Note 211 — Chapter V · MARK ANTONY
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A familiar thought with Shakespeare. Compare Anne’s reference to Katherine in Henry VIII.:
O, God’s will! much better She ne’er had known pomp: though’t be temporal, Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce It from the bearer, ’tis a sufferance panging As soul and body’s severing. (iI. iii. 12.)
This scene is almost certainly Shakespeare’s.