ENOBARBUS The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumèd that The winds were love-sick with them. The oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description. She […]
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The barge she sat in (finally…) (2.2.184-91) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
MAECENAS She’s a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her. ENOBARBUS When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. AGRIPPA There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her. ENOBARBUS I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne Burned on […]
Continue ReadingHOW much roast wild boar?? (2.2.172-183) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
MAECENAS [to Enobarbus] Welcome from Egypt, sir. ENOBARBUS Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Maecenas! My honourable friend, Agrippa! AGRIPPA Good Enobarbus! MAECENAS We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. You stayed well by’t in Egypt. ENOBARBUS Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance, and made the night light with drinking. MAECENAS […]
Continue ReadingWedding first, then battle, yes? (2.2.159-171) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
LEPIDUS Time calls upon’s. Of us must Pompey presently be sought, Or else he seeks out us. ANTONY Where lies he? CAESAR About the Mount Misena. ANTONY What is his strength By land? CAESAR Great and increasing, but by sea He is an absolute master. ANTONY So is the fame. Would we had spoke together. […]
Continue ReadingAntony and Caesar, deal done – now, what about Pompey? (2.2.150-159) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
CAESAR There’s my hand. A sister I bequeath you whom no brother Did ever love so dearly. Let her live To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never Fly off our loves again. LEPIDUS Happily, amen. ANTONY I did not think to draw my sword ’gainst Pompey, For he hath laid strange courtesies and […]
Continue ReadingBrilliant idea! I’ll marry Octavia (says Antony), can’t think of anything better! (2.2.140-150) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
ANTONY Will Caesar speak? CAESAR Not till he hears how Antony is touched With what is spoke already. ANTONY What power is in Agrippa, If I would say ‘Agrippa, be it so’, To make this good? CAESAR The power of Caesar, And his power unto Octavia. ANTONY May I never To this good purpose, that […]
Continue ReadingAgrippa: if Antony marries Octavia EVERYTHING will be better! (2.2.132-140) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
AGRIPPA By this marriage All little jealousies which now seem great, And all great fears which now import their dangers, Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both Would each to other and all loves to both Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke, For […]
Continue ReadingIf Antony marries Octavia he and Caesar can be brothers for ever!! (2.2.126-132) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
AGRIPPA To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts With an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men; Whose virtue and whose general graces speak That which none else can utter. (2.2.126-132) Agrippa is […]
Continue ReadingAgrippa: so I have a cunning plan (2.2.117-125) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
AGRIPPA Give me leave, Caesar. CAESAR Speak, Agrippa. AGRIPPA Thou hast a sister by the mother’s side, Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony Is now a widower. CAESAR Say not so, Agrippa. If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof Were well deserved of rashness. ANTONY I am not married, Caesar. Let me hear Agrippa further speak. (2.2.117-125) […]
Continue ReadingCaesar to Antony: we’ve GOT to join together and make this work (2.2.108-116) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
ENOBARBUS That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. ANTONY You wrong this presence, therefore speak no more. ENOBARBUS Go to then; your considerate stone. CAESAR I do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his speech, for’t cannot be We shall remain in friendship, our conditions So diff’ring in their acts. […]
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