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“There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.”

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Antony says this at the end of the play, after Cleopatra has died, and the phrase was already hers in their first scene together. It is the sharpest thing Shakespeare says about a love that cannot be weighed, counted or bought.

Source: Antony and Cleopatra, Act 5, Scene 2

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