Re-enter Dolabella. Dol. How goes it here? Sec. Guard. Dol. All dead. Cæsar, thy thoughts Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming 330 [Within. 'A way there, a way for Cæsar!' Re-enter Cæsar and his train. Dol. O sir, you are too sure an augurer; Cæs. Dol. Bravest at the last, She levell'd at our purposes, and being royal Who was last with them? First Guard. A simple countryman, that brought her figs: This was his basket. Cæs. First Guard. Poison'd then. O Cæsar, Cas. This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake : I found her trimming up the diadem On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood, O noble weakness! If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear In her strong toil of grace. 341 Dol. Here, on her breast, There is a vent of blood, and something blown: The like is on her arm. First Guard. This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves 351 Upon the caves of Nile. Cas. Most probable That so she died; for her physician tells me She hath pursued conclusions infinite Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed, And bear her women from the monument: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous. High events as these Strike those that make them; and their story is 360 No less in pity than his glory which Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall In solemn show attend this funeral, And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see [Exeunt. Cleopatra and her son Cæsarion Sacrificing to the Gods. Sculptured in the great Temple, at Dendera, upper Egypt. Glossary. Abhorring, abomination; V. ii. 60. Abode, staying; I. ii. 177. Abstract; "the a. of all faults," a microcosm of sinfulness; I. iv. 9. Abused, ill-used; III. vi. 86. Abysm, abyss; III. xiii. 147. Admitted, acknowledged; registered (Theobald, omitted"); V. ii. 140. Afeard, afraid; II. v. 81. Affect'st, pleases (Folio 1, "affects"); I. iii. 71. " Aid; "pray in a.," seek assistance, call in help from another; V. ii. 27. Alcides, Hercules; IV. xii. 44. Alike; "having a. your cause,' "being engaged in the same cause with you" (Malone); Antoniad, the name of the flag- 12. Approof; "and as my farthest band shall pass on thy a.," i.e. "such as when tried will prove to be beyond anything that I can promise" (Schmidt); III. ii. 27. Approves, proves; I. i. 60. Arabian bird, i.e. the Phoenix; III. ii. 12. Argument, proof; III. xii. 3. Arm-gaunt (vide Note); I. v. 48. Armourer, one who has care of the armour of his master; IV. iv. 7. As, as if; I. ii. 100. As low as, lower than; III. iii. 37. Aspic, asp, a venomous snake;. V. ii. 293. Aspic's (Folios 2, 3, 4, "Aspects"); V. ii. 350. As 't, as if it; IV. viii. 6. await; III. x. 32. Augurer, diviner, foreteller; V. ii. 333. Auguring, prophesying; II. i. IO. Avoid, begone, withdraw; V. ii. 242. Awry, not straight (Pope's emendation of Folios, "away"); V. ii. 318. Band, bond; II. vi. 128; III. ii. 26. Banquet, dessert; I. ii. II. Bark'd, peeled; IV. xii. 23. Basket; "enter Clown bringing in a basket"; V. ii. 241. (direc.). The annexed cuts represent ancient Egyptian baskets, fig. 2 showing also the fruit covered by a palmleaf. Battery; "b. from my heart," i.e. the battery proceeding from the beating of my heart; IV. xiv. 39. Battle, army; III. ix. 2. From a wall painting on the tomb Rameses III., at Thebes. Beguiled, cheated; V. ii. 323. Belike, I suppose; I. ii. 35. Bench-holes, holes of a privy; IV. vii. 9. Bereave, deprive; V. ii. 130. Best, it were best; IV. vi. 26. Bestrid, did stride over; V. ii. 82. Betime, betimes, in good time; |