"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
Endure a further view.

Scar." She once being looft,

"The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,

Claps on his fea-wing, like a doating mallard,
"Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.
I never faw an action of fuch shame;
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate fo itself.

Eno. Alack, alack!

Enter Canidius.

Can. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, And finks moft lamentably. Had our General Been what he knew himself, it had gone well. Oh, he has given example for our flight,

Moft grofsly, by his own.

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? why then, good night, indeed.

Can. Towards Peloponnefus are they fled.
Scar. 'Tis eafy to't.

And there I will attend what further conès.

Can. To Cæfar will I render

My legions and my horfe; fix Kings already

Shew me the way of yielding.

Eno. I'll yet follow

The wounded chance of Antony, though my reafon

Sits in the wind against me.

[Exeunt feverally.

Enter Antony, with Eros, and other Attendants.

Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't, It is afham'd to bear me. Friends, come hither;

I am fo lated in the world, that I

Have loft my way for ever. I've a fhip

Laden with gold, take that, divide it; fly,

And make your peace with Cæfar.

Omnes. Fly not we.

Ant. I've fled myself, and have inftructed cowards To run, and fhew their fhoulders. Friends, be gone,

I have myself refolv'd upon a course,
Which has no need of you. Be gone,

• My treasure's in the harbour. Take itoh,
I follow'd that blufh to look upon;

My very hairs do mutiny; for the white

Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
For fear and doating. Friends, be gone; you shall
Have letters from me to fome friends, that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not fad,
Nor make replies of lothnefs; take the hint,
Which my despair proclaims. Let them be left,
Which leave themf lves. To the fea-fide ftraightway.
I will poffefs you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little; pray you now
Nay, do fo; for Indeed I've lost command,
Therefore I pray you

I'll fee you by and by.

[Sits downs

Enter Cleopatra, led by Charmian and Iras, to Antony.

Eros. Nay, gentle Madam. to him, comfort him.
Iras. Do, moft dear Queen.

Char. Do? why, what else?

Cleo. Lt me fit down; oh Juno!

Ant. No, no, no, no, no.

Eros. See you here, Sir!

Ant. Oh fie, fie, fie.

Char. Madam

Iras. Madam, oh good Emprefs!

Eros. Sir, Sir.

Ant. "Yes, my Lord, yes; he at Philippi kept..
"His fword e'en like a dancer, while I ftrook
"The lean and wrinkled Caffius; and 'twas I
"That the mad Brutus ended; he alone
Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had

In the brave fquares of war; yet now no matter-
Cleo. Ah, ftand by.

Eros. The Queen, my Lord, the Queen

Iras. Go to him, Madam, speak to him,

He is unqualitied with very fhame.

Cleo. Well then, fuftain me; oh!

Eros. Moft Noble Sir, arife, the Queen approaches; Her head's declin'd, and death will feize her, but

Your

Your comfort makes the refcue

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A moft unnoble fwerving

Eros. Sir, the Queen.

Ant. O whither haft thou led me, Ægypt? fee
How I convey my fhame out of thine eyes;
By looking back on what I've left behind,
'Stroy'd in difhonour.

Cleo. Oh, my Lord, my Lord;

Forgive my fearful fails; I little thought
You would have follow'd.

Ant. Egypt, thou knew'ft too well,

My heart was to thy rudder ty'd by th' ftring,
And thou fhouldft towe me after. O'er my fpirit
Thy full fupremacy thou knew'ft; and that

Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

Cleo. Oh, my pardon.

Ant. Now I muft

To the young man fend humble treaties, dodge
And palter in the fhift of lowness; who,

With half the bulk o' th' world, play'd as I pleas'd,
Making and marring fortunes. You did know,
How much you were my conqueror; and that
My fword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all caufe.

Cleo. O, pardon, pardon.

Ant. Fall not a tear, I fay; one of them rates
All that is won and loft: give me a kiss,
Even this repays me.-

We fent our schoolmafter; is he come back?.
Love, I am full of lead; fome wine,

Within there, and our viands. Fortune knows,
We scorn her moft, when moft fhe offers blows.

SCENE VIII. Changes to Gafar's camp.

[Exe

Enter Cafar, grippa, Dolabella, Thyreus, with others. Caf. Let him appear that's come from Antony. Know you him?

Dol. Cæfar, 'tis his fchoolmaster;
An argument that he has pluck'd, when hither

He fends fo poor a pinnion of his wing,

Which had fuperfluous kings for Meffengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Enter Ambaffador from Antony.

Caf. Approach, and speak.

Amb. Such as I am, I come from Antony :

I was of late as petty to his ends,

As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf

To the grand fea.

Caf. Be't fo, declare thine office.

Amb. Lord of his fortunes he falutes thee, and Requires to live in Ægypt; which not granted, He leffens his requefts, and to thee fues

To let him breathe between the heav'ns and earth,
A private man in Athens: this for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confefs thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves.
The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Now hazarded to thy grace.

Caf. For Antony,

I have no cars to his requeft. The Queen
Of audience, nor defire, fhall fail, fo fhé
From Egypt drive her all-difgraced friend,
Or take his life there. This if the perform,
She fhall not fue unheard. So to them both..
Amb. Fortune purfue thee!

Caf. Bring him through the bands.

[Exit Ambaf. To try thy eloquence now 'tis time: dispatch;

From Antony win Cleopatra ; promise; [To Thyreus. And, in our name, when the requires, add more

As thine invention offers. Women are not

In their best fortunes ftrong; but want will perjure
The ne'er-touch'd veftal. Try thy cunning, Thyreus ;
Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
Will anfwer as a law.

Thyr. Cæfar, I go.

Caf. Obferve how Antony becomes his flaw; And what thou think'ft his very action speaks In every power that moves.

Thyr. Cæfar, I fhall.

SCENE IX. Changes to Alexandria.

Enter Cleopatra, Ænobarbus, Charmian, and Iras.
Cleo. What fhall we do, Enobarbus?

Eno. Drink and die f.

Cleo. Is Antony, or we, in fault for this?
Eno. Antony only, that would make his will
Lord of his reason. What although you fled
From that great face of war, whofe feveral ranges
Frighted each other? why fhould he follow you?
The itch of his affection fhould not then

Have nick'd his captainfhip, at fuch a point,
When half to half the world oppos'd, he being
The meered question. 'Twas a fhame no less
Than was his lofs, to courfe your flying flags,
And leave his navy gazing.

Cleo. Pr'ythee, peace.

Enter Antony, with the Ambassador.

Ant. Is that his anfwer?

Amb. Ay, my Lord..

Ant. The Queen fhall then have courtesy,

So fhe will yield us up.

Amb. He fays fo.

Ant. Let her know't.

To the boy Cæfar fend this grizzled head,
And he will fill thy wishes to the brim

With principalities.

Cleo. Thy head, my Lord!

Ant. To him again; tell him, he wears the rofe
Of youth upon him; from which the world fhould note
Something particular; his coin, fhips, legions,

May be a coward's whofe minifters would prevail
Under the fervice of a child, as foon

As i' th' command of Cæfar. I dare him therefore
To lay his gay comparisons apart,

And

+ This reply of Enobarbus fcems grounded upon a particularity in the conduct of Antony and Cleopatra, which is related by Plutarch: That, after their defeat at Actium, they inftituted a fociety of friends, who entered into engagement to die with them; tot a bating in the mean time any part of their luxury, exceis, and in which they had lived before.