THIRD SOLDIER Awake, sir, awake; speak to us. SECOND SOLDIER Hear you, sir? FIRST SOLDIER The hand of death hath raught him. Drums afar off. Hark! the drums Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him Upon the hills adjoining to the city Shall stay with us: order for sea is given; SCENE XI ANOTHER PART OF THE SAME Enter CESAR and his army. Exeunt. CÆSAR But being charg'd, we will be still by land, And hold our best advantage. SCENE XII ANOTHER PART OF THE SAME Enter ANTONY and SCARUS. Exeunt. ANTONY Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine does stand, I shall discover all I'll bring thee word Straight, how 't is like to go. SCARUS Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter ANTONY. ANTONY All is lost; This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone. O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more: Exit Scarus. Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home; Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end, Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss. Enter CLEOPATRA. Ah, thou spell! Avaunt! CLEOPATRA Why is my lord enrag'd against his love? ANTONY Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving, Exit Cleopatra. 'T is well thou 'rt gone, If it be well to live; but better 't were Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' th' moon; And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die: Antony and Cleopatra. 19 To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall Under this plot; she dies for 't. Eros, ho! Help me, my women! O, he is more mad CHARMIAN To the monument! There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. The soul and body rive not more in parting Than greatness going off. CLEOPATRA To the monument! Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself; Say, that the last I spoke was « Antony », And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian, Exeunt. |