Enter Proculeius PROCULEIUS Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt, And bids thee study on what fair demands Thou mean’st to have him grant thee. CLEOPATRA                          What’s thy name? PROCULEIUS My name is Proculeius. CLEOPATRA                             Antony Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but I do not greatly care to be deceived, […]

CW: suicide Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras. CLEOPATRA  My desolation does begin to make A better life. ’Tis paltry to be Caesar. Not being Fortune, he’s but Fortune’s knave, A minister of her will. And it is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change, Which sleeps […]

CAESAR          Gallus, go you along. Where’s Dolabella, [Exit Gallus] To second Proculeius? ALL BUT CAESAR                  Dolabella! CAESAR          Let him alone; for I remember now How he’s employed. He shall in time be ready. Go with me to my tent, where you shall see How hardly I was drawn into this war, How calm and […]

CW: suicide   CAESAR                      Bid her have good heart. She soon shall know of us, by some of ours, How honourable and how kindly we Determine for her. For Caesar cannot lean To be ungentle. EGYPTIAN                  So; the gods preserve thee! Exit CAESAR          Come hither, Proculeius. Go, and say We purpose her no shame. Give […]

CAESAR                      Hear me, good friends— Enter an Egyptian But I will tell you at some meeter season. The business of this man looks out of him; We’ll hear him what he says.—Whence are you? EGYPTIAN      A poor Egyptian, yet the Queen my mistress, Confined in all she has, her monument, Of thy intents desires instruction, […]

CAESAR                      O, Antony, I have followed thee to this. But we do lance Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce Have shown to thee such a declining day, Or look on thine. We could not stall together In the whole world. But yet let me lament, With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts, […]

CAESAR                      Look you, sad friends, The gods rebuke me; but it is tidings To wash the eyes of kings. GALLUS                       And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds. MAECENAS                His taints and honours Waged equal with him. GALLUS                       A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you […]

DERCETUS                 He is dead, Caesar, Not by a public minister of justice, Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand Which writ his honour in the acts it did Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, Splitted the heart. This is his sword; I robbed his wound of it. Behold it […]

CAESAR                      What is’t thou sayst? DERCETUS     I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead. CAESAR          The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack. The round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A […]

Enter Caesar [with his council of war]: Agrippa, Dolabella, Maecenas, [Gallus, and Proculeius] CAESAR          Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield. Being so frustrate, tell him how he mocks The pauses that he makes. DOLABELLA               Caesar, I shall. [Exit] Enter Dercetus with the sword of Antony CAESAR          Wherefore is that? And what art thou that […]