Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

ACT IV SCENE IX	OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
	Sentinels at their post
First Soldier	If we be not relieved within this hour,
	We must return to the court of guard: the night
	Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle
	By the second hour i' the morn.	5
Second Soldier	This last day was
	A shrewd one to's.
	Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS	O, bear me witness, night,--
Third Soldier	What man is this?
Second Soldier	Stand close, and list him.	10
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS	Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
	When men revolted shall upon record
	Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
	Before thy face repent!
First Soldier	Enobarbus!	15
Third Soldier	Peace!
	Hark further.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS	O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
	The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
	That life, a very rebel to my will,	20
	May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
	Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
	Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
	And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
	Nobler than my revolt is infamous,	25
	Forgive me in thine own particular;
	But let the world rank me in register
	A master-leaver and a fugitive:
	O Antony! O Antony!
	Dies
Second Soldier	Let's speak To him.	30
First Soldier	Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
	May concern Caesar.
Third Soldier	Let's do so. But he sleeps.
First Soldier	Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his
	Was never yet for sleep.	35
Second Soldier	Go we to him.
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	40
	Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
	To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour
	Is fully out.
Third Soldier	Come on, then;
	He may recover yet.	45
	Exeunt with the body