Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines

 

O sir, you are too sure an augurer;

That you did fear is done.

 

Dolabella

Antony and Cleopatra            Act V, Scene ii, Line 335

 

To augur is to predict future events. It’s a modern word, though not used all that much.
Dolabella sounds like a woman’s name, but it is one of Caesar’s guys and he’s speaking to Caesar. He’s referring to the fact that Antony and Cleopatra are both dead, something that apparently Caesar predicted.
There are only thirty-two lines left in the play, and it ends with some obligatory lofty words about our two dead heroes.

She shall be buried by her Antony:
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous. High events as these
Strike those that make them; and their story is
No less in pity than his glory which
Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall
In solemn show attend this funeral;
And then to Rome. — Come, Dolabella, see
High order in this great solemnity.

Cut! And that’s a wrap.

Mojo likes to keep a degree of high order and great solemnity in everything he does. 

Well....almost everything.