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| <H3>SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.</h3> | |
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| <i>Sentinels at their post</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>If we be not relieved within this hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>We must return to the court of guard: the night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>By the second hour i' the morn.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>This last day was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>A shrewd one to's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7> O, bear me witness, night,--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Third Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>What man is this?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9> Stand close, and list him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>When men revolted shall upon record</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Before thy face repent!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>Enobarbus!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Peace!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Hark further.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>That life, a very rebel to my will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>May hang no longer on me: throw my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Against the flint and hardness of my fault:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Nobler than my revolt is infamous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Forgive me in thine own particular;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>But let the world rank me in register</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>A master-leaver and a fugitive:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>O Antony! O Antony!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dies</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>Let's speak To him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Let's hear him, for the things he speaks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>May concern Caesar.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Third Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>Let's do so. But he sleeps.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Was never yet for sleep.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>Go we to him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>Third Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>Second Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37>Hear you, sir?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>First Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>The hand of death hath raught him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drums afar off</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=39>Hark! the drums</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Is fully out.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>Third Soldier</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>Come on, then;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>He may recover yet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt with the body</i></p> | |
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