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Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12
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Alarum afar off, as at a sea fight. Enter Antony and Scarus.
Battle alarms sound in the distance, as if from a battle at sea. Antony and Scarus enter.
Antony
Yet they are not joined. Where yond pine does standI shall discover all. I’ll bring thee wordStraight how ’tis like to go.
They haven't engaged yet. I can see everything from where that pine tree stands. I'll come straight back and tell you how things are likely to go.
Exit.
He leaves.
Scarus
Swallows have builtIn Cleopatra’s sails their nests. The augursSay they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,And dare not speak their knowledge. AntonyIs valiant and dejected, and by startsHis fretted fortunes give him hope and fearOf what he has and has not.
Swallows have built their nests in Cleopatra's sails. The fortune-tellers say they don't know what it means, that they can't tell. They look grim and don't dare say what they know. Antony is brave but downhearted. His battered fortunes make him swing between hope and fear, both for what he has and for what he lacks.
Enter Antony.
Antony enters.
Antony
All is lost!This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonderThey cast their caps up and carouse togetherLike friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! ’Tis thouHast sold me to this novice, and my heartMakes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;For when I am revenged upon my charm,I have done all. Bid them all fly! Be gone!
Everything is lost! This filthy Egyptian has betrayed me. My fleet has surrendered to the enemy, and over there they're tossing their caps into the air and drinking together like long-lost friends. You whore who has switched sides three times! You've sold me to this beginner, and now my heart wages war on you alone. Tell them all to run away. Once I've taken revenge on my enchantress, I'll have nothing left to do. Tell them all to run! Go!
Exit Scarus.
Scarus leaves.
O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more.Fortune and Antony part here; even hereDo we shake hands. All come to this! The heartsThat spanieled me at heels, to whom I gaveTheir wishes, do discandy, melt their sweetsOn blossoming Caesar, and this pine is barkedThat overtopped them all. Betray’d I am:O this false soul of Egypt! This grave charm,Whose eye becked forth my wars and called them home,Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,Like a right gypsy hath at fast and looseBeguiled me to the very heart of loss.What, Eros, Eros!
Oh, sun, I will never see you rise again. Fortune and Antony part company here. Right here we shake hands and say goodbye. Has it all come to this? Those who followed at my heels like dogs, whose every wish I granted, now melt away and pour their sweetness over Caesar as he rises. And I, the pine that towered above them all, am stripped of my bark. I've been betrayed! Oh, that treacherous soul of Egypt! That deadly enchantress, whose glance sent my armies out and called them home, whose embrace was my crown and my greatest goal, has cheated me like a swindling gypsy with a rigged game, leaving me utterly ruined. Eros! Where are you, Eros!
Enter Cleopatra.
Cleopatra enters.
Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!
Ah, you witch! Get away!
Cleopatra
Why is my lord enraged against his love?
Why is my lord so angry with the woman he loves?
Antony
Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deservingAnd blemish Caesar’s triumph. Let him take theeAnd hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians!Follow his chariot, like the greatest spotOf all thy sex; most monster-like be shownFor poor’st diminutives, for dolts, and letPatient Octavia plough thy visage upWith her prepared nails.
Get out of my sight, or I'll give you what you deserve and spoil Caesar's triumph. Let him capture you and hold you up before the shouting crowds! Follow his chariot as the greatest disgrace to all women. Let them display you like a monster for the lowest nobodies and fools to stare at, and let patient Octavia rake your face with nails sharpened for the job.
Exit Cleopatra.
Cleopatra leaves.
’Tis well thou’rt gone,If it be well to live; but better ’twereThou fell’st into my fury, for one deathMight have prevented many.—Eros, ho!—The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me,Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage.Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o’ th’ moon,And with those hands that grasped the heaviest clubSubdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die.To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fallUnder this plot. She dies for’t.—Eros, ho!
It's good you've gone, if staying alive is good. But it would have been better if you'd fallen victim to my fury, since one death might have prevented many. Eros! Come here! The shirt of Nessus is burning me. Alcides, my ancestor, teach me your rage. Let me hurl Lichas onto the horns of the moon, and with those hands that held the heaviest club, destroy my own once-noble self. The witch will die. She has sold me to that young Roman boy, and this plot is bringing me down. She'll die for it. Eros! Come here!
Exit.
He leaves.
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Is the modern version the whole text?
Yes. Every speech of the play is here in plain modern English, in the same order, beside Shakespeare's own words.
