...Philo. AY, but this dotage of our General's O'erflows the measure : those his goodly eyes, That o er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like...heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath hurst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper ; And is become the bellows and the fan To cool...

...eyes. That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, 5 The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny...is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. [Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her.] 10 Look...

...place of order, measure, and self-control - and Egypt - place of disorder, excess, and indulgence: Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure....is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. (Iii-io) Few observe as well, however, that Philo's hyperbolical comparison of Antony to "plated...

...O'erflows the measure. Those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn The office and...temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gypsy's lust. (1.1.1-10) With the stylized intensity of 'Roman' rhetoric, Antony's past greatness is...

...As Waddington reminds us, Antony is linked to Mars from the start. In Philo's description Antony's "goodly eyes," That o'er the files and musters of...temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gypsy's lust. Here we are invited to measure Antony's temper, which, like glowing, "plated" metal,...

...Antony, for example, as Shakespeare presents him in the opening scene of Antony and Cleopatra: Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure:...is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. And then, to complete the picture, Antony is contemptuously called the "triple pillar of the...

...though the task will be, he feels no need to economize his strength. He begins at what a pitch! Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure;...is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. Ample and virile in substance, consonant in its music! One tremendous sentence, the ends of the...

...Cleopatra by introducing the terms of the conventional dichotomy: Antony's eyes, which once "glowed like plated Mars, now bend, now turn / The office...And is become the bellows and the fan / To cool a gypsy's lust" (Ii4-10). The oppositions of hard/soft, rigid/tempered, glowing/bending express, in terms...

...like plated Mars — now bend, now turn The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front: 1 his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great...is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her Look where...

...the behavior appropriate to men, the behavior of war, and turning instead to the behavior of love: Those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters...office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. (Ii2-6)2 Literally the description is one of behavior, of a gaze changing, of eyes changing from one...