...are so often used to build up the crowning effects of this play : 1 II. v. See p. 121 above. Finish, good lady ; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. [V. ii. 192.] The poetic note once more removes the action from the sphere of common reality. Dolabella,...

...in the text—superb instances of contextual poetry, as in Iras's classic requiem at the end: Finish good lady, the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. When Antony returns unexpectedly from the battlefield (Act IV, Scene 8), Cleopatra overwhelms us with...

...always complex and packed; he achieves some of his greatest effect by a magical simplicity: Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. We must not forget that Shakespeare was more than a brilliant dramatist and man of the theater: he...

...don't mind. It offers, he said, "an inviolable sanctuary." From people and circumstances. "Finish, good lady, the bright day is done; and we are for the dark." The sun has set over the North Pole, the night has come on. But I'm not superstitious about it. There...

...Manresa in the sky." In the play, her lady-in-waiting says to Cleopatra, who is planning suicide, Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. Against that despairing counsel St. Paul writes to his converts in Thessalonica: "It is not as if you...

...quotation from the great bard, when Iras says to Cleopatra, with a hint of catastrophism: 'Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark'. I do not believe in CP Snow's 'Two Cultures', so I hope the duller and more conventional scientists...

...words me, that I should not 190 Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian. [whispers IRAS Finish, good lady. The bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEOPATRA Hie thee again, I have spoke already, and it is provided. Go put it to the haste. CHARMIAN...

...what lies behind Caesar's courtesy; and the timid, silent Iras suddenly breaks silence with Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. — revealing herself in a dignity of spirit of her own. Another moment and she is trembling again;...

...Cleopatra contemptuously, when Caesar and his iron tribe had gone. "But hark thee, Charmian — " "Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark," said Iras sadly, as her mistress whispered in Charmian's ear. "It is provided. Go put it to the haste,"...

...should not Be noble to my self. But hark thee, Charmian. Cleopatra whispers to Charmian IRAS Finish, good lady, the bright day is done, And we are for the dark. CLEOPATRA (to Charmian) Hie thee again. I have spoke already, and it is provided — 195 Go put it...