...declares, and we remember vividly Enobarbus's description of her on her barge, a beauty surpassing Venus. "Methinks I hear / Antony call; I see him rouse himself/ To praise my noble act" (11. 283—84), she imagines, and we at once see her fulfilling the stoic promise for which Antony...

...Cleopatra understands it, is equality of nobleness and courage, not sensual infatuation or bondage: - methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself...come. Now to that name my courage prove my title! (v.2..2.S2.- 7} By joining her husband in death, she vouches for the reality and truth of what at first...

...have Immortal longings in me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras: quick! Methinks I hear Antony call; I see...which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath. . . . Regular metre, saved from formality by the subtle variety of the mid-line stopping; the whole...

...moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself 280 To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of...Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my tide! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have you done? Come then and take...

...Characteristically, she also imagines its concrete human details, creating Antony's response to her — "Methinks I hear Antony call: I see him rouse himself / To praise my noble act" — and acting in response to him — "Husband, I come: / Now to that name my courage prove my title!"...

...high Roman fashion, / And make death proud to take us" (4. 15.87-88). Her dying speech is similar: Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come! (5.2.283-87) She recreates herself. If earlier she has been caught in a circle, whirling around an...

...crown" [V.ii. 280]) calls attention to it as a performance.22 Cleopatra thinks of it as a "noble act" ("Methinks I hear / Antony call: I see him rouse himself / To praise my noble act" [V.ii. 282-4]), just as Dolabella thinks of it as a dread performance ("thyself art coming," he tells...

...have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear Antony call. I see...come: Now to that name my courage prove my title. It remained for Milton to apply these lessons to non-dramatic verse, developing in Paradise Lost a...

...crown. I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. .... Methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come! We realize at last that Cleopatra's infinite variety encompasses not only variety but infinity. The...

...The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear 283 Antony call. I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act. I hear him mock 258 falliable ie, infallible 263 his kind ie, what may be expected from his species 274 dress (1) clothe,...