ACT IV - Scene IX Antony and Cleopatra

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Caesar’s camp.

	Sentinels at their post.
First Soldier	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.
Second Soldier	This last day was A shrewd one to’s.
	Enter Enobarbas.
Enobarbas	O, bear me witness, night⁠—
Third Soldier	What man is this?
Second Soldier	Stand close, and list him.
Enobarbas	Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy face repent!
First Soldier	Enobarbus!
Third Soldier	Peace! Hark further.
Enobarbas	O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, 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, 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.
Second Soldier	Let’s speak To him.
First Soldier	Let’s hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Caesar.
Third Soldier	Let’s do so. But he sleeps.
First Soldier	Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his Was never yet for sleep.
Second Soldier	Go we to him.
Third Soldier	Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.
Second Soldier	Hear you, sir?
First Soldier	The hand 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.
Third Soldier	Come on, then; He may recover yet. Exeunt with the body.

ACT IV - Scene IX Antony and Cleopatra

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