...Cleopatra understands it, is equality of nobleness and courage, not sensual infatuation or bondage: - methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself...come. Now to that name my courage prove my title! (v.2..2.S2.- 7} By joining her husband in death, she vouches for the reality and truth of what at first...

...have Immortal longings in me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras: quick! Methinks I hear Antony call; I see...which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath. . . . Regular metre, saved from formality by the subtle variety of the mid-line stopping; the whole...

...moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself 280 To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my tide! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then and take...

...high Roman fashion, / And make death proud to take us" (4. 15.87-88). Her dying speech is similar: Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come! (5.2.283-87) She recreates herself. If earlier she has been caught in a circle, whirling around an...

...have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call. I see...come: Now to that name my courage prove my title. It remained for Milton to apply these lessons to non-dramatic verse, developing in Paradise Lost a...

...crown. I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. .... Methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come! We realize at last that Cleopatra's infinite variety encompasses not only variety but infinity. The...

...Immortal longings in me: Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — 62 Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony call:...fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. These thoughts were powerful as a sea-wind; here was the flame, here was the wildness of the desert,...

...began to attire her. "Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself to praise my noble act. Husband, I come! Now to that name, my courage prove...elements I give to baser life. So, have you done?" They stood back and gazed proudly at their splendid queen. "Farewell, kind Charmian, Iras, long farewell."...

...have Immortal longings in me; now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yea, Yea, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call; I see...husband, I come; Now to that name my courage prove my tide! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then, and...

...have Immortal longings in me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call; I see...fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. Cleopatra — A&C V.ii Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak...