Make her thanks bless thee.-O thou day o' the world! 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 younger brown; yet have we A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man; Destroy'd in such a shape. Cleo. Ant. He has deserv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus' car.-Give me thy hand: Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them. To camp this host, we all would sup together, That heaven and earth may strike their sounds to gether, Applauding our approach. [Exeunt. 9 our rattling TABOURINES ;] We have had this word used for drums in "Troilus and Cressida," Vol. vi. p. 108. SCENE IX. CÆSAR'S Camp. Sentinels on their Post. Enter ENOBARBUS. 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 i̇' 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 him. Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon! When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy! May hang no longer on me: throw my heart Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, Nobler than my revolt is infamous, Forgive me in thine own particular; O Antony! O Antony! 2 Sold. Let's speak to him. [Dies. 1 the court of guard.] For this expression see Vol. vii. p. 535. 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 sleep. 2 Sold. Go we to him. 3 Sold. Awake, sir, awake! speak to us. 2 Sold. 1 Sold. The hand of death hath raught him2. Hark! the drums Hear you, sir? [Drums afar off Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him. Enter ANTONY and SCARUS, with Forces, marching. Ant. Their preparation is to-day by sea: We please them not by land. Scar. For both, my lord. Ant. I would, they'd fight i' the fire, or i̇' the air; We'd fight there too. But this it is our foot Upon the hills adjoining to the city Shall stay with us (order for sea is given, was most frequently 2 The hand of death hath RAUGHT him.] "Raught used as the past tense of to reach. See Vol. ii. p. 326; Vol. iv. p. 548; Vol. v. p. 246. But it is also sometimes made the past tense of to reace, as in Vol. v. p. 144, and in Nash's "Pierce Penniless," 1592, "I raught his head from his shoulders, and sheathed my sword in his body." See the reprint of this tract by the Shakespeare Society, p. 82. In this place in our text either sense will answer the purpose, for the “1 Soldier” may mean either that death has reached, or has reft Enobarbus. They have put forth the haven3) Where their appointment we may best discover, Enter CESAR, and his Forces, marching. [Exeunt. Cæs. But being charg'd', we will be still by land, Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales, Re-enter ANTONY and SCARUS. [Exeunt. Ant. Yet they are not join'd. Where yond' pine does stand, I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word Straight, how 'tis like to go. Scar. [Exit. Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the auguries 5 Say, they know not,-they cannot tell;-look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony Is valiant, and dejected; and by starts His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, 3 [Alarum afar off, as at a Sea Fight. (order for sea is given, They have put forth the haven)] These words, as Mr. Knight suggests, are parenthetical, and we have printed them accordingly without them, the sense runs on quite clearly, and any addition to the text, such as "Let's seek a spot," proposed by Malone; or "Farther on," recommended by Monck Mason, is unnecessary. Antony says, our foot shall stay with us upon the hills adjoining to the city-where we may best discover the appointment and look upon the endeavour of the enemy." 66 4 BUT being charg'd,] i. e. Unless we be charged. "But" is still frequently employed in the north of England as a preposition, equivalent to without. Several ancient instances may be found in the "Coventry Mysteries," printed by the Shakespeare Society, and edited by Mr. Halliwell. Steevens collects various authorities on the point, but they are not necessary: he derives “but," in this sense, from the Sax. butan. 5 the AUGURIES] i. e. the declarations of the augurs: it is unnecessary, with all modern editors, to change the word, found in all the old copies, to augurers. Ant. Re-enter ANTONY. All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder [Exit SCARUS. O sun! thy uprise shall I see no more: Do we shake hands.-All come to this?-The hearts Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose', Beguil❜d me to the very heart of loss. What, Eros! Eros! Enter CLEOPATRA. Ah, thou spell! Avaunt! Cleo. Why is my lord enrag'd against his love? 6 That SPANIEL'D me at heels,] The credit of this happy emendation is due to Sir T. Hanmer: the folios all read, no doubt corruptly, "that pannelled me at heels." 7 Like a right GIPSY, hath, at FAST AND LOOSE,] "Fast and loose" was the same game as that now commonly called "pricking in the garter," and it was commonly (Sir J. Hawkins observes) employed by gipsies, as a mode of defrauding the unwary. Steevens quoted T. Freeman's Epigrams, 1614, at length, but the two first lines are all that really illustrate the text : "Charles the Egyptian, who by jugling could Make fast or loose, or whatsoere he would," &c. |