Shakespeare's Roman Plays — Chronicle
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Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
First, you know Caius Martius is chief enemy to the people. ALL. We know’t, we know’t! FIRST CITIZEN. Let us kill him, and we’ll have corn at our own price.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms, Of their own choice. One’s Junius Brutus, Sicinius Velutus, and I know not.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I
MESSENGER. Where’s Caius Martius? MARTIUS. Here. What’s the matter? MESSENGER. The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms. MARTIUS. I am glad on’t. Then we shall ha’ means to vent Our musty superfluity. Enter Sicinius Velutus, Junius Brutus, two Tribunes; Cominius, Titus Lartius with other Senators. See, our best elders. FIRST SENATOR. Martius, ’tis true that you have lately told us: The Volsces are in arms. MARTIUS. They have a leader, Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to’t.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I
FIRST SENATOR. Then, worthy Martius, Attend upon Cominius to these wars. COMINIUS. It is your former promise. MARTIUS. Sir, it is, And I am constant.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene I
MARTIUS. Titus Lartius, thou Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus’ face. What, art thou stiff? Stand’st out? TITUS LARTIUS. No, Caius Martius, I’ll lean upon one crutch and fight with th’ other Ere stay behind this business.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene II
If we and Caius Martius chance to meet, ’Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike Till one can do no more.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Corioles]] · last night
Your lord and Titus Lartius are set down before their city Corioles.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Noble Aufidius, Take your commission; hie you to your bands.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene II
To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brows bound with oak.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene II
I’ll not over the threshold till my lord return from the wars.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Coriolanus Titus Lartius Tullus Aufidius
MARTIUS. O, they are at it! LARTIUS. Their noise be our instruction.—Ladders, ho!
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
[Alarums. The Romans are beat back to their trenches. They exit, with the Volsces following.]
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
[Another alarum. The Volsces re-enter and are driven back to the gates of Corioles, which open to admit them.]
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
[Martius follows the fleeing Volsces through the gates, and is shut in.]
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
He is himself alone, To answer all the city.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Enter Martius, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Corioles]]
LARTIUS. O, ’tis Martius! Let’s fetch him off or make remain alike. [They fight, and all enter the city.]
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene V · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Coriolanus Cominius Tullus Aufidius
By th’ blood we have shed together, by th’ vows we have made To endure friends, that you directly set me Against Aufidius and his Antiates, And that you not delay the present
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene V · 📍 [[Corioles]]
If any think brave death outweighs bad life, And that his country’s dearer than himself; Let him alone, or so many so minded, Wave thus to express his disposition And follow Martius.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 [[Corioles]]
So, let the ports be guarded. Keep your duties As I have set them down.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 [[Corioles]] · Within these three hours
Within these three hours, Tullus, Alone I fought in your Corioles’ walls, And made what work I pleased.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII
We render you the tenth, to be ta’en forth Before the common distribution At your only choice. MARTIUS. I thank you, general, But cannot make my heart consent to take A bribe to pay my sword. I do refuse it;
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Therefore be it known, as to us to all the world, that Caius Martius Wears this war’s garland, in token of the which My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him, With all his trim belonging. And from this time, For what he did before Corioles, call him, With all th’ applause and clamour of the host, Caius Martius Coriolanus!
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII
My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him, With all his trim belonging.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene VII · 📍 [[Corioles]]
Cominius Titus Lartius Coriolanus
I request you To give my poor host freedom. COMINIUS. O, well begged! Were he the butcher of my son, he should Be free as is the wind.—Deliver him, Titus.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · Five times
Five times, Martius, I have fought with thee; so often hast thou beat me
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · 📍 [[Rome]]
Know, Rome, that all alone Martius did fight Within Corioles’ gates, where he hath won, With fame, a name to Caius Martius; these In honour follows “Coriolanus.”
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · 📍 [[Rome]]
Your hand, and yours. Ere in our own house I do shade my head, The good patricians must be visited, From whom I have received not only greetings, But with them change of honours.
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · 📍 [[Rome]]
Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus Coriolanus
We must suggest the people in what hatred He still hath held them
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · 📍 [[Rome]]
Were he to stand for consul, never would he Appear i’ th’ marketplace nor on him put The napless vesture of humility
Coriolanus · Act I, Scene X · 📍 [[The Capitol]]
Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
You are sent for to the Capitol. ’Tis thought That Martius shall be consul.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Rome]] · At sixteen years
At sixteen years, When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought Beyond the mark of others. Our then dictator, Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight When with his Amazonian chin he drove The bristled lips before him. He bestrid An o’erpressed Roman and i’ th’ Consul’s view Slew three opposers. Tarquin’s self he met And struck him on his knee. In that day’s feats, When he might act the woman in the scene, He proved best man i’ th’ field and for his meed Was brow-bound with the oak.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Corioles]] · For this last
Alone he entered The mortal gate o’ th’ city, which he painted With shunless destiny; aidless came off And with a sudden reinforcement struck Corioles like a planet. Now all’s his, When by and by the din of war gan pierce His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit Requickened what in flesh was fatigate, And to the battle came he, where he did Run reeking o’er the lives of men as if ’Twere a perpetual spoil; and till we called Both field and city ours, he never stood To ease his breast with panting.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[The Capitol]]
The Senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased To make thee consul.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[The Capitol]]
I do beseech you Let me o’erleap that custom, for I cannot Put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them For my wounds’ sake to give their suffrage. Please you That I may pass this doing.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[The Forum]]
ALL THREE CITIZENS. Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
Coriolanus Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
Let them assemble And, on a safer judgment, all revoke Your ignorant election.
Coriolanus · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[The Capitol]]
Coriolanus Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
ALL. We will so. Almost all Repent in their election.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
That of all things upon the earth he hated Your person most; that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be called your vanquisher.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
in whose name myself Attach thee as a traitorous innovator, A foe to th’ public weal. Obey, I charge thee, And follow to thine answer.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
By the consent of all, we were established The people’s magistrates. ALL PLEBEIANS. You so remain. MENENIUS. And so are like to do.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Coriolanus Sicinius Velutus Junius Brutus
No; I’ll die here. There’s some among you have beheld me fighting. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · tonight
Sicinius Velutus Junius Brutus Coriolanus
Therefore it is decreed He dies tonight.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Sicinius Velutus Junius Brutus Coriolanus
I’ll go to him and undertake to bring him Where he shall answer by a lawful form, In peace, to his utmost peril.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[Rome]]
Mother, I am going to the marketplace. Chide me no more. I’ll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved Of all the trades in Rome.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
SICINIUS. I do demand If you submit you to the people’s voices, Allow their officers, and are content To suffer lawful censure for such faults As shall be proved upon you. CORIOLANUS. I am content.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
SICINIUS. We charge you that you have contrived to take From Rome all seasoned office and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical, For which you are a traitor to the people. CORIOLANUS. How? Traitor?
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]] · from this instant
SICINIUS. For that he has, As much as in him lies, from time to time Envied against the people, seeking means To pluck away their power, as now at last Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers That do distribute it, in the name o’ th’ people And in the power of us the Tribunes, we, Even from this instant, banish him our city In peril of precipitation From off the rock Tarpeian, never more To enter our Rome gates.
Coriolanus · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
CORIOLANUS. You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate As reek o’ th’ rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you! And here remain with your uncertainty; Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts; Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, Fan you into despair! Have the power still To banish your defenders, till at length Your ignorance—which finds not till it feels, Making but reservation of yourselves, Still your own foes—deliver you, As most abated captives to some nation That won you without blows! Despising For you the city, thus I turn my back. There is a world elsewhere.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Bring me but out at gate.— Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and My friends of noble touch. When I am forth, Bid me farewell, and smile.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene I · a month
I’ll follow thee a month, devise with thee Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us And we of thee; so if the time thrust forth A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send O’er the vast world to seek a single man
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
He’s gone, and we’ll no further. The nobility are vexed, whom we see have sided In his behalf. BRUTUS. Now we have shown our power, Let us seem humbler after it is done Than when it was a-doing.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Volumnia Virgilia Menenius Junius Brutus Sicinius Velutus
As far as doth the Capitol exceed The meanest house in Rome, so far my son— This lady’s husband here, this, do you see?— Whom you have banished, does exceed you all.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again; for the nobles receive so to heart the banishment of that worthy Coriolanus
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Antium]]
Enter Coriolanus in mean apparel, disguised and muffled.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Antium]] · this night
He is, and feasts the nobles of the state At his house this night.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Antium]]
If he slay me, He does fair justice; if he give me way, I’ll do his country service.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Antium]]
My name is Caius Martius, who hath done To thee particularly and to all the Volsces Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may My surname Coriolanus.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Antium]]
A thousand welcomes! And more a friend than e’er an enemy— Yet, Martius, that was much. Your hand. Most welcome!
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Antium]]
Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have The leading of thine own revenges, take Th’ one half of my commission and set down— As best thou art experienced, since thou know’st Thy country’s strength and weakness—thine own ways
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VI · 📍 [[Rome]]
How probable I do not know—that Martius, Joined with Aufidius, leads a power ’gainst Rome And vows revenge
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VI · 📍 [[Roman territories]]
A fearful army, led by Caius Martius Associated with Aufidius, rages Upon our territories, and have already O’erborne their way, consumed with fire and took What lay before them.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VI
Tullus Aufidius, The second name of men, obeys his points As if he were his officer.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VI · 📍 [[Rome]]
The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let’s home. I ever said we were i’ th’ wrong when we banished him.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VII
I wish, sir—I mean for your particular—you had not Joined in commission with him
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VII · 📍 [[Rome]] · When, Caius, Rome is thine
When, Caius, Rome is thine, Thou art poor’st of all; then shortly art thou mine.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VII
What he would do He sent in writing after me; what he Would not, bound with an oath to yield to his Conditions.
Coriolanus · Act IV, Scene VII
He could not stay to pick them in a pile Of noisome musty chaff.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Volscian camp before Rome]]
Therefore begone. Mine ears against your suits are stronger than Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee, Take this along; I writ it for thy sake,
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Volscian camp before Rome]]
Take this along; I writ it for thy sake, And would have sent it. Another word, Menenius, I will not hear thee speak.—This man, Aufidius,
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Volscian camp before Rome]]
Coriolanus Tullus Aufidius Menenius
This man, Aufidius, Was my beloved in Rome; yet thou behold’st.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[The tent of Coriolanus]]
Coriolanus Tullus Aufidius Volumnia Virgilia young Martius
O mother, mother! What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope, The gods look down, and this unnatural scene They laugh at. O my mother, mother, O! You have won a happy victory to Rome, But, for your son—believe it, O, believe it!— Most dangerously you have with him prevailed, If not most mortal to him. But let it come.— Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars, I’ll frame convenient peace.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[The tent of Coriolanus]]
For my part, I’ll not to Rome, I’ll back with you; and pray you, Stand to me in this cause.—O mother!—Wife!
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene IV · 📍 [[Rome]]
The ladies have prevailed. The Volscians are dislodged and Martius gone.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
Repeal him with the welcome of his mother. Cry “Welcome, ladies, welcome!”
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
Therefore shall he die, and I’ll renew me in his fall.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
Hail, lords! I am returned your soldier, No more infected with my country’s love Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting Under your great command.
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
Tullus Aufidius Coriolanus Volumnia Virgilia
He has betrayed your business and given up For certain drops of salt your city Rome— I say your city—to his wife and mother,
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
[Draw the Conspirators, and kills Martius, who falls. Aufidius stands on him.]
Coriolanus · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Rome]]
Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · today
Julius Caesar Pompey the Great
we make holiday to see Caesar, and to rejoice in his triumph.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Flavius Marullus Julius Caesar
Disrobe the images, If you do find them deck’d with ceremonies.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[the market-place]]
I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered it to him again: then he put it by again: but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time; he put it the third time by
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene II
Marullus Flavius Julius Caesar
Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs off Caesar’s images, are put to silence.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene II
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene II · this night
Caius Cassius Marcus Brutus Julius Caesar
I will this night, In several hands, in at his windows throw, As if they came from several citizens, Writings, all tending to the great opinion That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely Caesar’s ambition shall be glanced at. And after this, let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene III
CASCA. You speak to Casca, and to such a man That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand: Be factious for redress of all these griefs, And I will set this foot of mine as far As who goes farthest. CASSIUS. There’s a bargain made.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Pompey’s Porch]] · ere day
CASSIUS. Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper, And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this In at his window; set this up with wax Upon old Brutus’ statue: all this done, Repair to Pompey’s Porch, where you shall find us.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Italy]] · tomorrow
CASCA. Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow Mean to establish Caesar as a king; And he shall wear his crown by sea and land, In every place, save here in Italy.
Julius Caesar · Act I, Scene III · after midnight
CASSIUS. Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day, See Brutus at his house: three parts of him Is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter, yields him ours.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · today
Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius Casca Decius Brutus Cinna Metellus Cimber Trebonius Julius Caesar Mark Antony
And for Mark Antony, think not of him; For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm When Caesar’s head is off.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · today
Let me work; For I can give his humour the true bent, And I will bring him to the Capitol.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · the morning
I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand Any exploit worthy the name of honour.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · the morning
Set on your foot, And with a heart new-fir’d I follow you, To do I know not what; but it sufficeth That Brutus leads me on.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · the raw cold morning
I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here, in the thigh:
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · the raw cold morning
And by and by thy bosom shall partake The secrets of my heart.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Caesar’s palace]] · today
Julius Caesar Calphurnia Mark Antony
Mark Antony shall say I am not well, And for thy humour, I will stay at home.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Caesar’s palace]] · this day
The Senate have concluded To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Caesar’s palace]] · today
Julius Caesar Calphurnia Decius Brutus
How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia! I am ashamed I did yield to them. Give me my robe, for I will go.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Caesar’s palace]] · today
and so near will I be, That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Capitol]]
Artemidorus Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius Casca Cinna Trebonius Metellus Cimber Decius Brutus Caius Ligarius
ARTEMIDORUS. O Caesar, read mine first; for mine’s a suit That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Capitol]]
Julius Caesar Metellus Cimber Publius Cimber
I was constant Cimber should be banish’d, And constant do remain to keep him so.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Capitol]]
Trebonius knows his time, for look you, Brutus, He draws Mark Antony out of the way.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Capitol]] · The Ides of March
Julius Caesar Casca Marcus Brutus
Casca stabs Caesar in the neck. Caesar catches hold of his arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus Brutus. CAESAR. Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Caesar! [_Dies.]
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Capitol]]
CINNA. Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[market-place]]
Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar’s body. You shall not in your funeral speech blame us, But speak all good you can devise of Caesar, And say you do’t by our permission;
Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]] · tonight
Caesar did write for him to come to Rome. SERVANT. He did receive his letters, and is coming,
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius Casca Julius Caesar
Look, in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d;
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
Marcus Brutus Mark Antony Julius Caesar
Do grace to Caesar’s corpse, and grace his speech Tending to Caesar’s glories, which Mark Antony, By our permission, is allow’d to make.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbors, and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs forever;
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
Mark Antony Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius
We’ll burn the house of Brutus.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
We’ll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire the traitors’ houses. Take up the body.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[The Forum]]
I heard him say Brutus and Cassius Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[A street]] · tonight
FIRST CITIZEN. Tear him to pieces! He’s a conspirator. CINNA. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. FOURTH CITIZEN. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses. CINNA. I am not Cinna the conspirator. FOURTH CITIZEN. It is no matter, his name’s Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going. THIRD CITIZEN. Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To Brutus’, to Cassius’; burn all. Some to Decius’ house, and some to Casca’s, some to Ligarius’. Away, go!
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene III
Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Publius
LEPIDUS. Upon condition Publius shall not live, Who is your sister’s son, Mark Antony. ANTONY. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene III
Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Lepidus
ANTONY. Therefore let our alliance be combin’d, Our best friends made, our means stretch’d; And let us presently go sit in council, How covert matters may be best disclos’d, And open perils surest answered. OCTAVIUS. Let us do so: for we are at the stake, And bay’d about with many enemies; And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefs.
Julius Caesar · Act III, Scene III · presently
Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius Mark Antony Octavius Caesar
ANTONY. Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius Are levying powers; we must straight make head.
Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II
Impatient of my absence, And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony Have made themselves so strong; for with her death That tidings came. With this she fell distract, And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire.
Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II
Octavius Caesar Mark Antony Lepidus Cicero
That by proscription and bills of outlawry Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus Have put to death an hundred Senators. BRUTUS. Therein our letters do not well agree. Mine speak of seventy Senators that died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. CASSIUS. Cicero one! MESSALA. Cicero is dead, And by that order of proscription.
Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II · 📍 [[Philippi]] · Early tomorrow
Then, with your will, go on: We’ll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi. BRUTUS. The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity, Which we will niggard with a little rest. There is no more to say? CASSIUS. No more. Good night: Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence.
Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II · 📍 [[Philippi]]
GHOST. Thy evil spirit, Brutus. BRUTUS. Why com’st thou? GHOST. To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Philippi]]
ANTONY. Octavius, lead your battle softly on Upon the left hand of the even field. OCTAVIUS. Upon the right hand I. Keep thou the left.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Philippi]] · today
Octavius Caesar Mark Antony Marcus Brutus Caius Cassius
OCTAVIUS. Come, Antony; away! Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth. If you dare fight today, come to the field; If not, when you have stomachs.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Philippi]] · today
OCTAVIUS. Come, come, the cause. If arguing makes us sweat, The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look, I draw a sword against conspirators. When think you that the sword goes up again? Never, till Caesar’s three and thirty wounds Be well aveng’d
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Philippi]] · this same day
BRUTUS. No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman, That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome; He bears too great a mind. But this same day Must end that work the Ides of March begun;
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Philippi]] · this same day
BRUTUS. Therefore our everlasting farewell take. For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. CASSIUS. For ever and for ever farewell, Brutus. If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed; If not, ’tis true this parting was well made.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II
Titinius. O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early, Who, having some advantage on Octavius, Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil, Whilst we by Antony are all enclos’d. Enter Pindarus. PINDARUS. Fly further off, my lord, fly further off; Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II
Caius Cassius Pindarus Julius Caesar
Come now, keep thine oath. Now be a freeman; and with this good sword, That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom. Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts; And when my face is cover’d, as ’tis now, Guide thou the sword.—Caesar, thou art reveng’d, Even with the sword that kill’d thee. [Dies.]
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II
PINDARUS. So, I am free, yet would not so have been, Durst I have done my will.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II
Marcus Brutus Octavius Caesar Mark Antony Caius Cassius
MESSALA. It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius Is overthrown by noble Brutus’ power, As Cassius’ legions are by Antony.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II
Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they Put on my brows this wreath of victory, And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts? Alas, thou hast misconstrued everything! But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow; Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace, And see how I regarded Caius Cassius. By your leave, gods. This is a Roman’s part. Come, Cassius’ sword, and find Titinius’ heart. [Dies.]
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Thassos]]
Come therefore, and to Thassos send his body. His funerals shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV
This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you, A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe, Give him all kindness.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV · 📍 [[Philippi fields]] · this last night
The ghost of Caesar hath appear’d to me Two several times by night; at Sardis once, And this last night here in Philippi fields. I know my hour is come.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV
Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face, While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV
Caesar, now be still: I kill’d not thee with half so good a will.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV
Strato Marcus Brutus Octavius Caesar
I held the sword, and he did run on it.
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
Julius Caesar · Act V, Scene IV · 📍 [[Octavius’ tent]] · tonight
Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie, Most like a soldier, order’d honourably.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Italy]] · soon
But soon that war had end, and the time’s state Made friends of them, jointing their force ’gainst Caesar, Whose better issue in the war from Italy Upon the first encounter drave them.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Asia]]
Labienus— This is stiff news—hath with his Parthian force Extended Asia from Euphrates His conquering banner shook from Syria To Lydia and to Ionia
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Sicyon]]
Fulvia thy wife is dead. ANTONY. Where died she? THIRD MESSENGER. In Sicyon:
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
I must from this enchanting queen break off.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · with haste
No more light answers. Let our officers Have notice what we purpose. I shall break The cause of our expedience to the Queen, And get her leave to part.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Rome]]
Sextus Pompeius Octavius Caesar
Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands The empire of the sea.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene II
Pompey the Great Sextus Pompeius
Our slippery people, Whose love is never linked to the deserver Till his deserts are past, begin to throw Pompey the Great and all his dignities Upon his son
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene III
CLEOPATRA. Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness. Can Fulvia die? ANTONY. She’s dead, my queen.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
ANTONY. Let us go. Come. Our separation so abides and flies That thou, residing here, goes yet with me, And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene IV
Pompey is strong at sea, And it appears he is beloved of those That only have feared Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Italy]]
Menecrates Menas Sextus Pompeius
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads They make in Italy—the borders maritime Lack blood to think on’t—and flush youth revolt. No vessel can peep forth but ’tis as soon Taken as seen; for Pompey’s name strikes more Than could his war resisted.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Modena]]
When thou once Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew’st Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel Did famine follow
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene IV · 📍 [[Rome]] · Tomorrow
Let his shames quickly Drive him to Rome. ’Tis time we twain Did show ourselves i’ th’ field, and to that end Assemble we immediate council. Pompey Thrives in our idleness.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · Last thing he did
Last thing he did, dear queen, He kissed—the last of many doubled kisses— This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart. CLEOPATRA. Mine ear must pluck it thence. ALEXAS. “Good friend,” quoth he, “Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot, To mend the petty present, I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the east, Say thou, shall call her mistress.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Messina]]
Mark Antony Fulvia Octavius Caesar
Truth is that Fulvia, To have me out of Egypt, made wars here, For which myself, the ignorant motive, do So far ask pardon as befits mine honour To stoop in such a case.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Messina]] · from this hour
Mark Antony Octavia Octavius Caesar Agrippa
To hold you in perpetual amity, To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts With an unslipping knot, take Antony Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims No worse a husband than the best of men; Whose virtue and whose general graces speak That which none else can utter. By this marriage All little jealousies, which now seem great, And all great fears, which now import their dangers, Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales, Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both Would each to other, and all loves to both, Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke, For ’tis a studied, not a present thought, By duty ruminated. ANTONY. Will Caesar speak? CAESAR. Not till he hears how Antony is touched With what is spoke already. ANTONY. What power is in Agrippa, If I would say “Agrippa, be it so,” To make this good? CAESAR. The power of Caesar, and His power unto Octavia. ANTONY. May I never To this good purpose, that so fairly shows, Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand. Further this act of grace; and from this hour The heart of brothers govern in our loves And sway our great designs! CAESAR. There’s my hand. A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother Did ever love so dearly. Let her live To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never Fly off our loves again!
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[Messina]]
Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Sextus Pompeius
I did not think to draw my sword ’gainst Pompey, For he hath laid strange courtesies and great Of late upon me. I must thank him only, Lest my remembrance suffer ill report; At heel of that, defy him.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene I · 📍 [[river of Cydnus]]
When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart upon the river of Cydnus. AGRIPPA. There she appeared indeed, or my reporter devised well for her. ENOBARBUS. I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O’erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Egypt]]
I will to Egypt: And though I make this marriage for my peace, I’ th’ East my pleasure lies.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Parthia]]
You must to Parthia. Your commission’s ready.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene III
Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VI · 📍 [[Near Misenum]]
Sextus Pompeius Octavius Caesar Mark Antony
POMPEY. I came before you here a man prepared To take this offer.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VI · 📍 [[Near Misenum]]
Sextus Pompeius Octavius Caesar Mark Antony
POMPEY. I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed. I crave our composition may be written And sealed between us.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VI · 📍 [[Near Misenum]]
Octavia Caius Marcellus Mark Antony
MENAS. True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus. ENOBARBUS. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. MENAS. Pray you, sir? ENOBARBUS. ’Tis true.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VII · 📍 [[Pompey’s Galley]]
Menas Sextus Pompeius Octavius Caesar Mark Antony Lepidus
These three world-sharers, these competitors, Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable, And when we are put off, fall to their throats. All then is thine. POMPEY. Ah, this thou shouldst have done And not have spoke on ’t! In me ’tis villainy; In thee ’t had been good service. Thou must know ’Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; Mine honour it. Repent that e’er thy tongue Hath so betray’d thine act. Being done unknown, I should have found it afterwards well done, But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VII · 📍 [[Pompey’s Galley]]
MENAS. [Aside.] For this, I’ll never follow thy palled fortunes more. Who seeks, and will not take when once ’tis offered, Shall never find it more.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act II, Scene VII · 📍 [[Pompey’s Galley]]
POMPEY. O Antony, You have my father’s house. But, what? We are friends. Come, down into the boat.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Syria]]
Ventidius Pacorus Marcus Crassus
Bear the king’s son’s body Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes, Pays this for Marcus Crassus.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Syria]]
How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks, The ne’er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia We have jaded out o’ th’ field.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Cleopatra Messenger
There’s gold for thee. Thou must not take my former sharpness ill. I will employ thee back again; I find thee Most fit for business.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Yourself shall go between’s. The meantime, lady, I’ll raise the preparation of a war Shall stain your brother.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
The Jove of power make me, most weak, most weak, Your reconciler! Wars ’twixt you twain would be
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V
upon his own appeal, seizes him. So the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · that day
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold Were publicly enthroned. At the feet sat Caesarion, whom they call my father’s son
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · that day
His sons he there proclaimed the kings of kings: Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assigned Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Athens]]
Mark Antony Cleopatra Bocchus Archelaus Philadelphos Adallas Manchus Herod Mithridates Polemon Amyntas
He hath given his empire Up to a whore, who now are levying The kings o’ th’ earth for war.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Athens]]
My lord, Mark Antony, Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted My grieved ear withal, whereon I begged His pardon for return.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Athens]]
Welcome to Rome, Nothing more dear to me. You are abused Beyond the mark of thought
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VII · 📍 [[Toryne]]
The news is true, my lord; he is descried. Caesar has taken Toryne.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VII
Canidius, Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, And our twelve thousand horse.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VII
Marcus Octavius Marcus Justeius Publicola Caelius
Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius, Publicola, and Caelius are for sea
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Actium]]
The noble ruin of her magic, Antony, / Claps on his sea-wing and, like a doting mallard, / Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Actium]]
To Caesar will I render / My legions and my horse. Six kings already / Show me the way of yielding.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Actium]]
Take that, divide it. Fly, / And make your peace with Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Actium]]
CLEOPATRA. O my lord, my lord, / Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought / You would have followed. / ANTONY. Egypt, thou knew’st too well
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Actium]]
Now I must / To the young man send humble treaties, dodge / And palter in the shifts of lowness
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII · 📍 [[Egypt]]
Mark Antony Octavius Caesar Cleopatra
For Antony, I have no ears to his request. The queen Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend, Or take his life there.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII
Octavius Caesar Thidias Cleopatra Mark Antony
To try thy eloquence now ’tis time. Dispatch. From Antony win Cleopatra. Promise, And in our name, what she requires; add more, From thine invention, offers.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII
I kiss his conqu’ring hand. Tell him I am prompt To lay my crown at’s feet, and there to kneel. Tell him, from his all-obeying breath I hear The doom of Egypt.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII
Mark Antony Thidias Octavius Caesar
Thou hast been whipped for following him. Henceforth The white hand of a lady fever thee; Shake thou to look on’t. Get thee back to Caesar; Tell him thy entertainment.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Caesar sits down in Alexandria, where I will oppose his fate. Our force by land Hath nobly held; our severed navy too Have knit again, and fleet, threat’ning most sea-like.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII
Our force by land Hath nobly held; our severed navy too Have knit again, and fleet, threat’ning most sea-like.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act III, Scene XII
When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek Some way to leave him.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · tomorrow
Let our best heads Know that tomorrow the last of many battles We mean to fight. Within our files there are, Of those that served Mark Antony but late, Enough to fetch him in.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
He calls me boy, and chides as he had power To beat me out of Egypt. My messenger He hath whipped with rods; dares me to personal combat, Caesar to Antony.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · Tomorrow
Tomorrow, soldier, By sea and land I’ll fight. Or I will live, Or bathe my dying honour in the blood Shall make it live again.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · Tomorrow
Woo’t thou fight well? ENOBARBUS. I’ll strike, and cry “Take all.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · This morning
Come, good fellow, put thine iron on.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
’Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved, Now leaves him.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · This morning
This is a soldier’s kiss. [Kisses her.] Rebukeable And worthy shameful check it were, to stand On more mechanic compliment. I’ll leave thee Now like a man of steel.—You that will fight, Follow me close, I’ll bring you to’t. Adieu.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · this morning
Enobarbus Octavius Caesar Mark Antony
One ever near thee. Call for Enobarbus, He shall not hear thee, or from Caesar’s camp Say “I am none of thine.”
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Go, Eros, send his treasure after. Do it. Detain no jot, I charge thee.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Alexas Herod Octavius Caesar Mark Antony
Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry on Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar And leave his master Antony. For this pains Caesar hath hanged him.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Canidius and the rest That fell away have entertainment but No honourable trust.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene V · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves For a fair victory.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · today
We have beat him to his camp.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene X · 📍 [[Ground between the two Camps]] · today
But being charged, we will be still by land, Which, as I take’t, we shall, for his best force Is forth to man his galleys.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene X · 📍 [[Ground between the two Camps]]
My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder They cast their caps up and carouse together Like friends long lost.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene X · 📍 [[Ground between the two Camps]]
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene X · 📍 [[Ground between the two Camps]]
Bid them all fly; For when I am revenged upon my charm, I have done all. Bid them all fly! Be gone!
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene X · 📍 [[Ground between the two Camps]]
The witch shall die. To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall Under this plot. She dies for’t.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
She hath betrayed me and shall die the death.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
To do thus [Falling on his sword.] I learned of thee. How? Not dead? Not dead?
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Diomedes Cleopatra Mark Antony
She sent you word she was dead; / But fearing since how it might work, hath sent / Me to proclaim the truth
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Let him that loves me strike me dead.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XV · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
I can no more. CLEOPATRA. Noblest of men, woo’t die? Hast thou no care of me? Shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty? O, see, my women, [_ Antony dies._]
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XV · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
My resolution and my hands I’ll trust; None about Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XV · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · after Antony’s death
We’ll bury him; and then, what’s brave, what’s noble, Let’s do it after the high Roman fashion And make death proud to take us.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria]]
I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria]]
He is dead, Caesar, Not by a public minister of justice, Nor by a hired knife, but that self hand Which writ his honour in the acts it did Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, Splitted the heart. This is his sword. I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained With his most noble blood.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria]]
If thou please To take me to thee, as I was to him I’ll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not, I yield thee up my life.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria]]
Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say We purpose her no shame. Give her what comforts The quality of her passion shall require
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Cleopatra Proculeius Octavius Caesar
PROCULEIUS. Hold, worthy lady, hold! [Seizes and disarms her.] Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this Relieved, but not betrayed.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]] · within three days
DOLABELLA. Madam, he will. I know it. Flourish. Enter Caesar, Proculeius, Gallus, Maecenas and others of his train.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Cleopatra Seleucus Octavius Caesar
SELEUCUS. Enough to purchase what you have made known. CAESAR. Nay, blush not, Cleopatra. I approve Your wisdom in the deed.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
What poor an instrument May do a noble deed! He brings me liberty. My resolution’s placed, and I have nothing Of woman in me. Now from head to foot I am marble-constant.
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
CLEOPATRA. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle— O Antony!—Nay, I will take thee too. [Applying another asp to her arm.] What should I stay— [Dies.]
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
FIRST GUARD. Approach, ho! All’s not well. Caesar’s beguiled. SECOND GUARD. There’s Dolabella sent from Caesar. Call him. FIRST GUARD. What work is here, Charmian? Is this well done? CHARMIAN. It is well done, and fitting for a princess Descended of so many royal kings. Ah, soldier! [Charmian dies.]
Antony and Cleopatra · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Alexandria]]
Octavius Caesar Cleopatra Mark Antony
CAESAR. Most probable That so she died, for her physician tells me She hath pursued conclusions infinite Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed, And bear her women from the monument. She shall be buried by her Antony. No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous. High events as these Strike those that make them; and their story is No less in pity than his glory which Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall In solemn show attend this funeral, And then to Rome.