Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Antony and Cleopatra"
Total: 187

1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO]

2

I,1,22

Antony. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

(stage directions). [Enter an Attendant]

3

I,1,77

Demetrius. I am full sorry
That he approves the common liar, who
Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope
Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

4

I,2,78

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer]

5

I,2,90

Alexas. Show him your hand.

(stage directions). [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

6

I,2,156

Charmian. Not he; the queen.

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA]

7

I,2,168

Cleopatra. We will not look upon him: go with us.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

8

I,2,169

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants]

9

I,2,198

Messenger. At your noble pleasure.

(stage directions). [Exit]

10

I,2,212

Second Messenger. In Sicyon:
Her length of sickness, with what else more serious
Importeth thee to know, this bears.

(stage directions). [Gives a letter]

11

I,2,224

Antony. Forbear me.
[Exit Second Messenger]
There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:
What our contempt doth often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;
The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.
I must from this enchanting queen break off:
Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,
My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!

(stage directions). [Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

12

I,2,240

Antony. She is cunning past man's thought.

(stage directions). [Exit ALEXAS]

13

I,2,293

Domitius Enobarus. I shall do't.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

14

I,3,294

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]

15

I,3,301

Cleopatra. See where he is, who's with him, what he does:
I did not send you: if you find him sad,
Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report
That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.

(stage directions). [Exit ALEXAS]

16

I,3,311

Charmian. Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:
In time we hate that which we often fear.
But here comes Antony.

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY]

17

I,3,421

Antony. Let us go. Come;
Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

18

I,4,422

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS,]
and their Train]

19

I,4,459

Octavius. You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not
Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;
To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit
And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;
To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet
With knaves that smell of sweat: say this
becomes him,—
As his composure must be rare indeed
Whom these things cannot blemish,—yet must Antony
No way excuse his soils, when we do bear
So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd
His vacancy with his voluptuousness,
Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,
Call on him for't: but to confound such time,
That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud
As his own state and ours,—'tis to be chid
As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,
Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,
And so rebel to judgment.

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

20

I,4,519

Octavius. Doubt not, sir;
I knew it for my bond.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

21

I,5,520

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]

22

I,5,560

Cleopatra. O Charmian,
Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?
Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,
Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'
For so he calls me: now I feed myself
With most delicious poison. Think on me,
That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,
And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,
When thou wast here above the ground, I was
A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey
Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;
There would he anchor his aspect and die
With looking on his life.

(stage directions). [Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR]

23

I,5,613

Cleopatra. My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

24

II,1,614

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in]
warlike manner]

25

II,1,679

Pompey. I know not, Menas,
How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
Were't not that we stand up against them all,
'Twere pregnant they should square between
themselves;
For they have entertained cause enough
To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
May cement their divisions and bind up
The petty difference, we yet not know.
Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands
Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
Come, Menas.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

26

II,2,680

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS]

27

II,2,699

Lepidus. Your speech is passion:
But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
The noble Antony.

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS]

28

II,2,701

Domitius Enobarus. And yonder, Caesar.

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]

29

II,2,718

Antony. 'Tis spoken well.
Were we before our armies, and to fight.
I should do thus.

(stage directions). [Flourish]

30

II,2,976

Domitius Enobarus. Humbly, sir, I thank you.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

31

II,3,977

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between]
them, and Attendants]

32

II,3,990

Octavius. Good night.

(stage directions). [Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA]

33

II,3,991

(stage directions). [Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA]

(stage directions). [Enter Soothsayer]

34

II,3,1031

Antony. Get thee gone:
Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:
[Exit Soothsayer]
He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,
He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;
And in our sports my better cunning faints
Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;
His cocks do win the battle still of mine,
When it is all to nought; and his quails ever
Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:
And though I make this marriage for my peace,
I' the east my pleasure lies.
[Enter VENTIDIUS]
O, come, Ventidius,
You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;
Follow me, and receive't.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

35

II,4,1032

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]

36

II,4,1047

Lepidus. Farewell.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

37

II,5,1048

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]

38

II,5,1052

Attendants. The music, ho!

(stage directions). [Enter MARDIAN]

39

II,5,1127

Cleopatra. The most infectious pestilence upon thee!

(stage directions). [Strikes him down]

40

II,5,1145

Cleopatra. Rogue, thou hast lived too long.

(stage directions). [Draws a knife]

41

II,5,1148

Messenger. Nay, then I'll run.
What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.

(stage directions). [Exit]

42

II,5,1189

Cleopatra. O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,
That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:
The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome
Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,
And be undone by 'em!

(stage directions). [Exit Messenger]

43

II,5,1207

Cleopatra. I am paid for't now.
Lead me from hence:
I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.
Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him
Report the feature of Octavia, her years,
Her inclination, let him not leave out
The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.
[Exit ALEXAS]
Let him for ever go:—let him not—Charmian,
Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas
[To MARDIAN]
Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,
But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

44

II,6,1208

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,]
with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS,
with Soldiers marching]

45

II,6,1319

Pompey. Come.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS]

46

II,6,1370

Menas. Come, let's away.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

47

II,7,1371

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with]
a banquet]

48

II,7,1440

Pompey. [Aside to MENAS] I think thou'rt mad.
The matter?

(stage directions). [Rises, and walks aside]

49

II,7,1481

Domitius Enobarus. There's a strong fellow, Menas.

(stage directions). [Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS]

50

II,7,1541

Menas. No, to my cabin.
These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!

(stage directions). [Sound a flourish, with drums]

51

II,7,1544

Menas. Ho! Noble captain, come.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

52

III,1,1545

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS,]
and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead
body of PACORUS borne before him]

53

III,1,1590

Ventidius. He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste
The weight we must convey with's will permit,
We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

54

III,2,1591

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
at another]

55

III,2,1620

Agrippa. Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA]

56

III,2,1678

Octavius. Farewell, farewell!

(stage directions). [Kisses OCTAVIA]

57

III,2,1680

Antony. Farewell!

(stage directions). [Trumpets sound. Exeunt]

58

III,3,1681

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]

59

III,3,1737

Cleopatra. There's gold for thee.
Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:
I will employ thee back again; I find thee
Most fit for business: go make thee ready;
Our letters are prepared.

(stage directions). [Exit Messenger]

60

III,3,1750

Charmian. I warrant you, madam.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

61

III,4,1751

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA]

62

III,4,1793

Antony. When it appears to you where this begins,
Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults
Can never be so equal, that your love
Can equally move with them. Provide your going;
Choose your own company, and command what cost
Your heart has mind to.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

63

III,5,1794

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting]

64

III,5,1820

Eros. Come, sir.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

65

III,6,1821

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS]

66

III,6,1865

Octavius. Nor must not then be yielded to in this.

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIA with her train]

67

III,6,1934

Octavius. Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,
Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

68

III,7,1935

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

69

III,7,1962

Domitius Enobarus. Nay, I have done.
Here comes the emperor.

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS]

70

III,7,2021

Antony. Well, well: away!

(stage directions). [Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

71

III,7,2038

Canidius. Well I know the man.

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

72

III,7,2042

Canidius. With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,
Each minute, some.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

73

III,8,2043

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching]

74

III,8,2050

Octavius. Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,
Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed
The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies
Upon this jump.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

75

III,9,2051

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

76

III,9,2056

Antony. Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,
In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place
We may the number of the ships behold,
And so proceed accordingly.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

77

III,10,2057

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over]
the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
heard the noise of a sea-fight]

78

III,10,2061

(stage directions). [CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over]
the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
heard the noise of a sea-fight]

(stage directions). [Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

79

III,10,2066

Domitius Enobarus. Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
To see't mine eyes are blasted.

(stage directions). [Enter SCARUS]

80

III,10,2092

Domitius Enobarus. Alack, alack!

(stage directions). [Enter CANIDIUS]

81

III,10,2109

Domitius Enobarus. I'll yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Sits in the wind against me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

82

III,11,2110

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants]

83

III,11,2195

Antony. Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates
All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;
Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;
Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.
Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
We scorn her most when most she offers blows.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

84

III,12,2196

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others]

85

III,12,2204

Dolabella. Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:
An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,
Which had superfluous kings for messengers
Not many moons gone by.

(stage directions). [Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY]

86

III,12,2242

Thyreus. Caesar, I shall.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

87

III,13,2243

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]

88

III,13,2258

Cleopatra. Prithee, peace.

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador]

89

III,13,2278

Antony. To him again: tell him he wears the rose
Of youth upon him; from which the world should note
Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail
Under the service of a child as soon
As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore
To lay his gay comparisons apart,
And answer me declined, sword against sword,
Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS]

90

III,13,2288

Domitius Enobarus. [Aside] Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will
Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,
Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will
Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued
His judgment too.

(stage directions). [Enter an Attendant]

91

III,13,2293

Cleopatra. What, no more ceremony? See, my women!
Against the blown rose may they stop their nose
That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.

(stage directions). [Exit Attendant]

92

III,13,2300

Domitius Enobarus. [Aside] Mine honesty and I begin to square.
The loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure
To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord
Does conquer him that did his master conquer
And earns a place i' the story.

(stage directions). [Enter THYREUS]

93

III,13,2327

Domitius Enobarus. [Aside] To be sure of that,
I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,
That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
Thy dearest quit thee.

(stage directions). [Exit]

94

III,13,2353

Cleopatra. Your Caesar's father oft,
When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,
Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd kisses.

(stage directions). [Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

95

III,13,2436

Antony. If that thy father live, let him repent
Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry
To follow Caesar in his triumph, since
Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth
The white hand of a lady fever thee,
Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,
Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say
He makes me angry with him; for he seems
Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,
Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;
And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,
When my good stars, that were my former guides,
Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires
Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike
My speech and what is done, tell him he has
Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom
He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:
Hence with thy stripes, begone!

(stage directions). [Exit THYREUS]

96

III,13,2485

Antony. Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force
The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;
There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,
I'll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

97

III,13,2493

Domitius Enobarus. Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,
Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,
A diminution in our captain's brain
Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek
Some way to leave him.

(stage directions). [Exit]

98

IV,1,2494

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with]
his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter]

99

IV,1,2514

Octavius. Let our best heads
Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles
We mean to fight: within our files there are,
Of those that served Mark Antony but late,
Enough to fetch him in. See it done:
And feast the army; we have store to do't,
And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

100

IV,2,2515

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,]
CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others]

101

IV,2,2576

Antony. Ho, ho, ho!
Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
Grace grow where those drops fall!
My hearty friends,
You take me in too dolorous a sense;
For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you
To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,
I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you
Where rather I'll expect victorious life
Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
And drown consideration.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

102

IV,3,2577

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter two Soldiers to their guard]

103

IV,3,2584

First Soldier. Well, sir, good night.

(stage directions). [Enter two other Soldiers]

104

IV,3,2587

Third Soldier. And you. Good night, good night.

(stage directions). [They place themselves in every corner of the stage]

105

IV,3,2593

Third Soldier. 'Tis a brave army,
And full of purpose.

(stage directions). [Music of the hautboys as under the stage]

106

IV,3,2607

First Soldier. Walk; let's see if other watchmen
Do hear what we do?

(stage directions). [They advance to another post]

107

IV,3,2616

All. Content. 'Tis strange.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

108

IV,4,2617

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and]
others attending]

109

IV,4,2652

Soldier. A thousand, sir,
Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,
And at the port expect you.

(stage directions). [Shout. Trumpets flourish]

110

IV,4,2653

(stage directions). [Shout. Trumpets flourish]

(stage directions). [Enter Captains and Soldiers]

111

IV,4,2667

Antony. 'Tis well blown, lads:
This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said.
Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:
This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable
[Kisses her]
And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand
On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee
Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,
Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers]

112

IV,4,2673

Cleopatra. Lead me.
He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
Determine this great war in single fight!
Then Antony,—but now—Well, on.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

113

IV,5,2674

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a]
Soldier meeting them]

114

IV,5,2701

Antony. Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;
Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him—
I will subscribe—gentle adieus and greetings;
Say that I wish he never find more cause
To change a master. O, my fortunes have
Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.—Enobarbus!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

115

IV,6,2702

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with]
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others]

116

IV,6,2708

Agrippa. Caesar, I shall.

(stage directions). [Exit]

117

IV,6,2712

Octavius. The time of universal peace is near:
Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
Shall bear the olive freely.

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

118

IV,6,2719

Octavius. Go charge Agrippa
Plant those that have revolted in the van,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Upon himself.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

119

IV,6,2729

Domitius Enobarus. Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on
Affairs of Antony; there did persuade
Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
And leave his master Antony: for this pains
Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest
That fell away have entertainment, but
No honourable trust. I have done ill;
Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,
That I will joy no more.

(stage directions). [Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's]

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Soldier. Mock not, Enobarbus.
I tell you true: best you safed the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.

(stage directions). [Exit]

121

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Domitius Enobarus. I am alone the villain of the earth,
And feel I am so most. O Antony,
Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
My better service, when my turpitude
Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.
I fight against thee! No: I will go seek
Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits
My latter part of life.

(stage directions). [Exit]

122

IV,7,2753

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA]
and others]

123

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Agrippa. Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:
Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
Exceeds what we expected.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

124

IV,7,2759

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

(stage directions). [Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded]

125

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Scarus. We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet
Room for six scotches more.

(stage directions). [Enter EROS]

126

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Scarus. I'll halt after.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

127

IV,8,2780

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS,]
with others]

128

IV,8,2830

Antony. He has deserved it, were it carbuncled
Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:
Through Alexandria make a jolly march;
Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together,
And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;
Make mingle with rattling tabourines;
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,
Applauding our approach.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

129

IV,9,2831

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Sentinels at their post]

130

IV,9,2838

Second Soldier. This last day was
A shrewd one to's.

(stage directions). [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

131

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Domitius Enobarus. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,
May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
Forgive me in thine own particular;
But let the world rank me in register
A master-leaver and a fugitive:
O Antony! O Antony!

(stage directions). [Dies]

132

IV,9,2879

Third Soldier. Come on, then;
He may recover yet.

(stage directions). [Exeunt with the body]

133

IV,10,2880

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army]

134

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Antony. I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;
We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot
Upon the hills adjoining to the city
Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;
They have put forth the haven [—]
Where their appointment we may best discover,
And look on their endeavour.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

135

IV,11,2892

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army]

136

IV,11,2897

Octavius. But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force
Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

137

IV,12,2898

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS]

138

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Antony. Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine
does stand,
I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
Straight, how 'tis like to go.

(stage directions). [Exit]

139

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Scarus. Swallows have built
In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,
And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,
His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,
Of what he has, and has not.

(stage directions). [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight]

140

IV,12,2912

(stage directions). [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight]

(stage directions). [Re-enter MARK ANTONY]

141

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Antony. Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,
And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,
And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown
For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let
Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
With her prepared nails.
[Exit CLEOPATRA]
'Tis well thou'rt gone,
If it be well to live; but better 'twere
Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!
The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:
Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;
And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,
Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:
To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!

(stage directions). [Exit]

142

IV,13,2961

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]

143

IV,13,2975

Cleopatra. To the monument!
Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;
Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'
And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,
And bring me how he takes my death.
To the monument!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

144

IV,14,2976

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS]

145

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Antony. Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,
And we must sleep.
[To MARDIAN]
That thou depart'st hence safe,
Does pay thy labour richly; go.
[Exit MARDIAN]
Off, pluck off:
The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!
Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,
Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.
No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;
You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.
[Exit EROS]
I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now
All length is torture: since the torch is out,
Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour
Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles
Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.
Eros!—I come, my queen:—Eros!—Stay for me:
Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,
And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:
Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,
And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!

(stage directions). [Re-enter EROS]

146

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Antony. Lo thee!

(stage directions). [Turning from him]

147

IV,14,3097

Eros. Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow
Of Antony's death.

(stage directions). [Kills himself]

148

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Antony. Thrice-nobler than myself!
Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what
I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros
Have by their brave instruction got upon me
A nobleness in record: but I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,
Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus
[Falling on his sword]
I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?
The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!

(stage directions). [Enter DERCETAS and Guard]

149

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Third Guard. Nor any one.

(stage directions). [Exeunt Guard]

150

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Dercetas. Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.
This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,
Shall enter me with him.

(stage directions). [Enter DIOMEDES]

151

IV,14,3129

Diomedes. Lives he?
Wilt thou not answer, man?

(stage directions). [Exit DERCETAS]

152

IV,14,3148

Diomedes. What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!
Come, your lord calls!

(stage directions). [Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY]

153

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Antony. Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate
To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome
Which comes to punish us, and we punish it
Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:
I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,
And have my thanks for all.

(stage directions). [Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY]

154

IV,15,3161

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with]
CHARMIAN and IRAS]

155

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Diomedes. His death's upon him, but not dead.
Look out o' the other side your monument;
His guard have brought him thither.

(stage directions). [Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard]

156

IV,15,3247

Cleopatra. Noblest of men, woo't die?
Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty? O, see, my women,
[MARK ANTONY dies]
The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.

(stage directions). [Faints]

157

IV,15,3275

Cleopatra. No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded
By such poor passion as the maid that milks
And does the meanest chares. It were for me
To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;
To tell them that this world did equal theirs
Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;
Patience is scottish, and impatience does
Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death,
Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?
What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!
My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,
Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:
We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,
what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make death proud to take us. Come, away:
This case of that huge spirit now is cold:
Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend
But resolution, and the briefest end.

(stage directions). [Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body]

158

V,1,3276

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS,]
GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war]

159

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Dolabella. Caesar, I shall.

(stage directions). [Exit]

160

V,1,3283

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY]

161

V,1,3352

Egyptian. So the gods preserve thee!

(stage directions). [Exit]

162

V,1,3362

Proculeius. Caesar, I shall.

(stage directions). [Exit]

163

V,1,3375

Octavius. Let him alone, for I remember now
How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.
Go with me to my tent; where you shall see
How hardly I was drawn into this war;
How calm and gentle I proceeded still
In all my writings: go with me, and see
What I can show in this.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

164

V,2,3376

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]

165

V,2,3425

Gallus. You see how easily she may be surprised:
[Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the]
monument by a ladder placed against a window, and,
having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of
the Guard unbar and open the gates]
[To PROCULEIUS and the Guard]
Guard her till Caesar come.

(stage directions). [Exit]

166

V,2,3429

Cleopatra. Quick, quick, good hands.

(stage directions). [Drawing a dagger]

167

V,2,3462

Proculeius. You do extend
These thoughts of horror further than you shall
Find cause in Caesar.

(stage directions). [Enter DOLABELLA]

168

V,2,3473

Cleopatra. Say, I would die.

(stage directions). [Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers]

169

V,2,3530

Dolabella. It is the emperor, madam.

(stage directions). [CLEOPATRA kneels]

170

V,2,3603

Octavius. Forbear, Seleucus.

(stage directions). [Exit SELEUCUS]

171

V,2,3621

Octavius. Not so. Adieu.

(stage directions). [Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train]

172

V,2,3624

Cleopatra. He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.

(stage directions). [Whispers CHARMIAN]

173

V,2,3631

Charmian. Madam, I will.

(stage directions). [Re-enter DOLABELLA]

174

V,2,3634

Charmian. Behold, sir.

(stage directions). [Exit]

175

V,2,3681

Cleopatra. Why, that's the way
To fool their preparation, and to conquer
Their most absurd intents.
[Re-enter CHARMIAN]
Now, Charmian!
Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch
My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,
To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.
Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;
And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave
To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.
Wherefore's this noise?

(stage directions). [Exit IRAS. A noise within]

176

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(stage directions). [Exit IRAS. A noise within]

(stage directions). [Enter a Guardsman]

177

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Cleopatra. Let him come in.
[Exit Guardsman]
What poor an instrument
May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.
My resolution's placed, and I have nothing
Of woman in me: now from head to foot
I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon
No planet is of mine.

(stage directions). [Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket]

178

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Clown. I wish you all joy of the worm.

(stage directions). [Setting down his basket]

179

V,2,3736

Clown. Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.

(stage directions). [Exit]

180

V,2,3737

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c]

181

V,2,3780

Cleopatra. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,—
O Antony!—Nay, I will take thee too.
[Applying another asp to her arm]
What should I stay—

(stage directions). [Dies]

182

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Charmian. In this vile world? So, fare thee well.
Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;
And golden Phoebus never be beheld
Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;
I'll mend it, and then play.

(stage directions). [Enter the Guard, rushing in]

183

V,2,3800

Charmian. It is well done, and fitting for a princess
Descended of so many royal kings.
Ah, soldier!

(stage directions). [Dies]

184

V,2,3801

(stage directions). [Dies]

(stage directions). [Re-enter DOLABELLA]

185

V,2,3808

Dolabella. Caesar, thy thoughts
Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming
To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
So sought'st to hinder.

(stage directions). [Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!']

186

V,2,3809

(stage directions). [Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!']

(stage directions). [Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching]

187

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Octavius. Most probable
That so she died; for her physician tells me
She hath pursued conclusions infinite
Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;
And bear her women from the monument:
She shall be buried by her Antony:
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous. High events as these
Strike those that make them; and their story is
No less in pity than his glory which
Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
In solemn show attend this funeral;
And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see
High order in this great solemnity.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]