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But these matters, as I said, I shall pass over; for the majority of them have not been mentioned individually, and Antony is not present, who could inform you exactly of what he has done in each instance.
They wanted that 'pulpit' from which Brutus and Mark Antony swayed it by turns so easily that pulpit from which Mark Antony showed it Caesar's mantle.
Marc Antony, instead of pronouncing a formal panegyric upon his deceased friend, ordered a crier to read the decrees of the Senate, in which all honors, human and divine, had been ascribed to Caesar. He then added a few words of his own.
It is probable that Cicero painted him, in his famous philippics, in darker colors than he deserved, because he aimed to be Caesar's successor, as he probably would have been but for his infatuation for Cleopatra. Caesar sent him to Rome as master of the horse, a position next in power to that of dictator. When Caesar was assassinated, Antony was the most powerful man of the empire.
He thought of his wickedness and his wasted time, and compared himself with the great men in the books who had been in similar evil straits, with Marc Antony, with King Arthur in Gwendolen's enchanted castle, and with Geraint the strong but slothful, rather far-fetched this last comparison, and of all the rest. It was a grotesque variety, but amid it all he really suffered.
One other complete play, however, and one other fragment, do resemble in some degree these works of the final period; for, immediately preceding them in date, they show clear traces of the beginnings of the new method, and they are themselves curiously different from the plays they immediately succeed that great series of tragedies which began with Hamlet in 1601 and ended in 1608 with Antony and Cleopatra.
The Senate had been called together, nominally for the purpose of desiring the Consuls of the year to provide a guard for its own safety. Cicero makes it an occasion for perpetuating the feeling against Antony, which had already become strong in Rome.
Got a match?" Bill handed him a box, and he lit his pipe. "Yes, but that doesn't quite do, old boy. Something must have put you on to it suddenly. By the way, I'll have my matches back, if you don't mind." Antony laughed and took them out of his pocket. "Sorry.... Well then, let's see if I can go through my own mind again, and tell you how I guessed it. First of all, the clothes." "Yes?"
How could you have forgotten that you aided me to win the wager which forced Antony to gaze into the beaker before I filled it for him?
Even the jealousy which had clouded the happiness of her love like a fleeting, rapidly changing shadow, she believed she had now renounced forever. While Charmian protested that no one save Dion had ever been heard with favour by Barine, and related many incidents of her former life, Cleopatra's thoughts were with Antony.
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