Must thine in Egypt, mine in Italy,
Be kept the Monuments of Fortune’s wonder?
If any powres be there whereas thou art
(Sith our country gods betray our case),
O worke they may their gracious helpe impart
To save thy wofull wife from such disgrace.
It also occurs twice in Plutarch, from whom Daniel probably obtained it. In the Comparison of Demetrius and Marcus Antonius, he writes:[230]
Antonius first of all married two wives together, the which never Romane durst doe before, but him self.
In the biography, when Cleopatra has lifted him to the Monument, we are told:
Then she dryed up his blood that had berayed his face, and called him her Lord, her husband, and Emperour, forgetting her owne miserie and calamity for the pitie and compassion she tooke of him.