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Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare, c. 1606

Act IVScene XIII

Alexandria. A Room in the Palace

Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Mardian.

Cleopatra

Help me, my women! O, he is more madThan Telamon for his shield; the boar of ThessalyWas never so embossed.

Charmian

To th’ monument!There lock yourself and send him word you are dead.The soul and body rive not more in partingThan 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.