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| SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. |
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Sentinels at their post
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| First Soldier |
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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.
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| Second Soldier |
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5 This last day was
A shrewd one to's.
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Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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| DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS |
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O, bear me witness, night,--
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| Third Soldier |
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What man is this?
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| Second Soldier |
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Stand close, and list him.
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| DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS |
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10 Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
When men revolted shall upon record
Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!
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| First Soldier |
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Enobarbus!
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| Third Soldier |
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15 Peace!
Hark further.
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| DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS |
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O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,
20 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,
25 Forgive me in thine own particular;
But let the world rank me in register
A master-leaver and a fugitive:
O Antony! O Antony!
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Dies
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| Second Soldier |
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Let's speak To him.
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30 Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
May concern Caesar.
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| Third Soldier |
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Let's do so. But he sleeps.
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| First Soldier |
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Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his
Was never yet for sleep.
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| Second Soldier |
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35 Go we to him.
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| Third Soldier |
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Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.
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| Second Soldier |
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Hear you, sir?
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| First Soldier |
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The hand of death hath raught him.
Drums afar off
Hark! the drums
40 Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour
Is fully out.
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| Third Soldier |
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Come on, then;
He may recover yet.
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Exeunt with the body
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