Page 2554 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

CLEOPATRA

I cannot tell.

DOLABELLA
Assuredly you know me.

CLEOPATRA
No matter, sir, what I have heard or known:
You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams,

Is’t not your trick?

DOLABELLA

I understand not, madam. [75]

CLEOPATRA
I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony.
O such another sleep, that I might see
But such another man!

DOLABELLA
If it might please ye, −

CLEOPATRA
His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck

A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted [80]
The little O, the earth.

DOLABELLA
Most sovereign creature, −

CLEOPATRA
His legs bestrid the ocean, his rear’d arm

Crested the world: his voice was propertied
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends:
But when he meant to quail, and shake the orb, [85]
He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
There was no winter in ’t: an autumn ’twas