ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. ACT I. SCENE I.-ALEXANDRIA. A Room in CLEOPATRA'S Palace. Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO. Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our general's, Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights had burst To cool a gipsy's will. Look, where they come! Flourish. Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with Take but good note, and you shall see in him Cleopatra. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Antony. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon❜d. Cleopatra. I'll set a bourn2 how far to be belov'd. Antony. Then inust thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. 1 Renounces. 2 Bound, or limit. Enter an ATTENDANT. Attendant. News, my good lord, from Rome. Cleopatra. Nay, hear them, Antony. Antony. How, my love? You must not stay here longer, your dismission Call in the messengers.-As I am Egypt's queen, Feeds beast as man: The nobleness of life Is, to do thus; when such a mutual pair, [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which, I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet, We stand up peerless. Cleopatra. Excellent falsehood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? Will be himself. Antony. But stirr'd by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours, 3 Offends. 4 Subdue, conquer. 5 Summons. Cleopatra. Hear the ambassadors. Antony. Fye, wrangling queen! Whom every thing becomes; to chide, to laugh, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony. Demetrius. 8 I am full sorry, That he approves the common liar, who Thus speaks of him at Rome: But I will hope SCENE. II-Another Room. Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a SOOTHSAYER. Charmian. Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must change his horns with garlands! Alexas. Soothsayer. Charmian. Is this the man?-Is't you, sir, that know things? Soothsayer. In nature's infinite book of secrecy, A little I can read. Alexas. Show him your hand. Enter ENOBARBUS. Enobarbus. Bring in the banquet quickly: wine enough, Cleopatra's health to drink. 8 Fame. |