Unloading of his mules.

ENO. I give it you.

SOLD. Mock me not, Enobarbus.

I tell you true: Beft that you faf'd the bringer
Out of the hoft; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues ftill a Jove.

[Exit SOLDIER. ENO. I am alone the villain of the earth, And feel I am so most. O Antony,

Thou mine of bounty, how would'ft thou have paid
My better service, when my turpitude

Thou doft so crown with gold! This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a fwifter mean

Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.
I fight against thee!-No: I will go seek

Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul'ft beft fits
My latter part of life.

[Exit.

SCENE VII. Field of Battle between the Camps. Alarum. Drums and Trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and Others.

AGR. Retire, we have engag'd ourselves too far: Cæfar himself has work, and our oppreffion

Exceeds what we expected.

[Exeunt.

Alarum. Enter ANTONY and SCARUS, wounded. SCAR. O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed! Had we done so at firft, we had driven them home With clouts about their heads.

ANT. Thou bleed'ft apace.

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 fix fcotches more.

Enter EROS.

EROS. They are beaten, fir; and our advantage ferves

For a fair victory.

SCAR. Let us score their backs,

And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind;

'Tis fport to maul a runner.

ANT. I will reward thee

Once for thy fpritely comfort, and ten-fold

For thy good valour. Come thee on.

SCAR. 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 guefts.-To-morrow,
Before the fun fhall fee us, we'll fpill the blood
That has to-day efcap'd. I thank you all;
For doughty-handed are you; and have fought
Not as you ferv'd the caufe, but as it had been
*Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.
Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,

Tell them your feats;
feats; whilst they with joyful tears
Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss
The honour'd gashes whole.-Give me thy hand;

Enter CLEOPATRA, attended.

To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,

[TO SCARUS.

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'ft thou smiling from

The world's great fnare uncaught?

ANT. My nightingale,

[grey

We have beat them to their beds. What, girl? though
Do fomething mingle with our brown; yet have we
A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can
Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;
Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand;-
Kifs it, my warrior :-He hath fought to-day,
As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
Destroy'd in fuch a shape.

CLEO. I'll give thee, friend,

An armour all of gold: it was a king's.

ANT. He has deferv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus' car.-Give me thy hand ;Through Alexandria make a jolly march:

Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Had our great palace the capacity

To camp this hoft, we all would fup together;
And drink caroufes to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril.-Trumpeters,
With brazen din blaft you the city's ear;
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines;

That heaven and earth may ftrike their founds together,
Applauding our approach.

SCENE IX. CESAR'S Camp.

[Exeunt.

SENTINELS on their poft. Enter ENOBARBUS.

I SOLD. If we be not reliev'd within this hour, We must return to the court of guard: The night Is fhiny; and, they fay, we fhall embattle

By the fecond hour i' the morn.

2 SOLD. This last day was

A fhrewd one to us.

ENO. O, bear me witness, night,

3

SOLD. What man is this?

2 SOLD. Stand clofe, and lift to him.

ENO. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
When men revolted fhall upon record

Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!—

I SOLD. Enobarbus!

3 SOLD. Peace;

Hark further.

ENO. O fovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night difpunge 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
A mafter-leaver, and a fugitive :
O Antony! O Antony!

2 SOLD. Let's speak

To him.

I SOLD. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæfar.

3 SOLD. Let's do fo. But he fleeps.

[dies.

I SOLD. Swoons rather; for fo bad a prayer as his

Was never yet for fleeping.

2 SOLD. Go we to him.

3 SOLD. Awake, awake, fir; fpeak to us.

2 SOLD. Hear you, fir?

I SOLD. The hand of death hath raught him. Hark

the drums

[Drums afar off.

Demurely wake the fleepers. Let us bear him

To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour
Is fully out.

3 SOLD Come on then;

He may recover yet.

[Exeunt with the body.

SCENE X. Between the two Camps.

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 in 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 fea is given;

They have put

forth the haven: Further on,

Where their appointment we may best discover,
And look on their endeavour.

[Exeunt.

Enter CESAR, and his forces, marching.
CAS. But being charg'd, we will be ftill by land,
Which, as I take't, we fhall; for his beft force

Is forth to man his gallies. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.

Re-enter ANTONY and SCARUS.

[Exeunt.

ANT. Yet they're not join'd: Where yonder pine does

stand,

I fhall difcover all: I'll bring thee word

Straight, how 'tis like to go.

SCAR. Swallows have built

In Cleopatra's fails their nefts: the augurers

[Exit.

Say, they know not,-they cannot tell ;-look grimly