CLEOPATRA

I am the queen of Ethiope.

Love bade my kissing eyelids ope

That men beholding might praise love.

My hair was wonderful and curled;

My lips held fast the mouth o' the world

To spoil the strength and speech thereof.

The latter triumph in my breath

Bowed down the beaten brows of death,

Ashamed they had not wrath enough.

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