The varying shore o'the world!-0 Antony! ANTONY. CLEO. So it should be, that none but Antony CLEO. I dare not, dear, (Dear my lord, pardon,) I dare not, Lest I be taken: not the imperious show Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs, serpents, have Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe: Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes, ANT. O, quick, or I am gone. CLEO. Here's sport, indeed!-How heavy weighs my lord! Our strength is all gone into heaviness, That makes the weight: Had I great Juno's power, The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up, And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little, Wishers were ever fools;-0, come, come, come; And welcome, welcome! die, where thou hast liv'd: Quicken with kissing; had my lips that power, Thus would I wear them out. ANT. I am dying, Egypt, dying: Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. CLEO. No, let me speak; and let me rail so high, That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, Provok'd by my offence. One word, sweet queen : ANT. Of Casar seek your honour, with your safety.-0! CLEO. They do not go together. ANT. Gentle, hear me; None about Cæsar trust, but Proculeius. CLEO. My resolution, and my hands, I'll trust; None about Cæsar. ANT. The miserable change now at my end, Lament nor sorrow at: but please your thoughts, In feeding them with those my former fortunes, Wherein I liv'd, the greatest prince o'the world, The noblest and do now not basely die, : Nor cowardly; put off my helmet to My countryman, a Roman, by a Roman Valiantly vanquish'd. Now, my spirit is going; I can no more. CLEO. Noblest of men, woo't die? Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide Dies. In this dull world, which in thy absence is The soldier's pole is fallen; young boys, and girls, Are level now with men: the odds is gone, Beneath the visiting moon. [She faints. CHARMIAN. O madam, madam, madam! Royal Egypt's Empress! CLEO. No more, but e'en a woman; and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks, nought; Patience is sottish; and impatience does To rush into the secret house of death, Ere death dare come to us?-How do you, women? What, what? good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian? My noble girls!-Ah, women, women! look, Our lamp is spent, it's out: -Good sirs, take heart We'll bury him: and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. Come, away; This case of that huge spirit now is cold. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A. 4, s. 13. GREAT MEN NEVER DIE. EDWARD. Sweet duke of York, our prop to lean upon; Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay!O Clifford, boist'rous Clifford, thou hast slain The flower of Europe for his chivalry; And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him, For, hand to hand, he would have vanquish'd thee! Now my soul's palace is become a prison: Might in the ground be closed up in rest: RICHARD. I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart: Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burden; For self-same wind, that I should speak withal, Is kindling coals, that fire all my breast, And burn me up with flames, that tears would quench. To weep, is to make less the depth of grief: Tears, then, for babes; blows, and revenge for me! Richard, I bear thy name, I'll venge thy death, Or die renowned by attempting it. EDW. His name that valiant duke hath left with thee; His dukedom and his chair with me is left. RICH. Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird, Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun : For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say; Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his. K. HENRY VI., PART III., A. 2, s. 1. GREATNESS FORGETFUL OF ITSELF. He comes too short of that great property ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, a. 1, s. 1. GREATNESS OF SOUL. WHY then, will I no more: Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son, A gory emulation 'twixt us twain: Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so, Wherein my sword had not impressure made TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, A. 4, 8. 5. |