TPTT The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
SCENE III. The same. Before the palace.
SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace.
SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp.
SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
SCENE VII. Field of battle between the camps.
SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.
SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
SCENE X. Between the two camps.
SCENE XI. Another part of the same.
SCENE XII. Another part of the same.
SCENE XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.
SCENE XIV. The same. Another room.
SCENE XV. The same. A monument.
ACT V
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SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others
MARK ANTONY
      He will not fight with me, Domitius.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      No.
MARK ANTONY
      Why should he not?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
5     He is twenty men to one.
MARK ANTONY
      To-morrow, soldier,
      By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,
      Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
      Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
10    I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'
MARK ANTONY
      Well said; come on.
      Call forth my household servants: let's to-night
      Be bounteous at our meal.

Enter three or four Servitors

      Give me thy hand,
15    Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;--
      Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,
      And kings have been your fellows.
CLEOPATRA
      (Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS) What means this?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      (Aside to CLEOPATRA) 'Tis one of those odd
20    tricks which sorrow shoots
      Out of the mind.
MARK ANTONY
      And thou art honest too.
      I wish I could be made so many men,
      And all of you clapp'd up together in
25    An Antony, that I might do you service
      So good as you have done.
All
      The gods forbid!
MARK ANTONY
      Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:
      Scant not my cups; and make as much of me
30    As when mine empire was your fellow too,
      And suffer'd my command.
CLEOPATRA
      (Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS) What does he mean?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      (Aside to CLEOPATRA) To make his followers weep.
MARK ANTONY
      Tend me to-night;
35    May be it is the period of your duty:
      Haply you shall not see me more; or if,
      A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow
      You'll serve another master. I look on you
      As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
40    I turn you not away; but, like a master
      Married to your good service, stay till death:
      Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
      And the gods yield you for't!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
      What mean you, sir,
45    To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;
      And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,
      Transform us not to women.
MARK ANTONY
      Ho, ho, ho!
      Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
50    Grace grow where those drops fall!
      My hearty friends,
      You take me in too dolorous a sense;
      For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you
      To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,
55    I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you
      Where rather I'll expect victorious life
      Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
      And drown consideration.
Exeunt
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