thy grand captain Antony

3.1.121506Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and

3.1.131507Put garlands on thy head.

Put garlands on thy head. Oh Silius, Silius,

3.1.141509I have done enough. A lower place, note well,

3.1.151510May make too great an act. For learn this, Silius:

3.1.161511Better to leave undone than by our deed

3.1.171512Acquire too high a fame, when him we serve's away.

3.1.181513Caesar and Antony have ever won

3.1.191514More in their officer than person. Sossius--

3.1.201515One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant--

3.1.211516For quick accumulation of renown

3.1.221517Which he achieved by th'minute, lost his favor.

3.1.231518Who does i'th'wars more than his captain can

3.1.241519Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition,

3.1.251520The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss

3.1.261521Than gain which darkens him.

3.1.271522I could do more to do Antonius good,

3.1.281523But 'twould offend him, and in his offence

3.1.291524Should my performance perish.

Should my performance perish. Thou hast, Ventidius,

3.1.30That without the which a 1526soldier and his sword

3.1.31Grants scarce distinction. Thou 1527wilt write to Antony?

I'll humbly signify what in his name,

3.1.331529That magical word of war, we have effected:

3.1.341530How with his banners and his well-paid ranks

3.1.351531The ne'er-yet beaten horse of Parthia

3.1.361532We have jaded out o'th'field.

We have jaded out o'th'field. Where is he now?

He purposeth to Athens, whither, with what haste

3.1.381535The weight we must convey with's will permit,

3.1.391536We shall appear before him.--On there, pass along!

What, are the brothers parted?

They have dispatched with Pompey: he is gone,

3.2.51541The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps

3.2.61542To part from Rome; Caesar is sad, and Lepidus

3.2.71543Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled

3.2.81544With the green-sickness.

With the green-sickness. 'Tis a noble Lepidus.

A very fine one. Oh, how he loves Caesar!

Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!

Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.

What's Antony--the God of Jupiter?

Spake you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil?

Oh Antony, oh thou Arabian bird!

Would you praise Caesar? Say "Caesar," go no further.

Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.

But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony.

3.2.181555Hoo! hearts, tongues, figures, 1556scribes, bards, poets cannot

3.2.191557Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number--hoo!--

3.2.201558His love to Antony; but as for Caesar,

3.2.211559Kneel down, kneel down and wonder.

Kneel down, kneel down and wonder. Both he loves.

They are his shards and he their beetle.

They are his shards and he their beetle. So,

3.2.231562This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.

Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell.

No further, sir.

You take from me a great part of myself;

3.2.281567Use me well in't. Sister, prove such a wife

3.2.291568As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond

3.2.301569Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,

3.2.311570Let not the piece of virtue which is set

3.2.321571Betwixt us as the cement of our love

3.2.331572To keep it builded, be the ram to batter

3.2.341573The fortress of it; for better might we

3.2.351574Have loved without this mean, if on both parts

3.2.361575This be not cherished.

This be not cherished. Make me not offended

3.2.37In your distrust.

In your distrust. I have said.

In your distrust. I have said. You shall not find,

3.2.381579Though you be therein curious, the least cause

3.2.391580For what you seem to fear. So the gods keep you,

3.2.401581And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends.

3.2.411582We will here part.

Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well.

3.2.431584The elements be kind to thee, and make

3.2.441585Thy spirits all of comfort. Fare thee well.

[Weeping] My noble brother!

The April's in her eyes; it is love's spring,

3.2.471588And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.

Sir, look well to my husband's house, and--

What, Octavia?

What, Octavia? I'll tell you in your ear.

Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can

3.2.521593Her heart inform her tongue--1594the swan's-down feather

3.2.531595That stands upon the swell at the full of tide,

3.2.541596And neither way inclines.

[Aside to Agrippa] Will Caesar weep?

[Aside to Agrippa] Will Caesar weep? [Aside to Enobarbus] He has a cloud in's face.

[Aside to Agrippa] He were the worse for that were he a horse,

3.2.571600So is he being a man.

So is he being a man. [Aside to Enobarbus] Why, Enobarbus,

3.2.581602When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,

3.2.591603He cried almost to roaring; and he wept

3.2.601604When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.

[Aside to Agrippa] That year, indeed, he was troubled with a rheum;

3.2.621606What willingly he did confound, he wailed,

3.2.631607Believe't, till I weep too.

No, sweet Octavia,

3.2.651609You shall hear from me still; the time shall not

3.2.661610Out-go my thinking on you.

Out-go my thinking on you. Come, sir, come,

3.2.671612I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.

3.2.681613Look, here I have you [embracing Caesar]; thus I let you go,

3.2.691614And give you to the gods.

And give you to the gods. Adieu, be happy.

Let all the number of the stars give light

3.2.711617To thy fair way.

To thy fair way. Farewell, farewell.

To thy fair way. Farewell, farewell. Farewell.

Where is the fellow?

Where is the fellow? Half afeared to come.

Go to, go to.

3.3.6Come hither, sir.

Come hither, sir. Good majesty,

3.3.7Herod of Jewry dare not look 1626upon you,

3.3.8But when you are well pleased.

But when you are well pleased. That Herod's head,

3.3.9I'll have. But how, when 1628Antony is gone

3.3.10Through whom I might command it?

Through whom I might command it? 1629[To the Messenger] Come thou near.

Most gracious majesty.

Most gracious majesty. Didst thou behold Octavia?

Ay, dread Queen.

Ay, dread Queen. Where?

Ay, dread Queen. Where? Madam, in Rome

3.3.13I looked her in the face, and 1635saw her led

3.3.14Between her brother and Mark Antony.

Is she as tall as me?

Is she as tall as me? She is not, madam.

Didst hear her speak? 1639Is she shrill-tongued or low?

Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.

That's not so good. He cannot like her long.

Like her? Oh, Isis, 'tis impossible!

I think so, Charmian. Dull of tongue, and dwarfish;

3.3.211644What majesty is in her gait? Remember,

3.3.221645If e'er thou look'st on majesty.

If e'er thou look'st on majesty. She creeps:

3.3.23Her motion and her station are as one.

3.3.241647She shows a body rather than a life,

3.3.251648A statue than a breather.

A statue than a breather. Is this certain?

Or I have no observance.

Or I have no observance. Three in Egypt

3.3.27Cannot make better note.

Cannot make better note. He's very knowing,

3.3.28I do perceive't. 1653There's nothing in her yet.

3.3.291654The fellow has good judgment.

The fellow has good judgment. Excellent.

[To the Messenger] Guess at her years, I prithee.

[To the Messenger] Guess at her years, I prithee. Madam,

3.3.31she was a widow.

she was a widow. Widow? Charmian, hark.

And I do think she's thirty.

Bear'st thou her face in mind? Is't long or round?

Round, even to faultiness.

For the most part, too, they are foolish that are 1663so.

3.3.36Her hair, what color?

Her hair, what color? Brown, madam; and her forehead

3.3.371665As low as she would wish it.

As low as she would wish it. There's gold for thee.

3.3.381667Thou must not take my former sharpness ill.

3.3.391668I will employ thee back again. I find thee

3.3.401669Most fit for business. Go, make thee ready,

3.3.411670Our letters are prepared.

Our letters are prepared. A proper man.

Indeed he is so. I repent me much

3.3.431673That so I harried him. Why, methinks by him,

3.3.441674This creature's no such thing.

This creature's no such thing. Nothing, madam.

The man hath seen some majesty, and should 1677know.

Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,

3.3.47And 1679serving you so long.

I have one thing more to ask him yet, good 1681Charmian.

3.3.49But 'tis no matter, thou shalt bring him to me

3.3.501682Where I will write. All may be well enough.

I warrant you, madam.

Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that--

3.4.41686That were excusable, that and thousands more

3.4.51687Of semblable import--but he hath waged

3.4.61688New wars 'gainst Pompey, made his will and read it

3.4.71689To public ear, spoke scantly of me!

3.4.81690When perforce he could not

3.4.91691But pay me terms of honor, cold and sickly

3.4.101692He vented then, most narrow measure lent me;

3.4.111693When the best hint was given him, he not look't,

3.4.121694Or did it from his teeth.

Or did it from his teeth. Oh my good lord,

3.4.131696Believe not all, or if you must believe,

3.4.141697Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,

3.4.151698If this division chance, ne'er stood between

3.4.161699Praying for both parts.

3.4.171700The good gods will mock me presently

3.4.181701When I shall pray "Oh bless my lord and husband,"

3.4.191702Undo that prayer by crying out as loud

3.4.201703"Oh bless my brother." Husband win, win brother,

3.4.211704Prays and destroys the prayer; no midway

3.4.221705'Twixt these extremes at all.

'Twixt these extremes at all. Gentle Octavia,

3.4.231707Let your best love draw to that point which seeks

3.4.241708Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honor

3.4.251709I lose myself; better I were not yours

3.4.261710Than yours so branchless. But as you requested,

3.4.271711Yourself shall go between's. The meantime, lady,

3.4.281712I'll raise the preparation of a war

3.4.291713Shall stain your brother. Make your soonest haste;

3.4.301714So your desires are yours.

So your desires are yours. Thanks to my lord.

3.4.311716The Jove of power make me, most weak, most weak

3.4.321717Your reconciler. Wars 'twixt you twain would be

3.4.331718As if the world should cleave, and that slain men

3.4.341719Should solder up the rift.

When it appears to you where this begins,

3.4.361721Turn your displeasure that way, for our faults

3.4.371722Can never be so equal that your love

3.4.381723Can equally move with them. Provide your going;

3.4.391724Choose your own company, and command what cost

3.4.401725Your heart has mind to.

How now, friend Eros?

There's strange news come, sir.

What, man?

Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.

This is old. What is the success?

Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 1733'gainst Pompey, presently denied him rivality, would not 1734let him partake in the glory of the action; and, not resting 1735here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey; 1736upon his own appeal seizes him. So the poor 1737third is up, till death enlarge his confine.

Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;

3.5.101739And throw between them all the food thou hast,

3.5.111740They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?

He's walking in the garden, thus, [imitating Antony] and spurns

3.5.131742The rush that lies before him. Cries "Fool, Lepidus!",

3.5.141743And threats the throat of that his officer

3.5.151744That murdered Pompey.

That murdered Pompey. Our great navy's rigged.

For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius:

3.5.171747My Lord desires you presently. My news

3.5.181748I might have told hereafter.

I might have told hereafter. 'Twill be naught--

3.5.19But let it be. Bring me to Antony.

But let it be. Bring me to Antony. Come, sir.

Contemning Rome, he's done all this and more

3.6.41753In Alexandria. Here's the manner of't:

3.6.51754I'th'market-place, on a tribunal silvered,

3.6.61755Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold

3.6.71756Were publicly enthroned; at the feet sat

3.6.81757Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,

3.6.91758And all the unlawful issue that their lust

3.6.101759Since then hath made between them. Unto her

3.6.111760He gave the stablishment of Egypt, made her

3.6.121761Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,

3.6.13Absolute queen.

Absolute queen. This in the public eye?

I'th'common showplace where they exercise.

3.6.151764His sons hither proclaimed the kings of kings,

3.6.161765Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia

3.6.171766He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assigned

3.6.181767Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia. She

3.6.191768In th'habiliments of the goddess Isis,

3.6.201769That day appeared, and oft before gave audience--

3.6.211770As 'tis reported--so.

As 'tis reported--so. Let Rome be thus informed.

Who, queasy with his insolence already,

3.6.231773Will their good thoughts call from him.

The people knows it, 1775and have now received

3.6.25His accusations.

His accusations. Who does he accuse?

Caesar; and that, having in Sicily

3.6.271778Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him

3.6.281779His part o'th'isle. Then does he say he lent me

3.6.291780Some shipping unrestored. Lastly, he frets

3.6.301781That Lepidus of the triumvirate

3.6.31Should be deposed, 1782and being, that we detain

3.6.32All his revenue.

All his revenue. Sir, this should be answered.

'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.

3.6.341785I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel,

3.6.351786That he his high authority abused

3.6.361787And did deserve his change. For what I have conquered,

3.6.371788I grant him part; but then in his Armenia,

3.6.381789And other of his conquered kingdoms, I

3.6.39Demand the like.

Demand the like. He'll never yield to that.

Nor must not then be yielded to in this.

Hail, Caesar and my lord. Hail, most dear Caesar!

That ever I should call thee cast-away.

You have not called me so, nor have you cause.

Why have you stolen upon us thus? You come not

3.6.461797Like Caesar's sister. The wife of Antony

3.6.471798Should have an army for an usher, and

3.6.481799The neighs of horse to tell of her approach

3.6.491800Long ere she did appear. The trees by th'way

3.6.501801Should have borne men, and expectation fainted,

3.6.511802Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust

3.6.521803Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,

3.6.531804Raised by your populous troops. But you are come

3.6.541805A market-maid to Rome, and have prevented

3.6.551806The ostentation of our love, which left unshown

3.6.561807Is often left unloved. We should have met you

3.6.571808By sea and land, supplying every stage

3.6.581809With an augmented greeting.

With an augmented greeting. Good my lord,

3.6.591811To come thus was I not constrained, but did it

3.6.601812On my free will. My lord Mark Antony,

3.6.611813Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted

3.6.621814My grievèd ear withal, whereon I begged

3.6.631815His pardon for return.

His pardon for return. Which soon he granted,

3.6.641817Being an abstract 'tween his lust and him.

Do not say so, my lord.

Do not say so, my lord. I have eyes upon him,

3.6.661820And his affairs come to me on the wind.

3.6.67Where is he now?

Where is he now? My lord, in Athens.

No, my most wronged sister, Cleopatra

3.6.691823Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire

3.6.701824Up to a whore, who now are levying

3.6.711825The kings o'th'earth for war. He hath assembled

3.6.721826Bochus the King of Libya, Archelaus

3.6.731827Of Cappadocia, Philadelphos King

3.6.741828Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian King Adullas,

3.6.751829King Manchus of Arabia, King of Pont,

3.6.761830Herod of Jewry, Mithridates King

3.6.771831Of Comagene, Polemon and Amintas,

3.6.781832The Kings of Mede and Lycaonia,

3.6.791834With a more larger list of sceptres.

With a more larger list of sceptres. Ay me, most wretched,

3.6.801835That have my heart parted betwixt two friends

3.6.811836That does afflict each other!

That does afflict each other! Welcome hither:

3.6.82Your letters did withhold our breaking forth

3.6.831838Till we perceived both how you were wrong-led

3.6.841839And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;

3.6.851840Be you not troubled with the time, which drives

3.6.861841O'er your content these strong necessities,

3.6.871842But let determined things to destiny

3.6.881843Hold unbewailed their way. Welcome to Rome,

3.6.891844Nothing more dear to me. You are abused

3.6.901845Beyond the mark of thought, and the high gods,

3.6.911846To do you justice, makes his ministers

3.6.921847Of us, and those that love you. Best of comfort,

3.6.931848And ever welcome to us.

And ever welcome to us. Welcome, lady.

Welcome, dear madam.

3.6.951850Each heart in Rome does love and pity you;

3.6.961851Only th'adulterous Antony, most large

3.6.971852In his abominations, turns you off,

3.6.981853And gives his potent regiment to a trull

3.6.991854That noises it against us.

That noises it against us. Is it so, sir?

Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you

3.6.1011857Be ever known to patience. My dearest sister!

3.6.102Exeunt.

I will be even with thee, doubt it not.

But why, why, why?

Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,

3.7.61862And say'st it is not fit.

And say'st it is not fit. Well, is it, is it?

If not denounced against us, why should not 1865we

3.7.8Be there in person?

Be there in person? [Aside] Well, I could reply:

3.7.9If we should serve with 1867horse and mares together,

3.7.10The horse were merely lost; 1868the mares would bear

3.7.11A soldier and his horse.

A soldier and his horse. What is't you say?

Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,

3.7.131871Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time,

3.7.141872What should not then be spared. He is already

3.7.151873Traduced for levity, and 'tis said in Rome

3.7.161874That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids

3.7.171875Manage this war.

Manage this war. Sink Rome, and their tongues rot

3.7.181877That speak against us! A charge we bear i'th'war,

3.7.191878And as the president of my kingdom will

3.7.201879Appear there for a man. Speak not against it,

3.7.211880I will not stay behind.

I will not stay behind. Nay, I have done.

3.7.23Here comes the emperor.

Here comes the emperor. Is it not strange, Camidius,

3.7.241884That from Tarentum and Brundusium,

3.7.251885He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea

3.7.261886And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?

Celerity is never more admired

3.7.281888Than by the negligent.

Than by the negligent. A good rebuke,

3.7.291890Which might have well becomed the best of men,

3.7.301891To taunt at slackness. Camidius, we

3.7.311892Will fight with him by sea.

Will fight with him by sea. By sea, what else?

Why will my lord do so?

Why will my lord do so? For that he dares us to't.

So hath my lord dared him to single fight.

Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia,

3.7.351898Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers,

3.7.361899Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off,

3.7.371900And so should you.

And so should you. Your ships are not well manned.

3.7.381902Your mariners are muleteers, reapers, people

3.7.391903Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar's fleet

3.7.401904Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought;

3.7.411905Their ships are yare, yours heavy. No disgrace

3.7.421906Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,

3.7.431907Being prepared for land.

Being prepared for land. By sea, by sea!

Most worthy sir, you therein throw away

3.7.451910The absolute soldiership you have by land,

3.7.461911Distract your army (which doth most consist

3.7.471912Of war-marked footmen), leave unexecuted

3.7.481913Your own renowned knowledge, quite forgo

3.7.491914The way which promises assurance, and

3.7.501915Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard

3.7.511916From firm security.

From firm security. I'll fight at sea.

I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.

Our over-plus of shipping will we burn,

3.7.541920And with the rest full-manned, from th'head of Actium

3.7.551921Beat th'approaching Caesar. But if we fail,

3.7.561922We then can do't at land.

We then can do't at land. 1923Thy business?

The news is true, my lord, he is descried.

3.7.581925Caesar has taken Toryne.

Can he be there in person? 'Tis impossible;

3.7.601927Strange that his power should be. Camidius,

3.7.611928Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,

3.7.621929And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship.

3.7.631930Away, my Thetis.

Away, my Thetis. 1932How now, worthy soldier?

Oh, noble emperor, do not fight by sea.

3.7.651934Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt

3.7.661935This sword and these my wounds? Let th'Egyptians

3.7.671936And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we

3.7.681937Have used to conquer standing on the earth

3.7.691938And fighting foot to foot.

And fighting foot to foot. Well, well, away.

By Hercules, I think I am i'th'right.

Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows

3.7.731942Not in the power on't. So our leader's led,

3.7.741943And we are women's men.

And we are women's men. You keep by land

3.7.75The legions and the horse 1945whole, do you not?

Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,

3.7.771947Publicola, and Caelius are for sea;

3.7.781948But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's

3.7.791949Carries beyond belief.

Carries beyond belief. While he was yet in Rome,

3.7.801951His power went out in such distractions

3.7.811952As beguiled all spies.

As beguiled all spies. Who's his lieutenant, hear you?

They say one Taurus.

They say one Taurus. Well I know the man.

The emperor calls Camidius.

With news the time's in labor,

3.7.861959And throws forth each minute some.

3.7.87Exeunt.

Taurus?

Taurus? My lord.

Taurus? My lord. Strike not by land, 1964keep whole;

Provoke not battle 1965till we have done at sea.

3.8.5Do not exceed 1966the prescript of this scroll.

3.8.6Our fortune lies 1967upon this jump.

3.8.7Exit [Caesar and his army at one door, and Taurus at another door].

Set we our squadrons on yond side o'th'hill,

3.9.41970In eye of Caesar's battle, from which place

3.9.51971We may the number of the ships behold

3.9.61972And so proceed accordingly.

Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.

3.10.51978Th'Antoniad, the Egyptian Admiral,

3.10.61979With all their sixty fly and turn the rudder!

3.10.71980To see't mine eyes are blasted!

Gods and goddesses,

3.10.10All the whole synod of them!

All the whole synod of them! What's thy passion?

The greater cantle of the world is lost

3.10.121985With very ignorance. We have kissed away

3.10.131986Kingdoms and provinces.

Kingdoms and provinces. How appears the fight?

On our side, like the tokened pestilence,

3.10.151989Where death is sure. Yon ribald nag of Egypt,

3.10.161990Whom leprosy o'ertake, i'th'midst o'th'fight,

3.10.171991When vantage like a pair of twins appeared

3.10.181992Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,

3.10.191993The breese upon her, like a cow in June,

3.10.201994Hoists sails and flies.

Hoists sails and flies. That I beheld.

3.10.211996Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not

3.10.221997Endure a further view.

Endure a further view. She once being luffed,

3.10.231999The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,

3.10.242000Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,

3.10.252001Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.

3.10.262002I never saw an action of such shame;

3.10.272003Experience, manhood, honor, ne'er before

3.10.282004Did violate so itself!

Did violate so itself! Alack, alack.

Our fortune on the sea is out of breath

3.10.312008And sinks most lamentably. Had our general

3.10.322009Been what he knew himself, it had gone well.

3.10.332010Oh, he has given example for our flight

3.10.342011Most grossly by his own.

Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then goodnight 2013indeed.

Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.

'Tis easy to't, 2016and there I will attend

3.10.38What further comes.

What further comes. To Caesar will I render

3.10.392018My legions and my horse. Six kings already

3.10.402019Show me the way of yielding.

Show me the way of yielding. I'll yet follow

3.10.412021The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason

3.10.422022Sits in the wind against me.

3.10.43Exeunt separately.

Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't;

3.11.42025It is ashamed to bear me. Friends, come hither.

3.11.52026I am so lated in the world that I

3.11.62027Have lost my way forever. I have a ship

3.11.72028Laden with gold. Take that, divide it, fly,

3.11.82029And make your peace with Caesar.

And make your peace with Caesar. Fly? Not we.

I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards

3.11.102032To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone.

3.11.112033I have myself resolved upon a course

3.11.122034Which has no need of you. Be gone.

3.11.132035My treasure's in the harbor. Take it. Oh,

3.11.142036I followed that I blush to look upon.

3.11.152037My very hairs do mutiny, for the white

3.11.162038Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them

3.11.172039For fear and doting. Friends, be gone. You shall

3.11.182040Have letters from me to some friends that will

3.11.192041Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,

3.11.202042Nor make replies of loathness. Take the hint

3.11.212043Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left

3.11.222044Which leaves itself. To the seaside straightway!

3.11.232045I will possess you of that ship and treasure.

3.11.242046Leave me, I pray, a little--pray you now--

3.11.252047Nay do so. For indeed I have lost command.

3.11.262048Therefore I pray you--I'll see you by and by.

3.11.27[Exeunt Attendants. Antony] sits down.

Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.

Do, most dear queen.

Do. Why, what else?

Let me sit down. O Juno!

No, no, no, no, no.

See you here, sir?

Oh fie, fie, fie!

Madam.

Madam, oh, good empress.

Sir, sir!

Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept

3.11.402061His sword e'en like a dancer, while I struck

3.11.412062The lean and wrinkled Cassius, and 'twas I

3.11.422063That the mad Brutus ended. He alone

3.11.432064Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had

3.11.442065In the brave squares of war. Yet now--no matter.

Ah, stand by.

Ah, stand by. The queen, my lord, the queen!

Go to him, madam. Speak to him.

3.11.472069He's unqualitied with very shame.

Well then, sustain me. Oh!

Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches.

3.11.502072Her head's declined and death will seize her, but

3.11.512073Your comfort makes the rescue.

I have offended reputation,

3.11.532075A most unnoble swerving.

A most unnoble swerving. Sir, the queen.

Oh, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See

3.11.552078How I convey my shame out of thine eyes

3.11.562079By looking back what I have left behind

3.11.572080'Stroyed in dishonor.

'Stroyed in dishonor. Oh my lord, my lord,

3.11.582082Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought

3.11.592083You would have followed.

You would have followed. Egypt, thou knew'st too well,

3.11.602085My heart was to thy rudder tied by'th'strings,

3.11.612086And thou should'st tow me after. O'er my spirit

3.11.622087Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that

3.11.632088Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods

3.11.642089Command me.

Command me. Oh, my pardon.

Command me. Oh, my pardon. Now I must

3.11.652092To the young man send humble treaties, dodge

3.11.662093And palter in the shifts of lowness, who

3.11.672094With half the bulk o'th'world played as I pleased,

3.11.682095Making and marring fortunes. You did know

3.11.692096How much you were my conqueror, and that

3.11.702097My sword, made weak by my affection, would

3.11.712098Obey it on all cause.

Obey it on all cause. Pardon, pardon.

Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates

3.11.732101All that is won and lost. Give me a kiss. [They kiss.]

3.11.742102Even this repays me.

3.11.75[To an Attendant] 2103We sent our schoolmaster; is a come back?

3.11.76[To Cleopatra] 2104Love, I am full of lead. [Calling] Some wine,

3.11.772105Within there, and our viands! Fortune knows

3.11.782106We scorn her most when most she offers blows.

3.11.79Exeunt.

Let him appear that's come from Antony.

3.12.42109Know you him?

Know you him? Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster.