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O, never was there queen
So mightily betray’d! yet at the first [25]
I saw the treasons planted.
ANTONY
Cleopatra, −
CLEOPATRA
Why should I think you can be mine and true
(Though you in swearing shake the throned gods)
Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,
To be entangled with those mouth-made vows, [30]
Which break themselves in swearing!
ANTONY
Most sweet queen, −
CLEOPATRA
Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words; no going then;
Eternity was in our lips, and eyes, [35]
Bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven. They are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn’d the greatest liar.
ANTONY
How now, lady?
CLEOPATRA
I would I had thy inches, thou shouldst know [40]
There were a heart in Egypt.
ANTONY
Hear me, queen:
The strong necessity of time commands
