AMBASSADOR           Such as I am, I come from Antony. I was of late as petty to his ends As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf To his grand sea. CAESAR                      Be’t so. Declare thine office. AMBASSADOR           Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and Requires to live in Egypt; which not granted, He lessens […]

Enter Caesar, Agrippa, and Dolabella, with others [including Thidias] CAESAR          Let him appear that’s come from Antony. Know you him? DOLABELLA   Caesar, ’tis his schoolmaster; An argument that he is plucked, when hither He sends so poor a pinion of his wing, Which had superfluous kings for messengers Not many moons gone by. Enter Ambassador […]

ANTONY         Fall not a tear, I say. One of them rates All that is won and lost. Give me a kiss. [He kisses her] Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster; Is a come back? Love, I am full of lead. Some wine within there, and our viands! Fortune knows We scorn her most when […]

ANTONY                     Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge And palter in the shifts of lowness, who With half the bulk o’th’ world played as I pleased, Making and marring fortunes. You did know How much you were my conqueror, and that My sword, made weak by my affection, would Obey it […]

CLEOPATRA  O, my lord, my lord, Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought You would have followed. ANTONY         Egypt, thou knew’st too well My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’ strings, And thou shouldst tow me after. O’er my spirit Thy full supremacy thou knew’st, and that Thy beck might from the bidding […]

EROS   Most noble sir, arise. The Queen approaches. Her head’s declined, and death will seize her but Your comfort makes the rescue. ANTONY         I have offended reputation; A most unnoble swerving. EROS   Sir, the Queen. ANTONY         O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See How I convey my shame out of thine eyes By looking […]

ANTONY         Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept His sword e’en like a dancer, while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and ’twas I That the mad Brutus ended. He alone Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had In the brave squares of war. Yet now—no matter. CLEOPATRA  [rising, to Charmian and Iras] Ah, […]

[He] sits down Enter Cleopatra led by Charmian[, Iras,] and Eros EROS   Nay, gentle madam, to him. Comfort him. IRAS    Do, most dear Queen. CHARMIAN    Do. Why, what else? CLEOPATRA  Let me sit down. O, Juno! [She sits down] ANTONY         No, no, no, no, no. EROS   [to Antony] See you here, sir? ANTONY         O fie, fie, […]

ANTONY         Friends, be gone. You shall Have letters from me to some friends that will Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad, Nor make replies of loathness. Take the hint Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left Which leaves itself. To the seaside straightway! I will possess you of that ship […]

ANTONY         I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone. I have myself resolved upon a course Which has no need of you. Be gone. My treasure’s in the harbour. Take it. O, I followed that I blush to look upon. My very hairs do mutiny, for […]