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.

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.

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!

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,
 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,
 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.

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.

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
 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.

 [Exeunt with the body]




 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA


ACT IV