Act IV. Scene XI. Antony and Cleopatra. Craig, W.J., ed. 1914. The Oxford Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914.

Antony and Cleopatra

Act IV. Scene XI.

Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN.
Cleo. Help me, my women! O! he is more mad
Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly	4
Was never so emboss’d.
Char. To the monument!
There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
The soul and body rive not more in parting	8
Than greatness going off.
Cleo. To the monument!
Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;
Say that the last I spoke was ‘Antony,’	12
And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence,
Mardian, and bring me how he takes my death.
To the monument! [Exeunt.