That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me: Throw my heart Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, Forgive me in thine own particular; O Antony! O Antony! 2 Sold. To him. Let's speak [Dies. 1 Sold. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæsar. 3 Sold. Let's do so. But he sleeps. 1 Sold. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his Was never yet for sleeping. 2 Sold. Go we to him. 3 Sold. Awake, awake, sir; speak to us. 2 Sold. 1 Sold. The hand of death Hark, the drums Hear you, sir? hath raught him. [Drums afar off. Demurelyt wake the sleepers. Let us bear him To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour SCENE X. Between the two camps. Enter Antony and Scarus, with forces, marching. Ant. Their preparation is to day by sea; We please them not by land. Scar. For both, my lord. Ant. I would, they'd fight i' the fire, or in the air; We'd fight there too. But this it is; Our foot Upon the hills adjoining to the city, Shall stay with us: order for sea is given; [Exeunt. Enter Cæsar, and his forces, marching. Cas. Butt being charg'd, we will be still by land, Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales, Re-enter Antony and Scarus. [Exeunt. Ant. Yet they're not join'd: Where yonder pine does stand, I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word Scar. [Exit. Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nest: the augurers * Discover their numbers, and see their motions. + Without. Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts, His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, Ant. Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter Antony. All is lost; This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: Hath sold me to this novice; and my heart [Exit Scarus. O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more: Do we shake hands.-All come to this?-The hearts Whose bosom was my crownet §, my chief end,- * Cleopatra first belonged to Julius Cæsar, then to Antony, and now, as Antony supposes, to Augustus. + Deadly piece of witchcraft. Finish. Was the motion for. A cheating game, at present named pricking at the belt. Enter Cleopatra. Ah, thou spell! Avaunt. Cleo. Why is my lord enrag'd against his love? Ant. Vanish; or I shall give thee thy deserving, And blemish Cæsar's triumph. Let him take thee, And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians: Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown For poor'st diminutives, to dolts*; and let Patient Octavia plough thy visage up With her prepared nails. [Exit Cleo.] 'Tis well thou'rt gone, If it be well to live: But better 'twere [Exit. For the smallest piece of money, to clowns. + Hercules. The boy that brought the poisoned shirt to Her. cules. SCENE XI. Alexandria. A room in the palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian, Cleo. Help me, my women! O, he is more mad Than Telamon* for his shield; the boar of Thessaly Was never so emboss'd t. Char. To the monument; There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. The soul and body rivet not more in parting, Than greatness going off. Cleo. To the monument: Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself; Mardian; and bring me how he takes my death.- [Exeunt. SCENE XII. The same. Another room. Enter Antony and Eros. Ant. Eros, thou yet behold'st me? Eros. Ay, noble lord. Ant. Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory * Ajax Telamon for the shield of Achilles. + Foaming at the mouth. Split. |