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"In natures infinite book of secrecy A little I can read."
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed around 1607, by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre. Its first appearance in print was in the First Folio published in 1623, under the title The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra.
"In natures infinite book of secrecy A little I can read."
"It is my birth-day: I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra."
"He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger He hath whippd with rods; dares me to personal combat, Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know I have many other ways to die; meantime Laugh at his challenge."
"Antony: Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs? They are black vespers pageants. Enorbarbus: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water."
"Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour, that the gods Detest my baseness."
"Observe how Antony becomes his flaw"