If, or for nothing, or a little, I Should fay myfelf offended, and with you Your name it not concern'd me. Ant. My being in Egypt, Cefar, what was't to you? Cef. No more than my refiding here at Rome Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there Did practife on my ftate, your being in Ægypt Might be my question. Ant. How intend you, practis'd? Caf. You may be pleas'd to catch at mine intent, By what did here befal. (10) Your Wife and Brother Made wars upon me; and their contestation Was theam'd for you, you were the word of war. Ant. You do miftake your bufinefs: my brother never Did urge me in his act: I did require it, And have my learning from fome true reports And make the wars alike against my ftomach, Caf. You praise yourself, (10) Your Wife and Brother Made Wars upon me, and their Conteftation Was theam for you, you were the Word of War.] But The only Meaning of this can be, that the War, which Antony's Wife and Brother made upon Cæfar, was Theam for Antony too to make War; or was the Occafion why he did make War. this is directly contrary to the Context, which fhews, Antony did neither encourage them to it, nor fecond them in it. We cannot doubt then, but the Poet wrote; and their Conteftation Was theam'd for 2 ou ; i. e. The Pretence of their War was on your Account, they took up Arms in your Name, and You were made the Theam and Subject of their Insurrection. Mr. Warburton. By 4 By laying defects of Judgment to me: but Ant. Not fo, not fo; I know you could not lack, (I'm certain on't,) Your Partner in the caufe 'gainft which he fought, Eno. 'Would, we had all fuch Wives, that the Men · might go to wars with the Women! Ant. So much uncurbable her garboiles, Cafar, Did you too much difquiet: For that you must Caf. I wrote to you, When rioting in Alexandria, you Did pocket up my letters; and with taunts Ant. Sir, he fell on me, ere admitted: then The article of your oath, which you Ant. No, Lepidus, let him speak; fhall never The Honour's facred which he talks on now, The article of my oath Caf. To lend me arms and aid, when I requir'd them, The which you both deny'd. Ant. Neglected, rather: And And then, when poison'd hours had bound me up Lep. "Tis nobly spoken. Mec. If it might please you, to enforce no further The griefs between ye: to forget them quite, Were to remember, that the present Need Speaks to attone you. Lep. Worthily fpoken, Mecanas. Eno. Or, if you borrow one another's love for the inftant, you may, when you hear no more words of Pompey, return it again: you fhall have time to wrangle in, when you have nothing else to do. Ant. (11) Thou art a Soldier only; fpeak no more. Eno. That truth fhould be filent, I had almoft forgot. Ant. You wrong this Prefence, therefore fpeak no more. Eno. Go to then: your confiderate ftone.Caf. I do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his fpeech: for't cannot be, We shall remain in friendship, our conditions So differing in their acts. Yet, if I knew What hoop would hold us ftaunch, from edge to edge O'th' world, I would pursue it. Agr. Give me leave, Cafar. (11) Thou art a Soldier, only speak no more.] I think, the Tranfpofition of the Comma here is abfolutely neceffary, because the Remove will give a Sense which the Context seems to require. The Argument betwixt Antony and Cafar turns upon high Matters of State; and Enobarbus bufily interpofing with his blunt Reflections, Antony checks him, and would fay, "Don't you pretend to mix your Counsel in these Affairs, that are only a Soldier, and Ac"tion all your Talent. Caf Caf. Speak, Agrippa. Agr. Thou haft a Sifter by the Mother's fide, Caf. Say not fo, Agrippa; (12) If Cleopatra heard you, your Approof Were well deferv'd of rashness. Ant. I am not married, Cafar, let me hear Agr. To hold you in perpetual Amity, And all great fears, which now import their dangers, Ant. Will Cafar speak? Cmf. Not 'till he hears, how Antony is touch'd With what is fpoke already. Ant. What Power is in Agrippa (If I would fay," Agrippa, be it fo",} To make this good? (12) If Cleopatra beard You, your proof were Well deferved of Rafonefs.] But was Agrippa's barely fay ing, that Antony was a Widower, any Proof that he was fo? Befides, will Well deferved of Rafbness run, as the initial Part of a Verfe, in Mr. Pope's Ear? If fo, Emphafis and Cadence are tuned peculiarly, to his Service. I make no Scruple to restore, If Cleopatra beard You, your Approof Were well deferv'd of Rabness. I have in a former Note juftified our Author's Ufage of this Word, Approof, i. e. Allowance, admitting. Caf. Caf. The Power of Cæfar, and His Power unto Octavia. Ant. May I never To this good purpose, that so fairly fhews, Caf. There is my hand: t A Sifter I bequeath you, whom no Brother To join our kingdoms, and our Hearts, and never Lep. Happily, amen. Ant. I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey, For he hath laid ftrange courtefies and great Of late upon me. I must thank him only, Left my remembrance fuffer ill report; At heel of that, defy him. Lep. Time calls upon's: Of us must Pompey presently be fought, Ant. Where lies he? Caf. About the Mount Mifenum. He is an abfolute Mafter. Ant. So is the fame. 'Would, we had spoke together! hafte we for it; Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The bufinefs we have talk'd of. Caf. With most gladness; And do invite you to my Sifter's view, Ant. Let us, Lepidus, not lack your company. Manent |