CES. Go, charge Agrippa Plant those that have revolted in the van, That Antony may seem to spend his fury Upon himself. [Exeunt all except ENOBARBUS. ENO. Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on Affairs of Antony; there did persuade* Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar, And leave his master Antony: for this pains, Cæsar hath hang'd him. Canidius, and the rest That fell away, have entertainment, but No honourable trust. I have done ill; Of which I do accuse myself so sorely, That I will joy no more. [heart: ENO. I am alone the villain of the earth, I fight against thee!-No: I will go seek [Exit. Alarum. Enter ANTONY, and SCARUS wounded. SCAR. O, my brave emperor, this is fought indeed! Had we done so at first, we had driven them home ANT. SCAR. Let us score their backs, And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind; 'Tis sport to maul a runner. ANT. Once for thy spritely For thy good valour. SCAR. I will reward thee comfort, and ten-fold Come thee on. I'll halt after. [Exeunt. SCENE VIII.-Under the Walls of Alexandria. Alarum. Enter ANTONY, marching; SCARUS, and Forces. ANT. We have beat him to his camp :-run one before, And let the queen know of our gests."-To morrow, Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood Enter CLEOPATRA, attended. To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, Make her thanks bless thee.-O, thou day o' the world, A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can CLEO. proof of harness-] Armour of proof. b-tabourines;] Tabourines was another name for drums, and Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together, Applauding our approach. SCENE IX.-Cæsar's Camp. Sentinels at their post. [Exeunt. For both, my lord. SCAR. Enter ENOBARBUS. O, bear me witness, night, ENO. ENO. O, sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me: throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault; Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish all foul thoughts. O, Antony! Nobler than my revolt is infamous, Forgive me in thine own particular; But let the world rank me in register O, Antony! O, Antony! 2 SOLD. Let's speak to him. [Dies. air; We'd fight there too. But this it is; our foot Shall stay with us:-order for sea is given ! SCENE XI.-Another part of the same. CAS. But being charg'd, we will be still by land, Which, as I take 't, we shall; for his best force [Exeunt. [Exeunt with the body. [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter ANTONY. All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me! (*) First folio, auguries. parenthetically, though there can be little doubt some words after "haven" have been accidentally omitted. Rowe supplied the presumptive deficiency by reading, "Further on;" Capell, by Hie we on;" Malone, by "Let's seek a spot; Tyrwhitt, by "Let us go;" and Mr. Dyce, by "Forward now." The last, slightly altered to "forward then," strikes us as preferable to any of the other additions. d But being charg'd,-] "But" seems to be used here in its exceptive sense-unless or without. • Triple-turn'd-] From Julius Cæsar to Cneius Pompey, froin Pompey to Antony, and, as he suspects now, from him to Octavius Cæsar. Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,— And hoist thee up to the shouting plébeians: With her prepared nails. [Exit CLEO.] 'Tis well thou 'rt gone, If it be well to live: but better 't were Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon; And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club, Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die! To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall Under this plot: she dies for 't!-Eros, ho! (*) First folio, pannelled. Corrected by Hanmer. (t) Old text, dolts. Corrected by Warburton. [Exit. a O, this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,-] Mr. Collier's annotator would read, "O, this false spell of Egypt, this great charm." Spell is very plausible; but "great charm" is infinitely less expressive and appropriate than "grave charm," i.e. pernicious, deadly, fatal sorceress. bfast and loose,-] A cheating game similar to what is now A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, They are black vesper's pageants. The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, It does, my lord. ANT. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony; Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. called pricking at the belt or girdle. c Subdue my worthiest self] The commentators, excepting Hanmer, have not suspected any corruption here; but would Antony, in this hour of bitter remorse, speak of his "worthiest self"? He might have said, "my worthless self;" yet the context, "the witch shall die," makes it more probable he is thinking of Cleopatra, and that what the author wrote was, "Subdue my worthless elf." Elf being synonymous with witch or fairy. the boar of Thessaly-] The boar killed by Meleager. e- emboss'd.] See note (a), p. 228, Vol. I. d ANT. Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done, And we must sleep!-That thou depart'st hence safe, Does pay thy labour richly; go.-[Exit MARDIAN.] The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and me: Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze: (*) First folio, Cæsars. |