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SCENE VI.
Out-skirts of Cæsar's Camp.Sentinels upon their Posts. Enter Enobarbus.
3. S.
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
By the second hour i'the morn.
1. S.
—This last day was
A shrewd one to us.
Eno.
O, bear me witness, night,—
2. S.
—“What man is this?”
1. S.
“Stand close, and list him.”
Eno.
Be witness to me, o thou blessed moon,
When men revolted shall upon record
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Before thy face repent.
3. S.
—“Enobarbus!”
2. S.
—“Peace; hark further.”
Eno.
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night dispunge 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 dry'd with grief, will break to powder,
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:
O Antony! o Antony!
[dies.
1. S.
—“Let's speak to him.”
3. S.
“Let's hear him further, for the things he speaks”
“May concern Cæsar.”
2. S.
—“Let's do so. But he sleeps.”
3. S.
“Swoons, rather; for so bad a prayer as his”
“Was never yet for sleep.”
1. S.
—Go we to him.
2. S.
—Awake, sir,
[to Eno.
Awake; speak to us.
1. S.
—Hear you, sir?
[shaking him.
3. S.
—The hand
Of death hath raught him.
[Drum afar off.
Hark, how the drums demurely wake the sleepers;
Let's bear him to the court of guard; he is
Of note: our hour is fully out.
2. S.
—Come on then;
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[Exeunt with the Body.
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