Array ( [TITLE] => The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [ACTORS] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => MARK ANTONY [1] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [2] => M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS ) [GRPDESCR] => triumvirs. ) [1] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [1] => VENTIDIUS [2] => EROS [3] => SCARUS [4] => DERCETAS [5] => DEMETRIUS [6] => PHILO ) [GRPDESCR] => friends to Antony. ) [2] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => MECAENAS [1] => AGRIPPA [2] => DOLABELLA [3] => PROCULEIUS [4] => THYREUS [5] => GALLUS [6] => MENAS ) [GRPDESCR] => friends to Caesar. ) [3] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => MENECRATES [1] => VARRIUS ) [GRPDESCR] => friends to Pompey. ) [4] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => ALEXAS [1] => MARDIAN, a Eunuch. [2] => SELEUCUS [3] => DIOMEDES ) [GRPDESCR] => attendants on Cleopatra. ) [5] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => CHARMIAN [1] => IRAS ) [GRPDESCR] => attendants on Cleopatra. ) ) [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => SEXTUS POMPEIUS [1] => TAURUS, lieutenant-general to Caesar. [2] => CANIDIUS, lieutenant-general to Antony. [3] => SILIUS, an officer in Ventidius's army. [4] => EUPHRONIUS, an ambassador from Antony to Caesar. [5] => A Soothsayer. [6] => A Clown. [7] => CLEOPATRA, queen of Egypt. [8] => OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony. [9] => Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE In several parts of the Roman empire. [PLAYSUBT] => ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO [1] => Enter an Attendant [2] => Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with their train [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PHILO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, but this dotage of our general's [1] => O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, [2] => That o'er the files and musters of the war [3] => Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, [4] => The office and devotion of their view [5] => Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, [6] => Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst [7] => The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, [8] => And is become the bellows and the fan [9] => To cool a gipsy's lust. [10] => Look, where they come: [11] => Take but good note, and you shall see in him. [12] => The triple pillar of the world transform'd [13] => Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see. ) [STAGEDIR] => Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Attendant [LINE] => News, my good lord, from Rome. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Grates me: the sum. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, hear them, Antony: [1] => Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows [2] => If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent [3] => His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this; [4] => Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; [5] => Perform 't, or else we damn thee.' ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => How, my love! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Perchance! nay, and most like: [1] => You must not stay here longer, your dismission [2] => Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. [3] => Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both? [4] => Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen, [5] => Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine [6] => Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame [7] => When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers! ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch [1] => Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. [2] => Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike [3] => Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life [4] => Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair [5] => And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, [6] => On pain of punishment, the world to weet [7] => We stand up peerless. ) [STAGEDIR] => Embracing ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Excellent falsehood! [1] => Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? [2] => I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony [3] => Will be himself. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But stirr'd by Cleopatra. [1] => Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, [2] => Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: [3] => There's not a minute of our lives should stretch [4] => Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Hear the ambassadors. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, wrangling queen! [1] => Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, [2] => To weep; whose every passion fully strives [3] => To make itself, in thee, fair and admired! [4] => No messenger, but thine; and all alone [5] => To-night we'll wander through the streets and note [6] => The qualities of people. Come, my queen; [7] => Last night you did desire it: speak not to us. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DEMETRIUS [LINE] => Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PHILO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony, [1] => He comes too short of that great property [2] => Which still should go with Antony. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DEMETRIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am full sorry [1] => That he approves the common liar, who [2] => Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope [3] => Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy! ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. Another room. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer [1] => Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [2] => Enter CLEOPATRA [3] => Exit Act [4] => Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants [5] => Exit [6] => Gives a letter [7] => Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [8] => Exit ALEXAS [9] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, [1] => almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer [2] => that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew [3] => this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns [4] => with garlands! ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Soothsayer! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Your will? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In nature's infinite book of secrecy [1] => A little I can read. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Show him your hand. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough [1] => Cleopatra's health to drink. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Good sir, give me good fortune. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => I make not, but foresee. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Pray, then, foresee me one. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => You shall be yet far fairer than you are. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => He means in flesh. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => No, you shall paint when you are old. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Wrinkles forbid! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Vex not his prescience; be attentive. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Hush! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => You shall be more beloving than beloved. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => I had rather heat my liver with drinking. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Nay, hear him. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married [1] => to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all: [2] => let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry [3] => may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius [4] => Caesar, and companion me with my mistress. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => You shall outlive the lady whom you serve. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O excellent! I love long life better than figs. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune [1] => Than that which is to approach. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then belike my children shall have no names: [1] => prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have? ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If every of your wishes had a womb. [1] => And fertile every wish, a million. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Nay, come, tell Iras hers. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => We'll know all our fortunes. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall [1] => be--drunk to bed. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful [1] => prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee, [2] => tell her but a worky-day fortune. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Your fortunes are alike. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => But how, but how? give me particulars. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => I have said. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Am I not an inch of fortune better than she? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than [1] => I, where would you choose it? ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Not in my husband's nose. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come, [1] => his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman [2] => that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let [3] => her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst [4] => follow worse, till the worst of all follow him [5] => laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good [6] => Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a [7] => matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee! ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people! [1] => for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man [2] => loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a [3] => foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep [4] => decorum, and fortune him accordingly! ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Amen. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a [1] => cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but [2] => they'ld do't! ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Hush! here comes Antony. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Not he; the queen. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Saw you my lord? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => No, lady. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Was he not here? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => No, madam. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden [1] => A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus! ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Madam? ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Seek him, and bring him hither. [1] => Where's Alexas? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Here, at your service. My lord approaches. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => We will not look upon him: go with us. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Fulvia thy wife first came into the field. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Against my brother Lucius? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay: [1] => But soon that war had end, and the time's state [2] => Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar; [3] => Whose better issue in the war, from Italy, [4] => Upon the first encounter, drave them. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Well, what worst? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => The nature of bad news infects the teller. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When it concerns the fool or coward. On: [1] => Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus: [2] => Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death, [3] => I hear him as he flatter'd. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Labienus-- [1] => This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force, [2] => Extended Asia from Euphrates; [3] => His conquering banner shook from Syria [4] => To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst-- ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Antony, thou wouldst say,-- ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => O, my lord! ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue: [1] => Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome; [2] => Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults [3] => With such full licence as both truth and malice [4] => Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds, [5] => When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us [6] => Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => At your noble pleasure. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there! ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Attendant [LINE] => The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Attendant [LINE] => He stays upon your will. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him appear. [1] => These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, [2] => Or lose myself in dotage. [3] => What are you? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter another Messenger ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Messenger [LINE] => Fulvia thy wife is dead. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Where died she? ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In Sicyon: [1] => Her length of sickness, with what else more serious [2] => Importeth thee to know, this bears. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Forbear me. [1] => There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it: [2] => What our contempt doth often hurl from us, [3] => We wish it ours again; the present pleasure, [4] => By revolution lowering, does become [5] => The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone; [6] => The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on. [7] => I must from this enchanting queen break off: [8] => Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know, [9] => My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus! ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Second Messenger ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => What's your pleasure, sir? ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => I must with haste from hence. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then, we kill all our women: [1] => we see how mortal an unkindness is to them; [2] => if they suffer our departure, death's the word. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => I must be gone. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were [1] => pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between [2] => them and a great cause, they should be esteemed [3] => nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of [4] => this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty [5] => times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is [6] => mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon [7] => her, she hath such a celerity in dying. ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => She is cunning past man's thought. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but [1] => the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her [2] => winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater [3] => storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this [4] => cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a [5] => shower of rain as well as Jove. ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Would I had never seen her. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece [1] => of work; which not to have been blest withal would [2] => have discredited your travel. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Fulvia is dead. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Sir? ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Fulvia is dead. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Fulvia! ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Dead. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When [1] => it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man [2] => from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth; [3] => comforting therein, that when old robes are worn [4] => out, there are members to make new. If there were [5] => no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, [6] => and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned [7] => with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new [8] => petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion [9] => that should water this sorrow. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The business she hath broached in the state [1] => Cannot endure my absence. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And the business you have broached here cannot be [1] => without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which [2] => wholly depends on your abode. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more light answers. Let our officers [1] => Have notice what we purpose. I shall break [2] => The cause of our expedience to the queen, [3] => And get her leave to part. For not alone [4] => The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches, [5] => Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too [6] => Of many our contriving friends in Rome [7] => Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius [8] => Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands [9] => The empire of the sea: our slippery people, [10] => Whose love is never link'd to the deserver [11] => Till his deserts are past, begin to throw [12] => Pompey the Great and all his dignities [13] => Upon his son; who, high in name and power, [14] => Higher than both in blood and life, stands up [15] => For the main soldier: whose quality, going on, [16] => The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding, [17] => Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life, [18] => And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure, [19] => To such whose place is under us, requires [20] => Our quick remove from hence. ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => I shall do't. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. Another room. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS [1] => Exit ALEXAS [2] => Enter MARK ANTONY [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Where is he? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => I did not see him since. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See where he is, who's with him, what he does: [1] => I did not send you: if you find him sad, [2] => Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report [3] => That I am sudden sick: quick, and return. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly, [1] => You do not hold the method to enforce [2] => The like from him. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What should I do, I do not? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => In each thing give him way, cross him nothing. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear: [1] => In time we hate that which we often fear. [2] => But here comes Antony. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I am sick and sullen. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,-- ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall: [1] => It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature [2] => Will not sustain it. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Now, my dearest queen,-- ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Pray you, stand further from me. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => What's the matter? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know, by that same eye, there's some good news. [1] => What says the married woman? You may go: [2] => Would she had never given you leave to come! [3] => Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here: [4] => I have no power upon you; hers you are. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => The gods best know,-- ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, never was there queen [1] => So mightily betray'd! yet at the first [2] => I saw the treasons planted. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Cleopatra,-- ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why should I think you can be mine and true, [1] => Though you in swearing shake the throned gods, [2] => Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness, [3] => To be entangled with those mouth-made vows, [4] => Which break themselves in swearing! ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Most sweet queen,-- ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going, [1] => But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying, [2] => Then was the time for words: no going then; [3] => Eternity was in our lips and eyes, [4] => Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor, [5] => But was a race of heaven: they are so still, [6] => Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, [7] => Art turn'd the greatest liar. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => How now, lady! ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know [1] => There were a heart in Egypt. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hear me, queen: [1] => The strong necessity of time commands [2] => Our services awhile; but my full heart [3] => Remains in use with you. Our Italy [4] => Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius [5] => Makes his approaches to the port of Rome: [6] => Equality of two domestic powers [7] => Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength, [8] => Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey, [9] => Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace, [10] => Into the hearts of such as have not thrived [11] => Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten; [12] => And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge [13] => By any desperate change: my more particular, [14] => And that which most with you should safe my going, [15] => Is Fulvia's death. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Though age from folly could not give me freedom, [1] => It does from childishness: can Fulvia die? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She's dead, my queen: [1] => Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read [2] => The garboils she awaked; at the last, best: [3] => See when and where she died. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O most false love! [1] => Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill [2] => With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see, [3] => In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know [1] => The purposes I bear; which are, or cease, [2] => As you shall give the advice. By the fire [3] => That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence [4] => Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war [5] => As thou affect'st. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cut my lace, Charmian, come; [1] => But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well, [2] => So Antony loves. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My precious queen, forbear; [1] => And give true evidence to his love, which stands [2] => An honourable trial. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So Fulvia told me. [1] => I prithee, turn aside and weep for her, [2] => Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears [3] => Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene [4] => Of excellent dissembling; and let it look [5] => Life perfect honour. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => You'll heat my blood: no more. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => You can do better yet; but this is meetly. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Now, by my sword,-- ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And target. Still he mends; [1] => But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian, [2] => How this Herculean Roman does become [3] => The carriage of his chafe. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => I'll leave you, lady. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Courteous lord, one word. [1] => Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it: [2] => Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it; [3] => That you know well: something it is I would, [4] => O, my oblivion is a very Antony, [5] => And I am all forgotten. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But that your royalty [1] => Holds idleness your subject, I should take you [2] => For idleness itself. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis sweating labour [1] => To bear such idleness so near the heart [2] => As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me; [3] => Since my becomings kill me, when they do not [4] => Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence; [5] => Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly. [6] => And all the gods go with you! upon your sword [7] => Sit laurel victory! and smooth success [8] => Be strew'd before your feet! ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us go. Come; [1] => Our separation so abides, and flies, [2] => That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me, [3] => And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away! ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train [1] => Enter a Messenger [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know, [1] => It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate [2] => Our great competitor: from Alexandria [3] => This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes [4] => The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like [5] => Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy [6] => More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or [7] => Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there [8] => A man who is the abstract of all faults [9] => That all men follow. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must not think there are [1] => Evils enow to darken all his goodness: [2] => His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven, [3] => More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary, [4] => Rather than purchased; what he cannot change, [5] => Than what he chooses. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not [1] => Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy; [2] => To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit [3] => And keep the turn of tippling with a slave; [4] => To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet [5] => With knaves that smell of sweat: say this [6] => becomes him,-- [7] => As his composure must be rare indeed [8] => Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony [9] => No way excuse his soils, when we do bear [10] => So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd [11] => His vacancy with his voluptuousness, [12] => Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones, [13] => Call on him for't: but to confound such time, [14] => That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud [15] => As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid [16] => As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge, [17] => Pawn their experience to their present pleasure, [18] => And so rebel to judgment. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Here's more news. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thy biddings have been done; and every hour, [1] => Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report [2] => How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea; [3] => And it appears he is beloved of those [4] => That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports [5] => The discontents repair, and men's reports [6] => Give him much wrong'd. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I should have known no less. [1] => It hath been taught us from the primal state, [2] => That he which is was wish'd until he were; [3] => And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, [4] => Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body, [5] => Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, [6] => Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, [7] => To rot itself with motion. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar, I bring thee word, [1] => Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, [2] => Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound [3] => With keels of every kind: many hot inroads [4] => They make in Italy; the borders maritime [5] => Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt: [6] => No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon [7] => Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more [8] => Than could his war resisted. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antony, [1] => Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once [2] => Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st [3] => Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel [4] => Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against, [5] => Though daintily brought up, with patience more [6] => Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink [7] => The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle [8] => Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign [9] => The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; [10] => Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, [11] => The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps [12] => It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh, [13] => Which some did die to look on: and all this-- [14] => It wounds thine honour that I speak it now-- [15] => Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek [16] => So much as lank'd not. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => 'Tis pity of him. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let his shames quickly [1] => Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain [2] => Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end [3] => Assemble we immediate council: Pompey [4] => Thrives in our idleness. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow, Caesar, [1] => I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly [2] => Both what by sea and land I can be able [3] => To front this present time. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Till which encounter, [1] => It is my business too. Farewell. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime [1] => Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir, [2] => To let me be partaker. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Doubt not, sir; [1] => I knew it for my bond. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN [1] => Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Charmian! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Madam? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha, ha! [1] => Give me to drink mandragora. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Why, madam? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I might sleep out this great gap of time [1] => My Antony is away. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => You think of him too much. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => O, 'tis treason! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Madam, I trust, not so. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Thou, eunuch Mardian! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => What's your highness' pleasure? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure [1] => In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee, [2] => That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts [3] => May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => Yes, gracious madam. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Indeed! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing [1] => But what indeed is honest to be done: [2] => Yet have I fierce affections, and think [3] => What Venus did with Mars. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Charmian, [1] => Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he? [2] => Or does he walk? or is he on his horse? [3] => O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! [4] => Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest? [5] => The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm [6] => And burgonet of men. He's speaking now, [7] => Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?' [8] => For so he calls me: now I feed myself [9] => With most delicious poison. Think on me, [10] => That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black, [11] => And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar, [12] => When thou wast here above the ground, I was [13] => A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey [14] => Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow; [15] => There would he anchor his aspect and die [16] => With looking on his life. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Sovereign of Egypt, hail! ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How much unlike art thou Mark Antony! [1] => Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath [2] => With his tinct gilded thee. [3] => How goes it with my brave Mark Antony? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Last thing he did, dear queen, [1] => He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,-- [2] => This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Mine ear must pluck it thence. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Good friend,' quoth he, [1] => 'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends [2] => This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, [3] => To mend the petty present, I will piece [4] => Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east, [5] => Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded, [6] => And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed, [7] => Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke [8] => Was beastly dumb'd by him. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What, was he sad or merry? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Like to the time o' the year between the extremes [1] => Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O well-divided disposition! Note him, [1] => Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him: [2] => He was not sad, for he would shine on those [3] => That make their looks by his; he was not merry, [4] => Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay [5] => In Egypt with his joy; but between both: [6] => O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry, [7] => The violence of either thee becomes, [8] => So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts? ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, madam, twenty several messengers: [1] => Why do you send so thick? ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who's born that day [1] => When I forget to send to Antony, [2] => Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian. [3] => Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian, [4] => Ever love Caesar so? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O that brave Caesar! ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be choked with such another emphasis! [1] => Say, the brave Antony. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => The valiant Caesar! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth, [1] => If thou with Caesar paragon again [2] => My man of men. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By your most gracious pardon, [1] => I sing but after you. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My salad days, [1] => When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, [2] => To say as I said then! But, come, away; [3] => Get me ink and paper: [4] => He shall have every day a several greeting, [5] => Or I'll unpeople Egypt. ) ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Messina. POMPEY's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the great gods be just, they shall assist [1] => The deeds of justest men. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENECRATES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know, worthy Pompey, [1] => That what they do delay, they not deny. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays [1] => The thing we sue for. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENECRATES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We, ignorant of ourselves, [1] => Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers [2] => Deny us for our good; so find we profit [3] => By losing of our prayers. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall do well: [1] => The people love me, and the sea is mine; [2] => My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope [3] => Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony [4] => In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make [5] => No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where [6] => He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both, [7] => Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves, [8] => Nor either cares for him. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar and Lepidus [1] => Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Where have you this? 'tis false. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => From Silvius, sir. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He dreams: I know they are in Rome together, [1] => Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love, [2] => Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip! [3] => Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both! [4] => Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts, [5] => Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks [6] => Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite; [7] => That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour [8] => Even till a Lethe'd dulness! [9] => How now, Varrius! ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter VARRIUS ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VARRIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is most certain that I shall deliver: [1] => Mark Antony is every hour in Rome [2] => Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis [3] => A space for further travel. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I could have given less matter [1] => A better ear. Menas, I did not think [2] => This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm [3] => For such a petty war: his soldiership [4] => Is twice the other twain: but let us rear [5] => The higher our opinion, that our stirring [6] => Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck [7] => The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot hope [1] => Caesar and Antony shall well greet together: [2] => His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar; [3] => His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think, [4] => Not moved by Antony. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not, Menas, [1] => How lesser enmities may give way to greater. [2] => Were't not that we stand up against them all, [3] => 'Twere pregnant they should square between [4] => themselves; [5] => For they have entertained cause enough [6] => To draw their swords: but how the fear of us [7] => May cement their divisions and bind up [8] => The petty difference, we yet not know. [9] => Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands [10] => Our lives upon to use our strongest hands. [11] => Come, Menas. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Rome. The house of LEPIDUS. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS [1] => Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS [2] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA [3] => Flourish [4] => Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, and LEPIDUS [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed, [1] => And shall become you well, to entreat your captain [2] => To soft and gentle speech. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall entreat him [1] => To answer like himself: if Caesar move him, [2] => Let Antony look over Caesar's head [3] => And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, [4] => Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard, [5] => I would not shave't to-day. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis not a time [1] => For private stomaching. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Every time [1] => Serves for the matter that is then born in't. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => But small to greater matters must give way. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Not if the small come first. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your speech is passion: [1] => But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes [2] => The noble Antony. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => And yonder, Caesar. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If we compose well here, to Parthia: [1] => Hark, Ventidius. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do not know, [1] => Mecaenas; ask Agrippa. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble friends, [1] => That which combined us was most great, and let not [2] => A leaner action rend us. What's amiss, [3] => May it be gently heard: when we debate [4] => Our trivial difference loud, we do commit [5] => Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners, [6] => The rather, for I earnestly beseech, [7] => Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, [8] => Nor curstness grow to the matter. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis spoken well. [1] => Were we before our armies, and to fight. [2] => I should do thus. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Welcome to Rome. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Thank you. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Sit. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Sit, sir. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Nay, then. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I learn, you take things ill which are not so, [1] => Or being, concern you not. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I must be laugh'd at, [1] => If, or for nothing or a little, I [2] => Should say myself offended, and with you [3] => Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should [4] => Once name you derogately, when to sound your name [5] => It not concern'd me. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My being in Egypt, Caesar, [1] => What was't to you? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more than my residing here at Rome [1] => Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there [2] => Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt [3] => Might be my question. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => How intend you, practised? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You may be pleased to catch at mine intent [1] => By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother [2] => Made wars upon me; and their contestation [3] => Was theme for you, you were the word of war. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You do mistake your business; my brother never [1] => Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it; [2] => And have my learning from some true reports, [3] => That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather [4] => Discredit my authority with yours; [5] => And make the wars alike against my stomach, [6] => Having alike your cause? Of this my letters [7] => Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel, [8] => As matter whole you have not to make it with, [9] => It must not be with this. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You praise yourself [1] => By laying defects of judgment to me; but [2] => You patch'd up your excuses. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so, not so; [1] => I know you could not lack, I am certain on't, [2] => Very necessity of this thought, that I, [3] => Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought, [4] => Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars [5] => Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife, [6] => I would you had her spirit in such another: [7] => The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle [8] => You may pace easy, but not such a wife. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Would we had all such wives, that the men might go [1] => to wars with the women! ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar [1] => Made out of her impatience, which not wanted [2] => Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant [3] => Did you too much disquiet: for that you must [4] => But say, I could not help it. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wrote to you [1] => When rioting in Alexandria; you [2] => Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts [3] => Did gibe my missive out of audience. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => He fell upon me ere admitted: then [2] => Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want [3] => Of what I was i' the morning: but next day [4] => I told him of myself; which was as much [5] => As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow [6] => Be nothing of our strife; if we contend, [7] => Out of our question wipe him. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have broken [1] => The article of your oath; which you shall never [2] => Have tongue to charge me with. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Soft, Caesar! ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, [1] => Lepidus, let him speak: [2] => The honour is sacred which he talks on now, [3] => Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar; [4] => The article of my oath. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To lend me arms and aid when I required them; [1] => The which you both denied. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Neglected, rather; [1] => And then when poison'd hours had bound me up [2] => From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may, [3] => I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty [4] => Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power [5] => Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia, [6] => To have me out of Egypt, made wars here; [7] => For which myself, the ignorant motive, do [8] => So far ask pardon as befits mine honour [9] => To stoop in such a case. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => 'Tis noble spoken. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it might please you, to enforce no further [1] => The griefs between ye: to forget them quite [2] => Were to remember that the present need [3] => Speaks to atone you. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Worthily spoken, Mecaenas. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Or, if you borrow one another's love for the [1] => instant, you may, when you hear no more words of [2] => Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to [3] => wrangle in when you have nothing else to do. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Thou art a soldier only: speak no more. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Go to, then; your considerate stone. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do not much dislike the matter, but [1] => The manner of his speech; for't cannot be [2] => We shall remain in friendship, our conditions [3] => So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew [4] => What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge [5] => O' the world I would pursue it. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Give me leave, Caesar,-- ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Speak, Agrippa. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast a sister by the mother's side, [1] => Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony [2] => Is now a widower. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say not so, Agrippa: [1] => If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof [2] => Were well deserved of rashness. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am not married, Caesar: let me hear [1] => Agrippa further speak. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To hold you in perpetual amity, [1] => To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts [2] => With an unslipping knot, take Antony [3] => Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims [4] => No worse a husband than the best of men; [5] => Whose virtue and whose general graces speak [6] => That which none else can utter. By this marriage, [7] => All little jealousies, which now seem great, [8] => And all great fears, which now import their dangers, [9] => Would then be nothing: truths would be tales, [10] => Where now half tales be truths: her love to both [11] => Would, each to other and all loves to both, [12] => Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke; [13] => For 'tis a studied, not a present thought, [14] => By duty ruminated. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Will Caesar speak? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd [1] => With what is spoke already. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What power is in Agrippa, [1] => If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,' [2] => To make this good? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The power of Caesar, and [1] => His power unto Octavia. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => May I never [1] => To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, [2] => Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand: [3] => Further this act of grace: and from this hour [4] => The heart of brothers govern in our loves [5] => And sway our great designs! ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is my hand. [1] => A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother [2] => Did ever love so dearly: let her live [3] => To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never [4] => Fly off our loves again! ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Happily, amen! ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey; [1] => For he hath laid strange courtesies and great [2] => Of late upon me: I must thank him only, [3] => Lest my remembrance suffer ill report; [4] => At heel of that, defy him. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Time calls upon's: [1] => Of us must Pompey presently be sought, [2] => Or else he seeks out us. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Where lies he? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => About the mount Misenum. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => What is his strength by land? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Great and increasing: but by sea [1] => He is an absolute master. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So is the fame. [1] => Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it: [2] => Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we [3] => The business we have talk'd of. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With most gladness: [1] => And do invite you to my sister's view, [2] => Whither straight I'll lead you. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us, Lepidus, [1] => Not lack your company. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble Antony, [1] => Not sickness should detain me. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Welcome from Egypt, sir. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My [1] => honourable friend, Agrippa! ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Good Enobarbus! ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have cause to be glad that matters are so well [1] => digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and [1] => made the night light with drinking. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and [1] => but twelve persons there; is this true? ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more [1] => monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to [1] => her. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up [1] => his heart, upon the river of Cydnus. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised [1] => well for her. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will tell you. [1] => The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, [2] => Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; [3] => Purple the sails, and so perfumed that [4] => The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, [5] => Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made [6] => The water which they beat to follow faster, [7] => As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, [8] => It beggar'd all description: she did lie [9] => In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue-- [10] => O'er-picturing that Venus where we see [11] => The fancy outwork nature: on each side her [12] => Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, [13] => With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem [14] => To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, [15] => And what they undid did. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => O, rare for Antony! ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, [1] => So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, [2] => And made their bends adornings: at the helm [3] => A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle [4] => Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, [5] => That yarely frame the office. From the barge [6] => A strange invisible perfume hits the sense [7] => Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast [8] => Her people out upon her; and Antony, [9] => Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone, [10] => Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy, [11] => Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, [12] => And made a gap in nature. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Rare Egyptian! ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Upon her landing, Antony sent to her, [1] => Invited her to supper: she replied, [2] => It should be better he became her guest; [3] => Which she entreated: our courteous Antony, [4] => Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak, [5] => Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast, [6] => And for his ordinary pays his heart [7] => For what his eyes eat only. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Royal wench! [1] => She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed: [2] => He plough'd her, and she cropp'd. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I saw her once [1] => Hop forty paces through the public street; [2] => And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted, [3] => That she did make defect perfection, [4] => And, breathless, power breathe forth. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Now Antony must leave her utterly. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Never; he will not: [1] => Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale [2] => Her infinite variety: other women cloy [3] => The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry [4] => Where most she satisfies; for vilest things [5] => Become themselves in her: that the holy priests [6] => Bless her when she is riggish. ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle [1] => The heart of Antony, Octavia is [2] => A blessed lottery to him. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us go. [1] => Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest [2] => Whilst you abide here. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Humbly, sir, I thank you. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between them, and Attendants [1] => Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA [2] => Enter Soothsayer [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The world and my great office will sometimes [1] => Divide me from your bosom. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All which time [1] => Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers [2] => To them for you. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good night, sir. My Octavia, [1] => Read not my blemishes in the world's report: [2] => I have not kept my square; but that to come [3] => Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady. [4] => Good night, sir. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Good night. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither! ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => If you can, your reason? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I see it in [1] => My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet [2] => Hie you to Egypt again. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say to me, [1] => Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine? ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar's. [1] => Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side: [2] => Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is [3] => Noble, courageous high, unmatchable, [4] => Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel [5] => Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore [6] => Make space enough between you. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Speak this no more. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soothsayer [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To none but thee; no more, but when to thee. [1] => If thou dost play with him at any game, [2] => Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck, [3] => He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens, [4] => When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit [5] => Is all afraid to govern thee near him; [6] => But, he away, 'tis noble. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Get thee gone: [1] => Say to Ventidius I would speak with him: [2] => He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap, [3] => He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him; [4] => And in our sports my better cunning faints [5] => Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds; [6] => His cocks do win the battle still of mine, [7] => When it is all to nought; and his quails ever [8] => Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt: [9] => And though I make this marriage for my peace, [10] => I' the east my pleasure lies. [11] => O, come, Ventidius, [12] => You must to Parthia: your commission's ready; [13] => Follow me, and receive't. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Soothsayer [1] => Enter VENTIDIUS ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. The same. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten [1] => Your generals after. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, Mark Antony [1] => Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress, [1] => Which will become you both, farewell. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We shall, [1] => As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount [2] => Before you, Lepidus. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your way is shorter; [1] => My purposes do draw me much about: [2] => You'll win two days upon me. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => MECAENAS [1] => AGRIPPA ) [LINE] => Sir, good success! ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Farewell. ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS [1] => Enter MARDIAN [2] => Strikes him down [3] => Draws a knife [4] => Exit [5] => Exit Messenger [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Give me some music; music, moody food [1] => Of us that trade in love. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Attendants [LINE] => The music, ho! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => My arm is sore; best play with Mardian. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As well a woman with an eunuch play'd [1] => As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => As well as I can, madam. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And when good will is show'd, though't come [1] => too short, [2] => The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now: [3] => Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there, [4] => My music playing far off, I will betray [5] => Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce [6] => Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up, [7] => I'll think them every one an Antony, [8] => And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.' ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twas merry when [1] => You wager'd on your angling; when your diver [2] => Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he [3] => With fervency drew up. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That time,--O times!-- [1] => I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night [2] => I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn, [3] => Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed; [4] => Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst [5] => I wore his sword Philippan. [6] => O, from Italy [7] => Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, [8] => That long time have been barren. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Messenger ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Madam, madam,-- ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain, [1] => Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free, [2] => If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here [3] => My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings [4] => Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => First, madam, he is well. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, there's more gold. [1] => But, sirrah, mark, we use [2] => To say the dead are well: bring it to that, [3] => The gold I give thee will I melt and pour [4] => Down thy ill-uttering throat. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Good madam, hear me. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, go to, I will; [1] => But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony [2] => Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour [3] => To trumpet such good tidings! If not well, [4] => Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes, [5] => Not like a formal man. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Will't please you hear me? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st: [1] => Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well, [2] => Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him, [3] => I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail [4] => Rich pearls upon thee. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Madam, he's well. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Well said. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => And friends with Caesar. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Thou'rt an honest man. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Caesar and he are greater friends than ever. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Make thee a fortune from me. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => But yet, madam,-- ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay [1] => The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'! [2] => 'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth [3] => Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend, [4] => Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, [5] => The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar: [6] => In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Free, madam! no; I made no such report: [1] => He's bound unto Octavia. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => For what good turn? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => For the best turn i' the bed. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I am pale, Charmian. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Madam, he's married to Octavia. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => The most infectious pestilence upon thee! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Good madam, patience. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What say you? Hence, [1] => Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes [2] => Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head: [3] => Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine, [4] => Smarting in lingering pickle. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Strikes him again [1] => She hales him up and down ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gracious madam, [1] => I that do bring the news made not the match. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee, [1] => And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst [2] => Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage; [3] => And I will boot thee with what gift beside [4] => Thy modesty can beg. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => He's married, madam. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Rogue, thou hast lived too long. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, then I'll run. [1] => What mean you, madam? I have made no fault. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good madam, keep yourself within yourself: [1] => The man is innocent. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. [1] => Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures [2] => Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again: [3] => Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => He is afeard to come. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will not hurt him. [1] => These hands do lack nobility, that they strike [2] => A meaner than myself; since I myself [3] => Have given myself the cause. [4] => Come hither, sir. [5] => Though it be honest, it is never good [6] => To bring bad news: give to a gracious message. [7] => An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell [8] => Themselves when they be felt. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit CHARMIAN [1] => Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => I have done my duty. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is he married? [1] => I cannot hate thee worser than I do, [2] => If thou again say 'Yes.' ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => He's married, madam. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Should I lie, madam? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I would thou didst, [1] => So half my Egypt were submerged and made [2] => A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence: [3] => Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me [4] => Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => I crave your highness' pardon. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => He is married? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take no offence that I would not offend you: [1] => To punish me for what you make me do. [2] => Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, that his fault should make a knave of thee, [1] => That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence: [2] => The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome [3] => Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand, [4] => And be undone by 'em! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Good your highness, patience. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Many times, madam. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am paid for't now. [1] => Lead me from hence: [2] => I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter. [3] => Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him [4] => Report the feature of Octavia, her years, [5] => Her inclination, let him not leave out [6] => The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly. [7] => Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian, [8] => Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, [9] => The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas [10] => Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian, [11] => But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit ALEXAS [1] => To MARDIAN ) ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. Near Misenum. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door, with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS, with Soldiers marching [1] => Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your hostages I have, so have you mine; [1] => And we shall talk before we fight. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most meet [1] => That first we come to words; and therefore have we [2] => Our written purposes before us sent; [3] => Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know [4] => If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword, [5] => And carry back to Sicily much tall youth [6] => That else must perish here. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To you all three, [1] => The senators alone of this great world, [2] => Chief factors for the gods, I do not know [3] => Wherefore my father should revengers want, [4] => Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar, [5] => Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, [6] => There saw you labouring for him. What was't [7] => That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what [8] => Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus, [9] => With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom, [10] => To drench the Capitol; but that they would [11] => Have one man but a man? And that is it [12] => Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen [13] => The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant [14] => To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome [15] => Cast on my noble father. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Take your time. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails; [1] => We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st [2] => How much we do o'er-count thee. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => At land, indeed, [1] => Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house: [2] => But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself, [3] => Remain in't as thou mayst. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be pleased to tell us-- [1] => For this is from the present--how you take [2] => The offers we have sent you. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => There's the point. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which do not be entreated to, but weigh [1] => What it is worth embraced. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And what may follow, [1] => To try a larger fortune. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have made me offer [1] => Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must [2] => Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send [3] => Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon [4] => To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back [5] => Our targes undinted. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [1] => MARK ANTONY [2] => LEPIDUS ) [LINE] => That's our offer. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Know, then, [1] => I came before you here a man prepared [2] => To take this offer: but Mark Antony [3] => Put me to some impatience: though I lose [4] => The praise of it by telling, you must know, [5] => When Caesar and your brother were at blows, [6] => Your mother came to Sicily and did find [7] => Her welcome friendly. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have heard it, Pompey; [1] => And am well studied for a liberal thanks [2] => Which I do owe you. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me have your hand: [1] => I did not think, sir, to have met you here. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you, [1] => That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither; [2] => For I have gain'd by 't. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Since I saw you last, [1] => There is a change upon you. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I know not [1] => What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face; [2] => But in my bosom shall she never come, [3] => To make my heart her vassal. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Well met here. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed: [1] => I crave our composition may be written, [2] => And seal'd between us. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => That's the next to do. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's [1] => Draw lots who shall begin. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => That will I, Pompey. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, Antony, take the lot: but, first [1] => Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery [2] => Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar [3] => Grew fat with feasting there. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => You have heard much. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => I have fair meanings, sir. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => And fair words to them. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then so much have I heard: [1] => And I have heard, Apollodorus carried-- ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => No more of that: he did so. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => What, I pray you? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well; [1] => And well am like to do; for, I perceive, [2] => Four feasts are toward. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me shake thy hand; [1] => I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight, [2] => When I have envied thy behavior. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye, [2] => When you have well deserved ten times as much [3] => As I have said you did. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Enjoy thy plainness, [1] => It nothing ill becomes thee. [2] => Aboard my galley I invite you all: [3] => Will you lead, lords? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [1] => MARK ANTONY [2] => LEPIDUS ) [LINE] => Show us the way, sir. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Come. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => At sea, I think. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => We have, sir. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => You have done well by water. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => And you by land. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will praise any man that will praise me; though it [1] => cannot be denied what I have done by land. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Nor what I have done by water. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, something you can deny for your own [1] => safety: you have been a great thief by sea. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => And you by land. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There I deny my land service. But give me your [1] => hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they [2] => might take two thieves kissing. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => But there is never a fair woman has a true face. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => No slander; they steal hearts. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => We came hither to fight with you. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. [1] => Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony [1] => here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Caesar's sister is called Octavia. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Pray ye, sir? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => 'Tis true. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would [1] => not prophesy so. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think the policy of that purpose made more in the [1] => marriage than the love of the parties. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think so too. But you shall find, the band that [1] => seems to tie their friendship together will be the [2] => very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a [3] => holy, cold, and still conversation. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Who would not have his wife so? ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. [1] => He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the [2] => sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as [3] => I said before, that which is the strength of their [4] => amity shall prove the immediate author of their [5] => variance. Antony will use his affection where it is: [6] => he married but his occasion here. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? [1] => I have a health for you. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Come, let's away. ) ) ) [6] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VII. On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet [1] => A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains [2] => Rises, and walks aside [3] => Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS [4] => Sound a flourish, with drums [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are [1] => ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world [2] => will blow them down. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Servant [LINE] => Lepidus is high-coloured. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => They have made him drink alms-drink. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As they pinch one another by the disposition, he [1] => cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his [2] => entreaty, and himself to the drink. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But it raises the greater war between him and [1] => his discretion. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, this is to have a name in great men's [1] => fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do [2] => me no service as a partisan I could not heave. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen [1] => to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, [2] => which pitifully disaster the cheeks. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To OCTAVIUS CAESAR ) [1] => the flow o' the Nile [2] => By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know, [3] => By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth [4] => Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells, [5] => The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman [6] => Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, [7] => And shortly comes to harvest. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => You've strange serpents there. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Ay, Lepidus. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the [1] => operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => They are so. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies' [1] => pyramises are very goodly things; without [2] => contradiction, I have heard that. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to POMPEY ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to MENAS ) [1] => what is't? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to POMPEY ) [1] => thee, captain, [2] => And hear me speak a word. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to MENAS ) [1] => This wine for Lepidus! ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => What manner o' thing is your crocodile? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad [1] => as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, [2] => and moves with its own organs: it lives by that [3] => which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of [4] => it, it transmigrates. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => What colour is it of? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Of it own colour too. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => 'Tis a strange serpent. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Will this description satisfy him? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a [1] => very epicure. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to MENAS ) [1] => that? away! [2] => Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for? ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to POMPEY ) [1] => wilt hear me, [2] => Rise from thy stool. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to MENAS ) [1] => The matter? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say? [1] => Be jolly, lords. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These quick-sands, Lepidus, [1] => Keep off them, for you sink. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Wilt thou be lord of all the world? ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => What say'st thou? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => How should that be? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But entertain it, [1] => And, though thou think me poor, I am the man [2] => Will give thee all the world. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Hast thou drunk well? ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup. [1] => Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove: [2] => Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, [3] => Is thine, if thou wilt ha't. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Show me which way. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These three world-sharers, these competitors, [1] => Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable; [2] => And, when we are put off, fall to their throats: [3] => All there is thine. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, this thou shouldst have done, [1] => And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany; [2] => In thee't had been good service. Thou must know, [3] => 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; [4] => Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue [5] => Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown, [6] => I should have found it afterwards well done; [7] => But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more. [2] => Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd, [3] => Shall never find it more. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => This health to Lepidus! ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Here's to thee, Menas! ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Enobarbus, welcome! ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Fill till the cup be hid. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => There's a strong fellow, Menas. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Why? ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st [1] => not? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all, [1] => That it might go on wheels! ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Drink thou; increase the reels. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Come. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => This is not yet an Alexandrian feast. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho? [1] => Here is to Caesar! ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I could well forbear't. [1] => It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain, [2] => And it grows fouler. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Be a child o' the time. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Possess it, I'll make answer: [1] => But I had rather fast from all four days [2] => Than drink so much in one. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha, my brave emperor! [1] => Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals, [2] => And celebrate our drink? ) [STAGEDIR] => To MARK ANTONY ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Let's ha't, good soldier. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, let's all take hands, [1] => Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense [2] => In soft and delicate Lethe. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All take hands. [1] => Make battery to our ears with the loud music: [2] => The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing; [3] => The holding every man shall bear as loud [4] => As his strong sides can volley. [5] => Come, thou monarch of the vine, [6] => Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! [7] => In thy fats our cares be drown'd, [8] => With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd: [9] => Cup us, till the world go round, [10] => Cup us, till the world go round! ) [STAGEDIR] => Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand [SUBHEAD] => THE SONG. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother, [1] => Let me request you off: our graver business [2] => Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part; [3] => You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb [4] => Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue [5] => Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost [6] => Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night. [7] => Good Antony, your hand. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => I'll try you on the shore. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => And shall, sir; give's your hand. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Antony, [1] => You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends. [2] => Come, down into the boat. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take heed you fall not. [1] => Menas, I'll not on shore. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, to my cabin. [1] => These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what! [2] => Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell [3] => To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out! ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Ho! says a' There's my cap. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MENAS [LINE] => Ho! Noble captain, come. ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A plain in Syria. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VENTIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now [1] => Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death [2] => Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body [3] => Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes, [4] => Pays this for Marcus Crassus. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble Ventidius, [1] => Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm, [2] => The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media, [3] => Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither [4] => The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony [5] => Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and [6] => Put garlands on thy head. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VENTIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Silius, Silius, [1] => I have done enough; a lower place, note well, [2] => May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius; [3] => Better to leave undone, than by our deed [4] => Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away. [5] => Caesar and Antony have ever won [6] => More in their officer than person: Sossius, [7] => One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant, [8] => For quick accumulation of renown, [9] => Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour. [10] => Who does i' the wars more than his captain can [11] => Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition, [12] => The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, [13] => Than gain which darkens him. [14] => I could do more to do Antonius good, [15] => But 'twould offend him; and in his offence [16] => Should my performance perish. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast, Ventidius, [1] => that [2] => Without the which a soldier, and his sword, [3] => Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony! ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VENTIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll humbly signify what in his name, [1] => That magical word of war, we have effected; [2] => How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks, [3] => The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia [4] => We have jaded out o' the field. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SILIUS [LINE] => Where is he now? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VENTIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste [1] => The weight we must convey with's will permit, [2] => We shall appear before him. On there; pass along! ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at another [1] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA [2] => Kisses OCTAVIA [3] => Trumpets sound. Exeunt ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => What, are the brothers parted? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone; [1] => The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps [2] => To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus, [3] => Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled [4] => With the green sickness. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => 'Tis a noble Lepidus. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony! ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => What's Antony? The god of Jupiter. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil! ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => O Antony! O thou Arabian bird! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony: [1] => Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, [2] => poets, cannot [3] => Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho! [4] => His love to Antony. But as for Caesar, [5] => Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Both he loves. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They are his shards, and he their beetle. [1] => So; [2] => This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa. ) [STAGEDIR] => Trumpets within ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => No further, sir. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You take from me a great part of myself; [1] => Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife [2] => As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band [3] => Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony, [4] => Let not the piece of virtue, which is set [5] => Betwixt us as the cement of our love, [6] => To keep it builded, be the ram to batter [7] => The fortress of it; for better might we [8] => Have loved without this mean, if on both parts [9] => This be not cherish'd. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Make me not offended [1] => In your distrust. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => I have said. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You shall not find, [1] => Though you be therein curious, the least cause [2] => For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you, [3] => And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! [4] => We will here part. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well: [1] => The elements be kind to thee, and make [2] => Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => My noble brother! ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring, [1] => And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Sir, look well to my husband's house; and-- ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => What, Octavia? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => I'll tell you in your ear. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can [1] => Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's [2] => down-feather, [3] => That stands upon the swell at full of tide, [4] => And neither way inclines. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to AGRIPPA ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to AGRIPPA ) [1] => were he a horse; [2] => So is he, being a man. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS ) [1] => When Antony found Julius Caesar dead, [2] => He cried almost to roaring; and he wept [3] => When at Philippi he found Brutus slain. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to AGRIPPA ) [1] => troubled with a rheum; [2] => What willingly he did confound he wail'd, [3] => Believe't, till I wept too. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, sweet Octavia, [1] => You shall hear from me still; the time shall not [2] => Out-go my thinking on you. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, sir, come; [1] => I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love: [2] => Look, here I have you; thus I let you go, [3] => And give you to the gods. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Adieu; be happy! ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEPIDUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let all the number of the stars give light [1] => To thy fair way! ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Farewell, farewell! ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Farewell! ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS [1] => Exit Messenger [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Where is the fellow? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Half afeard to come. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to, go to. [1] => Come hither, sir. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter the Messenger as before ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ALEXAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good majesty, [1] => Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you [2] => But when you are well pleased. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That Herod's head [1] => I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone [2] => Through whom I might command it? Come thou near. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Most gracious majesty,-- ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Didst thou behold Octavia? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Ay, dread queen. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Where? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, in Rome; [1] => I look'd her in the face, and saw her led [2] => Between her brother and Mark Antony. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Is she as tall as me? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => She is not, madam. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low? ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => That's not so good: he cannot like her long. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish! [1] => What majesty is in her gait? Remember, [2] => If e'er thou look'dst on majesty. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She creeps: [1] => Her motion and her station are as one; [2] => She shows a body rather than a life, [3] => A statue than a breather. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Is this certain? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Or I have no observance. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Three in Egypt [1] => Cannot make better note. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He's very knowing; [1] => I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet: [2] => The fellow has good judgment. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Excellent. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Guess at her years, I prithee. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, [1] => She was a widow,-- ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Widow! Charmian, hark. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => And I do think she's thirty. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Round even to faultiness. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so. [1] => Her hair, what colour? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Brown, madam: and her forehead [1] => As low as she would wish it. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's gold for thee. [1] => Thou must not take my former sharpness ill: [2] => I will employ thee back again; I find thee [3] => Most fit for business: go make thee ready; [4] => Our letters are prepared. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => A proper man. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, he is so: I repent me much [1] => That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him, [2] => This creature's no such thing. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Nothing, madam. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => The man hath seen some majesty, and should know. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend, [1] => And serving you so long! ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian: [1] => But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me [2] => Where I will write. All may be well enough. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => I warrant you, madam. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,-- [1] => That were excusable, that, and thousands more [2] => Of semblable import,--but he hath waged [3] => New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it [4] => To public ear: [5] => Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not [6] => But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly [7] => He vented them; most narrow measure lent me: [8] => When the best hint was given him, he not took't, [9] => Or did it from his teeth. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my good lord, [1] => Believe not all; or, if you must believe, [2] => Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady, [3] => If this division chance, ne'er stood between, [4] => Praying for both parts: [5] => The good gods me presently, [6] => When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!' [7] => Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud, [8] => 'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother, [9] => Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway [10] => 'Twixt these extremes at all. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentle Octavia, [1] => Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks [2] => Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour, [3] => I lose myself: better I were not yours [4] => Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested, [5] => Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady, [6] => I'll raise the preparation of a war [7] => Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste; [8] => So your desires are yours. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thanks to my lord. [1] => The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak, [2] => Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be [3] => As if the world should cleave, and that slain men [4] => Should solder up the rift. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When it appears to you where this begins, [1] => Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults [2] => Can never be so equal, that your love [3] => Can equally move with them. Provide your going; [4] => Choose your own company, and command what cost [5] => Your heart has mind to. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. The same. Another room. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => How now, friend Eros! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => There's strange news come, sir. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => What, man? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => This is old: what is the success? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst [1] => Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let [2] => him partake in the glory of the action: and not [3] => resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly [4] => wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so [5] => the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more; [1] => And throw between them all the food thou hast, [2] => They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns [1] => The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!' [2] => And threats the throat of that his officer [3] => That murder'd Pompey. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Our great navy's rigg'd. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius; [1] => My lord desires you presently: my news [2] => I might have told hereafter. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twill be naught: [1] => But let it be. Bring me to Antony. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Come, sir. ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS [1] => Enter OCTAVIA with her train [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more, [1] => In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't: [2] => I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd, [3] => Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold [4] => Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat [5] => Caesarion, whom they call my father's son, [6] => And all the unlawful issue that their lust [7] => Since then hath made between them. Unto her [8] => He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her [9] => Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, [10] => Absolute queen. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => This in the public eye? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I' the common show-place, where they exercise. [1] => His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings: [2] => Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia. [3] => He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd [4] => Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she [5] => In the habiliments of the goddess Isis [6] => That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience, [7] => As 'tis reported, so. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Let Rome be thus Inform'd. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who, queasy with his insolence [1] => Already, will their good thoughts call from him. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The people know it; and have now received [1] => His accusations. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Who does he accuse? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar: and that, having in Sicily [1] => Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him [2] => His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me [3] => Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets [4] => That Lepidus of the triumvirate [5] => Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain [6] => All his revenue. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Sir, this should be answer'd. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone. [1] => I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; [2] => That he his high authority abused, [3] => And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd, [4] => I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia, [5] => And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I [6] => Demand the like. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => He'll never yield to that. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Nor must not then be yielded to in this. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => That ever I should call thee castaway! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not [1] => Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony [2] => Should have an army for an usher, and [3] => The neighs of horse to tell of her approach [4] => Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way [5] => Should have borne men; and expectation fainted, [6] => Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust [7] => Should have ascended to the roof of heaven, [8] => Raised by your populous troops: but you are come [9] => A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented [10] => The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, [11] => Is often left unloved; we should have met you [12] => By sea and land; supplying every stage [13] => With an augmented greeting. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, [1] => To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did [2] => On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony, [3] => Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted [4] => My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd [5] => His pardon for return. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which soon he granted, [1] => Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Do not say so, my lord. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have eyes upon him, [1] => And his affairs come to me on the wind. [2] => Where is he now? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => My lord, in Athens. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra [1] => Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire [2] => Up to a whore; who now are levying [3] => The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled [4] => Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus, [5] => Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king [6] => Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas; [7] => King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont; [8] => Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king [9] => Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas, [10] => The kings of Mede and Lycaonia, [11] => With a more larger list of sceptres. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay me, most wretched, [1] => That have my heart parted betwixt two friends [2] => That do afflict each other! ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome hither: [1] => Your letters did withhold our breaking forth; [2] => Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led, [3] => And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart; [4] => Be you not troubled with the time, which drives [5] => O'er your content these strong necessities; [6] => But let determined things to destiny [7] => Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome; [8] => Nothing more dear to me. You are abused [9] => Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods, [10] => To do you justice, make them ministers [11] => Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort; [12] => And ever welcome to us. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Welcome, lady. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome, dear madam. [1] => Each heart in Rome does love and pity you: [2] => Only the adulterous Antony, most large [3] => In his abominations, turns you off; [4] => And gives his potent regiment to a trull, [5] => That noises it against us. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIA [LINE] => Is it so, sir? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you, [1] => Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister! ) ) ) ) [6] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [1] => Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS [2] => Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [3] => Enter a Messenger [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I will be even with thee, doubt it not. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => But why, why, why? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars, [1] => And say'st it is not fit. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Well, is it, is it? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If not denounced against us, why should not we [1] => Be there in person? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => If we should serve with horse and mares together, [2] => The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear [3] => A soldier and his horse. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What is't you say? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your presence needs must puzzle Antony; [1] => Take from his heart, take from his brain, [2] => from's time, [3] => What should not then be spared. He is already [4] => Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome [5] => That Photinus an eunuch and your maids [6] => Manage this war. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sink Rome, and their tongues rot [1] => That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war, [2] => And, as the president of my kingdom, will [3] => Appear there for a man. Speak not against it: [4] => I will not stay behind. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I have done. [1] => Here comes the emperor. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it not strange, Canidius, [1] => That from Tarentum and Brundusium [2] => He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea, [3] => And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Celerity is never more admired [1] => Than by the negligent. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A good rebuke, [1] => Which might have well becomed the best of men, [2] => To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we [3] => Will fight with him by sea. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => By sea! what else? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Why will my lord do so? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => For that he dares us to't. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => So hath my lord dared him to single fight. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia. [1] => Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers, [2] => Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off; [3] => And so should you. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your ships are not well mann'd; [1] => Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people [2] => Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet [3] => Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought: [4] => Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace [5] => Shall fall you for refusing him at sea, [6] => Being prepared for land. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => By sea, by sea. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most worthy sir, you therein throw away [1] => The absolute soldiership you have by land; [2] => Distract your army, which doth most consist [3] => Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted [4] => Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego [5] => The way which promises assurance; and [6] => Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, [7] => From firm security. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => I'll fight at sea. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I have sixty sails, Caesar none better. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Our overplus of shipping will we burn; [1] => And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium [2] => Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail, [3] => We then can do't at land. [4] => Thy business? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Messenger ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The news is true, my lord; he is descried; [1] => Caesar has taken Toryne. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible; [1] => Strange that power should be. Canidius, [2] => Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, [3] => And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship: [4] => Away, my Thetis! [5] => How now, worthy soldier? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Soldier ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O noble emperor, do not fight by sea; [1] => Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt [2] => This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians [3] => And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we [4] => Have used to conquer, standing on the earth, [5] => And fighting foot to foot. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Well, well: away! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => By Hercules, I think I am i' the right. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows [1] => Not in the power on't: so our leader's led, [2] => And we are women's men. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You keep by land [1] => The legions and the horse whole, do you not? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius, [1] => Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea: [2] => But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's [3] => Carries beyond belief. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => While he was yet in Rome, [1] => His power went out in such distractions as [2] => Beguiled all spies. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Who's his lieutenant, hear you? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => They say, one Taurus. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Well I know the man. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => The emperor calls Canidius. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With news the time's with labour, and throes forth, [1] => Each minute, some. ) ) ) ) [7] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Taurus! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => TAURUS [LINE] => My lord? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle, [1] => Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed [2] => The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies [3] => Upon this jump. ) ) ) ) [8] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IX. Another part of the plain. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill, [1] => In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place [2] => We may the number of the ships behold, [3] => And so proceed accordingly. ) ) ) [9] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE X. Another part of the plain. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight [1] => Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [2] => Enter SCARUS [3] => Enter CANIDIUS [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer: [1] => The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, [2] => With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder: [3] => To see't mine eyes are blasted. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gods and goddesses, [1] => All the whole synod of them! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => What's thy passion! ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The greater cantle of the world is lost [1] => With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away [2] => Kingdoms and provinces. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => How appears the fight? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => On our side like the token'd pestilence, [1] => Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,-- [2] => Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight, [3] => When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd, [4] => Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, [5] => The breese upon her, like a cow in June, [6] => Hoists sails and flies. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I beheld: [1] => Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not [2] => Endure a further view. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She once being loof'd, [1] => The noble ruin of her magic, Antony, [2] => Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard, [3] => Leaving the fight in height, flies after her: [4] => I never saw an action of such shame; [5] => Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before [6] => Did violate so itself. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Alack, alack! ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, [1] => And sinks most lamentably. Had our general [2] => Been what he knew himself, it had gone well: [3] => O, he has given example for our flight, [4] => Most grossly, by his own! ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, are you thereabouts? [1] => Why, then, good night indeed. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Toward Peloponnesus are they fled. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend [1] => What further comes. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CANIDIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To Caesar will I render [1] => My legions and my horse: six kings already [2] => Show me the way of yielding. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll yet follow [1] => The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason [2] => Sits in the wind against me. ) ) ) ) [10] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants [1] => Sits down [2] => Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS; EROS following [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't; [1] => It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither: [2] => I am so lated in the world, that I [3] => Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship [4] => Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly, [5] => And make your peace with Caesar. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Fly! not we. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards [1] => To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone; [2] => I have myself resolved upon a course [3] => Which has no need of you; be gone: [4] => My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O, [5] => I follow'd that I blush to look upon: [6] => My very hairs do mutiny; for the white [7] => Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them [8] => For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall [9] => Have letters from me to some friends that will [10] => Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad, [11] => Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint [12] => Which my despair proclaims; let that be left [13] => Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway: [14] => I will possess you of that ship and treasure. [15] => Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now: [16] => Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command, [17] => Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Do, most dear queen. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Do! why: what else? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Let me sit down. O Juno! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => No, no, no, no, no. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => See you here, sir? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => O fie, fie, fie! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Madam! ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Madam, O good empress! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Sir, sir,-- ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept [1] => His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck [2] => The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I [3] => That the mad Brutus ended: he alone [4] => Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had [5] => In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Ah, stand by. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => The queen, my lord, the queen. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to him, madam, speak to him: [1] => He is unqualitied with very shame. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Well then, sustain him: O! ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches: [1] => Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but [2] => Your comfort makes the rescue. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have offended reputation, [1] => A most unnoble swerving. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Sir, the queen. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See, [1] => How I convey my shame out of thine eyes [2] => By looking back what I have left behind [3] => 'Stroy'd in dishonour. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my lord, my lord, [1] => Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought [2] => You would have follow'd. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Egypt, thou knew'st too well [1] => My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, [2] => And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit [3] => Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that [4] => Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods [5] => Command me. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => O, my pardon! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now I must [1] => To the young man send humble treaties, dodge [2] => And palter in the shifts of lowness; who [3] => With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased, [4] => Making and marring fortunes. You did know [5] => How much you were my conqueror; and that [6] => My sword, made weak by my affection, would [7] => Obey it on all cause. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Pardon, pardon! ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates [1] => All that is won and lost: give me a kiss; [2] => Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster; [3] => Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead. [4] => Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows [5] => We scorn her most when most she offers blows. ) ) ) ) [11] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others [1] => Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him appear that's come from Antony. [1] => Know you him? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster: [1] => An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither [2] => He sends so poor a pinion off his wing, [3] => Which had superfluous kings for messengers [4] => Not many moons gone by. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Approach, and speak. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EUPHRONIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Such as I am, I come from Antony: [1] => I was of late as petty to his ends [2] => As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf [3] => To his grand sea. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Be't so: declare thine office. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EUPHRONIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and [1] => Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted, [2] => He lessens his requests; and to thee sues [3] => To let him breathe between the heavens and earth, [4] => A private man in Athens: this for him. [5] => Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness; [6] => Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves [7] => The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs, [8] => Now hazarded to thy grace. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For Antony, [1] => I have no ears to his request. The queen [2] => Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she [3] => From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend, [4] => Or take his life there: this if she perform, [5] => She shall not sue unheard. So to them both. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EUPHRONIUS [LINE] => Fortune pursue thee! ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bring him through the bands. [1] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To THYREUS ) [2] => From Antony win Cleopatra: promise, [3] => And in our name, what she requires; add more, [4] => From thine invention, offers: women are not [5] => In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure [6] => The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus; [7] => Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we [8] => Will answer as a law. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit EUPHRONIUS ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Caesar, I go. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Observe how Antony becomes his flaw, [1] => And what thou think'st his very action speaks [2] => In every power that moves. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Caesar, I shall. ) ) ) [12] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS [1] => Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador [2] => Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS [3] => Enter an Attendant [4] => Exit Attendant [5] => Enter THYREUS [6] => Exit [7] => Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [8] => Exit THYREUS [9] => Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [10] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What shall we do, Enobarbus? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Think, and die. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Is Antony or we in fault for this? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antony only, that would make his will [1] => Lord of his reason. What though you fled [2] => From that great face of war, whose several ranges [3] => Frighted each other? why should he follow? [4] => The itch of his affection should not then [5] => Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point, [6] => When half to half the world opposed, he being [7] => The meered question: 'twas a shame no less [8] => Than was his loss, to course your flying flags, [9] => And leave his navy gazing. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Prithee, peace. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Is that his answer? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EUPHRONIUS [LINE] => Ay, my lord. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The queen shall then have courtesy, so she [1] => Will yield us up. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EUPHRONIUS [LINE] => He says so. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let her know't. [1] => To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head, [2] => And he will fill thy wishes to the brim [3] => With principalities. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => That head, my lord? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To him again: tell him he wears the rose [1] => Of youth upon him; from which the world should note [2] => Something particular: his coin, ships, legions, [3] => May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail [4] => Under the service of a child as soon [5] => As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore [6] => To lay his gay comparisons apart, [7] => And answer me declined, sword against sword, [8] => Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show, [2] => Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are [3] => A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward [4] => Do draw the inward quality after them, [5] => To suffer all alike. That he should dream, [6] => Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will [7] => Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued [8] => His judgment too. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Attendant [LINE] => A messenger from CAESAR. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, no more ceremony? See, my women! [1] => Against the blown rose may they stop their nose [2] => That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => The loyalty well held to fools does make [2] => Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure [3] => To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord [4] => Does conquer him that did his master conquer [5] => And earns a place i' the story. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Caesar's will? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Hear it apart. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => None but friends: say boldly. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => So, haply, are they friends to Antony. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has; [1] => Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master [2] => Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know, [3] => Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So. [1] => Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats, [2] => Not to consider in what case thou stand'st, [3] => Further than he is Caesar. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Go on: right royal. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He knows that you embrace not Antony [1] => As you did love, but as you fear'd him. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => O! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The scars upon your honour, therefore, he [1] => Does pity, as constrained blemishes, [2] => Not as deserved. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is a god, and knows [1] => What is most right: mine honour was not yielded, [2] => But conquer'd merely. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky, [2] => That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for [3] => Thy dearest quit thee. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Shall I say to Caesar [1] => What you require of him? for he partly begs [2] => To be desired to give. It much would please him, [3] => That of his fortunes you should make a staff [4] => To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits, [5] => To hear from me you had left Antony, [6] => And put yourself under his shrowd, [7] => The universal landlord. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What's your name? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => My name is Thyreus. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most kind messenger, [1] => Say to great Caesar this: in deputation [2] => I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt [3] => To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel: [4] => Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear [5] => The doom of Egypt. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis your noblest course. [1] => Wisdom and fortune combating together, [2] => If that the former dare but what it can, [3] => No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay [4] => My duty on your hand. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your Caesar's father oft, [1] => When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in, [2] => Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place, [3] => As it rain'd kisses. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Favours, by Jove that thunders! [1] => What art thou, fellow? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One that but performs [1] => The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest [2] => To have command obey'd. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods [1] => and devils! [2] => Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' [3] => Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, [4] => And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am [5] => Antony yet. [6] => Take hence this Jack, and whip him. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter Attendants ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Than with an old one dying. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Moon and stars! [1] => Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries [2] => That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them [3] => So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name, [4] => Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows, [5] => Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face, [6] => And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => THYREUS [LINE] => Mark Antony! ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tug him away: being whipp'd, [1] => Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall [2] => Bear us an errand to him. [3] => You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha! [4] => Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome, [5] => Forborne the getting of a lawful race, [6] => And by a gem of women, to be abused [7] => By one that looks on feeders? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Good my lord,-- ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have been a boggler ever: [1] => But when we in our viciousness grow hard-- [2] => O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes; [3] => In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us [4] => Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut [5] => To our confusion. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => O, is't come to this? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I found you as a morsel cold upon [1] => Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment [2] => Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours, [3] => Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have [4] => Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure, [5] => Though you can guess what temperance should be, [6] => You know not what it is. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Wherefore is this? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To let a fellow that will take rewards [1] => And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with [2] => My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal [3] => And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were [4] => Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar [5] => The horned herd! for I have savage cause; [6] => And to proclaim it civilly, were like [7] => A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank [8] => For being yare about him. [9] => Is he whipp'd? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Attendant [LINE] => Soundly, my lord. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Attendant [LINE] => He did ask favour. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If that thy father live, let him repent [1] => Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry [2] => To follow Caesar in his triumph, since [3] => Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth [4] => The white hand of a lady fever thee, [5] => Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar, [6] => Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say [7] => He makes me angry with him; for he seems [8] => Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, [9] => Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry; [10] => And at this time most easy 'tis to do't, [11] => When my good stars, that were my former guides, [12] => Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires [13] => Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike [14] => My speech and what is done, tell him he has [15] => Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom [16] => He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture, [17] => As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou: [18] => Hence with thy stripes, begone! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Have you done yet? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alack, our terrene moon [1] => Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone [2] => The fall of Antony! ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I must stay his time. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes [1] => With one that ties his points? ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Not know me yet? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Cold-hearted toward me? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, dear, if I be so, [1] => From my cold heart let heaven engender hail, [2] => And poison it in the source; and the first stone [3] => Drop in my neck: as it determines, so [4] => Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite! [5] => Till by degrees the memory of my womb, [6] => Together with my brave Egyptians all, [7] => By the discandying of this pelleted storm, [8] => Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile [9] => Have buried them for prey! ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am satisfied. [1] => Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where [2] => I will oppose his fate. Our force by land [3] => Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too [4] => Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like. [5] => Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady? [6] => If from the field I shall return once more [7] => To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood; [8] => I and my sword will earn our chronicle: [9] => There's hope in't yet. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => That's my brave lord! ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed, [1] => And fight maliciously: for when mine hours [2] => Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives [3] => Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth, [4] => And send to darkness all that stop me. Come, [5] => Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me [6] => All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more; [7] => Let's mock the midnight bell. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is my birth-day: [1] => I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord [2] => Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => We will yet do well. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Call all his noble captains to my lord. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force [1] => The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen; [2] => There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight, [3] => I'll make death love me; for I will contend [4] => Even with his pestilent scythe. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious, [1] => Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood [2] => The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still, [3] => A diminution in our captain's brain [4] => Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason, [5] => It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek [6] => Some way to leave him. ) ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power [1] => To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger [2] => He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat, [3] => Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know [4] => I have many other ways to die; meantime [5] => Laugh at his challenge. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar must think, [1] => When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted [2] => Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now [3] => Make boot of his distraction: never anger [4] => Made good guard for itself. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let our best heads [1] => Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles [2] => We mean to fight: within our files there are, [3] => Of those that served Mark Antony but late, [4] => Enough to fetch him in. See it done: [5] => And feast the army; we have store to do't, [6] => And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony! ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => He will not fight with me, Domitius. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => No. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Why should he not? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune, [1] => He is twenty men to one. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow, soldier, [1] => By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live, [2] => Or bathe my dying honour in the blood [3] => Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.' ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well said; come on. [1] => Call forth my household servants: let's to-night [2] => Be bounteous at our meal. [3] => Give me thy hand, [4] => Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;-- [5] => Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well, [6] => And kings have been your fellows. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter three or four Servitors ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to CLEOPATRA ) [1] => tricks which sorrow shoots [2] => Out of the mind. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thou art honest too. [1] => I wish I could be made so many men, [2] => And all of you clapp'd up together in [3] => An Antony, that I might do you service [4] => So good as you have done. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => The gods forbid! ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night: [1] => Scant not my cups; and make as much of me [2] => As when mine empire was your fellow too, [3] => And suffer'd my command. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to CLEOPATRA ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tend me to-night; [1] => May be it is the period of your duty: [2] => Haply you shall not see me more; or if, [3] => A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow [4] => You'll serve another master. I look on you [5] => As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends, [6] => I turn you not away; but, like a master [7] => Married to your good service, stay till death: [8] => Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, [9] => And the gods yield you for't! ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What mean you, sir, [1] => To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; [2] => And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, [3] => Transform us not to women. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ho, ho, ho! [1] => Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus! [2] => Grace grow where those drops fall! [3] => My hearty friends, [4] => You take me in too dolorous a sense; [5] => For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you [6] => To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts, [7] => I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you [8] => Where rather I'll expect victorious life [9] => Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come, [10] => And drown consideration. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. Before the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter two Soldiers to their guard [1] => Enter two other Soldiers [2] => They place themselves in every corner of the stage [3] => Music of the hautboys as under the stage [4] => They advance to another post [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It will determine one way: fare you well. [1] => Heard you of nothing strange about the streets? ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Nothing. What news? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Well, sir, good night. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Soldiers, have careful watch. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => And you. Good night, good night. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Fourth Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here we: and if to-morrow [1] => Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope [2] => Our landmen will stand up. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis a brave army, [1] => And full of purpose. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Fourth Soldier [LINE] => Peace! what noise? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => List, list! ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Hark! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Music i' the air. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Under the earth. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Fourth Soldier [LINE] => It signs well, does it not? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => No. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace, I say! [1] => What should this mean? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, [1] => Now leaves him. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Walk; let's see if other watchmen [1] => Do hear what we do? ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => How now, masters! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Speaking together ) [1] => How now! do you hear this? ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Ay; is't not strange? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Do you hear, masters? do you hear? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Follow the noise so far as we have quarter; [1] => Let's see how it will give off. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Content. 'Tis strange. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and others attending [1] => Shout. Trumpets flourish [2] => Enter Captains and Soldiers [3] => Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Eros! mine armour, Eros! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Sleep a little. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros! [1] => Come good fellow, put mine iron on: [2] => If fortune be not ours to-day, it is [3] => Because we brave her: come. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter EROS with armour ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I'll help too. [1] => What's this for? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ah, let be, let be! thou art [1] => The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, well; [1] => We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow? [2] => Go put on thy defences. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Briefly, sir. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Is not this buckled well? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Rarely, rarely: [1] => He that unbuckles this, till we do please [2] => To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm. [3] => Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire [4] => More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love, [5] => That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st [6] => The royal occupation! thou shouldst see [7] => A workman in't. [8] => Good morrow to thee; welcome: [9] => Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: [10] => To business that we love we rise betime, [11] => And go to't with delight. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter an armed Soldier ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A thousand, sir, [1] => Early though't be, have on their riveted trim, [2] => And at the port expect you. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Captain [LINE] => The morn is fair. Good morrow, general. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Good morrow, general. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis well blown, lads: [1] => This morning, like the spirit of a youth [2] => That means to be of note, begins betimes. [3] => So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said. [4] => Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me: [5] => This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable [6] => And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand [7] => On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee [8] => Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight, [9] => Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu. ) [STAGEDIR] => Kisses her ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Please you, retire to your chamber. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lead me. [1] => He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might [2] => Determine this great war in single fight! [3] => Then Antony,--but now--Well, on. ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a Soldier meeting them [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => The gods make this a happy day to Antony! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd [1] => To make me fight at land! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hadst thou done so, [1] => The kings that have revolted, and the soldier [2] => That has this morning left thee, would have still [3] => Follow'd thy heels. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Who's gone this morning? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who! [1] => One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus, [2] => He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp [3] => Say 'I am none of thine.' ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => What say'st thou? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, [1] => He is with Caesar. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, his chests and treasure [1] => He has not with him. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Is he gone? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Most certain. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it; [1] => Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him-- [2] => I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings; [3] => Say that I wish he never find more cause [4] => To change a master. O, my fortunes have [5] => Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus! ) ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others [1] => Exit [2] => Enter a Messenger [3] => Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [4] => Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's [5] => Exit [6] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight: [1] => Our will is Antony be took alive; [2] => Make it so known. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Caesar, I shall. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The time of universal peace is near: [1] => Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world [2] => Shall bear the olive freely. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antony [1] => Is come into the field. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go charge Agrippa [1] => Plant those that have revolted in the van, [2] => That Antony may seem to spend his fury [3] => Upon himself. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on [1] => Affairs of Antony; there did persuade [2] => Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar, [3] => And leave his master Antony: for this pains [4] => Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest [5] => That fell away have entertainment, but [6] => No honourable trust. I have done ill; [7] => Of which I do accuse myself so sorely, [8] => That I will joy no more. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Enobarbus, Antony [1] => Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with [2] => His bounty overplus: the messenger [3] => Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now [4] => Unloading of his mules. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => I give it you. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mock not, Enobarbus. [1] => I tell you true: best you safed the bringer [2] => Out of the host; I must attend mine office, [3] => Or would have done't myself. Your emperor [4] => Continues still a Jove. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am alone the villain of the earth, [1] => And feel I am so most. O Antony, [2] => Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid [3] => My better service, when my turpitude [4] => Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart: [5] => If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean [6] => Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel. [7] => I fight against thee! No: I will go seek [8] => Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits [9] => My latter part of life. ) ) ) ) [6] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VII. Field of battle between the camps. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and others [1] => Exit Act [2] => Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded [3] => Enter EROS [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far: [1] => Caesar himself has work, and our oppression [2] => Exceeds what we expected. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed! [1] => Had we done so at first, we had droven them home [2] => With clouts about their heads. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Thou bleed'st apace. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had a wound here that was like a T, [1] => But now 'tis made an H. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => They do retire. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet [1] => Room for six scotches more. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves [1] => For a fair victory. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us score their backs, [1] => And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind: [2] => 'Tis sport to maul a runner. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will reward thee [1] => Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold [2] => For thy good valour. Come thee on. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => I'll halt after. ) ) ) [7] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS, with others [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have beat him to his camp: run one before, [1] => And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow, [2] => Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood [3] => That has to-day escaped. I thank you all; [4] => For doughty-handed are you, and have fought [5] => Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been [6] => Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors. [7] => Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, [8] => Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears [9] => Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss [10] => The honour'd gashes whole. [11] => Give me thy hand [12] => To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, [13] => Make her thanks bless thee. [14] => O thou day o' the world, [15] => Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all, [16] => Through proof of harness to my heart, and there [17] => Ride on the pants triumphing! ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => To SCARUS [1] => Enter CLEOPATRA, attended [2] => To CLEOPATRA ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lord of lords! [1] => O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from [2] => The world's great snare uncaught? ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My nightingale, [1] => We have beat them to their beds. What, girl! [2] => though grey [3] => Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we [4] => A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can [5] => Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man; [6] => Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand: [7] => Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day [8] => As if a god, in hate of mankind, had [9] => Destroy'd in such a shape. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll give thee, friend, [1] => An armour all of gold; it was a king's. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He has deserved it, were it carbuncled [1] => Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand: [2] => Through Alexandria make a jolly march; [3] => Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them: [4] => Had our great palace the capacity [5] => To camp this host, we all would sup together, [6] => And drink carouses to the next day's fate, [7] => Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters, [8] => With brazen din blast you the city's ear; [9] => Make mingle with rattling tabourines; [10] => That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together, [11] => Applauding our approach. ) ) ) ) [8] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Sentinels at their post [1] => Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [2] => Dies [3] => Exeunt with the body ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If we be not relieved within this hour, [1] => We must return to the court of guard: the night [2] => Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle [3] => By the second hour i' the morn. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This last day was [1] => A shrewd one to's. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => O, bear me witness, night,-- ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => What man is this? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Stand close, and list him. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, [1] => When men revolted shall upon record [2] => Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did [3] => Before thy face repent! ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Enobarbus! ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace! [1] => Hark further. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, [1] => The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, [2] => That life, a very rebel to my will, [3] => May hang no longer on me: throw my heart [4] => Against the flint and hardness of my fault: [5] => Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, [6] => And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, [7] => Nobler than my revolt is infamous, [8] => Forgive me in thine own particular; [9] => But let the world rank me in register [10] => A master-leaver and a fugitive: [11] => O Antony! O Antony! ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Let's speak To him. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let's hear him, for the things he speaks [1] => May concern Caesar. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Let's do so. But he sleeps. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his [1] => Was never yet for sleep. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Go we to him. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Awake, sir, awake; speak to us. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Soldier [LINE] => Hear you, sir? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The hand of death hath raught him. [1] => Hark! the drums [2] => Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him [3] => To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour [4] => Is fully out. ) [STAGEDIR] => Drums afar off ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Soldier [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, then; [1] => He may recover yet. ) ) ) ) [9] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE X. Between the two camps. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Their preparation is to-day by sea; [1] => We please them not by land. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => For both, my lord. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air; [1] => We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot [2] => Upon the hills adjoining to the city [3] => Shall stay with us: order for sea is given; [4] => They have put forth the haven [5] => Where their appointment we may best discover, [6] => And look on their endeavour. ) ) ) ) [10] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XI. Another part of the same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But being charged, we will be still by land, [1] => Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force [2] => Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales, [3] => And hold our best advantage. ) ) ) [11] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XII. Another part of the same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS [1] => Exit [2] => Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight [3] => Re-enter MARK ANTONY [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine [1] => does stand, [2] => I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word [3] => Straight, how 'tis like to go. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SCARUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Swallows have built [1] => In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers [2] => Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly, [3] => And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony [4] => Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts, [5] => His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, [6] => Of what he has, and has not. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All is lost; [1] => This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: [2] => My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder [3] => They cast their caps up and carouse together [4] => Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore! [5] => 'tis thou [6] => Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart [7] => Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly; [8] => For when I am revenged upon my charm, [9] => I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone. [10] => O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more: [11] => Fortune and Antony part here; even here [12] => Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts [13] => That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave [14] => Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets [15] => On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd, [16] => That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am: [17] => O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,-- [18] => Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home; [19] => Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,-- [20] => Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, [21] => Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. [22] => What, Eros, Eros! [23] => Ah, thou spell! Avaunt! ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit SCARUS [1] => Enter CLEOPATRA ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Why is my lord enraged against his love? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving, [1] => And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee, [2] => And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians: [3] => Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot [4] => Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown [5] => For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let [6] => Patient Octavia plough thy visage up [7] => With her prepared nails. [8] => 'Tis well thou'rt gone, [9] => If it be well to live; but better 'twere [10] => Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death [11] => Might have prevented many. Eros, ho! [12] => The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me, [13] => Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage: [14] => Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon; [15] => And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club, [16] => Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die: [17] => To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall [18] => Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho! ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit CLEOPATRA ) ) ) [12] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Help me, my women! O, he is more mad [1] => Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly [2] => Was never so emboss'd. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To the monument! [1] => There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. [2] => The soul and body rive not more in parting [3] => Than greatness going off. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To the monument! [1] => Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself; [2] => Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,' [3] => And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian, [4] => And bring me how he takes my death. [5] => To the monument! ) ) ) ) [13] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XIV. The same. Another room. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS [1] => Re-enter EROS [2] => Turning from him [3] => Kills himself [4] => Enter DERCETAS and Guard [5] => Exeunt Guard [6] => Enter DIOMEDES [7] => Exit DERCETAS [8] => Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY [9] => Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Eros, thou yet behold'st me? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Ay, noble lord. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish; [1] => A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, [2] => A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, [3] => A forked mountain, or blue promontory [4] => With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, [5] => And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen [6] => these signs; [7] => They are black vesper's pageants. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Ay, my lord, ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That which is now a horse, even with a thought [1] => The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, [2] => As water is in water. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => It does, my lord. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My good knave Eros, now thy captain is [1] => Even such a body: here I am Antony: [2] => Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. [3] => I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,-- [4] => Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine; [5] => Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't [6] => A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has [7] => Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory [8] => Unto an enemy's triumph. [9] => Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us [10] => Ourselves to end ourselves. [11] => O! thy vile lady! [12] => She has robb'd me of my sword. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter MARDIAN ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, Antony; [1] => My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled [2] => With thine entirely. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hence, saucy eunuch; peace! [1] => She hath betray'd me and shall die the death. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Death of one person can be paid but once, [1] => And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do [2] => Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake [3] => Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!' [4] => Then in the midst a tearing groan did break [5] => The name of Antony; it was divided [6] => Between her heart and lips: she render'd life, [7] => Thy name so buried in her. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Dead, then? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARDIAN [LINE] => Dead. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done, [1] => And we must sleep. [2] => That thou depart'st hence safe, [3] => Does pay thy labour richly; go. [4] => Off, pluck off: [5] => The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep [6] => The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides! [7] => Heart, once be stronger than thy continent, [8] => Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace. [9] => No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go; [10] => You have been nobly borne. From me awhile. [11] => I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and [12] => Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now [13] => All length is torture: since the torch is out, [14] => Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour [15] => Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles [16] => Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done. [17] => Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me: [18] => Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, [19] => And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: [20] => Dido and her AEneas shall want troops, [21] => And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros! ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => To MARDIAN [1] => Exit MARDIAN [2] => Exit EROS ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => What would my lord? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Since Cleopatra died, [1] => I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods [2] => Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword [3] => Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back [4] => With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack [5] => The courage of a woman; less noble mind [6] => Than she which by her death our Caesar tells [7] => 'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros, [8] => That, when the exigent should come, which now [9] => Is come indeed, when I should see behind me [10] => The inevitable prosecution of [11] => Disgrace and horror, that, on my command, [12] => Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come: [13] => Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st. [14] => Put colour in thy cheek. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The gods withhold me! [1] => Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts, [2] => Though enemy, lost aim, and could not? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Eros, [1] => Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see [2] => Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down [3] => His corrigible neck, his face subdued [4] => To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat [5] => Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded [6] => His baseness that ensued? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => I would not see't. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured. [1] => Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn [2] => Most useful for thy country. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => O, sir, pardon me! ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then [1] => To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once; [2] => Or thy precedent services are all [3] => But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Turn from me, then, that noble countenance, [1] => Wherein the worship of the whole world lies. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Lo thee! ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => My sword is drawn. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then let it do at once [1] => The thing why thou hast drawn it. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My dear master, [1] => My captain, and my emperor, let me say, [2] => Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => 'Tis said, man; and farewell. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Now, Eros. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => EROS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow [1] => Of Antony's death. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thrice-nobler than myself! [1] => Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what [2] => I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros [3] => Have by their brave instruction got upon me [4] => A nobleness in record: but I will be [5] => A bridegroom in my death, and run into't [6] => As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros, [7] => Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus [8] => I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead? [9] => The guard, ho! O, dispatch me! ) [STAGEDIR] => Falling on his sword ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => What's the noise? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end [1] => Of what I have begun. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Guard [LINE] => The star is fall'n. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => And time is at his period. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Alas, and woe! ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Let him that loves me strike me dead. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Not I. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Guard [LINE] => Nor I. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Third Guard [LINE] => Nor any one. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DERCETAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly. [1] => This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, [2] => Shall enter me with him. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Where's Antony? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DERCETAS [LINE] => There, Diomed there. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lives he? [1] => Wilt thou not answer, man? ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me [1] => Sufficing strokes for death. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most absolute lord, [1] => My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => When did she send thee? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Now, my lord. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Where is she? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear [1] => Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw-- [2] => Which never shall be found--you did suspect [3] => She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage [4] => Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead; [5] => But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent [6] => Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come, [7] => I dread, too late. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho! [1] => Come, your lord calls! ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides; [1] => 'Tis the last service that I shall command you. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear [1] => All your true followers out. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Most heavy day! ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate [1] => To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome [2] => Which comes to punish us, and we punish it [3] => Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up: [4] => I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends, [5] => And have my thanks for all. ) ) ) ) [14] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE XV. The same. A monument. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with CHARMIAN and IRAS [1] => Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard [2] => Faints [3] => Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => O Charmian, I will never go from hence. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Be comforted, dear madam. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, I will not: [1] => All strange and terrible events are welcome, [2] => But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow, [3] => Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great [4] => As that which makes it. [5] => How now! is he dead? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter, below, DIOMEDES ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DIOMEDES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His death's upon him, but not dead. [1] => Look out o' the other side your monument; [2] => His guard have brought him thither. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sun, [1] => Burn the great sphere thou movest in! [2] => darkling stand [3] => The varying shore o' the world. O Antony, [4] => Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help; [5] => Help, friends below; let's draw him hither. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace! [1] => Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony, [2] => But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So it should be, that none but Antony [1] => Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am dying, Egypt, dying; only [1] => I here importune death awhile, until [2] => Of many thousand kisses the poor last [3] => I lay up thy lips. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I dare not, dear,-- [1] => Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not, [2] => Lest I be taken: not the imperious show [3] => Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall [4] => Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs, [5] => serpents, have [6] => Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe: [7] => Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes [8] => And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour [9] => Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,-- [10] => Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up: [11] => Assist, good friends. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => O, quick, or I am gone. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord! [1] => Our strength is all gone into heaviness, [2] => That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power, [3] => The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up, [4] => And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,-- [5] => Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come; [6] => And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived: [7] => Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power, [8] => Thus would I wear them out. ) [STAGEDIR] => They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => A heavy sight! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am dying, Egypt, dying: [1] => Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, let me speak; and let me rail so high, [1] => That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, [2] => Provoked by my offence. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One word, sweet queen: [1] => Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O! ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => They do not go together. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentle, hear me: [1] => None about Caesar trust but Proculeius. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My resolution and my hands I'll trust; [1] => None about Caesar. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARK ANTONY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The miserable change now at my end [1] => Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts [2] => In feeding them with those my former fortunes [3] => Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world, [4] => The noblest; and do now not basely die, [5] => Not cowardly put off my helmet to [6] => My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman [7] => Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going; [8] => I can no more. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noblest of men, woo't die? [1] => Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide [2] => In this dull world, which in thy absence is [3] => No better than a sty? O, see, my women, [4] => The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! [5] => O, wither'd is the garland of the war, [6] => The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls [7] => Are level now with men; the odds is gone, [8] => And there is nothing left remarkable [9] => Beneath the visiting moon. ) [STAGEDIR] => MARK ANTONY dies ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O, quietness, lady! ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => She is dead too, our sovereign. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Lady! ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Madam! ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O madam, madam, madam! ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Royal Egypt, Empress! ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Peace, peace, Iras! ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded [1] => By such poor passion as the maid that milks [2] => And does the meanest chares. It were for me [3] => To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; [4] => To tell them that this world did equal theirs [5] => Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught; [6] => Patience is scottish, and impatience does [7] => Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin [8] => To rush into the secret house of death, [9] => Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women? [10] => What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian! [11] => My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look, [12] => Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart: [13] => We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, [14] => what's noble, [15] => Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, [16] => And make death proud to take us. Come, away: [17] => This case of that huge spirit now is cold: [18] => Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend [19] => But resolution, and the briefest end. ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war [1] => Exit [2] => Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY [3] => Exit [4] => Exit [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; [1] => Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks [2] => The pauses that he makes. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Caesar, I shall. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest [1] => Appear thus to us? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DERCETAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am call'd Dercetas; [1] => Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy [2] => Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke, [3] => He was my master; and I wore my life [4] => To spend upon his haters. If thou please [5] => To take me to thee, as I was to him [6] => I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not, [7] => I yield thee up my life. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => What is't thou say'st? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DERCETAS [LINE] => I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The breaking of so great a thing should make [1] => A greater crack: the round world [2] => Should have shook lions into civil streets, [3] => And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony [4] => Is not a single doom; in the name lay [5] => A moiety of the world. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DERCETAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is dead, Caesar: [1] => Not by a public minister of justice, [2] => Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand, [3] => Which writ his honour in the acts it did, [4] => Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, [5] => Splitted the heart. This is his sword; [6] => I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd [7] => With his most noble blood. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look you sad, friends? [1] => The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings [2] => To wash the eyes of kings. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And strange it is, [1] => That nature must compel us to lament [2] => Our most persisted deeds. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His taints and honours [1] => Waged equal with him. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => AGRIPPA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A rarer spirit never [1] => Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us [2] => Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MECAENAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When such a spacious mirror's set before him, [1] => He needs must see himself. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Antony! [1] => I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance [2] => Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce [3] => Have shown to thee such a declining day, [4] => Or look on thine; we could not stall together [5] => In the whole world: but yet let me lament, [6] => With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts, [7] => That thou, my brother, my competitor [8] => In top of all design, my mate in empire, [9] => Friend and companion in the front of war, [10] => The arm of mine own body, and the heart [11] => Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars, [12] => Unreconciliable, should divide [13] => Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends-- [14] => But I will tell you at some meeter season: [15] => The business of this man looks out of him; [16] => We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter an Egyptian ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Egyptian [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress, [1] => Confined in all she has, her monument, [2] => Of thy intents desires instruction, [3] => That she preparedly may frame herself [4] => To the way she's forced to. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bid her have good heart: [1] => She soon shall know of us, by some of ours, [2] => How honourable and how kindly we [3] => Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live [4] => To be ungentle. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Egyptian [LINE] => So the gods preserve thee! ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say, [1] => We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts [2] => The quality of her passion shall require, [3] => Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke [4] => She do defeat us; for her life in Rome [5] => Would be eternal in our triumph: go, [6] => And with your speediest bring us what she says, [7] => And how you find of her. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Caesar, I shall. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gallus, go you along. [1] => Where's Dolabella, [2] => To second Proculeius? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit GALLUS ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => All [LINE] => Dolabella! ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him alone, for I remember now [1] => How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready. [2] => Go with me to my tent; where you shall see [3] => How hardly I was drawn into this war; [4] => How calm and gentle I proceeded still [5] => In all my writings: go with me, and see [6] => What I can show in this. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Alexandria. A room in the monument. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS [1] => Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS, GALLUS and Soldiers [2] => Exit [3] => Drawing a dagger [4] => Enter DOLABELLA [5] => Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers [6] => Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there: Octavius Caesar!' [7] => Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train [8] => CLEOPATRA kneels [9] => Exit SELEUCUS [10] => Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train [11] => Whispers CHARMIAN [12] => Re-enter DOLABELLA [13] => Exit [14] => Exit IRAS. A noise within [15] => Enter a Guardsman [16] => Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket [17] => Setting down his basket [18] => Exit [19] => Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c [20] => Dies [21] => Enter the Guard, rushing in [22] => Dies [23] => Re-enter DOLABELLA [24] => Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!' [25] => Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching [26] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My desolation does begin to make [1] => A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar; [2] => Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave, [3] => A minister of her will: and it is great [4] => To do that thing that ends all other deeds; [5] => Which shackles accidents and bolts up change; [6] => Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug, [7] => The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt; [1] => And bids thee study on what fair demands [2] => Thou mean'st to have him grant thee. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What's thy name? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => My name is Proculeius. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Antony [1] => Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but [2] => I do not greatly care to be deceived, [3] => That have no use for trusting. If your master [4] => Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, [5] => That majesty, to keep decorum, must [6] => No less beg than a kingdom: if he please [7] => To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son, [8] => He gives me so much of mine own, as I [9] => Will kneel to him with thanks. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be of good cheer; [1] => You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing: [2] => Make your full reference freely to my lord, [3] => Who is so full of grace, that it flows over [4] => On all that need: let me report to him [5] => Your sweet dependency; and you shall find [6] => A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness, [7] => Where he for grace is kneel'd to. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray you, tell him [1] => I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him [2] => The greatness he has got. I hourly learn [3] => A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly [4] => Look him i' the face. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This I'll report, dear lady. [1] => Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied [2] => Of him that caused it. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => GALLUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You see how easily she may be surprised: [1] => Guard her till Caesar come. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the monument by a ladder placed against a window, and, having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of the Guard unbar and open the gates [1] => To PROCULEIUS and the Guard ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Royal queen! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen: ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Quick, quick, good hands. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold, worthy lady, hold: [1] => Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this [2] => Relieved, but not betray'd. ) [STAGEDIR] => Seizes and disarms her ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, of death too, [1] => That rids our dogs of languish? ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cleopatra, [1] => Do not abuse my master's bounty by [2] => The undoing of yourself: let the world see [3] => His nobleness well acted, which your death [4] => Will never let come forth. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Where art thou, death? [1] => Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen [2] => Worthy many babes and beggars! ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => O, temperance, lady! ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir; [1] => If idle talk will once be necessary, [2] => I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin, [3] => Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I [4] => Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court; [5] => Nor once be chastised with the sober eye [6] => Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up [7] => And show me to the shouting varletry [8] => Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt [9] => Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud [10] => Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies [11] => Blow me into abhorring! rather make [12] => My country's high pyramides my gibbet, [13] => And hang me up in chains! ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You do extend [1] => These thoughts of horror further than you shall [2] => Find cause in Caesar. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Proculeius, [1] => What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows, [2] => And he hath sent for thee: for the queen, [3] => I'll take her to my guard. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => PROCULEIUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So, Dolabella, [1] => It shall content me best: be gentle to her. [2] => To Caesar I will speak what you shall please, [3] => If you'll employ me to him. ) [STAGEDIR] => To CLEOPATRA ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Say, I would die. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Most noble empress, you have heard of me? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => I cannot tell. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Assuredly you know me. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No matter, sir, what I have heard or known. [1] => You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams; [2] => Is't not your trick? ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => I understand not, madam. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony: [1] => O, such another sleep, that I might see [2] => But such another man! ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => If it might please ye,-- ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck [1] => A sun and moon, which kept their course, [2] => and lighted [3] => The little O, the earth. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Most sovereign creature,-- ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm [1] => Crested the world: his voice was propertied [2] => As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; [3] => But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, [4] => He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, [5] => There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas [6] => That grew the more by reaping: his delights [7] => Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above [8] => The element they lived in: in his livery [9] => Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were [10] => As plates dropp'd from his pocket. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Cleopatra! ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Think you there was, or might be, such a man [1] => As this I dream'd of? ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Gentle madam, no. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You lie, up to the hearing of the gods. [1] => But, if there be, or ever were, one such, [2] => It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff [3] => To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine [4] => And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, [5] => Condemning shadows quite. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hear me, good madam. [1] => Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it [2] => As answering to the weight: would I might never [3] => O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel, [4] => By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites [5] => My very heart at root. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank you, sir, [1] => Know you what Caesar means to do with me? ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => I am loath to tell you what I would you knew. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Nay, pray you, sir,-- ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Though he be honourable,-- ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => He'll lead me, then, in triumph? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Madam, he will; I know't. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Which is the Queen of Egypt? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => It is the emperor, madam. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Arise, you shall not kneel: [1] => I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, the gods [1] => Will have it thus; my master and my lord [2] => I must obey. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take to you no hard thoughts: [1] => The record of what injuries you did us, [2] => Though written in our flesh, we shall remember [3] => As things but done by chance. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sole sir o' the world, [1] => I cannot project mine own cause so well [2] => To make it clear; but do confess I have [3] => Been laden with like frailties which before [4] => Have often shamed our sex. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cleopatra, know, [1] => We will extenuate rather than enforce: [2] => If you apply yourself to our intents, [3] => Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find [4] => A benefit in this change; but if you seek [5] => To lay on me a cruelty, by taking [6] => Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself [7] => Of my good purposes, and put your children [8] => To that destruction which I'll guard them from, [9] => If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we, [1] => Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall [2] => Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels, [1] => I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued; [2] => Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SELEUCUS [LINE] => Here, madam. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord, [1] => Upon his peril, that I have reserved [2] => To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SELEUCUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, [1] => I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril, [2] => Speak that which is not. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => What have I kept back? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => SELEUCUS [LINE] => Enough to purchase what you have made known. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve [1] => Your wisdom in the deed. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See, Caesar! O, behold, [1] => How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours; [2] => And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine. [3] => The ingratitude of this Seleucus does [4] => Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust [5] => Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt [6] => Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes, [7] => Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog! [8] => O rarely base! ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Good queen, let us entreat you. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this, [1] => That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me, [2] => Doing the honour of thy lordliness [3] => To one so meek, that mine own servant should [4] => Parcel the sum of my disgraces by [5] => Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar, [6] => That I some lady trifles have reserved, [7] => Immoment toys, things of such dignity [8] => As we greet modern friends withal; and say, [9] => Some nobler token I have kept apart [10] => For Livia and Octavia, to induce [11] => Their mediation; must I be unfolded [12] => With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me [13] => Beneath the fall I have. [14] => Prithee, go hence; [15] => Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits [16] => Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man, [17] => Thou wouldst have mercy on me. ) [STAGEDIR] => To SELEUCUS ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Forbear, Seleucus. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought [1] => For things that others do; and, when we fall, [2] => We answer others' merits in our name, [3] => Are therefore to be pitied. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Cleopatra, [1] => Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged, [2] => Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours, [3] => Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe, [4] => Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you [5] => Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd; [6] => Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen; [7] => For we intend so to dispose you as [8] => Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep: [9] => Our care and pity is so much upon you, [10] => That we remain your friend; and so, adieu. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => My master, and my lord! ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Not so. Adieu. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not [1] => Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, [1] => And we are for the dark. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hie thee again: [1] => I have spoke already, and it is provided; [2] => Go put it to the haste. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Madam, I will. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Where is the queen? ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Behold, sir. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Dolabella! ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, as thereto sworn by your command, [1] => Which my love makes religion to obey, [2] => I tell you this: Caesar through Syria [3] => Intends his journey; and within three days [4] => You with your children will he send before: [5] => Make your best use of this: I have perform'd [6] => Your pleasure and my promise. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dolabella, [1] => I shall remain your debtor. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I your servant, [1] => Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Farewell, and thanks. [1] => Now, Iras, what think'st thou? [2] => Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown [3] => In Rome, as well as I mechanic slaves [4] => With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall [5] => Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths, [6] => Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded, [7] => And forced to drink their vapour. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit DOLABELLA ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => The gods forbid! ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors [1] => Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers [2] => Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians [3] => Extemporally will stage us, and present [4] => Our Alexandrian revels; Antony [5] => Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see [6] => Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness [7] => I' the posture of a whore. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => O the good gods! ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Nay, that's certain. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => IRAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails [1] => Are stronger than mine eyes. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, that's the way [1] => To fool their preparation, and to conquer [2] => Their most absurd intents. [3] => Now, Charmian! [4] => Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch [5] => My best attires: I am again for Cydnus, [6] => To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go. [7] => Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed; [8] => And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave [9] => To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all. [10] => Wherefore's this noise? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter CHARMIAN ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Guard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is a rural fellow [1] => That will not be denied your highness presence: [2] => He brings you figs. ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let him come in. [1] => What poor an instrument [2] => May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty. [3] => My resolution's placed, and I have nothing [4] => Of woman in me: now from head to foot [5] => I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon [6] => No planet is of mine. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Guardsman ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Guard [LINE] => This is the man. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Avoid, and leave him. [1] => Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, [2] => That kills and pains not? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Guardsman ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party [1] => that should desire you to touch him, for his biting [2] => is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or [3] => never recover. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Rememberest thou any that have died on't? ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of [1] => them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman, [2] => but something given to lie; as a woman should not [3] => do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the [4] => biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes [5] => a very good report o' the worm; but he that will [6] => believe all that they say, shall never be saved by [7] => half that they do: but this is most fallible, the [8] => worm's an odd worm. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Get thee hence; farewell. ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => I wish you all joy of the worm. ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Farewell. ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You must think this, look you, that the worm will [1] => do his kind. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Ay, ay; farewell. ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the [1] => keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no [2] => goodness in worm. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Take thou no care; it shall be heeded. ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is [1] => not worth the feeding. ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Will it eat me? ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You must not think I am so simple but I know the [1] => devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a [2] => woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her [3] => not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the [4] => gods great harm in their women; for in every ten [5] => that they make, the devils mar five. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Well, get thee gone; farewell. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Clown [LINE] => Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm. ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have [1] => Immortal longings in me: now no more [2] => The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: [3] => Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear [4] => Antony call; I see him rouse himself [5] => To praise my noble act; I hear him mock [6] => The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men [7] => To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come: [8] => Now to that name my courage prove my title! [9] => I am fire and air; my other elements [10] => I give to baser life. So; have you done? [11] => Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. [12] => Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell. [13] => Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? [14] => If thou and nature can so gently part, [15] => The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, [16] => Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still? [17] => If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world [18] => It is not worth leave-taking. ) [STAGEDIR] => Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say, [1] => The gods themselves do weep! ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This proves me base: [1] => If she first meet the curled Antony, [2] => He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss [3] => Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou [4] => mortal wretch, [5] => With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate [6] => Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool [7] => Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, [8] => That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass [9] => Unpolicied! ) [STAGEDIR] => To an asp, which she applies to her breast ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O eastern star! ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace, peace! [1] => Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, [2] => That sucks the nurse asleep? ) ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => O, break! O, break! ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLEOPATRA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,-- [1] => O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too. [2] => What should I stay-- ) [STAGEDIR] => Applying another asp to her arm ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In this vile world? So, fare thee well. [1] => Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies [2] => A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close; [3] => And golden Phoebus never be beheld [4] => Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry; [5] => I'll mend it, and then play. ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Where is the queen? ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Speak softly, wake her not. ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Caesar hath sent-- ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Too slow a messenger. [1] => O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee. ) [STAGEDIR] => Applies an asp ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled. ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Guard [LINE] => There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him. ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => What work is here! Charmian, is this well done? ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CHARMIAN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is well done, and fitting for a princess [1] => Descended of so many royal kings. [2] => Ah, soldier! ) ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => How goes it here? ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Guard [LINE] => All dead. ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Caesar, thy thoughts [1] => Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming [2] => To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou [3] => So sought'st to hinder. ) ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O sir, you are too sure an augurer; [1] => That you did fear is done. ) ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bravest at the last, [1] => She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal, [2] => Took her own way. The manner of their deaths? [3] => I do not see them bleed. ) ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Who was last with them? ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A simple countryman, that brought her figs: [1] => This was his basket. ) ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Poison'd, then. ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Caesar, [1] => This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake: [2] => I found her trimming up the diadem [3] => On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood [4] => And on the sudden dropp'd. ) ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O noble weakness! [1] => If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear [2] => By external swelling: but she looks like sleep, [3] => As she would catch another Antony [4] => In her strong toil of grace. ) ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOLABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here, on her breast, [1] => There is a vent of blood and something blown: [2] => The like is on her arm. ) ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Guard [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves [1] => Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves [2] => Upon the caves of Nile. ) ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => OCTAVIUS CAESAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most probable [1] => That so she died; for her physician tells me [2] => She hath pursued conclusions infinite [3] => Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed; [4] => And bear her women from the monument: [5] => She shall be buried by her Antony: [6] => No grave upon the earth shall clip in it [7] => A pair so famous. High events as these [8] => Strike those that make them; and their story is [9] => No less in pity than his glory which [10] => Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall [11] => In solemn show attend this funeral; [12] => And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see [13] => High order in this great solemnity. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )