Act 4
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Enter ANTONY,
CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS,
CHARMIAN, and IRAS, with
others
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ANTONY, CLEOPATRA,
ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and
IRAS enter, with attendants.
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ANTONY He will not fight with me, Domitius?
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ANTONY He won’t fight with me, Domitius?
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ENOBARBUS No.
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ENOBARBUS No.
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ANTONY Why should he not?
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ANTONY Why won’t he?
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ENOBARBUS He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
He is twenty men to one.
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ENOBARBUS He thinks that since his fortune is twenty times better than
yours, it would be like pitting twenty men against one.
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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?
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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?
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ENOBARBUS I’ll strike and cry, “Take all.”
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ENOBARBUS When I strike, I’ll cry, “All or nothing!”
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ANTONY Well
said. Come on!
Call forth my household servants.
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ANTONY Well put. Come on. Call out my household servants.
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Enter three or four
SERVITORS
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Three or four SERVANTS
enter.
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Let’s
tonight
10Be bounteous at our meal.
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Tonight let’s have plenty to eat.
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Greeting them one by one
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He greets the SERVANTS one by
one.
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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.
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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.
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CLEOPATRA
(aside to
ENOBARBUS
) What means this?
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CLEOPATRA
(aside to
ENOBARBUS
) What is this?
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ENOBARBUS
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(aside to
CLEOPATRA
) ’Tis one of those odd tricks which
sorrow shoots
Out of the mind.
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ENOBARBUS
(aside to
CLEOPATRA
) It’s one of those nostalgic moods
caused by sorrow.
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