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Enter ANTONY and
CLEOPATRA, with CHARMIAN and
others attending
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ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
enter with CHARMIAN and others of the
court.
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ANTONY
(calling) Eros!
Mine armor, Eros!
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ANTONY
(calling) Eros!
Bring my armor, Eros.
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CLEOPATRA Sleep
a little.
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CLEOPATRA Get a little sleep.
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ANTONY No, my chuck.—Eros, come, mine armor, Eros!
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ANTONY No, my dear . . . Eros, come on, bring my armor, Eros.
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Enter EROS with
armor
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EROS enters, carrying
ANTONY’s armor.
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Come, good fellow, put thine iron on.
If fortune be not ours today, it is
5Because we brave her. Come.
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Come on, good fellow, help me into that armor you’re carrying. If
luck deserts us today, it’s because we defy it. Come on.
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CLEOPATRA Nay,
I’ll help too.
What’s this for?
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CLEOPATRA No, I’ll help too. What’s this part for?
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She helps to arm him
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She picks up a piece of the armor.
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ANTONY Ah, let be, let be! Thou
art
The armorer of my heart. False, false. This, this.
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ANTONY Ah, leave it alone. Leave it alone! You armor my heart. No! No!
That part goes there.
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CLEOPATRA Sooth, la, I’ll help. Thus it must be.
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CLEOPATRA Really, I’ll help. It must go like this.
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ANTONY Well,
well,
We shall thrive now.—Seest thou, my good fellow?
10Go put on thy defenses.
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ANTONY Yes, well done. We’ve got it now.—Do you see this, my good fellow?
Go and put on your own armor.
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EROS Briefly,
sir.
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EROS In a minute, sir.
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CLEOPATRA Is not this buckled well?
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CLEOPATRA Didn’t I buckle this well?
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ANTONY Rarely,
rarely.
He that unbuckles this, till we do please
To doff ’t for our repose, shall hear a storm.—
Thou fumblest, Eros, and my Queen’s a squire
15More tight at this than thou. Dispatch.—O
love,
That thou couldst see my wars today, and knew’st
The royal occupation! Thou shouldst see
A workman in ’t.
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ANTONY Excellently, excellently. Anyone who unbuckles this before I want
to take it off to rest will be sorry.—You’re fumbling, Eros. My
Queen’s a better squire than you are. Hurry.—Oh, love, if you could
only watch the battle today and see how expert I am at my
craft.
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