Cf. No, my most wronged fifter; Cleopatra
Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his em-Manage this war.
Up to a whore; who now are levying

[pire Cleo. Sink Rome; and their tongues rot, [war,
That fpeak against us! A charge we bear i' the
And, as the prefident of my kingdom, will
Appear there for a man. Speak not against it;
I will not ftay behind.

Regiment is ufed for regimen or government, by most of our ancient writers. contradict, to speak againft, as forbid is to order negatively.

[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 I: So our leader's led, And we are women's men.

Sold. You keep by land

The legions and the horse whole, do you not?
⚫ Gan. Marcus Octavius, Marcus Jufteius,
Publicola, and Cælius, are for fea:

But we keep whole by land. This fpeed of Cæfar's
Carries beyond belief.

Sold. While he was vet in Rome,
His power went out in fuch distractions 2, as
Beguil'd all fpies.

Can. Who's his lieutenant, hear you?
Sold. They fay, one Taurus.

Can. Well I know the man.

Enter a Meffenger.

Mef. The emperor calls Canidius.

Can. With news the time's with labour; and

Can. Our fortune on the fea is out of breath,

[Exeunt. And finks moft lamentably. Had our general
Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
O, he has given example for our flight,
Moft grofsly, by his own.

[not battle,

Enter Canidius, marching with his land army one way over the flage; and Taurus, the lieutenant of Cæfar, the other way. After their going in, is

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good
Indeed.

Can. Towards Peloponnefus are they fled.
Scar. 'Tis eafy to't; and there will I attend

Enter Antony, with Eros, and other Attendantu
Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't

That is, his whole conduct becomes ungoverned by the right, or by reafon tachments; feparate bodies. 3 Which, Plutarch fays, was the name of Cleopatra's ship.

2 i. c. de

4 Can'

is a corner. 5 i. e. fpotted. The death of thofe vifited by the plague was certain when particular eruptions appeared on the skin; and thefe were called God's tokens. 6 A ribald is a lewd fellow. Yon ribald nag means, Yon ftrumpet, who is common to every wanton fellow. 7 Leprofy wa one of the various names by which the Lues venerea was diftinguished. • The brize is the gad yp

To loof (or luff) is to bring a fhip clofe to the wind.

is afham'd to bear me !-Friends, come hither; By looking back on what I have left behind

I am fo lated in the world, that I

Have loft my way for ever :--I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
And make your peace with Cæfar.
Omnes. Fly! not we.

[cowards

'Stroy'd in difhonour.

Cleo. O my lord, my lord !
Forgive my fearful fails! I little thought,
You would have follow'd.

Ant. Egypt, thou knew'ft too well,

Ant. I have fled myfelf; and have inftructed | My heart was to thy rudder ty'd by the ftrings 7, To run, and fhew their shoulders.-Friends, be

gone :

I have myself refolv'd upon a course,
Which has no need of you;

be gone:

My treasure's in the harbour, take it.--O,
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 doating-Friends, be gone; you shall
Have letters from me to fome friends, that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not fad,
Nor make replies of lothnefs: take the hint
Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
Which leaves itfelf: to the fea-side straightway:
I will poffefs you of that thip and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little : pray you now :-
Nay, do fo; for, indeed, I have loft command,
Therefore I pray you :-I'll fee you by and by.
Enter Eros, and Cleopatra, led by Charmian and Iras.
Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him :-Comfort
Iras. Do, moft dear queen.
Char. Do! Why, what elfe?
Cleo. Let me fit down. O Juno!

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

Fros. See you here, fir?

Ant. O fye, fye, fye.

Char. Madam,

Iras. Madam; O good emprefs!

Eros. Sir, fir,

[him.

Ant. Yes, my lord, yes ;-He, at Philippi, kept
His fword even like a dancer 2; while I ftruck
The lean and wrinkled Caffius; and 'twas I,
That the mad 3 Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on lieutenantry 4, and no practice had

In the brave fquares of war: Yet now-No mat-
Cleo. Ah, ftand by.

Eros. The queen, my lord, the queen.
Iras. Go to him, madam, fpeak to him;

He is unquality'd with very shame.

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

[ter.

Eros. Moft noble fir, arife; the queen approaches; Her head's declin'd, and death will feize her; but s Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A moft unnoble fwerving.

Eros. Sir, the queen.

Ant. O, whither haft thou led me, Ægypt? See,
How I convey my fhame out of thine eyes,

And thou should'st tow me after: O'er my fpirit
Thy full fupremacy thou knew'ft; and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

Cleo. O, my pardon,

Ant. Now I mult

To the young man fend humble treaties, dodge
And palter in the thifts 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 fword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all caufe.

Cleo. Pardon, pardon.

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

We fcorn her most, when most she offers blows.
[Exeunt.
SCENE X.
Cefar's Camp, in Egypt.

Enter Caefar, Dolabella, Thyreus, with others.
Caf. Let him appear that's come from An
tony.

Know you him ?

An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
Dol. Cæfar, 'tis his schoolmaster 9:
He fends fo poor a pinion of his wing,
Which had fuperfluous kings for meilengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Enter Ambasador from Antony.

Caf. Approach, and speak.

Amb. 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 fea 9.

Cf. Be it fo; Declare thine office.

Amb. Lord of his fortunes he falutes thee, and
Requires to live in Ægypt: which not granted,
He leffens his requests; and to thee fues
To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
Next, Cleopatra does confefs thy greatnefs;
A private man in Athens: This for him.
Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves

Alluding to a benighted traveller. fword, but kept it in the fcabbard, like one who dances with a fword on, which was formerly the 2 Antony means, that Cæfar never offered to draw his eutom in England. 3 Nothing, fays Dr. Warburton, can be more in character, than for an infamous debauched tyrant to call the heroic love of one's country and publick liberty, madnefs. 4 Meaning, perhaps, that Cæfar only fought by proxy, made war by his lieutenants, or, on the ftrength of his heute nants. 5 i. e. except or unless. e. how, by looking another way, I withdraw my ignominy from your fight. 7 That is, by the heart-string. grand fea may mean his full tide of profperity. The name of this perfon was Euphronius. 9 His

The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Now hazarded to thy grace.

Gef. For Antony,

I have no ears to his request. The queen
Of audience, nor defire, fhall fail; fo the
From Egypt drive her all-difgraced friend,
Or take his life there: This if the perform,
She fhall not fue unheard. So to them both.
Amb. Fortune pursue thee!

Caef. Bring him through the bands.

[Exit Ambafador. To try thy eloquence, now 'tis time: Difpatch; From Antony win Cleopatra: promife,

Ant. To him again; Tell him, he wears the rofe Of youth upon him; from which, the world fhould note

Something particular: his coin, ships, legions, May be a coward's; whofe minifters would prevail

Under the fervice of a child, as foon

As i' the command of Cæfar: I dare him therefore
To lay his gay comparisons apart,
And answer me declin'd 5, fword against sword,
Ourfelves alone: I'll write it; follow me.

[Exeunt Antony and Amb.
Eno. Yes, like enough, high-battled Cæfar will
Unitate his happiness, and be ftag'd to the fhew
Against a fworder. I fee, men's judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward

[To Thyreas.
And in our name, what the requires; add more,
From thine invention, offers: Women are not,
In their best fortunes, ftrong; but want will per-Do draw the inward quality after them,

Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, and Iras.
Cleo. What fhall we do, Enobarbus ?
Eno. Think, and die 3.

Cleo. Is Antony, or we, in fault for this?
Eno. Antony only, that would make his will
Lord of his reafon. What though you fled
From that great face of war, whofe feveral ranges
Frighted each other? why should he follow?
The itch of his affection fhould not then
Have nick'd his captainfhip; at fuch a point,
When half to half the world oppos'd, he being
The meered question 4: 'Twas a fhame no lefs
Than was his lofs, to courfe your flying flags,
And leave his navy gazing.

Cleo. Pr'ythee, peace.

Enter Antony, with the Ambassador.

Ant. Is that his answer?

Amb. Ay, my lord.

Ant. The queen fhall then have courtesy,

So the will yield us up.

Amb. He fays ion

Ant. Let her know it.

To the boy Cæfar fend this grizzled head,
And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
With principalities.

Cleo. That head, my

The diadem.

lord?

Clea. Cæfar's will?
Thyr. Hear it apart.

Cleo. None but friends; fay boldly.

Thyr. So, haply, are they friends to Antony.
Eno. He needs as many, fir, as Cæfar has;
Or needs not us. If Cæfar pleafe, our mafter
Will leap to be his friend: For us, you know,
Whofe he is, we are; and that is, Cæfar's.
Thyr. So.-

Thus then, thou most renown'd; Cæfar intreats,
Not to confider in what cafe thou stand'st
Further than he is Cæfar 6.

Cleo. Go on: Right royal.

Thyr. He knows, that you embrace not Antony
As you did love, but as you fear'd him.
Cleo. O!

Thyr. The fears upon your honour, therefore, he
Does pity, as constrained blemishes,
Not as deferv'd.

2 That is, how Antony conforms himself to this breach of his fortune. 3 Think, and die; that is, Reflect on your folly, and leave the world. 4 The meered question is a term we do not understand. Dr. Johnfon, fays, mere is indeed a boundary, and the meered queßion, if it can mean any thing, may, with tome violence of language, mean, the difputed boundary. 5 The meaning

is, I require of Cæfar not to depend on the fuperiority which the comparison of our different fortunes may exhibit to him, but to aniwer me man to man, in this decline of my age or power. i. e. Cæfar intreats, that at the fame time you confider your defperate fortunes, you would confider he is Cæfar; that is, generous and forgiving, able and willing to hellore them.

Clea

Chen. He is a god, and knows

Have I my pillow left unpreft in Rome,

What is most right: Mine honour was not yielded, Forborne the getting of a lawful race,

But conquer'd merely.

Eno. To be fure of that,

[Afide.

I will ask Antony.--Sir, fir, thou art fo leaky,
That we must leave thee to thy finking, for
Thy deareft quit thee,

Thyr. Shall I fay to Cæfar

[Exit Enobarbus.

What you require of him? for he partly begs
To be defir'd to give. It much would pleafe him,
That of his fortunes you would make a staff
To lean upon but it would warm his fpirits,
To hear from me you had left Antony,
And put yourself under his fhrowd,
The univerfal landlord.

Cleo. What's your name?

Thyr. My name is Thyreus.
Cleo. Moft kind meffenger,

Say to great Cæfar this, In difputation

I kifs his conquering 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 Ægypt.

Thyr. 'Tis your noblest course.
Wifdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,

No chance may thake it. Give me grace 2 to lay
My duty on your hand.

Cleo. Your Cæfar's father oft,

When he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in,
Beftow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd killes.

Re-enter Antony, and Enobarbus.
Ant. Favours, by Jove that thunders !---
What art thou, fellow?

Thyr. One, that but performs

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

Eno. You will be whipp'd.
Ant. Approach, there :- -Ah, you kite !--Now,
gods and devils!
[ho!
Authority melts from me: Of late, when I cry'd,
Like boys unto a mufs 3, 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.

[butaries

Ant. Moon and itars !-
Whip him :-Were't twenty of the greateft tri-
That do acknowledge Cæfar, fhould I find them
So faucy with the hand of the here, (What's her
name,

Since the was Cleopatra)-Whip him, fellows,
'Till, like a boy, you fee 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 Cæfar's fhall
Bear us an errand to him.-

}

[Exeunt Att. with Thyreus.

You were half blafted ere I knew you :-Ha!

And by a gem of women, to be abus'd
By one that looks on feeders ?

Cleo. Good my lord,

Ant. You have been a boggler ever :-
But when we in our vicioufnefs grow hard,
(0 mifery on't!) the wife gods feel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us
Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut
To our confufion.

Cleo. O, is it come to this?

Ant. I found you as a morfel, cold upon

Dead Cæfar's trencher: nay, you were a fragment
Of Cueius Pompey's, befides what hotter hours,
Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have
Luxuriously pick'd out :-For, I am fure,
Though you can guess what temperance fhould be,
You know not what it is.

Cleo. Wherefore is this?

Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards,
And fay, God quit you! be familiar with
My play-fellow, your hand, this kingly feal,
And plighter of high hearts !-O, that I were
Upon the hill of Bafan, to out-roar
The horned herd! for 1 have favage caufe ;
And to proclaim it civilly, were like

A halter'd neck, which does the hangman thank
For being yare about him.-Is he whipp'd?
Re-enter Attendants, with Thyreus.

Attend. Soundly, my lord.

Ant. Cry'd he? and begg'd he pardon?

Attend. He did afk favour.

am,

Ant. If that thy father live, let him repent
Thou waft not made his daughter; and be thou forry
To follow Cæfar in his triumph, fince [forth,
Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: hence-
The white hand of a lady fever thee,
Shake thou to look on't.--Get thee back to Cafar,
Tell him thy entertainment: Look, thou fay,
He makes me angry with him : for he seems
Proud and diidainful; harping on what
Not what he knew I was: He makes me angry;
And at this time most eafy 'tis to do't;
When my good stars, that were my former guides,
Have empty left their orbs, and fhot their fires
Into the abifm of hell. If he miflike
My fpeech, and what is done; tell him, he has
Hipparchus, my enfranchis'd bondman, whom
He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,
As he shall like, to quit 4 me: Urge it thous
Hence with thy ftripes, begone. [Exit Thyreus
Cleo. Have you done yet?

Ant. Alack, our terrene moon

Is now eclips'd; and it portends alone
The fall of Antony!

Cleo. I mult stay his time.

Ant. To flatter Cæfar, would you mingle eyes
With one that ties his points?

Cleo. Not know me yet?
int. Cold-hearted toward me ?
Cleo. Ah, dear, if I be fo,

I i. e. I own he has the better in the controverfy,-I confefs my inability to dispute or contend with

him.

2 i. e. Grant me the favour.

3 i. e. a fcramble.

Eee 3

4. c. to requite me.

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