...knowledge of poisons can be seen in the following from a well-known playwright, Shakespeare: Come bitter pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love! O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. From Romeo and Juliet - Act...

...I set up my everlasting rest, 1 10 And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last...The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love! [drinks] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. [dies 'Enter Friar'...

...Will I set up my everlasting rest Aiul shalce me yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last...run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. (v. iii. 92-3, 109-18) This speech, however, is linked not merely to the earlier one quoted, but also...

...Similarly acute and hilarious parody of Capulet's monument is presented at Minus' tomb. First, Romeo: Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!...run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. (V, iii, 112-18) Then, Pyramus: Eyes do you see! How can it be! O dainty duck! O dear! Thy mantle good,...

...striving for pathos, the apostrophes and imperatives make his lines sound elevated but artificial. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!...bargain to engrossing death! Come bitter conduct; come, unsavory guide! (V.iii) All this is very well as poetry, but no individual, deeply personal and distinctive...

...inauspicious starts From this world wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. Arms take your last embrace. Come bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide. Thou desperate...The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark. Here's to my love! (he drinks) O true Apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. DANNY collapses...

...taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath. [Romeo And Juliet V iii 1 1 6] Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide, Thou...run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. [Romeo And Juliet V i 59] Farewell the tranquil mind;jarewell content! [Othello III iii 352] Some golfers...

...Romeo's last words, almost, as he takes poison are antithetical in style and invoke a Petrarchan ideal: Come bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide Thou desperate...once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark. (V.iii.l 16-18 emphasis mine) Poison I see hath been his timeless end. O churl, drunk all, and left...

...Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last...The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love! - O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. - Thus with a kiss I die. We bowed together and...

...here is the erotic element that is expected in a lover and not in a friend. Compare this to Romeo's: "Eyes, look your last. / Arms, take your last embrace!...righteous kiss / A dateless bargain to engrossing Death" (V.iii. 112-15). What we witness in Cleopatra is loneliness and a broken partnership, a sense of abandonedment...