To do you justice, make their ministers Of us, and thofe that love you. Be of comfort, Agr. Welcome, lady. Mec. Welcome, dear Madam. Each heart in Rome does love and pity you; And gives his potent regiment to a trull, Octa. Is it fo, Sir? Caf. It is most certain: fifter, welcome; pray you, Be ever known to patience. My dear'st fifter! [Exeunt. SCENE, near the Promontory of Actium. Cleo. I Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus. will be even with thee, doubt it not. Cleo. Thou haft forefpoke my being in these wars; And say'ft, it is not fit. Eno. Well; is it, is it? Cleo. Is't not denounc'd against us? why should not we be there in person? Eno. Well, I could reply; if we should ferve with horfe and mares together, the horfe were merely loft; the mares would bear a foldier and his horfe. Cleo. What is't you say? Eno. Your prefence needs must puzzle Antony; Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time, What should not then be spar'd. He is already Traduc'd for levity, and 'tis faid in Rome, Why muft Shakespeare be guilty of fuch an obvious falfe Concord? the bigh Gods make his Minifters? He has not writ thus in a parallel Paffage; and therefore the Abfurdity ought to be laid to the Editors. Macbeth Is ripe for fhaking, and the Pow'rs above Macbeth. That Photinus an eunuch, and your maids, Cleo. Sink Rome, and their tongues rot That speak againft us! A charge we bear i'th' war; Enter Antony and Canidius. Eno. Nay, I have done: here comes the Emperor. Ant. Is it not strange, Canidius, That from Tarentum, and Brundufium, He could fo quickly cut th' Ionian sea, And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, Sweet? Than by the negligent. Ant. A good rebuke, Which might have well become the best of men Will fight with him by fea. Cleo. By fea, what else? Can. Why will my Lord do fo? Ant. For that he dares us to❜t. Eno. So hath my Lord dar'd him to fingle fight. Eno. Your fhips are not well mann'd, Ant. By fea, by sea. Eno. Moft worthy Sir, you therein throw away Your Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego Ant. I'll fight at fea. Cleo. I have fixty fails, Cæfar none better. And, with the reft full-mann'd, from th' head of Actium Beat the approaching Cæfar. But if we fail, We then can do't at land. Thy business ? Enter a Messenger. Mef. The news is true, my Lord; he is defcry'd; Cæfar has taken Toryne. Ant. Can he be there in perfon? 'tis impoffible. And our twelve thousand horfe. We'll to our ships Enter a Soldier. How now, worthy foldier? Sold. Oh noble Emperor, do not fight by fea, Trust not to rotten planks: do you mifdoubt This fword, and thefe my wounds? let the Egyptians And the Phenicians go a ducking: we Have us'd to conquer standing on the earth, And fighting foot to foot. Ant. Well, well, away. [Exeunt Ant. Cleo. and Enob, Can. Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows Not in the power on't: fo our leader's led, And we are women's men. Sold. You keep by land The legions and the horfe whole, do you not? Publicola, and Celius, are for fea: But we keep whole by land. This speed of Cæfar's Carries beyond belief. VOL. VII. Sold. While he was yet in Rome, His power went out in fuch distractions as Can. Who's his lieutenant, hear you? Can. Well I know the man. Enter a Meffenger. Mef. The Emperor calls Canidius. Can. With news the time's in labour, and throes forth, Each minute, fome. Enter Cæfar, with his army marching. Caf. Taurus? Taur. My Lord. [Exeunt. Caf. Strike not by land. Keep whole, provoke not battle, "Till we have done at fea. Do not exceed The prefcript of this fcroul: our fortune lies Upon this jump. Enter Antony and Enobarbus. [Exeunt. Ant. Set we our squadrons on yond fide o'th' hill, [Exeunt. Canidius, marching with his land-army one way over the ftage; and Taurus, the lieutenant of Cæfar, the other way: after their going in, is heard the noise of a feafight. Alarm. Enter Enobarbus. Ene. Naught, naught, all naught, I can behold no longer; Th' Antonias, the Egyptian admiral, With all their fixty, fly, and turn the rudder: To fee't, mine eyes are blasted. Enter Scarus. Scar. Gods and Goddeffes, All . All the whole Synod of them! Scar. The greater cantle of the world is loft Eno. How appears the fight? Scar. On our fide like the token'd peftilence, Where death is fure. Your ribauld nag of Egypt, (Whom leprofy o'er-take!) i'th' midst o'th' fight, (When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd Both as the fame, or rather ours the elder ;) The breeze upon her, like a cow in June, Hoifts fails, and flies. Eno. That I beheld: Mine eyes did ficken at the fight, and could not Scar. She once being looft, The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, Eno. Alack, alack. Enter Canidius. Can. Our fortune on the fea is out of breath, Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? why then, good night, indeed. Can. Toward Peloponnefus are they fled. Scar. "Tis eafy to't. And there I will attend what further comes. Can. To Cæfar will I render My legions and my horfe; fix Kings already Eno. I'll yet follow |