Act2 Scene2 Antony and Cleopatra 莎翁戏剧原著

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
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ACT II SCENE II Rome. The house of Lepidus  
[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS]
LEPIDUSGood Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,
And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
To soft and gentle speech.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSI shall entreat him
To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,5
Let Antony look over Caesar's head
And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,
I would not shave't to-day.
LEPIDUS'Tis not a time10
For private stomaching.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSEvery time
Serves for the matter that is then born in't.
LEPIDUSBut small to greater matters must give way.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSNot if the small come first.15
LEPIDUSYour speech is passion:
But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
The noble Antony.
[Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS]
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSAnd yonder, Caesar.
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]
MARK ANTONYIf we compose well here, to Parthia:20
Hark, Ventidius.
OCTAVIUS CAESARI do not know,
Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.
LEPIDUSNoble friends,
That which combined us was most great, and let not25
A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
May it be gently heard: when we debate
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,
The rather, for I earnestly beseech,30
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
Nor curstness grow to the matter.
MARK ANTONY'Tis spoken well.
Were we before our armies, and to fight.
I should do thus.35
[Flourish]
OCTAVIUS CAESARWelcome to Rome.
MARK ANTONYThank you.
OCTAVIUS CAESARSit.
MARK ANTONYSit, sir.
OCTAVIUS CAESARNay, then.40
MARK ANTONYI learn, you take things ill which are not so,
Or being, concern you not.
OCTAVIUS CAESARI must be laugh'd at,
If, or for nothing or a little, I
Should say myself offended, and with you45
Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should
Once name you derogately, when to sound your name
It not concern'd me.
MARK ANTONYMy being in Egypt, Caesar,
What was't to you?50
OCTAVIUS CAESARNo more than my residing here at Rome
Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there
Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt
Might be my question.
MARK ANTONYHow intend you, practised?55
OCTAVIUS CAESARYou may be pleased to catch at mine intent
By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother
Made wars upon me; and their contestation
Was theme for you, you were the word of war.
MARK ANTONYYou do mistake your business; my brother never60
Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;
And have my learning from some true reports,
That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
Discredit my authority with yours;
And make the wars alike against my stomach,65
Having alike your cause? Of this my letters
Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,
As matter whole you have not to make it with,
It must not be with this.
OCTAVIUS CAESARYou praise yourself70
By laying defects of judgment to me; but
You patch'd up your excuses.
MARK ANTONYNot so, not so;
I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,
Very necessity of this thought, that I,75
Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,
Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars
Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,
I would you had her spirit in such another:
The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle80
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSWould we had all such wives, that the men might go
to wars with the women!
MARK ANTONYSo much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar
Made out of her impatience, which not wanted85
Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant
Did you too much disquiet: for that you must
But say, I could not help it.
OCTAVIUS CAESARI wrote to you
When rioting in Alexandria; you90
Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts
Did gibe my missive out of audience.
MARK ANTONYSir,
He fell upon me ere admitted: then
Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want95
Of what I was i' the morning: but next day
I told him of myself; which was as much
As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow
Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,
Out of our question wipe him.100
OCTAVIUS CAESARYou have broken
The article of your oath; which you shall never
Have tongue to charge me with.
LEPIDUSSoft, Caesar!
MARK ANTONYNo,105
Lepidus, let him speak:
The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;
The article of my oath.
OCTAVIUS CAESARTo lend me arms and aid when I required them;110
The which you both denied.
MARK ANTONYNeglected, rather;
And then when poison'd hours had bound me up
From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,
I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty115
Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power
Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,
To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;
For which myself, the ignorant motive, do
So far ask pardon as befits mine honour120
To stoop in such a case.
LEPIDUS'Tis noble spoken.
MECAENASIf it might please you, to enforce no further
The griefs between ye: to forget them quite
Were to remember that the present need125
Speaks to atone you.
LEPIDUSWorthily spoken, Mecaenas.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSOr, if you borrow one another's love for the
instant, you may, when you hear no more words of
Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to130
wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.
MARK ANTONYThou art a soldier only: speak no more.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSThat truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
MARK ANTONYYou wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSGo to, then; your considerate stone.135
OCTAVIUS CAESARI do not much dislike the matter, but
The manner of his speech; for't cannot be
We shall remain in friendship, our conditions
So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew
What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge140
O' the world I would pursue it.
AGRIPPAGive me leave, Caesar,--
OCTAVIUS CAESARSpeak, Agrippa.
AGRIPPAThou hast a sister by the mother's side,
Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony145
Is now a widower.
OCTAVIUS CAESARSay not so, Agrippa:
If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
Were well deserved of rashness.
MARK ANTONYI am not married, Caesar: let me hear150
Agrippa further speak.
AGRIPPATo hold you in perpetual amity,
To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts
With an unslipping knot, take Antony
Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims155
No worse a husband than the best of men;
Whose virtue and whose general graces speak
That which none else can utter. By this marriage,
All little jealousies, which now seem great,
And all great fears, which now import their dangers,160
Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,
Where now half tales be truths: her love to both
Would, each to other and all loves to both,
Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;
For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,165
By duty ruminated.
MARK ANTONYWill Caesar speak?
OCTAVIUS CAESARNot till he hears how Antony is touch'd
With what is spoke already.
MARK ANTONYWhat power is in Agrippa,170
If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'
To make this good?
OCTAVIUS CAESARThe power of Caesar, and
His power unto Octavia.
MARK ANTONYMay I never175
To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:
Further this act of grace: and from this hour
The heart of brothers govern in our loves
And sway our great designs!180
OCTAVIUS CAESARThere is my hand.
A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother
Did ever love so dearly: let her live
To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never
Fly off our loves again!185
LEPIDUSHappily, amen!
MARK ANTONYI did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;
For he hath laid strange courtesies and great
Of late upon me: I must thank him only,
Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;190
At heel of that, defy him.
LEPIDUSTime calls upon's:
Of us must Pompey presently be sought,
Or else he seeks out us.
MARK ANTONYWhere lies he?195
OCTAVIUS CAESARAbout the mount Misenum.
MARK ANTONYWhat is his strength by land?
OCTAVIUS CAESARGreat and increasing: but by sea
He is an absolute master.
MARK ANTONYSo is the fame.200
Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:
Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
The business we have talk'd of.
OCTAVIUS CAESARWith most gladness:
And do invite you to my sister's view,205
Whither straight I'll lead you.
MARK ANTONYLet us, Lepidus,
Not lack your company.
LEPIDUSNoble Antony,
Not sickness should detain me.210
[ Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, and LEPIDUS ]
MECAENASWelcome from Egypt, sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSHalf the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My
honourable friend, Agrippa!
AGRIPPAGood Enobarbus!
MECAENASWe have cause to be glad that matters are so well215
digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSAy, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and
made the night light with drinking.
MECAENASEight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and
but twelve persons there; is this true?220
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSThis was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more
monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.
MECAENASShe's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to
her.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSWhen she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up225
his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.
AGRIPPAThere she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised
well for her.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSI will tell you.
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,230
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,235
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature: on each side her240
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
And what they undid did.
AGRIPPAO, rare for Antony!245
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSHer gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,
And made their bends adornings: at the helm
A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,250
That yarely frame the office. From the barge
A strange invisible perfume hits the sense
Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast
Her people out upon her; and Antony,
Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,255
Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,
And made a gap in nature.
AGRIPPARare Egyptian!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSUpon her landing, Antony sent to her,260
Invited her to supper: she replied,
It should be better he became her guest;
Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,
Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,
Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,265
And for his ordinary pays his heart
For what his eyes eat only.
AGRIPPARoyal wench!
She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:
He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.270
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSI saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
That she did make defect perfection,
And, breathless, power breathe forth.275
MECAENASNow Antony must leave her utterly.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSNever; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry280
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.
MECAENASIf beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle
The heart of Antony, Octavia is285
A blessed lottery to him.
AGRIPPALet us go.
Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest
Whilst you abide here.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSHumbly, sir, I thank you.290
[Exeunt]