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Antony and Cleopatra

Act IV, Scene 9

OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
 
[Sentinels at their post]
 
FIRST SOLDIER
          ,       ,         ,         ,           ,
      If we | be not | relieved | within | this hour,
           ,        ,      2      ,          ,           ,
      We must | return | to the court | of guard:| the night
          ,       ,          ,         ,          x
      Is shi|ny, and | they say,| we shall | embattle
        2     ,        ,      2      ,
      By the sec|ond hour | in the morn.
 
SECOND SOLDIER
                                                ,     ,
                                         This last | day was
           ,      ,    2
      A shrewd | one to us.
 
[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                                 ,        ,         ,
                            Oh bear | me wit|ness night.
 
THIRD SOLDIER
            ,         ,
      What man | is this?
 
SECOND SOLDIER
                           T     T     T      ,
                         Stand close, and | list him.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
          ,        ,       ,          ,        ,
      Be wit|ness to | me (O | thou bles|sed moon)
            ,       ,        ,       ,     ,
      When men | revolt|ed shall | upon | record
              ,       ,   2     ,      2 ,       ,
      Bear* hate|ful mem|ory: poor | Enobar|bus did  ??
          ,          ,        ,
      Before | thy face | repent.    \\
 
FIRST SOLDIER
      ,    ,
      Eno|barbus?
 
THIRD SOLDIER
                  ___     __     ,
                 Peace:| hark | further.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
           ,          ,      2     ,     ,     ,
      Oh sove|reign mist|ress of true | melan|choly,
           ,    2      ,         ,          ,      x
      The pois|onous damp | of night | disponge | upon me,
             ,       ,     ,      ,        ,
      That life,| a ve|ry reb|el to | my will,
            ,         ,      ,         ,          ,
      May hang | no long|er on | me. Throw | my heart
          ,           ,           ,        ,        ,
      Against | the flint | and hard|ness of | my fault,
        ,     2       ,            ,             ,         ,
      Which being | dried with | grief, will | break to | powder,
           ,       ,      T      T      T    ,  2
      And fin|ish all | foul thoughts. Oh | Antony,
       ,             ,       ,        ,     ,
      Nobler | than my | revolt | is in|famous,
           ,        ,          ,        ,    ,
      Forgive | me in | thine^own | partic|ular,
           ,          ,       ,           ,     ,
      But let | the world | rank me | in reg|ister
         ,        ,       ,       ,     ,
      A mast|er-leav|er, and | a fug|itive:
          ,   2    ,    ,  2
      Oh Ant|ony! Oh | Antony!
 
[Dies]
 
SECOND SOLDIER
                                     ,         ,
                             Let's^speak | to him.
 
FIRST SOLDIER
        T     T   T     ,           ,           ,
      Let's hear him,| for the | things he | speaks
      <-            ,     ,
        May || concern | Caesar.
 
THIRD SOLDIER
                                       ,        ,          ,
                                Let's^do | so, But | he sleeps.
 
FIRST SOLDIER
         ,     ,                ,         x         ,
      Swoons rath/er, for | so bad | a prayer | as his
           ,      ,          ,
      Was nev|er yet | for sleep.
 
SECOND SOLDIER
                                   ,          ,
                                  Go we | to him.
 
THIRD SOLDIER
         ,     ,       ,     ,
      Awake | sir, a|wake, speak / to us.
 
SECOND SOLDIER
                                            ,     2
                                          Hear you sir?
 
FIRST SOLDIER
            ,         ,             ,
      The hand | of death | hath raught | him.  \\
 
[Drums afar off]
        ,          ,        ,        ,          ,
      Hark the | drums de|murely | wake the | sleepers:
       ,         ,          2      ,          ,         ,         ,  ->
      Let us | bear him | to the court | of guard;| he is || of note:
            ,        ,      ,    oo
      Our^hour | is ful|ly out.|
 
THIRD SOLDIER
            ,          ,      2   ,      ,    oo
      Come^on | then, he | may recov|er yet.|
 
[Exeunt with the body]

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