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- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
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- Act 3 Scene 11
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- (Enter Antony with Attendants)
- l1l Antony Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon Æt,
- l2l It is ashamed to bear me. Friends, come hither.
- l3l I am so lated in the world that I
- l4l Have lost my way for ever. I have a ship
- l5l Laden with gold. Take that; divide it, fly,
- l6l And make your peace with Caesar.
- Attendants Fly? Not we.
- l7l Antony I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
- l8l To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone.
- l9l I have myself resolved upon a course
- l10l Which has no need of you. Be gone.
- l11l My treasureÆs in the harbour. Take it. O,
- l12l I followed that I blush to look upon.
- l13l My very hairs do mutiny, for the white
- l14l Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
- l15l For fear and doting. Friends, be gone. You shall
- l16l Have letters from me to some friends that will
- l17l Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
- l18l Nor make replies of loathness. Take the hint
- l19l Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left
- l20l Which leaves itself. To the seaside straightway!
- l21l I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
- l22l Leave me, I pray, a little. Pray you now,
- l23l Nay, do so; for indeed I have lost command.
- l24l Therefore I pray you; IÆll see you by and by.
- (Exeunt attendants)
- l25l (He sits down. Enter Cleopatra led by Charmian, Iras,
- and Eros)
- Eros Nay, gentle madam, to him. Comfort him.
- l26l Iras Do, most dear Queen.
- l27l Charmian Do. Why, what else?
- l28l Cleopatra Let me sit down. O Juno!
- (She sits down)
- l29l Antony No, no, no, no, no.
- l30l Eros (to Antony) See you here, sir?
- l31l Antony O fie, fie, fie!
- l32l Charmian Madam.
- l33l Iras Madam. O good Empress!
- l34l Eros Sir, sir.
- l35l Antony Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept
- l36l His sword eÆen like a dancer, while I struck
- l37l The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and Ætwas I
- l38l That the mad Brutus ended. He alone
- l39l Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
- l40l In the brave squares of war. Yet nowùno matter.
- l41l Cleopatra (rising, to Charmian and Iras) Ah, stand by.
- l42l Eros The Queen, my lord, the Queen.
- l43l Iras Go to him, madam.
- l44l Speak to him. HeÆs unqualitied
- l45l With very shame.
- Cleopatra Well then, sustain me. O!
- l46l Eros Most noble sir, arise. The Queen approaches.
- l47l Her headÆs declined, and death will seize her but
- l48l Your comfort makes the rescue.
- l49l Antony I have offended reputation;
- l50l A most unnoble swerving.
- Eros Sir, the Queen.
- l51l Antony (rising) O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See
- l52l How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
- l53l By looking back what I have left behind
- l54l ÆStroyed in dishonour.
- Cleopatra O, my lord, my lord,
- l55l Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
- l56l You would have followed.
- Antony Egypt, thou knewÆst too well
- l57l My heart was to thy rudder tied by thÆ strings,
- l58l And thou shouldst tow me after. OÆer my spirit
- l59l Thy full supremacy thou knewÆst, and that
- l60l Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
- l61l Command me.
- Cleopatra O, my pardon!
- Antony Now I must
- l62l To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
- l63l And palter in the shifts of lowness, who
- l64l With half the bulk oÆ thÆ world played as I pleased,
- l65l Making and marring fortunes. You did know
- l66l How much you were my conqueror, and that
- l67l My sword, made weak by my affection, would
- l68l Obey it on all cause.
- Cleopatra Pardon, pardon!
- l69l Antony Fall not a tear, I say. One of them rates
- l70l All that is won and lost. Give me a kiss.
- (He kisses her)
- l71l Even this repays me.
- (To an Attendant) We sent our schoolmaster;
- l72l Is a come back?
- (To Cleopatra) Love, I am full of lead.
- ( Calling) Some wine
- l73l Within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
- l74l We scorn her most when most she offers blows.
- (Exeunt)
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