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Alexandria. CLEOPATRA'S palace.
[Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]
CLEOPATRA
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Where is | the fel|low?
ALEXAS
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Half | afeard | to come.
CLEOPATRA
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Go to,| go to:| come* hith|er sir.|
[Enter the Messenger as before]
ALEXAS
Good majesty, Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you, but when you are well
pleased.
CLEOPATRA
That Herod's head, I'll have: but how? When Antony is gone, through whom I
might command it; come thou near.
MESSENGER
Most gracious majesty.
CLEOPATRA
Didst thou behold Octavia?
MESSENGER
Aye dread queen.
CLEOPATRA
Where?
MESSENGER
Madam in Rome, I looked her in the face: and saw her led between her
brother, and Mark Antony.
CLEOPATRA
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Is she as | tall as | me?
MESSENGER
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She | is not | madam.
CLEOPATRA
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Didst hear | her speak?
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Is she / shrill-tongued
| or low?
MESSENGER
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Madam,| I heard | her speak,| she is /
low-voiced.
CLEOPATRA
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That's not | so good:| he can|not like | her
long.
CHARMIAN
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Like her?| O Is|is: 'tis | impos|sible.
CLEOPATRA
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I think | so Char|mian: dull | of tongue,| and
dwarf||ish.
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What | majesty*| is in | her gait,| Remem||ber
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If ere | thou lookst | on maj|esty.
MESSENGER
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She creeps:|| her mot|ion, and | her sta|tion are | as one:
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She shows | a bo|dy, rath|er than | a life,
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A sta|tue, then | a breath|er.
CLEOPATRA
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Is this | certain?
MESSENGER
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Or I | have no | observ|ance. \\
CHARMIAN
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Three in | Egypt | cannot | make^bet|ter note.
CLEOPATRA
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He's ve|ry know|ing, I | do per|ceive it,
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There's noth|ing in | her yet. \\
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The fel|low has / good judg|ment.
CHARMIAN
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Ex|cellent.
CLEOPATRA
Guess at her years, I prithee.
MESSENGER
Madam, she was a widow.
CLEOPATRA
Widow? Charmian, hark.
MESSENGER
And I do think she's thirty.
CLEOPATRA
Bearst thou her face in mind? Is it long or round?
MESSENGER
Round, even to faultiness.
CLEOPATRA
For the most part too, they are foolish that are so. Her hair what color?
MESSENGER
Brown madam: and her forehead ????
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As low | as she | would wish it.
CLEOPATRA
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There's^gold | for thee,
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Thou must | not take | my form|er sharp|ness ill,
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I will em|ploy thee | back a|gain: I | find thee
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Most^fit | for bus|iness. Go,| make thee | ready,
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Our let|ters are | prepared.
[Exit Messenger]
CHARMIAN
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A prop|er man.
CLEOPATRA
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Indeed | he is | so*: I | repent | me much
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That so | I har|ried him.| Why* methinks | by
him,
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This^creat|ure's no | such^thing.
CHARMIAN
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Nothing | madam.
CLEOPATRA
The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.
CHARMIAN
Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend: and serving you so long.
CLEOPATRA
I have one thing more to ask him yet good Charmian: but 'tis no matter, thou
shalt bring him to me where I will write; all may be well enough.
CHARMIAN
I warrant you madam.
[Exeunt]