Page 2486 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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ENOBARBUS
Your presence needs must puzzle Antony, [10]
Take from his heart, take from his brain, from’s time,
What should not then be spar’d. He is already
Traduc’d for levity, and ’tis said in Rome
That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids
Manage this war.
CLEOPATRA
Sink Rome, and their tongues rot [15]
That speak against us! A charge we bear i’ the war,
And as the president of my kingdom will
Appear there for a man. Speak not against it,
I will not stay behind.
Enter Antony and Canidius.
ENOBARBUS
Nay, I have done,
Here comes the emperor.
ANTONY
Is it not strange, Canidius, [20]
That from Tarentum, and Brundusium
He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,
And take in Toryne? You have heard on’t, sweet?
CLEOPATRA
Celerity is never more admir’d
Than by the negligent.
ANTONY
A good rebuke, [25]
Which might have well becom’d the best of men,
To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we
Will fight with him by sea.
CLEOPATRA