A woman like this casts a deep shadow on her Queen's course.

I will defend myself.

It is she who has placed herself between us; she has won Antony.
But no! Why should I blind myself?
Time and the charms he steals from women are far more powerful than twenty such little temptresses.

Then, there are the circumstances which prevented my concealing the defects that wounded the eyes of this most spoiled of all spoiled mortals.

All these things aided the singer.