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Samuel Johnson [1778], The plays of William Shakspeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The second edition, Revised and Augmented (Printed for C. Bathurst [and] W. Strahan [etc.], London) [word count] [S10901].

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SCENE XI. Cleopatra's Palace. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian.

Cleo.
Help me, my women! O, he is more mad
Than Telamon for his shield⁹ ^note; the boar of Thessaly
Was never so emboss'd¹ ^note.

Char.
To the monument;
There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.
The soul and body rive not more at parting,
Than greatness going off.

Cleo.
To the monument:—
Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;
Say, that the last I spoke was, Antony,
And word it, pr'ythee, piteously: Hence, Mardian;
And bring me how he takes my death.—To the monument. [Exeunt.
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