CLEOPATRA'S INFINITE POWER IN PLEASING. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: Other women Cloy th'appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. For vilest things Become themselves in her; that the holy priests Bless her, when she's riggish*. THE UNSETTLED HUMOURS OF LOVERS. Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS. Cleo. Give me some music; music, moody† food Of us that trade in love. Attend. The music, ho! Enter MARDIAN. Cleo. Let it alone; let us to billiards: Come, Charmian. Char. My arm is sore, best play with Mardian. Cleo. As well a woman with an eunuch play'd, As with a woman:-Come, you'll play with me, sir? Mar. As well as I can, madam. Cleo. And when good-will is show'd, though it come too short, The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:Give me mine angle, We'll to the river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, Ah, ha! you're caught. Char. 'Twas merry, when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver * Wanton. + Melancholy. Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he Cleo. That time!O times!- ACT III. AMBITION JEALOUS OF A TOO SUCCESSFUL FRIEND. O Silius, Silius, I have done enough: a lower place, note well, May make too great an act: For learn this, Silius; Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire Too high a fame, when him we serve's away. WHAT OCTAVIA'S ENTRANCE SHOULD Have been. [not Why have The neighs of horse to tell of her approach, With an augmented greeting. *Head-dress. + Show, token. WOMEN. Women are not, In their best fortunes, strong; but want will FORTUNE FORMS OUR JUDGMENTS. I see men's judgments are per [jure A parcel* of their fortunes: and things outward LOYALTY. Mine honesty, and J, begin to squaret. The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly:-Yet, he, that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i' the story. WISDOM SUPERIOR TO FORTUNE. Wisdom and fortune combating together, VICIOUS PERSONS INFATUATED BY HEAVEN. Good, my lord, But when we in our viciousness grow hard, * Are of a piece with them. + Quarrel. + Close up. FURY EXPELS FEAR. Now he'll out-stare 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. ACT IV. A MASTER TAKING LEAVE OF HIS SERVANTS. Tend me to night; May be, it is the period of your duty: I look on you, As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends, EARLY RISING THE WAY TO EMINENCE. This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes. ANTONY TO CLEOPATRA, AT HIS RETURN WITH VICTORY. O thou day o'the world, Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all, Through proof of harness§ to my heart, and there Ride on the pants triumphing. *Ostrich. + Perhaps. Reward. LOATHED LIFE. 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. ANTONY'S DESPONDENCY. O 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 DEPARTING GREATNESS. The soul and body rivet not more in parting, Than greatness going off. ANTONY'S REFLECTIONS ON HIS FADED GLORY. A forked mountain, or blue promontory And mock our eyes with air: Thou hast seen these Eros. Ay, my lord. Ant. That, which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns; and makes it indistinct, Discharge, as a sponge when squeezed discharges the moisture it had imbibed. + Split. The fleeting clouds. |