That art not what thou'rt fure of!-Get thee hence, The merchandifes, thou haft brought from Rome, Are all too dear for me: Lie they upon thy hand, and be undone by 'em! [Exit Meffenger. Char. Good your Highness, patience. Cleo. In praifing Antony, I have difprais'd Cæfar. Char. Many times, Madam. Cleo. I am paid for it now: lead me from hence, The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly- Bring word, how tall fhe is. Pity me, Charmion, $ That art not what thou'rt Jure of] For this, which is not eafily underflood, Sir Tho. Hanmer has given, That fay' but what thou'rt I am not fatisfied with the change, [Exeunt. fure on't.-Get thee hence. That his fault bould make a knave of thee that art-but what shall I fay thou art not?— Thou art then fure of this marriage. Get thee hence. Dr. Warburton has received Sir T. Hanmer's emendation. 7 Let him for ever go.-] She is now talking in broken fentences, not of the Messenger, but Antony. SCENE SCENE VI. Changes to the Coaft of Italy, near Mifenum. Enter Pompey and Menas, at one door, with drum and trumpet: At another, Cæfar, Lepidus, Antony, Enobarbus, Mecænas, Agrippa, with Soldiers marching. Pomp. And we fhall talk before we fight. OUR hoftages I have, fo have you mine; -Caf. Most meet, That first we come to words; and therefore have we Our written purposes before us fent ; Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know If 'twill tie up thy discontented fword, And carry back to Sicily much tall youth, Pomp. To you all three, The Senators alone of this great world, There faw you labouring for him. What was it, Caf. Take your time. Ant, Ant. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy fails; We'll speak with thee at fea. At land, thou know'it, How much we do o'er-count thee. Thou doft o'er-count me of my Father's house. Lep. Be pleas'd to tell us, For this is from the prefent, how you take Caf. There's the point. Ant. Which do not be intreated to, but weigh What it is worth embrac❜d. Caf. And what may follow To try a larger fortune. Pomp. You've made me offer Rid all the fea of Pirates; then to fend Omnes. That's our offer. Pomp. Know then, I came before you here, a man prepar'd Ant. I have heard it, Pompey, And am well ftudied for a liberal thanks, Pomp. Let me have your hand: I did not think, Sir, to have met you here. Ant. The beds i' th' Eaft are foft, and thanks to you, That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither, For I've gain'd by it. Caf. Since I faw you last, There is a change upon you. Pomp. Well, I know not, What counts hard fortune cafts upon my face, Lep. Well met here. Pomp. I hope fo, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed. I crave, our compofition may be written And feal'd between us. Caf. That's the next to do. Pomp. We'll feaft each other, ere we part, and let's Draw lots who shall begin. Ant. That I will, Pompey. Pomp. No, Antony, take the lot: But, first or laft, your fine Ægyptian cookery Ant. You have heard much. Eno. A certain Queen to Cæfar in a mattress. Eno. Well; And well am like to do; for, I perceive, What counts hard fortune making marks or fines in cafting accounts in arithmetick. WARB Four Four Feafts are toward. Pomp. Let me shake thy hand; I never hated thee: I have feen thee fight, Eno. Sir, I never lov'd you much, but I ha' prais❜d ye, Pomp. Enjoy thy plainness, It nothing ill becomes thee; Aboard my Galley I invite you all. Will you lead, Lords? All. Shew's the way, Sir. Pomp. Come. [Exeunt. Manent Enob. and Menas. Men. [Afide.] Thy Father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this Treaty. You and I have known, Sir. Eno. At fea, I think. Men. We have, Sir, Eno. You have done well by water. 2 Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I have done by land. Men. Nor what I have done by water. Eno. Yes, fomething you can deny for your own fafety: you have been a great thief by sea. Men. And you by land. Eno. There I deny my land-fervice; but give me your hand, Menas. If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kiffing. 2 I will praise any man that will praife me,] The poet's art in delivering this humourous fentiment (which gives us so very true and natural a picture of the commerce of the world) can never be fufficiently admired. The confeflion could come from none but a frank and rough character like the fpeaker's: and the moral leffon infinuated under it, that flattery can make its way through the moft ftubborn manners, deferves our ferious reflexion. WARBURTON. Men. |