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CAESAR                      What is’t thou sayst? DERCETUS     I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead. CAESAR          The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack. The round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens. The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A […]

Enter Caesar [with his council of war]: Agrippa, Dolabella, Maecenas, [Gallus, and Proculeius] CAESAR          Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield. Being so frustrate, tell him how he mocks The pauses that he makes. DOLABELLA               Caesar, I shall. [Exit] Enter Dercetus with the sword of Antony CAESAR          Wherefore is that? And what art thou that […]

CW: suicidal ideation   CLEOPATRA   How do you, women? What, what, good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian? My noble girls! Ah, women, women! Look, Our lamp is spent, it’s out. Good sirs, take heart; We’ll bury him, and then what’s brave, what’s noble, Let’s do’t after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to […]

CW: suicidal ideation   CLEOPATRA               It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods, To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol’n our jewel. All’s but naught. Patience is sottish, and impatience does Become a dog that’s mad. Then is it sin To rush into the secret […]

CHARMIAN                 O, quietness, lady! IRAS    She’s dead, too, our sovereign. CHARMIAN Lady! IRAS Madam! CHARMIAN O, madam, madam, madam! IRAS Royal Egypt, Empress! CHARMIAN Peace, peace, Iras! CLEOPATRA   No more but e’en a woman, and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chores.         (4.16.71-77)     As with […]

CLEOPATRA   Noblest of men, woot die? Hast thou no care of me? Shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty? O see, my women, The crown o’th’ earth doth melt. My lord! O, withered is the garland of the war. The soldier’s pole is fall’n. Young […]

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 lived 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 […]

They heave Antony aloft to Cleopatra CLEOPATRA   And welcome, welcome! Die when thou hast lived, Quicken with kissing. Had my lips that power, Thus would I wear them out. [She kisses him] ALL OTHERS                          A heavy sight. ANTONY         I am dying, Egypt, dying. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. CLEOPATRA   No, […]

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 […]