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  • "Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish;
    A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
    A towered 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."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.14

  • "Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,
    And we must sleep."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.14

  • "Stay for me:
    Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,
    And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:
    Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops,
    And all the haunt be ours."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.14

  • "I will be
    A bridegroom in my death, and run into 't
    As to a lover's bed."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.14

  • "None but Antony
    Should conquer Antony."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.15

  • "I am dying, Egypt, dying."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.15

  • "A Roman by a Roman
    Valiantly vanquished."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.15

  • O, withered is the garland of the war,
    The soldier's pole is fallen; young boys and girls
    Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
    And there is nothing left remarkable
    Beneath the visiting moon."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.15

  • "What's brave, what's noble,
    Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion,
    And make death proud to take us."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.15

  • "My desolation does begin to make
    A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;
    Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,
    A minister of her will: and it is great
    To do that thing that ends all other deeds;
    Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;
    Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,
    The beggar's nurse and Caesar's."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not
    Be noble to myself."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,
    And we are for the dark."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Antony
    Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
    Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
    I' the posture of a whore."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "My resolution's placed, and I have nothing
    Of woman in me: now from head to foot
    I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon
    No planet is of mine."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "His biting
    is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or
    never recover."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5. 2

  • "I wish you all joy of the worm."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
    Immortal longings in me."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "I am fire and air; my other elements
    I give to baser life."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Come, thou mortal wretch,
    With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate
    Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool
    Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,
    That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass
    Unpolicied!"
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Peace, peace!
    Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
    That sucks the nurse asleep?"
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
    A lass unparalleled."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "She looks like sleep,
    As she would catch another Antony
    In her strong toil of grace."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "She hath pursued conclusions infinite
    Of easy ways to die."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

  • "No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
    A pair so famous."
    - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 5.2

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