CLEOPATRA   Is this certain? MESSENGER  Or I have no observance. CHARMIAN                 Three in Egypt Cannot make better note. CLEOPATRA   He’s very knowing, I do perceive’t. There’s nothing in her yet. The fellow has good judgement. CHARMIAN                             Excellent. CLEOPATRA   [to Messenger] Guess at her years, I prithee. MESSENGER  Madam, She was a widow— CLEOPATRA               Widow? Charmian, hark. […]

CLEOPATRA  Is she as tall as me? MESSENGER  She is not, madam. CLEOPATRA  Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low? MESSENGER  Madam, I heard her speak. She is low-voiced. CLEOPATRA  That’s not so good. He cannot like her long. CHARMIAN    Like her? O, Isis, ’tis impossible! CLEOPATRA  I think so, Charmian. Dull of […]

Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas CLEOPATRA   Where is the fellow? ALEXAS                                   Half afeard to come. CLEOPATRA   Go to, go to. Enter the Messenger as before Come hither, sir. ALEXAS           Good majesty, Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you But when you are well pleased. CLEOPATRA               That Herod’s head I’ll have; but how, when […]

CAESAR                      No, sweet Octavia, You shall hear from me still. The time shall not Outgo my thinking on you. ANTONY                     Come, sir, come, I’ll wrestle with you in my strength of love. Look, here I have you [embracing Caesar]; thus I let you go, And give you to the gods. CAESAR                      Adieu, be happy. LEPIDUS         Let […]

ENOBARBUS  [aside to Agrippa] Will Caesar weep? AGRIPPA        [aside to Enobarbus] He has a cloud in’s face. ENOBARBUS  [aside to Agrippa] He were the worse for that, were he a horse; So is he, being a man. AGRIPPA        [aside to Enobarbus] Why, Enobarbus, When Antony found Julius Caesar dead He cried almost to roaring, and he wept When at […]

OCTAVIA        [weeping] My noble brother! ANTONY         The April’s in her eyes; it is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on.—Be cheerful. OCTAVIA        [to Caesar] Sir, look well to my husband’s house, and— CAESAR          What, Octavia? OCTAVIA        I’ll tell you in your ear.  [She whispers to Caesar] ANTONY         Her tongue will not obey her heart, […]

ANTONY                     Make me not offended In your distrust. CAESAR                      I have said. ANTONY                                 You shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause For what you seem to fear. So, the gods keep you, And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends. We will here part. CAESAR          Farewell, my dearest sister, fare […]

Enter Caesar, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavia ANTONY         [to Caesar] No further, sir. CAESAR          You take from me a great part of myself. Use me well in’t. Sister, prove such a wife As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony, Let not the piece of virtue which […]

ENOBARBUS  Spoke you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil? AGRIPPA         O, Antony, O, thou Arabian bird! ENOBARBUS  Would you praise Caesar, say ‘Caesar’; go no further. AGRIPPA         Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises. ENOBARBUS  But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony— Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, […]

Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another AGRIPPA         What, are the brothers parted? ENOBARBUS  They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone. The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps To part from Rome, Caesar is sad, and Lepidus Since Pompey’s feast, as Menas says, is troubled With the green-sickness. AGRIPPA                     ’Tis a noble Lepidus. […]