Caesar Monologue from Caesar and Cleopatra

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 1:01 min

You are forgetting the treasures for which Rome is most famous, my friend. You cannot buy them in Alexandria. (APOLLODORUS: What are they, Caesar?) Her sons. Come, Cleopatra: forgive me and bid me farewell; and I will send you a man, Roman from head to heel and Roman of the noblest; not old and ripe for the knife; not lean in the arms and cold in the heart; not hiding a bald head under his conqueror's laurels; not stooped with the weight of the world on his shoulders; but brisk and fresh, strong and young, hoping in the morning, fighting in the day, and reveling in the evening. Will you take such an one in exchange for Caesar? CLEOPATRA (palpitating). His name, his name?

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