ANTONY         To let a fellow that will take rewards And say ‘God quite you’ be familiar with My playfellow your hand, this kingly seal And plighter of high hearts! O that I were Upon the hill of Basan to outroar The hornèd herd! For I have savage cause, And to proclaim it civilly were like […]

ANTONY         I found you as a morsel cold upon Dead Caesar’s trencher; nay, you were a fragment Of Gnaeus Pompey’s, besides what hotter hours Unregistered in vulgar fame you have Luxuriously picked out. For I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is. CLEOPATRA              Wherefore is this?     […]

ANTONY         You were half blasted ere I knew you. Ha, Have I my pillow left unpressed in Rome, Forborne the getting of a lawful race, And by a gem of women, to be abused By one that looks on feeders? CLEOPATRA              Good my lord— ANTONY         You have been a boggler ever. But when we in […]

ANTONY                                 Moon and stars! Whip him! Were’t twenty of the greatest tributaries That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them So saucy with the hand of she here—what’s her name Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows, Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Take him hence. […]

ANTONY         [calling] Approach, there!—Ah, you kite! Now, gods and devils, Authority melts from me of late. When I cried ‘Ho!’, Like boys unto a muss kings would start forth, And cry ‘Your will?’—Have you no ears? I am Antony yet. [Enter servants] Take hence this jack, and whip him. ENOBARBUS  [aside to Thidias] ’Tis better playing with […]

CLEOPATRA  Your Caesar’s father oft, When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in, Bestowed his lips on that unworthy place, As it rained kisses. Enter Antony and Enobarbus ANTONY                     Favours, by Jove that thunders! What art thou, fellow? THIDIAS                     One that but performs The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest To have command obeyed. […]

CLEOPATRA              Most kind messenger, Say to great Caesar this in deputation: I kiss his conqu’ring hand. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at’s feet, and there to kneel Till from his all-obeying breath I hear The doom of Egypt. THIDIAS                     ’Tis your noblest course. Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the […]