John W. Waterhouse: Cleopatra

Cleopatra: I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved. Mark Antony: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. (I,i)	Joyce Carol Oates: New Heaven, New Earth
Labienus -- This is stiff news -- hath, with his Parthian force, Extended Asia from Euphrates. (I,ii)	Catherine Aird: Stiff News
My salad days, When I was green in judgement. (I,v) Henry Tresham: Antony and Cleopatra	C. P. Hawkes: Salad Days Julian Slade: Salad Days Bellamy Partridge: Salad Days Bettye Knapp: Salad Days Francoise Sagan: Salad Days Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.: The Salad Days Christopher Idone: Christopher Idone's Salad Days Patricia Mitchell: Salad Days: Super Salads & Delicious Dressings Ursel Norman: Salad Days: A Collection of European and American Salad Recipes
Attendants: The music, ho! Cleopatra: Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian. (II,v)	Constant Lambert: Music, Ho! A Study of Music in Decline Dale Griffin & Jack White: Come, Let Us to Billiards Away
Let's have one other gaudy night. (III,xiii)	Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night
Give me my robe; put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. (V,ii)	Ursula Leigh: Give Me My Robe Ben Ames Williams: Immortal Longings
Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say, The gods themselves do weep! (V,ii)	Isaac Asimov: The Gods Themselves
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool Be angry, and dispatch. (V,ii)	M. P. Shiel: This Knot of Life

The Problem of the Recently Attributed "Funeral Elegy" Last updated 1 June 2003.