Ant. Well, well, away. How appears the fight? 13_ That I beheld: mine eyes [Exeunt Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus. Did sicken at the sight on't, and could not Sold. By Hercules, I think, I am i'the right. Can. Soldier, thou art: but his whole action Not in the power on't: So our leader's led, Sold. You keep by land But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's Endure a further view. Scar. She once being loof'd,15 I never saw an action of such shame; Alack, alack! Enter Canidius. Sold. While he was yet in Rome, you? Well I know the man. Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good Indeed. Can. Eno. I'll yet follow SCENE IX-Alexandria. A room in the pal- To run, and show their shoulders.-Friends, be Which has no need of you; be gone: Iras. Iras. Madam; O good empress Eros. Sir, sir, Ant. Yes, my lord, yes;-He, at Philippi, kept His sword even like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I, That the mad Brutus ended: he alone Dealt on lieutenantry,2 and no practice had In the brave squares of war: Yet now-No matter. Cleo. Ah, stand by. Eros. The queen, my lord, the queen. Iras. Go to him, madam, speak to him; He is unqualitied3 with very shame. Cleo. Well then,-Sustain me :-O! Eros. Most noble sir, arise; the queen proaches; Obey it on all cause. Cleo. O pardon, pardon. Ant. Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates! We scorn her most, when most she offers blows. Dol. Cæs. Enter Euphronius. Approach, and speak. As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf Cæs. Cas. For Antony, I have no ears to his request. The queen Of audience, nor desire, shall fail; so she ap-From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,9 Or take his life there: This if she perform, She shall not sue unheard. So to them both. Eup. Fortune pursue thee! Cœs. Her head's declined, and death will seize her; but4 Your comfort makes the rescue. Ant. I have offended reputation; A most unnoble swerving. Eros. Sir, the queen. Ant. O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See, How I convey my shame out of thine eyes, By looking back on what I have left behind, 'Stroy'd in dishonour. Cleo. O my lord, my lord! Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought, You would have follow'd. Ant. Egypt, thou knew'st too well, My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings, And thou should'st tow me after: O'er my spirit Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods Command me. O, my pardon. Cleo. Ant. Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge And palter in the shifts of lowness; who With half the bulk o'the world play'd as I pleas'd, Making, and marring fortunes. You did know, How much you were my conqueror; and that My sword, made weak by my affection, would (2) Fought by his officers. (1) Cæsa (3) Divested of his faculties. (4) Unless. (5) Values. (6) Euphronius, schoolmaster to Antony's children. Bring him through the bands. [Exit Euphronius. To try thy eloquence, now 'tis time: Despatch; From Antony win Cleopatra: promise, [To Thyreus And in our name, what she requires; add more, From thine invention, offers: women are not, In their best fortunes, strong; but want will perjure The ne'er-touch'd vestal: Try thy cunning, Thy Lord of his reason. What although you fled Pr'ythee, peace. Eup. Ant. Ay, my lord. The queen Shall then have courtesy, so she will yield Us up. Eup. He says so. Let her know it. Ant. To the boy Cæsar send this grizzled head, To be sure of that, [Aside. [Exit Enobarbus. Thyr. Shall I say to Cæsar What you require of him? for he partly begs To be desir'd to give. It much would please him, That of his fortunes you should make a staff To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits, Ant. To him again; Tell him, he wears the rose To hear from me you had left Antony, Of youth upon him; from which the world should|| Cleo. note That head, my lord? Something particular: his coin, ships, legions, May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail Under the service of a child, as soon As i'the command of Cæsar: I dare him therefore [Exeunt Antony and Euphronius. And put yourself under his shrowd, Cleo. What's your name? Thyr. My name is Thyreus. Most kind messenger, I kiss his conqu'ring hand: tell him, I am prompt Thyr. Cleo. Your Cæsar's father You will be whipp'd. Ant. Approach, there:-Ay, you kite!-Now gods and devils! Authority melts from me: Of late, when I cry'd, ho Enter Attendants. Antony yet. Take hence this Jack, and whip hin Ant. That do acknowledge Cæsar, should I find them name, Since she was Cleopatra ?)-Whip hiin, fellows, (7) Supposed to be an error for deputation, i. e. by proxy. (8) Obeyed. (9) Grant me the favour. (10) Conquering. (11) Most complete and perfect. (12) Scrainble. (13) A term of content Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face, Ant. [Exeunt Attend. with Thy reus. You were half blasted ere I knew you :-Ha! Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome, Forborne the getting of a lawful race, And by a gem of women, to be abus'd By one that looks on feeders?! Cleo. Good my lord,Ant. You have been a boggler ever :— But when we in our viciousness grow hard, (O misery on't!) the wise gods seel2 our eyes; In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut To our confusion. Ant. I found you as a morsel, cold upon Dead Cæsar's trencher: nay, you were a fragment Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours, Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have Luxuriously pick'd out :-For I am sure, Ant. Cold-hearted toward me? Cleo. Ah, dear, if I be so, From my cold heart let heaven engender hail, And poison it in the source; and the first stone Drop in my neck: as it determines,? so Dissolve my life! The next Cæsarion8 smite! Till, by degrees, the memory of my womb, Together with my brave Egyptians all, By the discandying of this pelleted storm, Lie graveless; till the flies and gnats of Nile Have buried them for prey! Ant. I am satisfied. Cæsar sits down in Alexandria; where I will oppose his fate. Our force by land Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy toe Have knit again, and fleet,10 threat'ning most sealike. Where hast thou been, my heart?-Dost thou hear, lady? If from the field I shall return once more Cleo. Though you can guess what temperance should be, And fight maliciously for when mine hours You know not what it is. Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards, The horned herd! for I have savage cause; A halter'd neck, which does the hangman thank Re-enter Attendants, with Thyreus. 1 Att. Soundly, my lord. Ant. Cry'd he? and begg'd he pardon? 1 Att. He did ask favour. Ant. If that thy father live, let him repent Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry To follow Cæsar in his triumph, since Thou hast been whipp'd for following him : henceforth, The white hand of a lady fever thee, Cleo. Cleo. (1) Servants. Not know me yet? (2) Close up. (3) Wantonly. (4) Ready, handy. (5) Requite. (6) Earthly. (7) Dissolves. (8) Her son by Julius Cæsar. Were nicell and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now, I'll set my teeth, And send to darkness all that stop me.-Come, Let's have one other gaudy 12 night: call to me All my sad captains, fill our bowls; once more Let's mock the midnight bell. Cleo. It is my birth-day: I had thought, to have held it poor; but, since my lord Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra. Ant. We'll vet do well. Cleo. Call all his noble captains to my lord. Ant. Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force Mac. Ant. He will not fight with me, Domitius. Ant. Why should he not? You take me in too dolorous a sense: I spake to you for your comfort: did desire you SCENE III.-The same. Before the palace. 1 Sold. Brother,.good night: to-morrow is the day. 2 Sold. It will determine one way: fare you well. Heard you of nothing strange about the streets? 1 Sold. Nothing: What news? 2 Sold. Good night to you. Belike, 'tis but a rumour: Well, sir, good night. 1 Sold. No. Enter two other Soldiers. 2 Sold. Have careful watch. 3 Sold. Eno. He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune, He is twenty men to one. Ant. To-morrow, soldier, By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live, Or bathe my dying honour in the blood Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well? Eno. I'll strike; and cry, Take all. Ant. Well said; come on.Call forth my household servants; let's to-night Enter Servants. Be bounteous at our meal.-Give me thy hand, Thou hast been rightly honest;-so hast thou;And thou,--and thou,-and thou: you have serv'd me well, Soldiers, And you: Good night, good night. [The first two place themselves at their posts. 4 Sold. Here we : [They take their posts.] and if to-morrow Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope Our landmen will stand up. 3 Sold. And full of purpose. 4 Sold. 1 Sold. 'Tis a brave army, [Music of hautboys under the stage. Peace, what noise? List, list! Cleo. What means this? Eno. 'Tis one of those odd tricks, which sorrow shoots [Aside. Out of the mind. 4 Sold. Does't not? It signs5 well, 3 Sold. No. And kings have been your fellows. Ant. And thou art honest too. I wish, I could be made so many men; And all of you clapp'd up together in An Antony; that I might do you service, So good as you have done. The gods forbid! Serv. What does he mean? Eno. To make his followers weep. Ant. Tend me to-night; May be, it is the period of your duty: Haply, you shall not see me more; or if, A mangled shadow: perchance, to-morrow You'll serve another master. I look on you, As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends, I turn you not away; but, like a master Married to your good service, stay till death: Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield3 you for't! Eno. What mean you, sir, To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; And I, an ass, am onion-ey'd; for shame, How now? do you hear this? [Several speaking together. 1 Sold. Ay; Is't not strange? 3 Sold. Do you hear, masters? do you hear? 1 Sold. Follow the noise so far as we have quarter; Let's see how't will give off. Sold. [Several speaking.] Content: 'Tis strange. [Exeunt. SCENE IV-The same. A room in the palace. Enter Antony, and Cleopatra; Charmian, and others, attending. Ant. Eros! mine armour, Eros! Grace grow where those drops fall! My hearty || What's this for? Nay, I'll help too |