Scar. I had a wound here that was like a T, But now 'tis made an H. Ant. They do retire. Scar. We'll beat 'em into bench-holes; I have yet Room for six scotches more. Enter EROS. Eros. They are beaten, sir; and our advantage serves For a fair victory. Scar. Let us score their backs, And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind; Tis sport to maul a runner. Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold Scener I will reward thee I'll halt after. [Exeunt. SCENE VIII. Under the Walls of Alexandria. Enter ANTONY, marching; SCARUS, and fr. We have beat him to his camp; Run one And let the queen know of our guests.-To-morrow, clip your wives,] To clip is to embrace. Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears Enter CLEOPATRA, attended. To this great fairy* I'll commend thy acts, Make her thanks bless thee.-O thou day o' the world, Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all, Through proof of harness' to my heart, and there Ride on the pants triumphing. Cleo. Lord of lords! O infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from Ant. My nightingale, We have beat them to their beds. What, girl? though grey Do something mingle with our brown; yet have we Cleo. I'll give thee, friend, An armour all of gold; it was a king's. Ant. He has deserv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phœbus' car.-Give me thy hand; To this great fairy-] Mr. Upton has well observed, that fairy, which Dr. Warburton and Sir T. Hanmer chantress, comprises the idea of power and beauty. · proof of harness-] i. e. armour of proof. Arnese, Ital. 6 The world's great snare-] i. e. the war. explain by InJOHNSON. Harnois, Fr. 7 Get goal for goal of youth.] At all plays of barriers, the boundary is called a goal; to win a goal, is to be a superior in a contest of activity. Through Alexandria make a jolly march; To camp this host, we all would sup together; Applauding our approach. [Exeunt. SCENE IX. Cæsar's Camp. Enter ENOBarbus. Sentinels on their Post. 1 Sold. If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to the court of guard:' The night Is shiny; and, they say, we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn. 2 Sold. A shrewd one to us. Eno. This last day was O, bear me witness, night, 3 Sold. What man is this? 2 Sold. Stand close, and list to him. Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record * Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:] i. e. hack'd as much as the men to whom they belong; or perhaps, Bear our hack'd targets with spirit and exultation, such as becomes the brave warriors that own them. 9 tabourines;] A tabourin was a small drum. It is often mentioned in our ancient romances. the court of guard:] i. e. the guard-room, the place where the guard musters. The same expression occurs again in Othello. Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did 1 Sold. 3 Sold. Hark further. Enobarbus! Peace; Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me;2 That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me: Throw my heart3 O Antony! O Antony ! 2 Sold. To him. Let's speak [Dies. 1 Sold. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæsar. 3 Sold. Let's do so. But he sleeps. 1 Sold. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his Was never yet for sleeping. 2 Sold. 3 Sold. Awake, awake, sir; 2 Sold. Go we to him. 1 Sold. The hand of death Hark, the drums speak to us. Hear you, sir? hath raught him.* [Drums afar off. disponge upon me;] i. e. discharge, as a sponge, when squeezed, discharges the moisture it had imbibed. STEEVENS. Throw my heart-] The pathetick of Shakspeare too often ends in the ridiculous. It is painful to find the gloomy dignity of this noble scene destroyed by the intrusion of a conceit so farfetched and unaffecting. JOHNSON. The hand of death hath raught him.] Raught is the ancient preterite of the verb to reach. |