Act IV, Scene 9

OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.

[Sentinels at their post]

• First Soldier. If we be not relieved within this hour,
  We must return to the court of guard: the night
  Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle
  By the second hour i' the morn. 2835

• Second Soldier. This last day was
  A shrewd one to's.

[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

• Domitius Enobarus. O, bear me witness, night,—

• Third Soldier. What man is this? 2840

• Second Soldier. Stand close, and list him.

• Domitius Enobarus. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
  When men revolted shall upon record
  Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
  Before thy face repent! 2845

• First Soldier. Enobarbus!

• Third Soldier. Peace!
  Hark further.

• Domitius Enobarus. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
  The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, 2850
  That life, a very rebel to my will,
  May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
  Against the flint and hardness of my fault:
  Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
  And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, 2855
  Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
  Forgive me in thine own particular;
  But let the world rank me in register
  A master-leaver and a fugitive:
  O Antony! O Antony! 2860

[Dies]

• Second Soldier. Let's speak To him.

• First Soldier. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks
  May concern Caesar.

• Third Soldier. Let's do so. But he sleeps. 2865

• First Soldier. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his
  Was never yet for sleep.

• Second Soldier. Go we to him.

• Third Soldier. Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.

• Second Soldier. Hear you, sir? 2870

• First Soldier. The hand of death hath raught him.
  [Drums afar off]
  Hark! the drums
  Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
  To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour 2875
  Is fully out.

• Third Soldier. Come on, then;
  He may recover yet.

[Exeunt with the body]