TPTT 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
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SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at another
AGRIPPA
      What, are the brothers parted?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;
      The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
      To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,
5     Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
      With the green sickness.
AGRIPPA
      'Tis a noble Lepidus.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
AGRIPPA
      Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
10    Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
AGRIPPA
      What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!
AGRIPPA
      O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.
AGRIPPA
15    Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:
      Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,
      poets, cannot
      Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!
20    His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,
      Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
AGRIPPA
      Both he loves.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      They are his shards, and he their beetle.

Trumpets within

      So;
25    This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
AGRIPPA
      Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA
MARK ANTONY
      No further, sir.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
      You take from me a great part of myself;
      Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
30    As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band
      Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
      Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
      Betwixt us as the cement of our love,
      To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
35    The fortress of it; for better might we
      Have loved without this mean, if on both parts
      This be not cherish'd.
MARK ANTONY
      Make me not offended
      In your distrust.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
40    I have said.
MARK ANTONY
      You shall not find,
      Though you be therein curious, the least cause
      For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,
      And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!
45    We will here part.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
      Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:
      The elements be kind to thee, and make
      Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
OCTAVIA
      My noble brother!
MARK ANTONY
50    The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
      And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
OCTAVIA
      Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
      What, Octavia?
OCTAVIA
      I'll tell you in your ear.
MARK ANTONY
55    Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
      Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's
      down-feather,
      That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
      And neither way inclines.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
60    (Aside to AGRIPPA) Will Caesar weep?
AGRIPPA
      (Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS) He has a cloud in 's face.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      (Aside to AGRIPPA) He were the worse for that,
      were he a horse;
      So is he, being a man.
AGRIPPA
65    (Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS) Why, Enobarbus,
      When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
      He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
      When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      (Aside to AGRIPPA) That year, indeed, he was
70    troubled with a rheum;
      What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
      Believe't, till I wept too.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
      No, sweet Octavia,
      You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
75    Out-go my thinking on you.
MARK ANTONY
      Come, sir, come;
      I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
      Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,
      And give you to the gods.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
80    Adieu; be happy!
LEPIDUS
      Let all the number of the stars give light
      To thy fair way!
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
      Farewell, farewell!
Kisses OCTAVIA
MARK ANTONY
      Farewell!
Trumpets sound. Exeunt
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