Is he a good man?” “Define ‘good’.
CLEOPATRA
CLEOPATRA
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Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
CleopatraCleopatra Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
CleopatraCleopatra All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CleopatraCleopatra I will not be triumphed over.
CleopatraCleopatra In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CleopatraCleopatra My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
CleopatraCleopatra Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
CleopatraCleopatra Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
CleopatraCleopatra And make death proud to take us.
CleopatraCleopatra
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