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A family alliance is here contracted with Octavia , the sister of Cæsar , who
becomes the wife of Antony , and accompanies her husband to his seat of
government , after the seeming restoration of public tranquillity . The success of
Cæsar , who ...
A family alliance is here contracted with Octavia , the sister of Cæsar , who
becomes the wife of Antony , and accompanies her husband to his seat of
government , after the seeming restoration of public tranquillity . The success of
Cæsar , who ...
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Fulvia thy wife is dead . Ant . Where died she ? 2 Mes . In Sicyon : Her length of
sickness , with what else more serious Importeth thee to know , this bears . [ gives
a letter . Ant . Forbear me . [ Erit Messenger . There ' s a great spirit gone !
Fulvia thy wife is dead . Ant . Where died she ? 2 Mes . In Sicyon : Her length of
sickness , with what else more serious Importeth thee to know , this bears . [ gives
a letter . Ant . Forbear me . [ Erit Messenger . There ' s a great spirit gone !
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... Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars Which ' fronted 3 mine own
peace . As for my wife , I would you had her spirit in such another : The third o '
the world is yours , which with a snaffle You may pace easy ; but not such a wife ...
... Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars Which ' fronted 3 mine own
peace . As for my wife , I would you had her spirit in such another : The third o '
the world is yours , which with a snaffle You may pace easy ; but not such a wife ...
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You have said , sir . We looked not for Mark Antony here : pray you , is he married
to Cleopatra ? Eno . Cæsar's sister is called Octavia . Menas . True , sir ; she was
the wife of Caius Marcellus . Eno . But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius .
You have said , sir . We looked not for Mark Antony here : pray you , is he married
to Cleopatra ? Eno . Cæsar's sister is called Octavia . Menas . True , sir ; she was
the wife of Caius Marcellus . Eno . But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius .
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Look here , love ; This diamond was my mother's : take it , heart ; But keep it till
you woo another wife , When Imogen is dead . Post . How ! how ! another ? You
gentle gods , give me but this I have , And sear1 up my embracements from a
next ...
Look here , love ; This diamond was my mother's : take it , heart ; But keep it till
you woo another wife , When Imogen is dead . Post . How ! how ! another ? You
gentle gods , give me but this I have , And sear1 up my embracements from a
next ...
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Page 27 - tis as soon Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more, Than could his war resisted. Cffis. Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow ; whom thou fought'st against, Though daintily brought up, with patience more Than savages could suffer...
Page 32 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Page 145 - His legs bestrid the ocean : his rear'd arm Crested the world : his voice was propertied, As all the tuned spheres : and that to friends ; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder.
Page 43 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature ; on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did. Agr. O ! rare for Antony. Eno. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 133 - I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.— Cleo.
Page 123 - O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more : Fortune and Antony part here ; even here Do we shake hands. — All come to this ? — The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Cassar ; and this pine is bark'd, That overtopp'd them all.
Page 141 - 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, and never palates more the dung, The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.
Page 44 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs.
Page 126 - That, which is now a horse , even with a thought, The rack dislimns , and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does , my lord. Ant. My good knave , Eros , now thy captain is Even such a body : here I am Antony , Yet cannot hold this visible shape , my knave.
Page 152 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
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| Title | Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline Volume 12 of The Plays of Shakspeare: In Fourteen Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | L.A. Lewis, 125, Fleet Street., 1841 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
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