Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Enob. Go too then: your Considerate stone
Caesar. I do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his speech: for't cannot be, We shall remaine in friendship, our conditions So diffring in their acts. Yet if I knew, What Hoope should hold vs staunch from edge to edge Ath' world: I would persue it Agri. Giue me leaue Caesar Caesar. Speake Agrippa Agri. Thou hast a Sister by the Mothers side, admir'd Octauia: Great Mark Anthony is now a widdower Caesar. Say not, say Agrippa; if Cleopater heard you, your proofe were well deserued of rashnesse Anth. I am not marryed Caesar: let me heere Agrippa further speake Agri. To hold you in perpetuall amitie, To make you Brothers, and to knit your hearts With an vn-slipping knot, take Anthony, Octauia to his wife: whose beauty claimes No worse a husband then the best of men: whose Vertue, and whose generall graces, speake That which none else can vtter. By this marriage, All little Ielousies which now seeme great, |
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