Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

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.
CLEOPATRA

Bury Change Death Life Myself Place
Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.
CLEOPATRA

Fools Live Myself Poison See
I will not be triumphed over.
CLEOPATRA

Myself Triumph
Is he a good man?” “Define ‘good’.
CLEOPATRA

Define Goodness Man
In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
CLEOPATRA

Myself Praise
And make death proud to take us.
CLEOPATRA

Death Ourselves Proud
Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
CLEOPATRA

Game King Leave Yourself
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CLEOPATRA

Comfort Event Hate Strange Terrible
Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.
CLEOPATRA

Greatness Myself Thinking
My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
CLEOPATRA

Conquer Myself Respect

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