Comparison of William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra 3.3 to William Shakespeare

What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked, wicked world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with age to show himself a young gallant! What an unweigh’d behavior hath this Flemish drunkard pick’d (with the devil’s name!) out of my conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me? Why, he hath not ...

Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all. Let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage. Find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.

King Manchus of Arabia; King of Pont;

Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, King

Of Comagena; Polemon and Amyntas,

When she first met Mark Antony, she purs’d up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. [continues next]

[continues previous] When she first met Mark Antony, she purs’d up his heart upon the river of Cydnus.

Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,

O, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts, [continues next]

Ay; what of that? That’s not so good now. What

[continues previous] Perchance she cannot meet him — that’s not so.

I faint, O Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter. [continues next]

[continues previous] I faint, O Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter.

He’s coming; I perceive’t. Pray heaven she win him! [continues next]

[continues previous] He’s coming; I perceive’t. Pray heaven she win him!

I fear some outrage, and I’ll follow her.

There’s nothing in this world can make me joy:

I pray thee bear my former answer back: [continues next]

[continues previous] I pray thee bear my former answer back:

Hostess, I forgive thee. Go make ready breakfast; love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy guesse. Thou shalt find me tractable to any honest reason; thou seest I am pacified still. Nay, prithee be gone.

Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man. [continues next]

Upon my soul, a proper man! He is so. [continues next]

[continues previous] Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man.

[continues previous] Upon my soul, a proper man! He is so.

Meet thee at Milford-Haven! (I forgot to ask him one thing, I’ll remember’t anon.) Even there, thou villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these garments were come. She said upon a time (the bitterness of it I now belch from my heart) that she held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect than my noble and natural person, ...

Yet one thing more, good captain, do for me —

Note him, good Charmian, ’tis the man; but note him: [continues next]

I faint, O Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter. [continues next]

And ’twere to give again — but ’tis no matter. [continues next]

Ay, you spake in Latin then too: but ’tis no matter; I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick. If I be drunk, I’ll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.

My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor’s marrying my daughter. But ’tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.

Come here, Pistol, stand behind me. — O, if I had had time to have made new liveries, I would have bestow’d the thousand pound I borrow’d of you. But ’tis no matter, this poor show doth better, this doth infer the zeal I had to see him.

[continues previous] Note him, good Charmian, ’tis the man; but note him:

[continues previous] I faint, O Iras, Charmian! ’Tis no matter.

[continues previous] And ’twere to give again — but ’tis no matter.

Through far enough. I warrant you. My casque now. [continues next]

Remember what I have said. I warrant you, madam.

[continues previous] Through far enough. I warrant you. My casque now.

I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.