CLEOPATRA   But come, come, Antony.— Help me, my women.—We must draw thee up. Assist, good friends. [They begin to draw him up] ANTONY                     O quick, or I am gone! CLEOPATRA   Here’s sport indeed. How heavy weighs my lord! Our strength is all gone into heaviness, That makes the weight. Had I great Juno’s power The […]

ANTONY         I am dying, Egypt, dying. Only I here importune death awhile until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. CLEOPATRA   I dare not, dear, Dear, my lord, pardon. I dare not, Lest I be taken. Not th’imperious show Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall Be brooched with me, if […]

Enter [below] Antony, [carried by] the guard CLEOPATRA   O, sun, Burn the great sphere thou mov’st in; darkling stand The varying shore o’th’ world. O, Antony, Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, Help, Iras, help, help, friends below! Let’s draw him hither. ANTONY                     Peace. Not Caesar’s valour Hath o’erthrown Antony, but Antony’s Hath triumphed on itself. CLEOPATRA   […]

Enter Cleopatra aloft with Charmian and Iras CLEOPATRA   O Charmian, I will never go from hence. CHARMIAN     Be comforted, dear madam. CLEOPATRA                           No, I will not. All strange and terrible events are welcome, But comforts we despise. Our size of sorrow, Proportioned to our cause, must be as great As that which makes it. Enter […]

Enter four or five of the guard of Antony ANTONY         Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides. ’Tis the last service that I shall command you. FIRST GUARD             Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear All your true followers out. ALL THE GUARDS      Most heavy day! ANTONY Nay, good my […]

ANTONY                                 Where is she? DIOMEDES     Locked in her monument. She had a prophesying fear Of what hath come to pass; for when she saw— Which never shall be found—you did suspect She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage Would not be purged, she sent word she was dead; But fearing since how it […]

Enter Diomedes DIOMEDES                 Where’s Antony? DERCETUS     There, Diomed, there. DIOMEDES Lives he? Wilt thou not answer, man? [Exit Dercetus] ANTONY         Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me Sufficing strokes for death. DIOMEDES Most absolute lord, My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee. ANTONY When did she send thee? DIOMEDES Now, my lord.    […]

Enter a guard [and Dercetus] FIRST GUARD                         What’s the noise? ANTONY         I have done my work ill, friends. O, make an end Of what I have begun! SECOND GUARD                    The star is fall’n. FIRST GUARD And time is at his period. ALL GUARDS                                      Alas And woe! ANTONY Let him that loves me strike me dead. […]

ANTONY                     Thrice nobler than myself, Thou teachest me, O, valiant Eros, what I should and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros Have by their brave instruction got upon me A nobleness in record. But I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into’t As to a lover’s bed. Come then, and, Eros, […]

CW: suicide EROS   My sword is drawn. ANTONY                                 Then let it do at once The thing why thou hast drawn it. EROS                                       My dear master, My captain, and my Emperor: let me say, Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell. ANTONY ’Tis said, man; and farewell. EROS Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now? […]