The Complete Works of William ShakespeareShakespeare, William
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
FIRST WATCH.
Let’s speak to him.
SENTRY.
Let’s hear him, for the things he speaks may concern Caesar.
SECOND WATCH.
Let’s do so. But he sleeps.
SENTRY.
Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his
Was never yet for sleep.
FIRST WATCH.
Go we to him.
SECOND WATCH.
Awake, sir, awake! Speak to us.
FIRST WATCH.
Hear you, sir?
SENTRY.
The hand of death hath raught him.
[_Drums afar off._]
Hark! The drums
Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
To th’ court of guard; he is of note. Our hour
Is fully out.
SECOND WATCH.
Come on, then. He may recover yet.
[_Exeunt with the body._]
SCENE X. Ground between the two Camps.
Enter Antony and Scarus with their army.
ANTONY.
Their preparation is today by sea;
We please them not by land.
SCARUS.
For both, my lord.
ANTONY.
I would they’d fight i’ th’ fire or i’ th’ air;
We’d fight there too. But this it is: our foot
Upon the hills adjoining to the city
Shall stay with us—order for sea is given;
They have put forth the haven—
Where their appointment we may best discover
And look on their endeavour.
[_Exeunt._]
SCENE XI. Another part of the Ground.
Enter Caesar and his army.
CAESAR.
But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take’t, we shall, for his best force
Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.
[_Exeunt._]
SCENE XII. Another part of the Ground.
Alarum afar off, as at a sea fight. Enter Antony and Scarus.
ANTONY.
Yet they are not joined. Where yond pine does stand
I shall discover all. I’ll bring thee word
Straight how ’tis like to go.
[_Exit._]
SCARUS.
Swallows have built
In Cleopatra’s sails their nests. The augurs
Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,
And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
Is valiant and dejected, and by starts
His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
Of what he has and has not.
Enter Antony.
ANTONY.
All is lost!
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me.
My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder
They cast their caps up and carouse together
Like friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! ’Tis thou
Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart
Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
For when I am revenged upon my charm,
I have done all. Bid them all fly! Be gone!
[_Exit Scarus._]
O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more.
Fortune and Antony part here; even here
Do we shake hands. All come to this! The hearts
That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Caesar, and this pine is barked
That overtopped them all. Betray’d I am:
O this false soul of Egypt! This grave charm,
Whose eye becked forth my wars and called them home,
Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,
Like a right gypsy hath at fast and loose
Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
What, Eros, Eros!
Enter Cleopatra.
Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!
CLEOPATRA.
Why is my lord enraged against his love?
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