but I do not greatly . . . for trusting Hudson: Cleopatra is exceedingly shrewd and artful in this: To throw Proculeius off his guard, she gives him to understand that she is pretty much indifferent whether he be true or not. That is just the thing to make Cæsar feel sure of having her at his command, and so he will be less secret as to his purpose, or what he means to do with her; which is what she most of all desires to learn.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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