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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Antony and Cleopatra - 1.2.140

ENOBARBUS
Under a compelling occasion, let women die. It were
pity to cast them away for nothing, though between them and a
great cause they should be esteemed nothing. Cleopatra, catching
but the least noise of this, dies instantly; I have seen her die
twenty times upon far poorer moment. I do think there is mettle
in death, which commits some loving act upon her, she hath
such a celerity in dying.

ANTONY
She is cunning past man's thoughts.

ENOBARBUS
Alack, sir, no, her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.

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