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Scene Xii. Another part of the same.Enter Mark Antony and ScarusMark AntonyYet 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.ExitScarusSwallows 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. [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight] Re-enter Mark AntonyMark AntonyAll is lost; This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder They cast their caps up and carouse together Like friends long lost. Triple-turn’d whore! ’tis thou Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly; For when I am revenged upon my charm, I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.Exit ScarusO sun, thy uprise shall I see no more: Fortune and Antony part here; even here Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts That spaniel’d me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark’d, That overtopp’d them all. Betray’d I am: O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,— Whose eye beck’d forth my wars, and call’d them home; Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,— Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. What, Eros, Eros!Enter CleopatraAh, thou spell! Avaunt!CleopatraWhy is my lord enraged against his love?Mark AntonyVanish, 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!Exit
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William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene Xiv. The same. Another room.
- William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene Xiv. The same. Another room.
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