[Footnote 406: "He words me, girls; he words me, that I should not Be noble to myself; but hark thee, Charmian.... Now, Iras, what think'st thou? Thou, an Egyptian puppet shalt be shown In Rome, as well as I: mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view.... Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune; the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels; Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I' the posture of a whore.... 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. So; have you done? Come, then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.... Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?" --Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," 5, 2. These two last lines, referring to the asp, are sublime, as the bitter joke of a courtesan and an artist.] [Footnote 407: Iras: "Call reason to assist you." Cleopatra: "I have none, And none would have: My love's a noble madness Which shews the cause deserved it: Modest sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man; But I have loved with such transcendent passion, I soared, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it."--"All for Love," V. 2, 1.] [Footnote 408: Cleop.: "Come to me, come, my soldier, to my arms! You've been too long away from my embraces; But, when I have you fast, and all my own, With broken murmurs, and with amorous sighs, I'll say, you were unkind, and punish you, And mark you red with many an eager kiss."--Ibid. V. 3, 1.] [Footnote 409: Ibid. 4, 1.] [Footnote 410: Dryden's Miranda says, in the "Tempest" (2, 2): "And if I can but escape with life, I had rather be in pain nine months, as my father threatened, than lose my longing." Miranda has a sister; they quarrel, are jealous of each other, and so on. See also in "The State of Innocence," 3, 1, the description which Eve gives of her happiness, and the ideas which her confidences suggest to Satan.] [Footnote 411: This impotence reminds one of Casimir Delavigne.] [Footnote 412: See the introductory notice, by Sir Walter Scott, of "All for Love," V. 290.] [Footnote 413: Ibid. V. 307.] [Footnote 414: Ibid. V. 319.] [Footnote 415: "All for Love," V. 3, 1.] [Footnote 416: "All for Love," V. 3, 1.] [Footnote 417: Ibid. 4, 1.] [Footnote 418: "All for Love," I, 1.] [Footnote 419: Ibid.] [Footnote 420: "All for Love," V., 1.] [Footnote 421: Ibid.] [Footnote 422: "All for Love," I., 1.] [Footnote 423: Ibid. II., 1, end.] [Footnote 424: "All for Love," V., 1.] [Footnote 425: Monimia says, in the "Orphan" (5, end), when dying, "How my head swims! 'Tis very dark; good night."] [Footnote 426: See the death of Pierre and Jaffier in "Venice Preserved" (5, last scene). Pierre, stabbed once, bursts into a laugh.]