CES. Antony 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. ENO. I am alone the villain of the earth, I fight against thee!-No: I will go seek I [Exit. Had we done so at first, we had driven them home ANT. SCAR. I had a wound here that was like a T, But now 't is made an II. ANT. They do retire. SCAR. We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet Room for six scotches more. Enter EROS. EROS. They are beaten, sir; and our advantage For a fair victory. SCAR. serves 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. e To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can CLEO. 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, SCENE IX.- Cæsar's Camp. Sentinels at their post. [Exeunt. ANT. Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine does stand, I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word 1 SOLD. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer Straight, how 't is like to go. as his was never yet for sleep. 2 SOLD. Go we to him. SCAR. [Exit. Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers* Say they know not, they cannot tell;-look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony [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. e Triple-turn'd-] From Julius Cæsar to Cneius Pompey, from Pompey to Antony, and, as he suspects now, from him to Octavius Cæsar. Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more! That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,- 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. (1) 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 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, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs? They are black vesper's pageants. EROS. called pricking at the belt or girdle. e 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 contex, "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. d the boar of Thessaly-] The boar killed by Meleager. e-emboss'd.] See note (a), p. 228, Vol. I. 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. |