Page 2475 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
If e’er thou look’st on majesty.
MESSENGER
She creeps:
Her motion and her station are as one:
She shows a body, rather than a life, [20]
A statue, than a breather.
CLEOPATRA
Is this certain?
MESSENGER
Or I have no observance.
CHARMIAN
Three in Egypt
Cannot make better note.
CLEOPATRA
He’s very knowing,
I do perceive ’t, there’s nothing in her yet.
The fellow has good judgment.
CHARMIAN
Excellent. [25]
CLEOPATRA
Guess at her years, I prithee.
MESSENGER
Madam,
She was a widow −
CLEOPATRA
Widow? Charmian, hark.
