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Sentinels at their postFirst Soldier
If we be not relieved within this hour,Second Soldier
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.
This last day wasDOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
A shrewd one to's.
Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
O, bear me witness, night,--Third Soldier
What man is this?Second Soldier
Stand close, and list him.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,First Soldier
When men revolted shall upon record
Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!
Enobarbus!Third Soldier
Peace!DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Hark further.
O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,Second Soldier
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
Let's speak To him.First Soldier
Let's hear him, for the things he speaksThird Soldier
May concern Caesar.
Let's do so. But he sleeps.First Soldier
Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as hisSecond Soldier
Was never yet for sleep.
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.Third Soldier
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.
Come on, then;
He may recover yet.
Exeunt with the body
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