...themselves already determined to die with her, she prepares to die in what state is left her. Cleopatra: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life....

...dignity; and the pulse of it now throbs with a steady intensity, goes processionally forward, as it were. Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal...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...

...CLOWN Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o'th'worm. [goes Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, etc. CLEOPATRA Give me my robe, put on my crown: I have Immortal...Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself 280 To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their...

...Shakespeare's drama. The play opens as Sheila, playing Cleopatra, is enacting the queen's final scene: "Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have / Immortal.../ The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip" (213).2 Harvey, the aging English "queen" director (there are strong hints he is a homosexual), immediately...

...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...

...dissembling looks? By the end of his career, Shakespeare arrived at a suppleness of enjambment like this: Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title. It remained for Milton to apply these lessons to non-dramatic...

...exults: "Caesar's beguil'd." As she affixes the serpents to her breast, the great words swim past: Give me my robe, put on my crown. I have Immortal...more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip. .... Methinks I hear Antony call. I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act. I hear him mock The...

...Exit. [Enter Iras with a robe, crown, etc.] CLEOPATRA Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have 280 Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of...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,...

...Cleopatra's arms. Antony and Cleopatra Act V, Scene 1 (Cleopatra allows the snake to hite her) CLEOPATRA. Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal...men To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire and air,- my other elements I give to baser life....

...the desolate memory of the few stones left of the city that had nurtured Hannibal and betrayed him. Give me my robe, put on my crown! I have Immortal...more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip: — 62 Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. — Methinks I hear Antony call: I see him rouse himself To praise...