This riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty...
作者：William Shakespeare，1564-1616，英国文艺复兴时期最伟大的剧作家、诗人、文学家；朗读：苑溪仙；播出时间：晚9点。
本集*（第三幕第二场）文本如下：
ACT III SCENE II Rome. An ante-chamber in Octavius Caesar's house.
[ Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at another ]
AGRIPPA What, are the brothers parted?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSThey have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;
The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,
Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled5
With the green sickness.
AGRIPPA'Tis a noble Lepidus.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSA very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
AGRIPPANay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSCaesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.10
AGRIPPAWhat's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSSpake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!
AGRIPPAO Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSWould you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.
AGRIPPAIndeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.15
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSBut he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:
Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,
poets, cannot
Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!
His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,20
Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
AGRIPPABoth he loves.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSThey are his shards, and he their beetle.
[Trumpets within]
So;
This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.25
AGRIPPAGood fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA]
MARK ANTONYNo further, sir.
OCTAVIUS CAESARYou take from me a great part of myself;
Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife
As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band30
Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
Betwixt us as the cement of our love,
To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
The fortress of it; for better might we35
Have loved without this mean, if on both parts
This be not cherish'd.
MARK ANTONYMake me not offended
In your distrust.
OCTAVIUS CAESARI have said.40
MARK ANTONYYou shall not find,
Though you be therein curious, the least cause
For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,
And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!
We will here part.45
OCTAVIUS CAESARFarewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
OCTAVIAMy noble brother!
MARK ANTONYThe April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,50
And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
OCTAVIASir, look well to my husband's house; and--
OCTAVIUS CAESARWhat, Octavia?
OCTAVIAI'll tell you in your ear.
MARK ANTONYHer tongue will not obey her heart, nor can55
Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's
down-feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
And neither way inclines.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS[Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?60
AGRIPPA[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS[Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,
were he a horse;
So is he, being a man.
AGRIPPA[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,65
When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS[Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he was
troubled with a rheum;70
What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
Believe't, till I wept too.
OCTAVIUS CAESARNo, sweet Octavia,
You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
Out-go my thinking on you.75
MARK ANTONYCome, sir, come;
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods.
OCTAVIUS CAESARAdieu; be happy!80
LEPIDUSLet all the number of the stars give light
To thy fair way!
OCTAVIUS CAESARFarewell, farewell!
[Kisses OCTAVIA]
MARK ANTONYFarewell!
[Trumpets sound. Exeunt]
