The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: ACT III
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III SCENE I. A plain in Syria. SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house. SCENE V. The same. Another room. SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp. SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. SCENE IX. Another part of the plain. SCENE X. Another part of the plain. SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE I. A plain in Syria. Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him VENTIDIUS       Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now       Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death       Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body       Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes, 5     Pays this for Marcus Crassus. SILIUS       Noble Ventidius,       Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,       The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,       Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither 10    The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony       Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and       Put garlands on thy head. VENTIDIUS       O Silius, Silius,       I have done enough; a lower place, note well, 15    May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;       Better to leave undone, than by our deed       Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.       Caesar and Antony have ever won       More in their officer than person: Sossius, 20    One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,       For quick accumulation of renown,       Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.       Who does i' the wars more than his captain can       Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition, 25    The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,       Than gain which darkens him.       I could do more to do Antonius good,       But 'twould offend him; and in his offence       Should my performance perish. SILIUS 30    Thou hast, Ventidius,       that       Without the which a soldier, and his sword,       Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony! VENTIDIUS       I'll humbly signify what in his name, 35    That magical word of war, we have effected;       How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,       The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia       We have jaded out o' the field. SILIUS       Where is he now? VENTIDIUS 40    He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste       The weight we must convey with's will permit,       We shall appear before him. On there; pass along! Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene