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THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. Enter Caesar with his army and Taurus marching. CAESAR.Taurus! TAURUS.My lord? CAESAR.Strike not by land; keep whole; provoke not battleTill we have done at sea. Do not exceedThe prescript…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. Enter Caesar with his army and Taurus marching. CAESAR.Taurus! TAURUS.My lord? CAESAR.Strike not by land; keep whole; provoke not battleTill we have done at sea. Do not exceedThe prescript…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VII. Antony’s Camp near the Promontory of Actium. 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 warsAnd…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VI. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House. Enter Agrippa, Maecenas and Caesar. CAESAR.Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and moreIn Alexandria. Here’s the manner of ’t:I’ th’ market-place, on a tribunal silvered,Cleopatra…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE V. Athens. Another Room in Antony’s House. Enter Enobarbus and Eros meeting. ENOBARBUS.How now, friend Eros? EROS.There’s strange news come, sir. ENOBARBUS.What, man? EROS.Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey. ENOBARBUS.This is old.…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE IV. Athens. A Room in Antony’s House. Enter Antony and Octavia. ANTONY.Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that—That were excusable, that and thousands moreOf semblable import—but he hath wagedNew wars ’gainst Pompey; made his…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Alexas. CLEOPATRA.Where is the fellow? ALEXAS.Half afeared to come. CLEOPATRA.Go to, go to. Enter a Messenger as before. Come hither, sir. ALEXAS.Good majesty,Herod…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE II. Rome. An Ante-chamber in Caesar’s house. 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 weepsTo…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare ACT III SCENE I. A plain in Syria. Enter Ventidius as it were in triumph, with Silius and other Romans, Officers and Soldiers; the dead body of Pacorus borne before him. VENTIDIUS.Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck,…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VII. On board Pompey’s Galley, lying near Misenum. Music. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet. FIRST SERVANT.Here they’ll be, man. Some o’ their plants are ill-rooted already; the least wind…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE VI. Near Misenum. Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with drum and trumpet; at another, Caesar, Lepidus, Antony, Enobarbus, Maecenas, Agrippa, with Soldiers marching. POMPEY.Your hostages I have, so have you mine,And we shall…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Alexas. CLEOPATRA.Give me some music—music, moody foodOf us that trade in love. ALL.The music, ho! Enter Mardian, the eunuch. CLEOPATRA.Let it…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE IV. Rome. A street. Enter Lepidus, Maecenas and Agrippa. LEPIDUS.Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you hastenYour generals after. AGRIPPA.Sir, Mark AntonyWill e’en but kiss Octavia, and we’ll follow. LEPIDUS.Till I shall see you…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE III. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House. Enter Antony, Caesar, Octavia between them. ANTONY.The world and my great office will sometimesDivide me from your bosom. OCTAVIA.All which timeBefore the gods my knee…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE II. Rome. A Room in the House of Lepidus. Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus. LEPIDUS.Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed,And shall become you well, to entreat your captainTo soft and gentle speech. ENOBARBUS.I shall…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare ACT II SCENE I. Messina. A Room in Pompey’s house. Enter Pompey, Menecrates and Menas in warlike manner. POMPEY.If the great gods be just, they shall assistThe deeds of justest men. MENECRATES.Know, worthy Pompey,That what…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Mardian. CLEOPATRA.Charmian! CHARMIAN.Madam? CLEOPATRA.Ha, ha!Give me to drink mandragora. CHARMIAN.Why, madam? CLEOPATRA.That I might sleep out this great gap of timeMy…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE IV. Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House. Enter Octavius [Caesar], Lepidus and their train. CAESAR.You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,It is not Caesar’s natural vice to hateOur great competitor. From AlexandriaThis…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE IV. Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House. Enter Octavius [Caesar], Lepidus and their train. CAESAR.You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,It is not Caesar’s natural vice to hateOur great competitor. From AlexandriaThis…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas and Iras. CLEOPATRA.Where is he? CHARMIAN.I did not see him since. CLEOPATRA.See where he is, who’s with him, what he does.I did…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare SCENE II. Alexandria. Another Room in Cleopatra’s palace. Enter Enobarbus, a Soothsayer, Charmian, Iras, Mardian and Alexas. CHARMIAN.Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where’s the soothsayer that you praised so to…

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA by William Shakespeare ACT I SCENE I. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace. Enter Demetrius and Philo. PHILO.Nay, but this dotage of our general’sO’erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes,That o’er the files and musters of the…