CLEOPATRA, IRAS, and CHARMIAN raising up ANTONY into the monument. And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived: ANT. I am dying, Egypt, dying:" ACT IV. S. 13. (The guard are assisting in raising ANTONY by means of his cloak tied to the points of their spears.) Will have it thus; my master and my lord, I must obey." XIII. The death of CLEOPATRA. "CLEO. Show me, my women, like a queen.—Go fetch My best attire ;-I am again for Cydnus, Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips. Farewell, kind Charmian ;—Iras, long farewell! (Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies.) Have I the aspic in my lips? dost fall? CHAR. Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods themselves do weep! CLEO. This proves me base : If she first meet the curled Antony, He'll make demand of her; and spend that kiss, Which is my heaven to have. Come, mortal wretch, (To the Asp, which she applies to her breast.) With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie." ACT V. S. 2. |