Antony and Cleopatra

by: William Shakespeare

Act 4 Scene 2

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Original Text	Modern Text
Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS, with others	ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS enter, with attendants.
ANTONY He will not fight with me, Domitius?	ANTONY He won’t fight with me, Domitius?
ENOBARBUS No.	ENOBARBUS No.
ANTONY Why should he not?	ANTONY Why won’t he?
ENOBARBUS He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune, He is twenty men to one.	ENOBARBUS He thinks that since his fortune is twenty times better than yours, it would be like pitting twenty men against one.
ANTONY Tomorrow, soldier, 5By sea and land I’ll fight. Or I will live Or bathe my dying honor in the blood Shall make it live again. Woo’t thou fight well?	ANTONY Tomorrow, soldier, I’ll fight by sea and land. By the end I will either live, or else I’ll restore my honor by shedding my blood. Will you fight well?
ENOBARBUS I’ll strike and cry, “Take all.”	ENOBARBUS When I strike, I’ll cry, “All or nothing!”
ANTONY Well said. Come on! Call forth my household servants.	ANTONY Well put. Come on. Call out my household servants.
Enter three or four SERVITORS	Three or four SERVANTS enter.
Let’s tonight 10Be bounteous at our meal.	Tonight let’s have plenty to eat.
Greeting them one by one	He greets the SERVANTS one by one.
Give me thy hand. Thou hast been rightly honest.—So hast thou,— Thou,—and thou,—and thou. You have served me well, And kings have been your fellows.	Give me your hand; you’ve been truly honest—so have you and you—and you—you too. You have all served me well, and kings are your peers.
CLEOPATRA (aside to ENOBARBUS ) What means this?	CLEOPATRA (aside to ENOBARBUS ) What is this?
ENOBARBUS 15 (aside to CLEOPATRA ) ’Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow shoots Out of the mind.	ENOBARBUS (aside to CLEOPATRA ) It’s one of those nostalgic moods caused by sorrow.

Read the Summary of Act IV, scenes i–viii

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