Scar. On our side like the token'd pestilence, Where death is sure. Yon' ribald-rid nag + of Egypt, 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.

Scar. She once being loof'd,

The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,

Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,
Leaving 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:
O, 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 Cæsar will I render

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

Eno. I'll yet follow

The wounded chance 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 ashamed to bear me !-Friends, come hither, I am so lated ¶ in the world, that I

• Spotted.

+ Lewd, common strumpet.

The gad-fly, that stings cattle.
Brought close to the wind.

Belated, benighted.

Better.

Have lost my way for ever:-I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
And make your peace with Cæsar.

Att. Fly! not we.

Ant. I have fled myself; and have intructed cowards

To run, and shew their shoulders.-Friends, be gone;
I have myself resolved upon a course,
Which has no need of you; be gone:

My treasure's in the harbour, take it.-0,
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 lothness: 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.

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

Eros. See you here, Sir?
Ant. O fie, fie, fie.

Char. Madam,

O Juno!

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.

⚫ Cæsar..

+ Fought by his officers.

Iras. Go to him, madam, speak to him; He is unqualitied with very shame.

Cleo, Well then,-Sustain me :-0!

Eros. Most noble Sir, arise; the queen approaches; Her head's declined, and death will seize her; but t Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A most unnoble 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, 'Stroy'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 shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

Cleo. O, 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 of the world play'd as I pleased,
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. O pardon, pardon.

Ant. Fail not a tear, I say; one of them rates t All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;

Even this repays me.-We sent our schoolmaster, 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.-Casar's Camp in Egypt.

Enter CESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, and others. Cas. Let him appear that's come from Antony.Know you him?

Dol. Cæsar, 'tis his schoolmaster §:

Divested of his faculties,

+ Values.

Unless.

Euphronius, schoolmaster to Antony's children

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.

Cas. Approach, and speak.

Eup. 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 his grand sea

Cas. 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.

Cas. 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 will not sue unheard. So to them both.
Eup. Fortune pursue thee.

Cas. Bring him through the bands.

[Exit Euphronius. To try thy eloquence, now 'tis time: despatch; From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,

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

Thyr. Cæsar, I go.

Cas. Observe how Antony becomes his flaw §; And what thou think'st his very action speaks In every power that moves.

Thyr. Cæsar, I shall.

As is the dew to the sea.

+ Diadem, the crown.

[Exeunt.

Paramour.

Conforms himself to this breach of his fortune.

SCENE XI.-Alexandria.-A Room in the Palace.
Enter CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and
IRAS.

Cleo. What shall we do, Enobarbus?
Eno. Think, and die,

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, whose several ranges Frighted each other? Why should he follow ? The itch of his affection should not then

Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point, When half to half the world opposed, he being The mered question: 'twas a shame no lessThan was his loss, to course your flying flags, And leave his navy gazing.

Cleo. Pr'ythee, peace.

Enter ANTONY, with EUPHRONIUS.

Ant. Is this his answer?

Eup. Ay, my lord.

Ant. The queen

Shall then have courtesy, so she will yield

Us up.

Eup. He says so. 1

Ant. Let her know it.

To the boy Cæsar send this grizled head,
And he will fill thy wishes to the brim

With principalities.

Cleo. That head, my lord?

Ant. To him again; tell him, he wears the rose Of youth upon him; from which the world should

note

Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail
Under the service of a child, as soon

As

the command of Cæsar: I dare him therefore

To lay his gay comparisons + apart,

And answer me declined, sword against sword, Ourselves alone: I'll write it; follow me.

[Exeunt Antony and Euphronius. Eno. Yes, like enough, high-battled Cæsar will Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,

The only cause of the dispute.

+ Circumstances of splendour. In age and power.

VOL. V.

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