Monday, November 11, 2019

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety

Shakespeare's description of Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Act II. Scene II.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety; other women cloy
The appetites they feed; but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies: for vilest things
Become themselves in her, that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.
What writing. And that there were such women once.

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