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He hath indeed better bettered expectation.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act I Scene 1

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1

Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2]

Alexas

119

You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.

2

Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3]

Cleopatra

336

Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words: no going then;
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn'd the greatest liar.

3

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2]

Agrippa

835

To hold you in perpetual amity,
To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot, take Antony
Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
That which none else can utter. By this marriage,
All little jealousies, which now seem great,
And all great fears, which now import their dangers,
Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,
Where now half tales be truths: her love to both
Would, each to other and all loves to both,
Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;
For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,
By duty ruminated.

4

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 3]

Soothsayer

1008

To none but thee; no more, but when to thee.
If thou dost play with him at any game,
Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,
He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,
When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit
Is all afraid to govern thee near him;
But, he away, 'tis noble.

5

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5]

Cleopatra

1058

And when good will is show'd, though't come
too short,
The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:
Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,
My music playing far off, I will betray
Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,
I'll think them every one an Antony,
And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'

6

Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 7]

Cleopatra

1998

I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.

7

Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 13]

Cleopatra

2303

None but friends: say boldly.

8

Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 5]

Soldier

2684

Who!
One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,
He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp
Say 'I am none of thine.'

9

Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 15]

Cleopatra

3185

So it should be, that none but Antony
Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!

10

Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 15]

Antony

3223

Gentle, hear me:
None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.

11

Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 15]

Cleopatra

3225

My resolution and my hands I'll trust;
None about Caesar.

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