The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . east,and scratching her face and stomach. Then shedried up his blood that had berayed his face, andcalled him her lord, her husband, and emperor, for-getting her own misery and calamity for the pityand compassion she took of him. Antonius madeher cease her lamenting, and called for wine, eitherbecause he was athirst, or else for that he thoughtthereby to hasten his death. When he had drunkhe earnestly prayed her and persuaded her that shewould seek to save her life, if she could possible,without reproach and dishonour, and that chieflyshe shoul
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . east,and scratching her face and stomach. Then shedried up his blood that had berayed his face, andcalled him her lord, her husband, and emperor, for-getting her own misery and calamity for the pityand compassion she took of him. Antonius madeher cease her lamenting, and called for wine, eitherbecause he was athirst, or else for that he thoughtthereby to hasten his death. When he had drunkhe earnestly prayed her and persuaded her that shewould seek to save her life, if she could possible,without reproach and dishonour, and that chieflyshe should trust Proculeius above any man elseabout Caesar; and, as for himself, that she shouldnot lament nor sorrow for the miserable change ofhis fortune at the end of his days, but rather that sheshould think him the more fortunate for the formertriumphs and honours he had received, consideringthat while he lived he was the noblest and greatestprince of the world, and that now he was overcome,not cowardly, but valiantly, a Roman by anotherRoman. .^20. [Interior of an Egyptian Monument.] ACT V. SCENE I.—Caesars Camp before Alexandria. Enter C^sar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Me-c^NAS, Gallus, Proculeius, and others. CcBs. Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;Being so frustrate, tell him, he mocks [usby°]The pauses that he makes. Dol. Caesar, I shall. \_Exit Dolabella. Enter Dercetas, with the sword of Antony. CcBS. Wherefore is that ? and what art thouthat darstAppear thus to us?* Der. I am calld Dercetas; Mark Antony I servd, who best was worthyBest to be servd: whilst he stood up, and spoke,He was my master: and I wore my lifeTo spend upon his haters : If thou pleaseTo take me to tliee, as I was to himI 11 be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,I yield thee up my life. » The words in brackets are not in the original. Malonesupplied them, and Steevens adopts them with some hesita-tion, saying, We are not yet acquainted with the full andexact meaning of the word mock, as soniolimes employed b
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