Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Would she had neuer giuen you leaue to come.
Let her not say 'tis I that keepe you heere, I haue no power vpon you: Hers you are Ant. The Gods best know Cleo. Oh neuer was there Queene So mightily betrayed: yet at the first I saw the Treasons planted Ant. Cleopatra Cleo. Why should I thinke you can be mine, & true, (Though you in swearing shake the Throaned Gods) Who haue beene false to Fuluia? Riotous madnesse, To be entangled with those mouth-made vowes, Which breake themselues in swearing Ant. Most sweet Queene Cleo. Nay pray you seeke no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and goe: When you sued staying, Then was the time for words: No going then, Eternity was in our Lippes, and Eyes, Blisse in our browes bent: none our parts so poore, But was a race of Heauen. They are so still, Or thou the greatest Souldier of the world, Art turn'd the greatest Lyar |
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