No Fear Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra: Act 1 Scene 2

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Enter ENOBARBUS, LAMPRIUS, a SOOTHSAYER, Rannius, LUCILLIUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, MARDIAN the eunuch, and ALEXAS	ENOBARBUS, LAMPRIUS, the FORTUNETELLER, Rannius, LUCILLUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, MARDIAN the eunuch, and ALEXAS enter.
CHARMIAN Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where’s the soothsayer that you praised so to th’ Queen? Oh that I knew this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands!	CHARMIAN Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything Alexas, almost the most consummate Alexas, where’s the fortuneteller you recommended so highly to the Queen? Oh, I only wish I knew the name of that husband you said he predicted will have a cheating wife!
ALEXAS 5Soothsayer!	ALEXAS (calling) Fortuneteller!
SOOTHSAYER Your will?	FORTUNETELLER What can I do for you?
CHARMIAN (to ALEXAS ) Is this the man? (to SOOTHSAYER ) Is ’t you, sir, that know things?	CHARMIAN (to ALEXAS ) Is this the man you recommended? (to the FORTUNETELLER ) Are you the man who knows the future?
SOOTHSAYER In nature’s infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.	FORTUNETELLER I can understand a few of nature’s infinite secrets.
ALEXAS 10 (to CHARMIAN ) Show him your hand.	ALEXAS (to CHARMIAN ) Give him your hand to read.
ENOBARBUS (to servants within) Bring in the banquet quickly. Wine enough Cleopatra’s health to drink.	ENOBARBUS (to the servants) Bring the dessert in right away, and make sure there’s enough wine to toast Cleopatra’s health.
CHARMIAN (giving hand to SOOTHSAYER ) Good sir, give me good fortune.	CHARMIAN (giving her hand to the FORTUNETELLER ) Kind sir, give me a good fortune.
SOOTHSAYER I make not, but foresee.	FORTUNETELLER I don’t make fortunes; I only see them.
CHARMIAN 15Pray, then, foresee me one.	CHARMIAN Then see a good one for me.
SOOTHSAYER You shall be yet far fairer than you are.	FORTUNETELLER Your beauty will be even greater than it is now.
CHARMIAN (to the others) He means in flesh.	CHARMIAN (to the others) He means I’ll get fat.
IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old.	IRAS No, he means you’ll use makeup when you’re old.
CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid!	CHARMIAN May my wrinkles forbid that!
ALEXAS 20Vex not his prescience. Be attentive.	ALEXAS Don’t joke about his predictions. Pay attention.
CHARMIAN Hush!	CHARMIAN Quiet!
SOOTHSAYER You shall be more beloving than beloved.	FORTUNETELLER You will love more than you are loved.