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But I will be
A bridegroom in my death, and run into't
As to a lover's bed.

Là dove le anime riposano
su prati in fiore andremo tenendoci per mano.
E le altre ombre guarderanno con meraviglia
noi splendenti di gioia. Didone e il suo Enea
resteranno senza il loro corteo. Vedremo
tutti al nostro seguito.

O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,
May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault,
Which being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts.

O thou day o' the world,
Chain mine arm'd neck, leap thou, attire and all,
Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
Ride on the pants triumphing!

Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
Her heart inform her tongue — the swan's down feather,
That stands upon the swell at the full of tide,
And neither way inclines.

MAECENAS
Now Antony must leave her utterly.

ENOBARBUS
Never; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry,
Where most she satisfies. For vildest things
Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
Bless her, when she is riggish.

...our courteous Antony,
Whom ne'er the word of "No" woman heard speak,
Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast;
And for his ordinary, pays his heart,
For what his eyes eat only.

ALEXAS "Good friend" quoth he,
"Say the firm Roman to great Egypt sends
This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,
To mend this petty present, I will piece
Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the east,
(Say thou) shall call her mistress." So he nodded
And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,
Who neighed so high, that what I would have spoke
Was beastly dumb'd by him.