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Antony and Cleopatra, V. ii

Sec. Guard. There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him.

First Guard. What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?

Char. It is well done, and fitting for a princess

Descended of so many royal kings.

Ah! soldier.

Dol. How goes it here?

Sec. Guard. All dead.

Dol. Cæsar, thy thoughts

Touch their effects in this; thyself art coming

To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou

So sought'st to hinder.

[Within,] 'A way there!—a way for Cæsar!'

Dol. O! sir, you are too sure an augurer;

That you did fear is done.

Cæs. 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.

Dol. Who was last with them?

First Guard. A simple countryman that brought her figs:

This was his basket.

Cæs. Poison'd then.

First Guard. O Cæsar!

This Charmian liv'd but now; she stood, and spake:

I found her trimming up the diadem

On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood,

 332 effects: fulfilment

337 levell'd: guessed

