Oth. O the pernicious caitiff! I found it in my chamber: 320 How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief That was my wife's? Oth. Iago set him on. Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us: 330 And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave, Your power and your command is taken off, If there be any cunning cruelty That can torment him much and hold him long, I have done the state some service, and they know't. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this; I took by the throat the circumcised dog, Lod. O bloody period! Gra. 340 350 [Stabs himself. All that's spoke is marr'd. Oth. I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this; Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. [Falls on the bed, and dies. Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was great of heart. Lod. [To Iago] O Spartan dog, More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea! 361 For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor, The time, the place, the torture O, enforce it! 370 MENECRATES, VARRIUS, friends to CHARMIAN, attendants on Cleo- Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. SCENE: In several parts of the Roman empire. ACT I. SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace. Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO. Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our general's Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst To cool a gipsy's lust. Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies, the Look, where they come: Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. 10 Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. Enter an Attendant. Att. News, my good lord, from Rome. Ant. Grates me. the sum. 20 Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony: 66 If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent Ant. How, my love! You must not stay here longer, your dismission Cleo. Will be himself. Ant. But stirr'd by Cleopatra. 30 [Embracing. Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, 40 Cleo. Hear the ambassadors. Fic, wrangling queen! 50 Ant. To-night we'll wander through the streets and note [Exeunt Ant. and Cleo. with their train. Dem. I am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who SCENE II. The same. Another room. 60 [Exeunt. Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer. Char. Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands! Alex. Soothsayer! Sooth. Your will? Char. Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things? Sooth. In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. Alex. Show him your hand. Enter ENOBARBUS. Eno. Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. Char. Good sir, give me good fortune. Sooth. I make not, but foresee. Char. Pray, then, foresee me one. Sooth. You shall be yet far fairer than you are. Iras. No, you shall paint when you are old. Alex. Vex not his prescience; be attentive. |