The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra

Act IV

Scene XIII.

William Shakespeare


Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace

Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN

    CLEOPATRA.
Help me, my women. O, he is more mad
Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly
Was never so emboss’d.

    CHARMIAN.
                                To th’monument!
There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
The soul and body rive not more in parting
Than greatness going off.

    CLEOPATRA.
                                To th’ monument!
Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;
Say that the last I spoke was ‘Antony’
And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,
And bring me how he takes my death. To th’ monument!
[Exeunt


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