Shakspeare.
Augustus Cæsar. Dolabella.
Augustus. Dead! say’st thou? Cleopatra?
Dolabella. She sleeps fast—
Will answer nothing more—hath no more lusts
For passion to persuade—nor art to breed
Any more combats. I have seen her laid—
As for a bridal—in a pomp of charms,
That mocked the flashing jewels in her crown
With beauty never theirs. Her bridegroom one