Speeches (Lines) for Dolabella in "Antony and Cleopatra"
Total: 23
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Octavius. Let him appear that's come from Antony.
Know you him?
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.
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V,1,3281 |
Octavius. Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;
Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks
The pauses that he makes.
Dolabella. Caesar, I shall.
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V,2,3463 |
(stage directions). [Enter DOLABELLA]
Dolabella. Proculeius,
What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,
And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,
I'll take her to my guard.
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V,2,3474 |
(stage directions). [Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers]
Dolabella. Most noble empress, you have heard of me?
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V,2,3476 |
Cleopatra. I cannot tell.
Dolabella. Assuredly you know me.
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6 |
V,2,3480 |
Cleopatra. No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.
You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;
Is't not your trick?
Dolabella. I understand not, madam.
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V,2,3484 |
Cleopatra. I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:
O, such another sleep, that I might see
But such another man!
Dolabella. If it might please ye,—
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V,2,3489 |
Cleopatra. His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck
A sun and moon, which kept their course,
and lighted
The little O, the earth.
Dolabella. Most sovereign creature,—
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V,2,3501 |
Cleopatra. 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. For his bounty,
There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping: his delights
Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above
The element they lived in: in his livery
Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were
As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
Dolabella. Cleopatra!
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V,2,3504 |
Cleopatra. Think you there was, or might be, such a man
As this I dream'd of?
Dolabella. Gentle madam, no.
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V,2,3511 |
Cleopatra. You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.
But, if there be, or ever were, one such,
It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff
To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine
And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,
Condemning shadows quite.
Dolabella. Hear me, good madam.
Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it
As answering to the weight: would I might never
O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,
By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites
My very heart at root.
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V,2,3519 |
Cleopatra. I thank you, sir,
Know you what Caesar means to do with me?
Dolabella. I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.
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V,2,3521 |
Cleopatra. Nay, pray you, sir,—
Dolabella. Though he be honourable,—
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V,2,3523 |
Cleopatra. He'll lead me, then, in triumph?
Dolabella. Madam, he will; I know't.
[Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there:]
Octavius Caesar!']
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS,]
MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train]
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V,2,3529 |
Octavius. Which is the Queen of Egypt?
Dolabella. It is the emperor, madam.
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(stage directions). [Re-enter DOLABELLA]
Dolabella. Where is the queen?
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V,2,3636 |
Cleopatra. Dolabella!
Dolabella. Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,
Which my love makes religion to obey,
I tell you this: Caesar through Syria
Intends his journey; and within three days
You with your children will he send before:
Make your best use of this: I have perform'd
Your pleasure and my promise.
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V,2,3645 |
Cleopatra. Dolabella,
I shall remain your debtor.
Dolabella. I your servant,
Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar.
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(stage directions). [Re-enter DOLABELLA]
Dolabella. How goes it here?
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V,2,3804 |
Second Guard. All dead.
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.
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(stage directions). [Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching]
Dolabella. O sir, you are too sure an augurer;
That you did fear is done.
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Octavius. Bravest at the last,
She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,
Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
I do not see them bleed.
Dolabella. Who was last with them?
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Octavius. O noble weakness!
If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear
By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,
As she would catch another Antony
In her strong toil of grace.
Dolabella. Here, on her breast,
There is a vent of blood and something blown:
The like is on her arm.
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