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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?oxygen RNGSchema="publishers.rnc" type="compact"?><book xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" role="play">
+<title>The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra</title>
+
+<info><author><personname><firstname>William</firstname><surname>Shakespeare</surname></personname></author><legalnotice>
+<para>ASCII text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</para>
+<para>SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</para>
+<para>XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1999.</para>
+<para>The XML markup in this version is Copyright © 1999 Jon Bosak.
+This work may freely be distributed on condition that it not be
+modified or altered in any way.</para>
+</legalnotice>     <copyright><year>2008</year><holder>Scott Hudson</holder></copyright></info>
+
+<preface>
+<title>Dramatis Personae</title>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">MARK ANTONY</personname><personname role="persona">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</personname><personname role="persona">M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS</personname></member><member>triumvirs.</member></simplelist>
+
+<para><personname role="persona">SEXTUS POMPEIUS</personname></para>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</personname><personname role="persona">VENTIDIUS</personname><personname role="persona">EROS</personname><personname role="persona">SCARUS</personname><personname role="persona">DERCETAS</personname><personname role="persona">DEMETRIUS</personname><personname role="persona">PHILO</personname></member><member>friends to Antony.</member></simplelist>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">MECAENAS</personname><personname role="persona">AGRIPPA</personname><personname role="persona">DOLABELLA</personname><personname role="persona">PROCULEIUS</personname><personname role="persona">THYREUS</personname><personname role="persona">GALLUS</personname><personname role="persona">MENAS</personname></member><member>friends to Caesar.</member></simplelist>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">MENECRATES</personname><personname role="persona">VARRIUS</personname></member><member>friends to Pompey.</member></simplelist>
+
+<para><personname role="persona">TAURUS, lieutenant-general to Caesar.</personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">CANIDIUS, lieutenant-general to Antony.</personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">SILIUS, an officer in Ventidius's army.</personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">EUPHRONIUS, an ambassador from Antony to Caesar.</personname></para>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">ALEXAS</personname><personname role="persona">MARDIAN, a Eunuch.</personname><personname role="persona">SELEUCUS</personname><personname role="persona">DIOMEDES</personname></member><member>attendants on Cleopatra.</member></simplelist>
+
+<para><personname role="persona">A Soothsayer. </personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">A Clown. </personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">CLEOPATRA, queen of Egypt.</personname></para>
+<para><personname role="persona">OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony.</personname></para>
+
+<simplelist columns="2"><member><personname role="persona">CHARMIAN</personname><personname role="persona">IRAS</personname></member><member>attendants on Cleopatra.</member></simplelist>
+
+<para><personname role="persona">Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.</personname></para>
+
+    <para role="scndescr">SCENE  In several parts of the Roman empire.</para>
+</preface>
+
+<chapter role="act"><title>ACT I</title>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE I.  Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">PHILO</speaker>
+<line>Nay, but this dotage of our general's</line>
+<line>O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,</line>
+<line>That o'er the files and musters of the war</line>
+<line>Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,</line>
+<line>The office and devotion of their view</line>
+<line>Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,</line>
+<line>Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst</line>
+<line>The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,</line>
+<line>And is become the bellows and the fan</line>
+<line>To cool a gipsy's lust.</line>
+<para role="stagedir">Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,
+the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her</para>
+<line>Look, where they come:</line>
+<line>Take but good note, and you shall see in him.</line>
+<line>The triple pillar of the world transform'd</line>
+<line>Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>If it be love indeed, tell me how much.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter an Attendant</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Attendant</speaker>
+<line>News, my good lord, from Rome.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Grates me: the sum.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Nay, hear them, Antony:</line>
+<line>Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows</line>
+<line>If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent</line>
+<line>His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;</line>
+<line>Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;</line>
+<line>Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>How, my love!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Perchance! nay, and most like:</line>
+<line>You must not stay here longer, your dismission</line>
+<line>Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.</line>
+<line>Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?</line>
+<line>Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,</line>
+<line>Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine</line>
+<line>Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame</line>
+<line>When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch</line>
+<line>Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.</line>
+<line>Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike</line>
+<line>Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life</line>
+<line>Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair</line>
+<para role="stagedir">Embracing</para>
+<line>And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,</line>
+<line>On pain of punishment, the world to weet</line>
+<line>We stand up peerless.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Excellent falsehood!</line>
+<line>Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?</line>
+<line>I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony</line>
+<line>Will be himself.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>But stirr'd by Cleopatra.</line>
+<line>Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,</line>
+<line>Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:</line>
+<line>There's not a minute of our lives should stretch</line>
+<line>Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Hear the ambassadors.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Fie, wrangling queen!</line>
+<line>Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,</line>
+<line>To weep; whose every passion fully strives</line>
+<line>To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!</line>
+<line>No messenger, but thine; and all alone</line>
+<line>To-night we'll wander through the streets and note</line>
+<line>The qualities of people. Come, my queen;</line>
+<line>Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with
+their train</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DEMETRIUS</speaker>
+<line>Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">PHILO</speaker>
+<line>Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,</line>
+<line>He comes too short of that great property</line>
+<line>Which still should go with Antony.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DEMETRIUS</speaker>
+<line>I am full sorry</line>
+<line>That he approves the common liar, who</line>
+<line>Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope</line>
+<line>Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+</section>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE II.  The same. Another room.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,</line>
+<line>almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer</line>
+<line>that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew</line>
+<line>this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns</line>
+<line>with garlands!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Soothsayer!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>Your will?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>In nature's infinite book of secrecy</line>
+<line>A little I can read.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Show him your hand.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough</line>
+<line>Cleopatra's health to drink.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Good sir, give me good fortune.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>I make not, but foresee.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Pray, then, foresee me one.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>You shall be yet far fairer than you are.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>He means in flesh.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>No, you shall paint when you are old.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Wrinkles forbid!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Vex not his prescience; be attentive.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Hush!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>You shall be more beloving than beloved.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>I had rather heat my liver with drinking.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Nay, hear him.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married</line>
+<line>to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:</line>
+<line>let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry</line>
+<line>may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius</line>
+<line>Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>O excellent! I love long life better than figs.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune</line>
+<line>Than that which is to approach.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Then belike my children shall have no names:</line>
+<line>prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>If every of your wishes had a womb.</line>
+<line>And fertile every wish, a million.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Nay, come, tell Iras hers.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>We'll know all our fortunes.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall</line>
+<line>be--drunk to bed.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful</line>
+<line>prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,</line>
+<line>tell her but a worky-day fortune.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>Your fortunes are alike.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>But how, but how? give me particulars.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Soothsayer</speaker>
+<line>I have said.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than</line>
+<line>I, where would you choose it?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>Not in my husband's nose.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,</line>
+<line>his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman</line>
+<line>that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let</line>
+<line>her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst</line>
+<line>follow worse, till the worst of all follow him</line>
+<line>laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good</line>
+<line>Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a</line>
+<line>matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">IRAS</speaker>
+<line>Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!</line>
+<line>for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man</line>
+<line>loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a</line>
+<line>foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep</line>
+<line>decorum, and fortune him accordingly!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Amen.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a</line>
+<line>cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but</line>
+<line>they'ld do't!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Hush! here comes Antony.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Not he; the queen.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter CLEOPATRA</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Saw you my lord?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>No, lady.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Was he not here?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>No, madam.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden</line>
+<line>A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Madam?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Seek him, and bring him hither.</line>
+<line>Where's Alexas?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Here, at your service. My lord approaches.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>We will not look upon him: go with us.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Against my brother Lucius?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Ay:</line>
+<line>But soon that war had end, and the time's state</line>
+<line>Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;</line>
+<line>Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,</line>
+<line>Upon the first encounter, drave them.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Well, what worst?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>The nature of bad news infects the teller.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>When it concerns the fool or coward. On:</line>
+<line>Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:</line>
+<line>Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,</line>
+<line>I hear him as he flatter'd.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Labienus--</line>
+<line>This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,</line>
+<line>Extended Asia from Euphrates;</line>
+<line>His conquering banner shook from Syria</line>
+<line>To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Antony, thou wouldst say,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>O, my lord!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:</line>
+<line>Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;</line>
+<line>Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults</line>
+<line>With such full licence as both truth and malice</line>
+<line>Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,</line>
+<line>When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us</line>
+<line>Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>At your noble pleasure.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exit</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">First Attendant</speaker>
+<line>The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Second Attendant</speaker>
+<line>He stays upon your will.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Let him appear.</line>
+<line>These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,</line>
+<line>Or lose myself in dotage.</line>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter another Messenger</para>
+<line>What are you?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Second Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Fulvia thy wife is dead.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Where died she?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Second Messenger</speaker>
+<line>In Sicyon:</line>
+<line>Her length of sickness, with what else more serious</line>
+<line>Importeth thee to know, this bears.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Gives a letter</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Forbear me.</line>
+<para role="stagedir">Exit Second Messenger</para>
+<line>There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:</line>
+<line>What our contempt doth often hurl from us,</line>
+<line>We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,</line>
+<line>By revolution lowering, does become</line>
+<line>The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;</line>
+<line>The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.</line>
+<line>I must from this enchanting queen break off:</line>
+<line>Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,</line>
+<line>My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>What's your pleasure, sir?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>I must with haste from hence.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Why, then, we kill all our women:</line>
+<line>we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;</line>
+<line>if they suffer our departure, death's the word.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>I must be gone.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were</line>
+<line>pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between</line>
+<line>them and a great cause, they should be esteemed</line>
+<line>nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of</line>
+<line>this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty</line>
+<line>times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is</line>
+<line>mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon</line>
+<line>her, she hath such a celerity in dying.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>She is cunning past man's thought.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exit ALEXAS</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but</line>
+<line>the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her</line>
+<line>winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater</line>
+<line>storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this</line>
+<line>cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a</line>
+<line>shower of rain as well as Jove.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Would I had never seen her.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece</line>
+<line>of work; which not to have been blest withal would</line>
+<line>have discredited your travel.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Fulvia is dead.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Sir?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Fulvia is dead.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Fulvia!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Dead.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When</line>
+<line>it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man</line>
+<line>from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;</line>
+<line>comforting therein, that when old robes are worn</line>
+<line>out, there are members to make new. If there were</line>
+<line>no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,</line>
+<line>and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned</line>
+<line>with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new</line>
+<line>petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion</line>
+<line>that should water this sorrow.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>The business she hath broached in the state</line>
+<line>Cannot endure my absence.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>And the business you have broached here cannot be</line>
+<line>without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which</line>
+<line>wholly depends on your abode.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>No more light answers. Let our officers</line>
+<line>Have notice what we purpose. I shall break</line>
+<line>The cause of our expedience to the queen,</line>
+<line>And get her leave to part. For not alone</line>
+<line>The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,</line>
+<line>Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too</line>
+<line>Of many our contriving friends in Rome</line>
+<line>Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius</line>
+<line>Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands</line>
+<line>The empire of the sea: our slippery people,</line>
+<line>Whose love is never link'd to the deserver</line>
+<line>Till his deserts are past, begin to throw</line>
+<line>Pompey the Great and all his dignities</line>
+<line>Upon his son; who, high in name and power,</line>
+<line>Higher than both in blood and life, stands up</line>
+<line>For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,</line>
+<line>The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,</line>
+<line>Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,</line>
+<line>And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,</line>
+<line>To such whose place is under us, requires</line>
+<line>Our quick remove from hence.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</speaker>
+<line>I shall do't.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+</section>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE III.  The same. Another room.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Where is he?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>I did not see him since.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>See where he is, who's with him, what he does:</line>
+<line>I did not send you: if you find him sad,</line>
+<line>Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report</line>
+<line>That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exit ALEXAS</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,</line>
+<line>You do not hold the method to enforce</line>
+<line>The like from him.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>What should I do, I do not?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:</line>
+<line>In time we hate that which we often fear.</line>
+<line>But here comes Antony.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter MARK ANTONY</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>I am sick and sullen.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:</line>
+<line>It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature</line>
+<line>Will not sustain it.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Now, my dearest queen,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Pray you, stand further from me.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>What's the matter?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.</line>
+<line>What says the married woman? You may go:</line>
+<line>Would she had never given you leave to come!</line>
+<line>Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:</line>
+<line>I have no power upon you; hers you are.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>The gods best know,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>O, never was there queen</line>
+<line>So mightily betray'd! yet at the first</line>
+<line>I saw the treasons planted.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Cleopatra,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Why should I think you can be mine and true,</line>
+<line>Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,</line>
+<line>Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,</line>
+<line>To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,</line>
+<line>Which break themselves in swearing!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Most sweet queen,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,</line>
+<line>But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,</line>
+<line>Then was the time for words: no going then;</line>
+<line>Eternity was in our lips and eyes,</line>
+<line>Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,</line>
+<line>But was a race of heaven: they are so still,</line>
+<line>Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,</line>
+<line>Art turn'd the greatest liar.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>How now, lady!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know</line>
+<line>There were a heart in Egypt.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Hear me, queen:</line>
+<line>The strong necessity of time commands</line>
+<line>Our services awhile; but my full heart</line>
+<line>Remains in use with you. Our Italy</line>
+<line>Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius</line>
+<line>Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:</line>
+<line>Equality of two domestic powers</line>
+<line>Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,</line>
+<line>Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,</line>
+<line>Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,</line>
+<line>Into the hearts of such as have not thrived</line>
+<line>Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;</line>
+<line>And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge</line>
+<line>By any desperate change: my more particular,</line>
+<line>And that which most with you should safe my going,</line>
+<line>Is Fulvia's death.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Though age from folly could not give me freedom,</line>
+<line>It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>She's dead, my queen:</line>
+<line>Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read</line>
+<line>The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:</line>
+<line>See when and where she died.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>O most false love!</line>
+<line>Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill</line>
+<line>With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,</line>
+<line>In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know</line>
+<line>The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,</line>
+<line>As you shall give the advice. By the fire</line>
+<line>That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence</line>
+<line>Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war</line>
+<line>As thou affect'st.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Cut my lace, Charmian, come;</line>
+<line>But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,</line>
+<line>So Antony loves.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>My precious queen, forbear;</line>
+<line>And give true evidence to his love, which stands</line>
+<line>An honourable trial.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>So Fulvia told me.</line>
+<line>I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,</line>
+<line>Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears</line>
+<line>Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene</line>
+<line>Of excellent dissembling; and let it look</line>
+<line>Life perfect honour.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>You'll heat my blood: no more.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>You can do better yet; but this is meetly.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Now, by my sword,--</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>And target. Still he mends;</line>
+<line>But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,</line>
+<line>How this Herculean Roman does become</line>
+<line>The carriage of his chafe.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>I'll leave you, lady.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Courteous lord, one word.</line>
+<line>Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:</line>
+<line>Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;</line>
+<line>That you know well: something it is I would,</line>
+<line>O, my oblivion is a very Antony,</line>
+<line>And I am all forgotten.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>But that your royalty</line>
+<line>Holds idleness your subject, I should take you</line>
+<line>For idleness itself.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>'Tis sweating labour</line>
+<line>To bear such idleness so near the heart</line>
+<line>As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;</line>
+<line>Since my becomings kill me, when they do not</line>
+<line>Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;</line>
+<line>Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.</line>
+<line>And all the gods go with you! upon your sword</line>
+<line>Sit laurel victory! and smooth success</line>
+<line>Be strew'd before your feet!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARK ANTONY</speaker>
+<line>Let us go. Come;</line>
+<line>Our separation so abides, and flies,</line>
+<line>That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,</line>
+<line>And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+</section>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE IV.  Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS,
+and their Train</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,</line>
+<line>It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate</line>
+<line>Our great competitor: from Alexandria</line>
+<line>This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes</line>
+<line>The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like</line>
+<line>Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy</line>
+<line>More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or</line>
+<line>Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there</line>
+<line>A man who is the abstract of all faults</line>
+<line>That all men follow.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">LEPIDUS</speaker>
+<line>I must not think there are</line>
+<line>Evils enow to darken all his goodness:</line>
+<line>His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,</line>
+<line>More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,</line>
+<line>Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,</line>
+<line>Than what he chooses.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not</line>
+<line>Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;</line>
+<line>To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit</line>
+<line>And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;</line>
+<line>To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet</line>
+<line>With knaves that smell of sweat: say this</line>
+<line>becomes him,--</line>
+<line>As his composure must be rare indeed</line>
+<line>Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony</line>
+<line>No way excuse his soils, when we do bear</line>
+<line>So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd</line>
+<line>His vacancy with his voluptuousness,</line>
+<line>Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,</line>
+<line>Call on him for't: but to confound such time,</line>
+<line>That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud</line>
+<line>As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid</line>
+<line>As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,</line>
+<line>Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,</line>
+<line>And so rebel to judgment.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter a Messenger</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">LEPIDUS</speaker>
+<line>Here's more news.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,</line>
+<line>Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report</line>
+<line>How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;</line>
+<line>And it appears he is beloved of those</line>
+<line>That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports</line>
+<line>The discontents repair, and men's reports</line>
+<line>Give him much wrong'd.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>I should have known no less.</line>
+<line>It hath been taught us from the primal state,</line>
+<line>That he which is was wish'd until he were;</line>
+<line>And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,</line>
+<line>Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,</line>
+<line>Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,</line>
+<line>Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,</line>
+<line>To rot itself with motion.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">Messenger</speaker>
+<line>Caesar, I bring thee word,</line>
+<line>Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,</line>
+<line>Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound</line>
+<line>With keels of every kind: many hot inroads</line>
+<line>They make in Italy; the borders maritime</line>
+<line>Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:</line>
+<line>No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon</line>
+<line>Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more</line>
+<line>Than could his war resisted.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>Antony,</line>
+<line>Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once</line>
+<line>Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st</line>
+<line>Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel</line>
+<line>Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,</line>
+<line>Though daintily brought up, with patience more</line>
+<line>Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink</line>
+<line>The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle</line>
+<line>Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign</line>
+<line>The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;</line>
+<line>Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,</line>
+<line>The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps</line>
+<line>It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,</line>
+<line>Which some did die to look on: and all this--</line>
+<line>It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--</line>
+<line>Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek</line>
+<line>So much as lank'd not.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">LEPIDUS</speaker>
+<line>'Tis pity of him.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>Let his shames quickly</line>
+<line>Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain</line>
+<line>Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end</line>
+<line>Assemble we immediate council: Pompey</line>
+<line>Thrives in our idleness.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">LEPIDUS</speaker>
+<line>To-morrow, Caesar,</line>
+<line>I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly</line>
+<line>Both what by sea and land I can be able</line>
+<line>To front this present time.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>Till which encounter,</line>
+<line>It is my business too. Farewell.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">LEPIDUS</speaker>
+<line>Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime</line>
+<line>Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,</line>
+<line>To let me be partaker.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">OCTAVIUS CAESAR</speaker>
+<line>Doubt not, sir;</line>
+<line>I knew it for my bond.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+</section>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE V.  Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Charmian!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Madam?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Ha, ha!</line>
+<line>Give me to drink mandragora.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Why, madam?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>That I might sleep out this great gap of time</line>
+<line>My Antony is away.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>You think of him too much.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>O, 'tis treason!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>Madam, I trust, not so.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Thou, eunuch Mardian!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARDIAN</speaker>
+<line>What's your highness' pleasure?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure</line>
+<line>In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,</line>
+<line>That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts</line>
+<line>May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARDIAN</speaker>
+<line>Yes, gracious madam.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Indeed!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MARDIAN</speaker>
+<line>Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing</line>
+<line>But what indeed is honest to be done:</line>
+<line>Yet have I fierce affections, and think</line>
+<line>What Venus did with Mars.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>O Charmian,</line>
+<line>Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?</line>
+<line>Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?</line>
+<line>O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!</line>
+<line>Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?</line>
+<line>The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm</line>
+<line>And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,</line>
+<line>Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'</line>
+<line>For so he calls me: now I feed myself</line>
+<line>With most delicious poison. Think on me,</line>
+<line>That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,</line>
+<line>And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,</line>
+<line>When thou wast here above the ground, I was</line>
+<line>A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey</line>
+<line>Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;</line>
+<line>There would he anchor his aspect and die</line>
+<line>With looking on his life.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Sovereign of Egypt, hail!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!</line>
+<line>Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath</line>
+<line>With his tinct gilded thee.</line>
+<line>How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Last thing he did, dear queen,</line>
+<line>He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--</line>
+<line>This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Mine ear must pluck it thence.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>'Good friend,' quoth he,</line>
+<line>'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends</line>
+<line>This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,</line>
+<line>To mend the petty present, I will piece</line>
+<line>Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,</line>
+<line>Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,</line>
+<line>And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,</line>
+<line>Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke</line>
+<line>Was beastly dumb'd by him.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>What, was he sad or merry?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Like to the time o' the year between the extremes</line>
+<line>Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>O well-divided disposition! Note him,</line>
+<line>Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:</line>
+<line>He was not sad, for he would shine on those</line>
+<line>That make their looks by his; he was not merry,</line>
+<line>Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay</line>
+<line>In Egypt with his joy; but between both:</line>
+<line>O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,</line>
+<line>The violence of either thee becomes,</line>
+<line>So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">ALEXAS</speaker>
+<line>Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:</line>
+<line>Why do you send so thick?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Who's born that day</line>
+<line>When I forget to send to Antony,</line>
+<line>Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.</line>
+<line>Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,</line>
+<line>Ever love Caesar so?</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>O that brave Caesar!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>Be choked with such another emphasis!</line>
+<line>Say, the brave Antony.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>The valiant Caesar!</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,</line>
+<line>If thou with Caesar paragon again</line>
+<line>My man of men.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CHARMIAN</speaker>
+<line>By your most gracious pardon,</line>
+<line>I sing but after you.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">CLEOPATRA</speaker>
+<line>My salad days,</line>
+<line>When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,</line>
+<line>To say as I said then! But, come, away;</line>
+<line>Get me ink and paper:</line>
+<line>He shall have every day a several greeting,</line>
+<line>Or I'll unpeople Egypt.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<para role="stagedir">Exeunt</para>
+</section>
+
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter role="act"><title>ACT II</title>
+
+<section role="scene"><title>SCENE I.  Messina. POMPEY's house.</title>
+<para role="stagedir">Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in
+warlike manner</para>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">POMPEY</speaker>
+<line>If the great gods be just, they shall assist</line>
+<line>The deeds of justest men.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegroup>
+<speaker role="speaker">MENECRATES</speaker>
+<line>Know, worthy Pompey,</line>
+<line>That what they do delay, they not deny.</line>
+</linegroup></dialogue>
+
+<dialogue role="speech"><linegr...
 
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