Our lamp is spent, it 's out :-Good sirs, take heart :— [To the Guard below. We'll bury him; and then, what 's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, Come, away: This case of that huge spirit now is cold. Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end. [Exeunt; those above bearing off ANTONY's body. ACT V. SCENE 1.-Cæsar's Camp before Alexandria. Enter CESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others. Cas. Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; Being so frustrate, tell him, he mocks [us bya] The pauses that he makes. Dol. Cæsar, I shall. [Exit DOLABELLA. Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of ANTONY. Cæs. Wherefore is that? and what art thou that dar'st Appear thus to us? Der. I am call'd Dercetas ; To take me to thee, as I was to him I'll be to Cæsar; if thou pleasest not, I yield thee up my life. Cæs. What is 't thou say'st? Der. I say, O Cæsar, Antony is dead. Cæs. 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 a The words in brackets are not in the original. Malone supplied them. The commentators make a great difficulty with this pas sage; but surely nothing can more forcibly express the idea of a general convulsion than that the wild beasts of the forest should have been hurled into the streets where men abide, and the inhabitants of cities as forcibly thrown into the lions' dens. Is not a single doom; in the name lay Der. He is dead, Cæsar; Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand, Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd Cæs. Agr. Look you sad, friends? And strange it is His taints and honours A rarer spirit never That nature must compel us to lament Mec. Wag'd equal with him. Agr. Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us Mec. When such a spacious mirror 's set before him, He needs must see himself. Cæs. O Antony ! I have follow'd thee to this :a-But we do lance a Follow'd thee to this-driven thee to this. Our equalness to this.-Hear me, good friends,---- Enter a Messenger. The business of this man looks out of him, Of thy intents desires instruction; That she preparedly may frame herself Cæs. Bid her have good heart; So the gods preserve thee! [Exit. Mess. Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke And, with your speediest, bring us what she says, Pro. Cæsar, I shall. [Exit PROCULEIUS. Cas. Gallus, go you along.-Where 's Dolabella, To second Proculeius? [Exit GALLUS. Cæs. Let him alone, for I remember now [Exeunt. SCENE II.-Alexandria. A Room in the Monu ment. Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS. Cleo. My desolation does begin to make Enter, to the gates of the Monument, PROCULEIUS, Pro. Cæsar sends greeting to the queen of Egypt; And bids thee study on what fair demands Thou mean'st to have him grant thee. Cleo. [Within.] Pro. My name is Proculeius. Cleo. [Within.] What's thy name? Antony Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but I do not greatly care to be deceiv'd, That have no use for trusting. If your master Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him No less beg than a kingdom: if he please Pro. The beggar's nurse and Cæsar's is unquestionably death; not, as Johnson explains it, the gross substance which equally nourishes the beggar and Cæsar. |