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CÆSAR’S Camp. | |
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Sentinels on their post. | |
| First Sold. If we be not reliev’d within this hour, | |
| We must return to the court of guard: the night | |
| Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle | 5 |
| By the second hour i’ the morn. | |
| Sec. Sold. This last day was | |
| A shrewd one to ’s. | |
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Enter ENOBARBUS. | |
| Eno. O! bear me witness, night,— | 10 |
| Third Sold. What man is this? | |
| Sec. Sold. Stand close and list him. | |
| Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, | |
| When men revolted shall upon record | |
| Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did | 15 |
| Before thy face repent! | |
| First Sold. Enobarbus! | |
| Third Sold. Peace! | |
| Hark further. | |
| Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, | 20 |
| 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, | 25 |
| 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. | 30 |
| O Antony! O Antony! [Dies. | |
| Sec. Sold. Let’s speak to him. | |
| First Sold. Let’s hear him, for the things he speaks | |
| May concern Cæsar. | |
| Third Sold. Let’s do so. But he sleeps. | 35 |
| First Sold. Swounds rather; for so bad a prayer as his | |
| Was never yet for sleep. | |
| Sec. Sold. Go we to him. | |
| Third Sold. Awake, sir, awake! speak to us. | |
| Sec. Sold. Hear you, sir? | 40 |
| First Sold. The Land 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. | 45 |
| Third Sold. Come on, then; | |
| He may recover yet. [Exeunt with the body. | |
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