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ENOBARBUS  Your presence needs must puzzle Antony, Take from his heart, take from his brain, from’s time What should not then be spared. He is already Traduced for levity, and ’tis said in Rome That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids Manage this war. CLEOPATRA   Sink Rome, and their tongues rot That speak against us! […]

Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus CLEOPATRA   I will be even with thee, doubt it not. ENOBARBUS  But why, why, why? CLEOPATRA   Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars, And sayst it is not fit. ENOBARBUS  Well, is it, is it? CLEOPATRA   Is’t not denounced against us? Why should not we Be there in person? ENOBARBUS  […]

MAECENAS                Welcome, dear madam. Each heart in Rome does love and pity you. Only th’adulterous Antony, most large In his abominations, turns you off, And gives his potent regiment to a trull That noises it against us. OCTAVIA                    Is it so, sir? CAESAR          Most certain. Sister, welcome. Pray you Be ever known to patience. My […]

CAESAR                      Welcome to Rome; Nothing more dear to me. You are abused Beyond the mark of thought, and the high God To do you justice, makes his ministers Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort, And ever welcome to us. AGRIPPA                    Welcome, lady.          (3.6.85-90)   Caesar changes direction a little here; having […]

OCTAVIA                    Ay me most wretched, That have my heart parted betwixt two friends That does afflict each other! CAESAR                      Welcome hither. Your letters did withhold our breaking forth Till we perceived both how you were wrong led And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart. Be you not troubled with the time, which drives O’er […]

CAESAR                      Where is he now? OCTAVIA                                My lord, in Athens. CAESAR          No, my most wrongèd sister. Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire Up to a whore; who now are levying The kings o’th’ earth for war. He hath assembled Bocchus, the King of Libya; Archelaus Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, King […]

OCTAVIA                    Good my lord, To come thus was I not constrained, but did it On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony, Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted My grieved ear withal, whereon I begged His pardon for return. CAESAR                      Which soon he granted, Being an obstruct ’tween his lust and him. OCTAVIA        Do […]

Enter Octavia with her train OCTAVIA        Hail, Caesar, and my lord; hail, most dear Caesar! CAESAR          That ever I should call thee castaway! OCTAVIA        You have not called me so, nor have you cause. CAESAR          Why have you stol’n upon us thus? You come not Like Caesar’s sister. The wife of Antony Should have an […]

AGRIPPA                    Sir, this should be answered. CAESAR          ’Tis done already, and the messenger gone. I have told him Lepidus was grown too cruel, That he his high authority abused And did deserve his change. For what I have conquered, I grant him part; but then in his Armenia, And other of his conquered kingdoms, I […]

MAECENAS                Let Rome be thus informed. AGRIPPA        Who, queasy with his insolence already, Will their good thoughts call from him. CAESAR                      The people know it, And have now received his accusations. AGRIPPA        Who does he accuse? CAESAR                      Caesar, and that having in Sicily Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him His part o’th’ isle. […]