LOVE THE NOBLENESS OF LIFE. Let Rome in Tyber melt! and the wide arch [Embracing. Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?- Will be himself. Ant. But stirr❜d by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours. ANTONY'S VICES AND VIRTUES. I must not think, there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness: His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, Rather than purchased †; what he cannot change, Cas. You are too indulgent: Let us grant, it is not Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy; To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit And keep the turn of tippling with a slave; To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet With knaves that smell of sweat: say, this becomes him, (As his composure must be rare indeed, Whom these things cannot blemish,) yet must Antony Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones, Call on him § for't: but, to confound || such time * Know. + Levity. + Procured by his own fault. Consume. That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud Antony, Leave thy lascivious wassals*. When thou once Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against, The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets, ACT II. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. WE, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers. DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA SAILING DOWN THE CYDNUS. The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that [silver; The winds were love-sick with them: the oars were *Feastings; in the old copy it is vuissailes, i. e. vassals. + Urine. Stagnant, slimy water. Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made Agr. 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 Become themselves in her; that the holy priests 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! * Added to the warmth they were intended to diminish. + Readily perform. + Wanton. § Melancholy. 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:- Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce 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 Cleo. ACT III. LOYALTY. MINE honesty, and I, begin to square †. Doth conquer him that did his master conquer, 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 deed acquire Too high a fame, when him we serve's away. WHAT OCTAVIA'S ENTRANCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. The neighs of horse to tell of her approach, WOMEN. Women are not, In their best fortunes, strong; but want will perjure The ne'er-touch'd vestal. FORTUNE FORMS OUR JUDGMENTS. I see, men's judgments are To suffer all alike. WISDOM SUPERIOR TO FORTUNE. Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. * Show, token. + Are of a piece with them. |