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Antony and Cleopatra - Act 4, scene 13

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Act 4, scene 13

⌜Scene 13⌝

Synopsis:

Cleopatra, in terror, flees to her monument and sends Antony word that she is dead.

Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, ⌜and⌝ Mardian.

CLEOPATRA 
2801  Help me, my women! O, he’s more mad
2802  Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly
2803  Was never so embossed.
CHARMIAN  2804  To th’ monument!
2805 5 There lock yourself and send him word you are
2806  dead.
2807  The soul and body rive not more in parting
2808  Than greatness going off.
CLEOPATRA  2809  To th’ monument!—
2810 10 Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself.
2811  Say that the last I spoke was “Antony,”
2812  And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,
2813  And bring me how he takes my death.—To th’
2814  monument!
They exit.