Yourself shall go between us: The mean time, lady,

I'll raise the preparation of a war

Shall stain your brother; Make your soonest haste; So your desires are yours.

Oct. Thanks to my lord.

The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak, [be Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rift..

Ant. When it appears to you where this begins,

Turn your displeasure that way; for our faults Can never be so equal, that your love

Can equally move with them. Provide your

going;

[cost

[Exeunt.

Choose your own company; and command what Your heart has mind to.

SCENE V.-The same.-Another Room in the

same.

Enter ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting.

Eno. How now, friend Eros?

Eros. There's strange news come, Sir.
Eno. What, man?

Eros. Cesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.

Eno. This is old: What is the success ? +

Eros. Cesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let him partake in the glory of the action and not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: So poor the third is up, till death enlarge his contine.

Eno. Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps ;

Enter CESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECENAS.
Ces. Contemning Rome, he has done all this :
And more;

In Alexandria,―here's the manner of it,-
l'the market place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
Were publicly enthron'd; at the feet, sat
Cæsarion whom they call my father's son;
And all the unlawful issue, that their lust
Since then hath made between them.
He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute queen.

Mec. This in the public eye?

Unto her

Ces. 'the common show-place, where they

exercise.

Mec. Let Rome be thus Inform'd.

Agr. Who, queasy * with his insolence Already, will their good thoughts call from him. Ces. The people know it; and have now reHis accusatious. [ceiv'd

Agr. Whom does he accuse?

Ces. Cesar and that, having in Sicily Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated + him. His part o'the isle: then does he say, he lent me Some shipping unrestor'd: lastly, he frets That Lepidus of the triumvirate

Should be depos'd; and, being, that we detain All his revenue.

Agr. Sir, this should be answer'd.

Ces. 'Tis done already, and the messenger

gone.

I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; That he his high authority abus'd,

I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,

And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I

Demand the like.

Mec. He'll never yield to that.

Ces. Nor must not then be yielded to in this. Enter OCTAVIA.

Oct. Hail, Cesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Cesar!

Ces. That ever I should call thee, cast-away! Oct. You have not call'd me so, nor have you

canse.

Ces. Why have you stol'n upon us thus? You

come not

Like Cesar's sister: The wife of Antony
Should have an army for an usher, and
The neighs of horse to tell of her approach,
Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way,
Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,
Longing for what it had not: nay, the dust
Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
Rais'd by your populous troops: But you are

come

A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented
The ostent of our love, which, left unshown,
Is often left unlov'd: we should have met you
By sea, and land; supplying every stage
With an augmented greeting.

Oct. Good my lord,

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it
On my free-will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Hearing that you prepar'd for war, acquainted
My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd
His pardon for return.

Ces. Which soon he granted,

Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.

Oct. Do not say so, my lord.
Ces. I have eyes upon him,

And his affairs come to me on the wind.
Where is he now?

Oct. My lord, in Athens.

Ces. No, my most wronged sister: Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his

empire

Up to a whore; who now are levying

[bled

The kings o'the earth for war: He hath assem-
Bocchus, the king of Lybia; Archelaus,
Of Cappa ocia; Philadelphos, king

Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas:
King Malchus of Arabia; king of Pont;
Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king
Of Comagene; Polemon and Amintas,
The kings of Mede, and Lycaonia, with a
More larger list of sceptres.

Oct. Ah me, most wretched,

That have my heart parted betwixt two friends, That do afflict each other!

Ces. Welcome bither: Your letters did withhold our breaking forth; Till we perceiv'd, both how you were wrong led, And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart:

[Exeunt. SCENE VII-ANTONY'S Camp, near the Promontory of Actium.

Enter CLEOPATRA and ENOBARBUS. Cleo. I will be even with thee, doubt it not. Eno. But why, why, why?

Cleo. Thou hast forespoke my being in these

Be there in person?

Eno. [Aside.] Well, I could reply :

gether,

If we should serve with horse and mares to[bear The horse were merely lost; the mares would A soldier and his horse.

Cleo. What is't you say?

Eno. Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;

Take from his heart, take from his brain, from his time,

What should not then be spar'd. He is already Traduc'd for levity; and 'tis said in Rome, That Photinus a eunuch, and your maids, Manage this war.

Cleo. Sink Rome; and their tongues rot, That speak against us! A charge we bear i'the

Away, my Thetis ! §-How now, worthy soldier ?
Sold. O noble emperor, do not fight by sea:
Trust not to rotten planks: Do you misdoubt
The sword, and these my wounds? Let the
Egyptians,

And the Phoenicians, go a ducking; we
Have used to conquer standing on the earth,
And fighting foot to foot.

Ant. Well, well, away.

[Exeunt ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, and ENOBARBUS.

Sold. By Hercules, I think I am i'the right. Can. Soldier, thou art but his whole action grows

Not in the power on't: So our leader's led,
And we are women's men.

Sold. You keep by land

Enter a MESSENGER.

[sar's

Whom leprosy o'ertake! i'the midst o'the fight,-
When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
The brize ¶ upon her, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails, and flies.

Eno. That I beheld mine eyes
Did sicken at the sight on't, and could not
Endure a further view.

[lard

Scar. She once being loof'd,** The noble ruin of her magic, Antony, Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting malLeaving the fight in height, flies after her: I never saw an action of such shame ; Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before Did violate so itself.

Eno. Alack, alack!

Enter CANIDIUS.

Can. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath And sinks most lamentably. Had our general Been what he knew himself, it had gone well: Oh! he has given example for our flight, Most grossly, by his own.

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good night Indeed. [Aside. Can. Towards Peloponnesus are they fled. Scar. 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend What further comes.

Can. To Cesar will I render

My legions and my horse; six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.

Eno. I'll yet follow

The wounded chauce tt of Antony, though my

reason

Sits in the wind against me.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IX.-Alexandria.-A Room in the

Palace.

Enter ANTONY and ATTENDANTS.

Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't,

It is asham'd to bear me !-Friends, come hither,
I am so lated in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever:-I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
And make your peace with Cesar.

• Sight.

$ Spotted.

Name of Cleopatra's ship. ↑ Corner.
Common strumpet.

The gad-fly that stings cattle.

Loof is to bring a ship close to the wind.
it Benighted.

tt The broken fortunes.

Att. Fly! not we.

Ant. I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards

To run and show their shoulders.-Friends, be gone;

I have myself resolv'd upon a course,
Which has no need of you; be gone:

My treasure's in the barbour, take it.-Oh!
I follow'd that I blush to look upon :
My very hairs do mutiny; for the white
Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
For fear and doting.-Friends, be gone: you
shall

Have letters from me to some friends, that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not

sad,

Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint Which my despair proclaims; let that be left Which leaves itself: to the sea side straightway: I will possess you of that ship and treasure. Leave me, I pray, a little: 'pray you now :Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command, Therefore I pray you :-I'll see you by and by. [Sits down. Enter EROS; and CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS.

Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him :-Comfort him

Iras. Do, most dear queen.
Char. Do! Why, what else?

Cleo. Let me sit down. O Juno!

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

Eros. See you here, Sir?

Ant. O fie, fie, fie.

Char. Madam,—

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, 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, madain, speak to him; He is unqualified with very shame.

Cleo. Well then,-Sustain me :--Oh!

Eros. Most noble Sir, arise; the queen approaches;

Her head's declin'd, and death will seize her: but Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A most annoble 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 'Strey'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 thon knew'st: and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

Cleo. Oh! my pardon. 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
Obey it on all cause.

Cleo. Oh! pardon, pardon.

Ant. Fall not a tear, I say: one of them rates All that is won and lost: Give me a kiss; Even this repays me.-We sent our school-master, Is he come back ?-Love, I am full of lead :Some wine, within there, and our viands :-Fortune knows,

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows, [Exeunt.

SCENE X.-CESAR'S Camp in Egypt.

Enter CESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, and others.

Ces. Let him appear that's come from AnKnow you him? [tony.

Dol. Cesar, 'tis his schoolmaster : +
An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
Which had superfluous kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Enter EUPHRONIUS.

Ces. Approach, and speak.

Eup. Such as I am, I come from Autony:
I was of late as petty to his ends,
As is the morn-dew on the myitle leaf
To his grand sea.

C'es. Be it so: Declare thine office.

Eup. Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
Requires to live in Egypt: which, not granted,
He lessens his requests; and to thee sues
To let him breathe between the heavens and
earth,

A private man in Athens: This for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves
The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Now hazarded to thy grace.

Ces. For Antony,

I have no ears to his request. The queen
Of audience, nor desire, shall fail; so she
From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
Or take his life there: This if she perform,
She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.
Eup. Fortune pursue thee!

Ces. 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 [Thyreus ; The ne'er-touch'd vestal: Try thy cunning, Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we Will answer as a law.

Unless.

tefeated.

Euphronius, schoolmaster to An-
Diadem, the crown.
Cozened

Bears his misfortunes.
** The sole occasion of the war

Eup. He says so.

Ant. Let her know it.

To the boy Cesar send this grizled head, And he will fill thy wishes to the brim With principalities.

Cleo. That head, my lord?

rose

Ant. To him again: Tell him, he wears the [note Of youth upon him; from which the world should Something particular: his coin, ships, legions, May be a coward's; whose minister would prevail

Under the service of a child, as soon

As i'the command of Cesar: I dare him, therefore,
To lay his gay comparisons apart,
And

answer me, declin'd, † sword against
sword.

Ourselves alone: I'll write it; follow me.

[Exeunt ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS. Eno. Yes, like enough, high-battled Cesar will Unstate his happiness, and be stag'd to the show, Against a sworder.-I see, men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward To draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. That he should dream, Knowing all measures, the full Cesar will Answer his emptiness !-Cesar, thou hast subdu'd His judgment too.

Enter an ATTENDANT.

Att. A messenger from Cesar.
Cleo. What, no more ceremony ?-See my
women!--

Against the blown rose may they stop their nose,
That kneel'd unto the buds.-Admit him, Sir.
Eno. Mine honesty and I begin to square. $
[Aside.

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make
Our faith mere folly :-Yet, he that can en lure
To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,
Does conquer him that did his master conquer,
And earns a place i'the story.

Enter THYREUS.

Cleo. Cesar's will?

Thyr. Hear it apart.

Cleo. None but friends: say boldly, Thyr. So, haply, are they friends to Antony. Eno. He needs as many, Sir, as Cesar has; Or needs not us. If Cesar please, our master Will leap to be his friend: For us, you know, Whose he is, we are; and that's Cesar's. Thyr. So.

Thus then, thou most renown'd! Cesar entreats, Not to consider in what case thou stand'st, Further than he is Cesar.

Cleo. Go on: Right royal.

Thyr. He knows, that you embrace not tony

As you did love, but as you fear'd him.

Cleo. Oh!

Thyr. Shall I say to Cesar

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,
To hear from me you had left Antony,

And put yourself under his shroud,
The universal landlord.

Cleo. What's your name?
Thyr. My name is Thyreus.
Cleo. Most kind messenger,

Say to great Cesar this, In disputation

I kiss his conqu'ring hand; tell him, I am prompt

To lay my crown at his feet, and there to kneel: Tell him, from his all-obeying + breath I hear The doom of Egypt.

Thyr. 'Tis your noblest course. Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay My duty on your hand.

Cleo. Your Cesar's father

Oft, when he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in,
Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd kisses.

Re-enter ANTONY and ENOBARBUS.
Ant. Favours, by Jove that thunders !—
What art thou, fellow?

Thyr. One, that but performs

The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
To have command obey'd.

Eno. You will be whipp'd.

Ant. Approach, there:-Ay, you kite!-Now gods and devils! {ho! Authority melts from me: Of late, when I cry'd, Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, And cry, Your will? Have you no ears? I am

Enter ATTENDANTS.

Antony yet. Take hence this Jack, and whip him.

Eno. 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, Than with an old one dying. Ant. Moon and stars! [butaries Whip him :-Were't twenty of the greatest triThat do acknowledge Cesar, should I find them So saucy with the hand of she here, (What's her name,

Since she was Cleopatra ?)-Whip him, fellows,
Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,
And whine aloud for mercy: Take him hence.
Thyr. Mark Antony,-

Ant. Tug him away; being whipp'd,
Bring him again :-This Jack of Cesar's shall
Bear us an errand to him.-

[Exeunt ATTEND. with THYREUS.
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,