Antony and Cleopatra
Act IV, Scene 2

Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.

Cleopatra

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0. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas,
0. with others.

Mark Antony

1

1. He will not fight with me, Domitius?

Domitius Enobarbus

2

2.                                      No.

Mark Antony

3

3. Why should he not?

Domitius Enobarbus

4 - 5

4. He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
5. He is twenty men to one.

Mark Antony

6 - 9

6.                          Tomorrow, soldier,
7. By sea and land I’ll fight; or I will live,
8. Or bathe my dying honor in the blood
9. Shall make it live again. Woo’t thou fight well?

Domitius Enobarbus

10

10. I’ll strike, and cry, “Take all!”

Mark Antony

11 - 17

11.                                   Well said, come on.
12. Call forth my household servants, let’s tonight
13. Be bounteous at our meal.
0. Enter three or four Attendants.
14.                           Give me thy hand,
15. Thou hast been rightly honest—so hast thou—
16. Thou—and thou—and thou. You have serv’d me well,
17. And kings have been your fellows.

Cleopatra

18

0. Aside to Enobarbus.
18.                                   What means this?

Domitius Enobarbus

19 - 20

0. Aside to Cleopatra.
19. ’Tis one of those odd tricks which sorrow shoots
20. Out of the mind.

Mark Antony

21 - 25

21.                  And thou art honest too.
22. I wish I could be made so many men,
23. And all of you clapp’d up together in
24. An Antony, that I might do you service
25. So good as you have done.

All Antony’s Attendants

26

26.                           The gods forbid!

Mark Antony

27 - 30

27. Well, my good fellows, wait on me tonight.
28. Scant not my cups, and make as much of me
29. As when mine empire was your fellow too,
30. And suffer’d my command.

Cleopatra

31

0. Aside to Enobarbus.
31.                          What does he mean?

Domitius Enobarbus

32

0. Aside to Cleopatra.
32. To make his followers weep.

Mark Antony

33 - 42

33.                             Tend me tonight;
34. May be it is the period of your duty;
35. Haply you shall not see me more, or if,
36. A mangled shadow. Perchance tomorrow
37. You’ll serve another master. I look on you
38. As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
39. I turn you not away, but like a master
40. Married to your good service, stay till death.
41. Tend me tonight two hours, I ask no more,
42. And the gods yield you for’t!

Domitius Enobarbus

43 - 46

43.                               What mean you, sir,
44. To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep,
45. And I, an ass, am onion-ey’d. For shame,
46. Transform us not to women.

Mark Antony

47 - 56

47.                            Ho, ho, ho!
48. Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
49. Grace grow where those drops fall, my hearty friends!
50. You take me in too dolorous a sense,
51. For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you
52. To burn this night with torches. Know, my hearts,
53. I hope well of tomorrow, and will lead you
54. Where rather I’ll expect victorious life
55. Than death and honor. Let’s to supper, come,
56. And drown consideration.

0. Exeunt.