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Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 1] |
Antony |
40 |
Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
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.
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2 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Charmian |
86 |
Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?
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3 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Iras |
145 |
Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!
for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man
loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a
foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep
decorum, and fortune him accordingly!
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4 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
First Attendant |
200 |
The man from Sicyon,—is there such an one?
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5 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Domitius Enobarus |
256 |
Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When
it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man
from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;
comforting therein, that when old robes are worn
out, there are members to make new. If there were
no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,
and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned
with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new
petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion
that should water this sorrow.
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6 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 4] |
Octavius |
424 |
You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate
Our great competitor: from Alexandria
This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like
Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy
More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or
Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there
A man who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.
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7 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 4] |
Octavius |
468 |
I should have known no less.
It hath been taught us from the primal state,
That he which is was wish'd until he were;
And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,
Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,
Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,
Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,
To rot itself with motion.
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8 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 5] |
Cleopatra |
582 |
O well-divided disposition! Note him,
Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:
He was not sad, for he would shine on those
That make their looks by his; he was not merry,
Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay
In Egypt with his joy; but between both:
O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,
The violence of either thee becomes,
So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?
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9 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 5] |
Cleopatra |
602 |
By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,
If thou with Caesar paragon again
My man of men.
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10 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Cleopatra |
1094 |
Well, go to, I will;
But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony
Be free and healthful,—so tart a favour
To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,
Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,
Not like a formal man.
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11 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Cleopatra |
1109 |
Thou'rt an honest man.
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12 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 5] |
Charmian |
1149 |
Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:
The man is innocent.
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13 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Pompey |
1221 |
To you all three,
The senators alone of this great world,
Chief factors for the gods, I do not know
Wherefore my father should revengers want,
Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,
Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,
There saw you labouring for him. What was't
That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what
Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,
With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,
To drench the Capitol; but that they would
Have one man but a man? And that is it
Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen
The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant
To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome
Cast on my noble father.
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14 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Pompey |
1260 |
Know, then,
I came before you here a man prepared
To take this offer: but Mark Antony
Put me to some impatience: though I lose
The praise of it by telling, you must know,
When Caesar and your brother were at blows,
Your mother came to Sicily and did find
Her welcome friendly.
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15 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Domitius Enobarus |
1326 |
I will praise any man that will praise me; though it
cannot be denied what I have done by land.
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16 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7] |
First Servant |
1373 |
Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are
ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world
will blow them down.
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17 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7] |
Menas |
1450 |
But entertain it,
And, though thou think me poor, I am the man
Will give thee all the world.
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18 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7] |
Domitius Enobarus |
1483 |
A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st
not?
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19 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7] |
Domitius Enobarus |
1507 |
All take hands.
Make battery to our ears with the loud music:
The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;
The holding every man shall bear as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
[Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them]
hand in hand]
THE SONG.
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
In thy fats our cares be drown'd,
With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:
Cup us, till the world go round,
Cup us, till the world go round!
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20 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 2] |
Domitius Enobarus |
1656 |
[Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,
were he a horse;
So is he, being a man.
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