Bartlette's Quotations: Antony and Cleopatra.

   
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1 There 's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
Act i. Sc. 1.
2 On the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.
Sc. 2.
3 This grief is crowned with consolation.
Ibid.
4 Give me to drink mandragora.
Sc. 5.
5 Where 's my serpent of old Nile?
Ibid.
6 A morsel for a monarch.
Ibid.
7 My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.
Ibid.
8 Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
9 Small to greater matters must give way.
Sc. 2.
10 The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burn'd on the water; the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description.
Ibid.
11 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
Ibid.
12 I have not kept my square; but that to come
Shall all be done by the rule.
Sc. 3.
13 'T was merry when
You wager'd on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.
Sc. 5.
14 Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
Sc. 7.
15 Who does i' the wars more than his captain can
Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain which darkens him.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
16 He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
Sc. 13.
17 Men's judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike.
Ibid.
18 To business that we love we rise betime,
And go to 't with delight.
Act iv. Sc. 4.
19 This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
Ibid.
20 The shirt of Nessus is upon me.
Sc. 12.
21 Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragonish;
A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,
A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,
A forked mountain, or blue promontory
With trees upon 't.
Sc. 14.
22 That which is now a horse, even with a thought
The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,
As water is in water.
Ibid.
23 Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness.
Ibid.
24 I am dying, Egypt, dying.
Sc. 15.
25 O, wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fallen.
Ibid.
26 Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion.
Ibid.
27 For his bounty,
There was no winter in 't; an autumn 't was
That grew the more by reaping.
Act v. Sc. 2.
28 If there be, or ever were, one such,
It 's past the size of dreaming.
Ibid.
29 Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.
Ibid.
30 I have
Immortal longings in me.
Ibid.