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

Act IV. Scene XI.

Antony and Cleopatra

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

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

Than greatness going off.

Cleo.To the 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 the monument![Exeunt.