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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
To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou
So sought'st to hinder.

[Within. 'A way there, a way for Cæsar!'

Re-enter Cæsar and his train.

Dol. O sir, you are too sure an augurer;
That you did fear is done.

Cæs.

Dol.

Bravest at the last,

She levell'd at our purposes, and being royal
Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?
I do not see them bleed.

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,
And on the sudden dropp'd.

O noble weakness!

If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear
By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,.
As she would catch another Antony

In her strong toil of grace.

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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:
She shall be buried by her Antony:

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
High order in this great solemnity.

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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.

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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);

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Antoniad, the name of the flag-
ship of Cleopatra; III. x. 2.
Apace, fast; IV. vii. 6.
Appeal, impeachment; III. v.

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.

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Aspic's (Folios 2, 3, 4, "Aspects"); V. ii. 350.

As 't, as if it; IV. viii. 6.
At heel of, on the heels of, im-
mediately after; II. ii. 159.
Atone, reconcile; II. ii. 102.
Attend, witness, take notice of;
II. ii. 60.

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.
Beck'd, beckoned; IV. xii. 26.
Bed; "the bed of Ptolemy"; I.
iv. 17. (Cp. illustration.)

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.

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82.

Betime, betimes, in good time;

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