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Speeches (Lines) for First Guard
in "Antony and Cleopatra"

Total: 11

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# Act, Scene, Line
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Speech text

1

IV,14,3110

(stage directions). [Enter DERCETAS and Guard]

First Guard. What's the noise?


2

IV,14,3114

Second Guard. The star is fall'n.

First Guard. And time is at his period.


3

IV,14,3117

Antony. Let him that loves me strike me dead.

First Guard. Not I.


4

IV,14,3151

Antony. Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;
'Tis the last service that I shall command you.

First Guard. Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear
All your true followers out.


5

V,2,3788

(stage directions). [Enter the Guard, rushing in]

First Guard. Where is the queen?


6

V,2,3790

Charmian. Speak softly, wake her not.

First Guard. Caesar hath sent—


7

V,2,3794

Charmian. Too slow a messenger.
[Applies an asp]
O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.

First Guard. Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.


8

V,2,3796

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

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


9

V,2,3817

Dolabella. Who was last with them?

First Guard. A simple countryman, that brought her figs:
This was his basket.


10

V,2,3820

Octavius. Poison'd, then.

First Guard. O Caesar,
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.


11

V,2,3833

Dolabella. 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
Upon the caves of Nile.


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