Faculty of English

CLEOPATRA  Sir, I will eat no meat. I’ll not drink, sir. If idle talk will once be necessary, I’ll not sleep, neither. This mortal house I’ll ruin, Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I Will not wait pinioned at your master’s court, Nor once be chastised with the sober eye Of dull Octavia. […]

CW: suicide   CLEOPATRA  [drawing a dagger] Quick, quick, good hands! PROCULEIUS             [disarming Cleopatra] Hold, worthy lady, hold! Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this Relieved but not betrayed. CLEOPATRA               What, of death too, That rids our dogs of languish? PROCULEIUS              Cleopatra, Do not abuse my master’s bounty by Th’undoing of yourself. Let […]

CLEOPATRA              Pray you, tell him I am his fortune’s vassal, and I send him The greatness he has got. I hourly learn A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly Look him i’th’ face. PROCULEIUS             This I’ll report, dear lady; Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied Of him that caused it.  [Enter Gallus […]

PROCULEIUS Be of good cheer. You’re fall’n into a princely hand; fear nothing. Make your full reference freely to my lord, Who is so full of grace that it flows over On all that need. Let me report to him Your sweet dependency, and you shall find A conqueror that will pray in aid for […]

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, […]