CLEOPATRA

I dare not, dear,

Dear my lord, pardon,

I dare not,

Lest I be taken not the imperious show

Of the full-fortun'd Cæsar ever shall

Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs, serpents, have

Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe :

Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes

And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour
Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,
Help me, my women,
Assist, good friends.

Here 's sport indeed!

we must draw thee up:

ANTONY

O, quick, or I am gone.

CLEOPATRA

How heavy weighs my lord! Our strength is all gone into heaviness,

That makes the weight : had I great Juno's power, The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up, And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little, Wishers were ever fools,

O, come, come, come;

They heave Antony aloft to Cleopatra.

And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:

Quicken with kissing had my lips that power,
Thus would I wear them out.

ALL

A heavy sight!

ANTONY

I am dying, Egypt, dying:

Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.

CLEOPATRA

No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,

That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel, Provok'd by my offence.

ANTONY

One word, sweet queen :

Of Cæsar seek your honour, with your safety. O!

CLEOPATRA

They do not go together.

ANTONY

Gentle, hear me :

None about Cæsar trust but Proculeius.

CLEOPATRA

My resolution and my hands I 'll trust;

None about Cæsar.

ANTONY

The miserable change now at my end
Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts
In feeding them with those my former fortunes
Wherein I liv'd, the greatest prince o' th' world,
The noblest; and do now not basely die,
Not cowardly put off my helmet to

My countryman, - a Roman by a Roman
Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;
I can no more.

CLEOPATRA

Noblest of men, woo 't die?

Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide

In this dull world, which in thy absence is