The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

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ORDER	STAGE	ACT	SCENE	CHARACTER	LINE
1	(stage directions)	1	1		[Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO]
2		1	1	PHILO	Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. [Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,] the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her] Look, where they come: Take but good note, and you shall see in him. The triple pillar of the world transform'd Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.
3		1	1	CLEOPATRA	If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
4		1	1	ANTONY	There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
5		1	1	CLEOPATRA	I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
6		1	1	ANTONY	Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
7	(stage directions)	1	1		[Enter an Attendant]
8		1	1	ATTENDANT	News, my good lord, from Rome.
9		1	1	ANTONY	Grates me: the sum.
10		1	1	CLEOPATRA	Nay, hear them, Antony: Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'
11		1	1	ANTONY	How, my love!
12		1	1	CLEOPATRA	Perchance! nay, and most like: You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both? Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen, Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!
13		1	1	ANTONY	Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair [Embracing] And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
14		1	1	CLEOPATRA	Excellent falsehood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony Will be himself.
15		1	1	ANTONY	But stirr'd by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives should stretch Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?
16		1	1	CLEOPATRA	Hear the ambassadors.
17		1	1	ANTONY	Fie, wrangling queen! Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weep; whose every passion fully strives To make itself, in thee, fair and admired! No messenger, but thine; and all alone To-night we'll wander through the streets and note The qualities of people. Come, my queen; Last night you did desire it: speak not to us. [Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with] their train]
18		1	1	DEMETRIUS	Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?
19		1	1	PHILO	Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony.
20		1	1	DEMETRIUS	I am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!
21	(stage directions)	1	1		[Exeunt]
22	(stage directions)	1	2		[Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer]
23		1	2	CHARMIAN	Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands!
24		1	2	ALEXAS	Soothsayer!
25		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	Your will?
26		1	2	CHARMIAN	Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?
27		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
28		1	2	ALEXAS	Show him your hand.
29	(stage directions)	1	2		[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
30		1	2	DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS	Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink.
31		1	2	CHARMIAN	Good sir, give me good fortune.
32		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	I make not, but foresee.
33		1	2	CHARMIAN	Pray, then, foresee me one.
34		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	You shall be yet far fairer than you are.
35		1	2	CHARMIAN	He means in flesh.
36		1	2	IRAS	No, you shall paint when you are old.
37		1	2	CHARMIAN	Wrinkles forbid!
38		1	2	ALEXAS	Vex not his prescience; be attentive.
39		1	2	CHARMIAN	Hush!
40		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	You shall be more beloving than beloved.
41		1	2	CHARMIAN	I had rather heat my liver with drinking.
42		1	2	ALEXAS	Nay, hear him.
43		1	2	CHARMIAN	Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.
44		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
45		1	2	CHARMIAN	O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
46		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach.
47		1	2	CHARMIAN	Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?
48		1	2	SOOTHSAYER	If every of your wishes had a womb. And fertile every wish, a million.
49		1	2	CHARMIAN	Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.
50		1	2	ALEXAS	You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.

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A tragedy written in 1606 by William Shakespeare