ANT. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd." 8 CLEO. I'll fet a bourn how far to be belov❜d. ANT. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.9 Enter an Attendant. Arr. News, my good lord, from Rome. ANT. 'Grates me:-The fum.z CLEO. Nay, hear them,3 Antony: Fulvia, perchance, is angry; Or, who knows * There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.] So, in Romeo and Juliet: 66 They are but beggars that can count their worth." "Bafia pauca cupit, qui numerare poteft." Mart. 1. vi. ep. 36. Again, in the 13th book of Ovid's Metamorphofis; as tranflated by Golding, p. 172: Pauperis eft numerare pecus. "Tufh! beggars of their cattel ufe the number for to know." STEEVENS. Again, in Much ado about nothing: "I were but little happy, If I could fay how much.” bourn] Bound or limit. POPE. So, in The Winter's Tale : "No bourn 'twixt his and mine." STEEVENS. MALONE. » Then must thou needs find out new heaven, &c.] Thou muft fet the boundary of my love at a greater diftance than the present vifible universe affords. JOHNSON. 2 The fum.] Be brief, fum thy 3 Nay, hear them,] i. e. the news. time was confidered as plural. So, in "Antonius hearing these newes," &c. business in a few words. Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that ; ANT. How, my love! Both? Call in the meffengers.-As I am Egypt's queen, gers. ANT. Let Rome in Tiber melt! and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space; 4 Take in, &c.] i. e. fubdue, conquer. See Vol. VII. p. 160, n. and Vol. XII. p. 26, n. 9. REED. 5; 5 Where's Fulvia's procefs?] Procefs here means fummons. M. MASON. "The writings of our common lawyers fometimes call that the proceffe, by which a man is called into the court and no more." Mintheu's DICT. 1617, in v. Proceffe." To ferve with proceffe. Vide to cite, to fummon." Ibid. MALONE. and the wide arch Of the tang'd empire fall!] Taken from the Roman custom of raifing triumphal arches to perpetuate their victories. Extremely noble. WARBURTON. I am in doubt whether Shakspeare had any idea but of a fabrick ftanding on pillars. The later editions have all printed the raised empire, for the ranged empire, as it was firft given. JOHNSON. The rang'd empire is certainly right. Shakspeare uses the fame expreffion in Coriolanus: 66 bury all which yet diftinctly ranges, "In heaps and piles of ruin." Again, in Much ado about Nothing, A&t II. fc. ii: "Whatsoever comes athwart his affection, ranges evenly with mine." STEEVENS. Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike. [embracing. And fuch a twain can do't, in which, I bind On pain of punishment, the world to weet,' We stand up peerless. CLEO. Excellent falfhood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?I'll feem the fool I am not; Antony Will be himself. ANT. But ftirr'd by Cleopatra." Now, for the love of Love, and her foft hours," The term range feems to have been applied in a peculiar fense to mafon-work in our author's time. So, in Spenfer's Faery Queen, B. II. c. ix: "It was a vault y-built for great difpence, "With many raunges rear'd along the wall." MALONE. 7 to weet,] To know. POPE. Antony Will be himself. -] Ant. But firr'd by Cleopatra. But, in this paffage, feems to have the old Saxon fignification of without, unless, except. Antony, fays the queen, will recollect his thoughts. Unless kept, he replies, in commotion by Cleopatra. JOHNSON. What could Cleopatra mean by saying Antony will recolle& his thoughts? What thoughts were they, for the recollection of which fhe was to applaud him? It was not for her purpose that he should think, or roufe himself from the lethargy in which the wished to keep him. By Antony will be himself, the means to fay, "that Antony will act like the joint fovereign of the world, and follow his own inclinations, without regard to the mandates of Cæfar, or the anger of Fulvia." To which he replies, If but firr'd by Cleopatra; that is, if moved to it in the slightest degree by her. M. MASON. For the love So, in The 9 Now, for the love of Love, and her foft hours,] of Love, means, for the fake of the queen of love. Comedy of Errors: "Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink.” Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives fhould stretch Without fome pleasure now: What fport to-night? CLEO. Hear the ambaffadors. ANT. Fye, wrangling queen! Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weep; whofe every paffion fully ftrives To make itself, in thee, fair and admir'd! · No meffenger; but thine and all alone,s Mr. Rowe fubftituted his for her, and this unjustifiable alteration was adopted by all the fubfequent editors. MALONE. 2 Let's not confound the time-] i. e. let us not confume the time. So, in Coriolanus: "How could'ft thou in a mile confound an hour, 3 Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, MALONE. whofe every paffion fully frives-] The folio readswho. It was corrected by Mr. Rowe; but whofe every paffion" was not, I fufpect, the phrafeology of Shakspeare's time. The text however is undoubtedly corrupt. MALONE. Whofe every, is an undoubted phrase of our author. So, in The Tempest: loft "A fpace, whofe every cubit "Seems to cry out," &c. See Vol. III. p. 70. Again, in Cymbeline : this hand, whose touch, "Whofe every touch" &c. See Vol. XIII. p. 54. The fame expreffion occurs again in another play, but I have my reference to it. STBEVENS. 5 No messenger; but thine and all alone, &c.] Cleopatra has faid, "Call in the meffengers ;" and afterwards, Hear the ambaffadors." Talk not to me, fays Antony, of meffengers; I am now To-night, we'll wander through the streets," and note The qualities of people. Come, my queen; [Exeunt ANT. and CLEOP. with their train. DEM. I'm full forry, That he approves the common liar," who Thus fpeaks of him at Rome: But I will hope Of better deeds to-morrow. Reft you happy! [Exeunt. wholly thine, and you and I unattended will to-night wander through the streets. The fubfequent words which he utters as he goes out, "Speak not to us," confirm this interpretation. MALONE. Sometime To-night, we'll wander through the streets, &c.] So, in Sir Thomas North's Tranflation of the Life of Antonius: alfo when he would goe up and downe the citie disguised like a flave in the night, and would peere into poore mens' windowes and their fhops, and scold and brawl with them within the house; Cleopatra would be alfo in a chamber maides array, and amble up and down the streets with him," &c. STEEVENS. 1 That he approves the common liar,] Fame. That he proves the common liar, fame, in his cafe to be a true reporter. So, in Hamlet: MALONE. "He may approve our eyes, and fpeak to it." STEEVENS, |