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Cleopatra is hiding in her monument, awaiting news of her lover, Marc Antony. They have been heavily defeated in battle and she knows that Caesar and Rome now have control over them. Cleopatra is comforted by her servants, shortly before Antony is carried in on a stretcher. Tenderly, the lovers bid each other goodbye as he makes a farewell speech. He implores Cleopatra to seek safety from Caesar and tells her she can trust no one but Proculeius. As Antony dies, Cleopatra mourning her lover and
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CLEOPATRA
O Charmian, I will never go from hence.
CHARMIAN
Be comforted, dear madam.
CLEOPATRA
No, I will not:
All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,
Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great
As that which makes it.
[Enter, below, DIOMEDES]
How now! is he dead?
DIOMEDES
His
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