When Cleopatra found Antonius jeasts and slents to be but grosse and souldier-like, in plaine manner; she gave it him finely and without feare taunted him throughly.
And on the other hand she can faint at will, weep and sob beyond measure.
We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears: they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report.
(i. ii. 152.)
Here, too, the hint is given by Plutarch, but in a later passage, when she fears Antony may return to Octavia:
When he went from her, she fell a weeping and blubbering, looked rufully of the matter, and still found the meanes that Antonius should often tymes finde her weeping.
In the play, when he announces his departure, she is ready to fall; her lace must be cut; she plays the seduced innocent; but she mingles wormwood with her pathos and overwhelms him with all sorts of opposite reproaches. Since he does not bewail Fulvia, that is proof of infidelity:
O most false love!
Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill
With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,