Page 2499 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

(To Thidias.) To try thy eloquence, now ’tis time, despatch;
From Antony win Cleopatra, promise,
And in our name, what she requires; add more,
From thine invention, offers: women are not

In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure [30]
The ne’er-touch’d vestal: try thy cunning, Thidias;
Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
Will answer as a law.

THIDIAS

Cæsar, I go.

CÆSAR

Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,
And what thou think’st his very action speaks [35]
In every power that moves.

THIDIAS
Cæsar, I shall.
(Exeunt.)

Scene XIII IT

(Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.)

Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, and Iras.

CLEOPATRA
What shall we do, Enobarbus?

ENOBARBUS

Think, and die.

CLEOPATRA

Is Antony, or we, in fault for this?

ENOBARBUS