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Antony and Cleopatra

Act V, Scene 1

Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
 
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war]
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
       ,           ,     ,      ,          ,
      Go to | him Dol|abel|la, bid | him yield,
       ,           ,    T      T   T
      Being | so frus|trate, tell him,
      <-     ,            ,       ,         ,
        He mocks || the paus|es that | he makes.
 
DOLABELLA
                                                  ,           ,
                                                 Caesar,| I shall.
 
[Exit. Enter DECRETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY]
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
        ,             ,          ,          ,           ,
      Wherefore^|is that?| and what | art thou | that darst
          ,      ,    2
      Appear | thus to us?
 
DECRETAS
                           ,         ,       ,
                           I am | called De|cretas;
            ,    ,        ,           ,          ,     ->
      Mark^Ant|ony | I served,| who best | was worth||y
        ,      2      ,        ,               ,         ,
      Best | to be served:| whilst he | stood^up,| and spoke
          ,         ,       ,        ,         ,
      He was | my mast|er; and | I wore | my life
           ,       ,         ,        ,           ,
      To spend | upon | his hat|ers. If | thou please
           ,        ,           ,      ,        ,
      To take | me to | thee*, as | I was | to him,
            ,       ,        ,          ,        ,
      I'll be | to Cae|sar: if | thou pleas|est not,
          ,           ,        ,
      I yield | thee^up | my life.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
                                          x            ,
                                   What is it | thou sayst?
 
DECRETAS
         ,         ,        ,    ,        ,
      I say | (Oh Cae|sar) Ant|ony | is dead.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
            ,             ,   ,         ,              ,
      The break|ing of / so great | a thing,| should make
          ,        ,     oo         ,      ___
      A great|er crack:|    | the round | world
                      ,    ,      ,     ,        ,
      Should have / shook li|ons in|to civ|il streets,
           ,     ,      2        ,          ,         ,    3 3->
      And cit|izens | to their dens:| the death | of Ant||ony
          ,        ,       ,               ,   ,
      Is not | a sing|le doom,| in the / name lay
         ,   2   ,         ,
      A moi|ety of | the world.
 
DECRETAS
                                  2     ,     ,
                                He is dead | Caesar,
       ,    2     ,        ,     ,        ,
      Not by a | public | mini|ster of | justice,
       ,           ,      ___                 ,    ,
      Nor by | a hired | knife,| but that / self hand
              ,         ,      ,         ,        ,
      Which writ | his hon|or in | the acts | it did,
        ,               ,        ,           ,             x
      Hath with | the cour|age which | the heart | did lend it,
        ,              ,       ,             ,
      Splitted | the heart.| This is | his sword,
      <-     ,            ,         ,       ,           ,
        I robbed || his wound | of it:| behold | it stained
      <-      ,           ,       ,
        With his || most^nob|le blood.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
                                         T   T   T      ___
                                       Look you sad | friends,
            ,        ,         ,        ,    ,
      The gods | rebuke | me, but | it is | tidings
           ,          ,         ,
      To wash | the eyes | of kings.
 
AGRIPPA
                                           ,          ,
                                    And strange | it is,
            ,        ,        ,        ,       ,
      That na|ture must | compel | us to | lament
            ,        ,        ,
      Our most | persis|ted deeds.  \\
 
MECAENAS
             ,          ,         ,      ,            ,
      His taints | and hon|ors, waged | equal | with him.
 
AGRIPPA
         ,      ,     ,
      A rarer spirit never  ????
            ,        ,    ,      2      ,             x
      Did steer | huma|nity:| but you gods | will give us
              ,          ,        ,     ,             ,
      Some faults | to make | us men.| Caesar | is touched.
 
MECAENAS
             ,       ,         ,         ,          x
      When such | a spa|cious mir|ror's set | before him,
           ,           ,         ,
      He needs | must see | himself.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
                                      ,  ,
                                     Oh Ant/ony,
       2      ,          ,         ,         ,        ,
      I have fol|lowed thee | to this,| but we | do lance
         ,   ,    2       ,           ,         ,
      Disea|ses in our | bodies.| I must | perforce
             ,          ,      ,          ,       ,
      Have shown | to thee | such a | declin|ing day,
           ,         ,       2       ,      ,       ,
      Or look | on thine:| we could not | stall to|gether,
                 ,     ,          ,         ,       ,
      In the / whole world.| But yet | let me | lament
             ,          ,         ,         ,           ,
      With tears | as sove|reign as | the blood | of hearts,
             ,         ,        ,       ,    ,
      That thou | my broth|er, my | compet|itor,
          ,        ,        ,         ,        ,    ,  ->
      In top | of all | design;| my mate | in em||pire,
         ,              ,         2      ,         ,
      Friend / and com|panion | in the front | of war,
           ,              ,   ,      ,          ,
      The arm | of mine^/own bo|dy, and | the heart
              ,            ,            ,        ,          ,
      Where mine | his thoughts | did kind|le; that | our stars
         ,     ,  3 3       ,         ,        ,        ,         , ->
      Unrec|oncil|iable, should | divide | our e||qualness | to this.
        T   T   T      ___
      Hear me good | friends,
       ,   2         ,         ,        ,        ,
      But I will | tell you | at some^|meeter | season,
           ,         ,         ,           ,        ,
      The bus|iness of | this man | looks^out | of him,
              ,          ,         ,       T    T   T
      We'll hear | him what | he says.| Whence are you?
 
[Enter an Egyptian]
 
EGYPTIAN
          ,      ,        ,          ,          ,       2->
      A poor | Egyp|tian yet,| The queen | my mist||ress
           ,         ,         ,         ,     ,
      Confined | in all,| she has | her mon|ument
          ,        ,         ,          ,     ,
      Of thy | intents,| desires,| instruc|tion,
            ,        ,     ,         ,          ,
      That she | prepar|edly | may frame | herself
        2     ,             ,
      To the way | she's forced | to.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
                                        ,          ,            ,
                                       Bid | her have | good* heart,
            ,            ,        ,        ,         ,
      She soon | shall know | of us,| by some | of ours,
           ,    ,       ,          ,      ,
      How hon|ora|ble, and | how kind|ly we
         ,      2     ,         ,       ,        ,
      Deter|mine for her.| For Cae|sar can|not live
          ,         x
      To be | ungentle.
 
EGYPTIAN
                         ,         ,         ,
                        So the | gods pre|serve thee.
 
[Exit]
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
            ,        ,    ,       ,        ,
      Come^hith|er Proc|ulei|us. Go | and say
          ,              ,   ,       ,     2        ,
      We pur|pose her / no shame:| give her what | comforts
            ,    ,     2     ,         ,         ,
      The qual|ity | of her pas|sion shall | require;
        ,             ,          ,          ,        ,
      Lest in | her great|ness, by | some^mort|al stroke
           ,       ,         ,          ,         ,
      She do | defeat | us. For | her life | in Rome,
             ,     ,       ,        ,         ,
      Would be | etern|al in | our tri|umph: go,
            ,           ,    2     ,          ,          ,
      And with | your speed|iest bring | us what | she says,
           ,          ,        ,
      And how | you find | of her.
 
PROCULEIUS
                                    ,           ,
                                   Caesar | I shall.
 
[Exit]
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Gallus, go you along: where's Dolabella, to second Proculeius?
 
ALL
Dolabella.
 
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
       ,           ,        ,      ,       ,
      Let him | alone:| for I | remem|ber now
       ,      2      ,           ,          ,        ,
      How he's em|ployed: he | shall in | time be | ready.
           ,        ,        ,            ,           ,
      Go with | me to | my tent,| where* you | shall see
            ,     ,         ,        ,         ,
      How hard|ly I | was drawn | into | this war,
            ,         ,      ,       ,        ,
      How calm | and gent|le I | procee|ded still
          ,         ,         ,         ,        ,
      In all | my writ|ings. Go | with me,| and see
           ,         ,         ,
      What I | can show | in this.    \\
 
[Exeunt]

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