Monologue text
I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony: O, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man! His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted The little O, the earth. His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world: his voice was propertied As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping: his delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in: in his livery Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropp'd from his pocket.
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