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SOOTHSAYER

You shall be more beloving than belov’d.

CHARMIAN
I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

ALEXAS
Nay, hear him.

CHARMIAN
Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be [25] married to three kings in a
forenoon, and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of

Jewry may do homage. Find me to marry me with Octavius Cæsar, and
companion me with my mistress.

SOOTHSAYER
You shall outlive the lady whom you serve. [30]

CHARMIAN
O excellent, I love long life better than figs.

SOOTHSAYER
You have seen and prov’d a fairer former fortune
Than that which is to approach.

CHARMIAN

Then belike my children shall have no names:
prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have? [35]

SOOTHSAYER
If every of your wishes had a womb,
And fertile every wish, a million.

CHARMIAN
Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.

ALEXAS