Monologue

Enobarbus Monologue from Antony and Cleopatra

From Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

male · romantic · 1:02 min

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I will tell you. The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned 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, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O’erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did.

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Enobarbus describes the grandeur and beauty of Cleopatra as she arrives on her barge, filled with admiration and awe for her presence and the spectacle surrounding her.

30s · joy · love · beauty · desire · power

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