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Shakespeare, William

"Antony And Cleopatra"


MARK ANTONY The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,
That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;
For I have gain'd by 't.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR Since I saw you last,
There is a change upon you.
POMPEY Well, I know not
What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;
But in my bosom shall she never come,
To make my heart her vassal.
LEPIDUS Well met here.
POMPEY I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:
I crave our composition may be written,
And seal'd between us.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR That's the next to do.
POMPEY We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's
Draw lots who shall begin.
MARK ANTONY That will I, Pompey.
POMPEY No, Antony, take the lot: but, first
Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
Grew fat with feasting there.
MARK ANTONY You have heard much.
POMPEY I have fair meanings, sir.
MARK ANTONY And fair words to them.
POMPEY Then so much have I heard:
And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS No more of that: he did so.


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