Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
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Iras. Go you wilde Bedfellow, you cannot Soothsay
Char. Nay, if an oyly Palme bee not a fruitfull Prognostication, I cannot scratch mine eare. Prythee tel her but a worky day Fortune Sooth. Your Fortunes are alike Iras. But how, but how, giue me particulars Sooth. I haue said Iras. Am I not an inch of Fortune better then she? Char. Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better then I: where would you choose it Iras. Not in my Husbands nose Char. Our worser thoughts Heauens mend Alexas. Come, his Fortune, his Fortune. Oh let him mary a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, and let her dye too, and giue him a worse, and let worse follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to his graue, fifty-fold a Cuckold. Good Isis heare me this Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: good Isis I beseech thee Iras. Amen, deere Goddesse, heare that prayer of the people. For, as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome |
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