DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Bring in the banquet quickly;wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. CHARMIAN Good sir,give me good fortune. Soothsayer I make not,but foresee. CHARMIAN Pray,then,foresee me one. Soothsayer You shall be yet far fairer than you are CHARMIAN He means in flesh. IRAS No,you shall paint when you are old CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid! ALEXAS Vex not his prescience;be attentive. CHARMIAN Hush! Soothsayer You shall be more beloving than beloved. CHARMIAN I had rather heat my liver with drinking. ALEXAS Nay,hear him. CHARMIAN Good now,some excellent fortune!Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon,and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty,to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage:find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar,and companion me with my mistress. Soothsayer You shall outlive the lady whom you serve. CHARMIAN O excellent!I love long life better than figs. Soothsayer You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach. CHARMIAN Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee,how many boys and wenches must I have? SoothsayerDOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. CHARMIAN Good sir, give me good fortune. Soothsayer I make not, but foresee. CHARMIAN Pray, then, foresee me one. Soothsayer You shall be yet far fairer than you are. CHARMIAN He means in flesh. IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old. CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid! ALEXAS Vex not his prescience; be attentive. CHARMIAN Hush! Soothsayer You shall be more beloving than beloved. CHARMIAN I had rather heat my liver with drinking. ALEXAS Nay, hear him. CHARMIAN Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all: let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar, and companion me with my mistress. Soothsayer You shall outlive the lady whom you serve. CHARMIAN O excellent! I love long life better than figs. Soothsayer You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune Than that which is to approach. CHARMIAN Then belike my children shall have no names: prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have? Soothsayer