A master-leaver, and a fugitive. O Antony! O Antony! 2 Sold. To him. Let's speak [Dies. 1 Sold. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæsar. 3 Sold. Let's do so. But he sleeps. 1 Sold. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his Was never yet for sleep. 2 Sold. Go we to him. 3 Sold. Awake, awake, sir; speak to us. 2 Sold. 1 Sold. The hand of death Hark, the drums Hear you, sir? hath raught him. [Drums afar off. Let us bear him To the court of guard; he is of note. Our hour 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 sea is given ; They have put forth the haven. Let's seek a spot,3 1 Raught is the ancient preterit of the verb to reach. 2 Demurely for solemnly. [Exeunt. 3 Some words appear to have been accidentally omitted in the old copy, which Malone has supplied by the phrase "Let's seek a spot." Rowe supplied the omission by the words "Further on." 4“Where we may but discover their numbers, and see their motions." Enter CESAR and his Forces, marching. Cæs. But being charged, we will be still by land, Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales, Re-enter ANTONY and SCARUS. [Exeunt. Ant. Yet they're not joined. Where yonder pine does stand, I shall discover all; I'll bring thee word Straight, how 'tis like to go. Scar. [Exit. Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests; the augures Say, they know not,-they cannot tell;-look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts, His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter ANTONY. Ant. All is lost; This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me. My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder They cast their caps up, and carouse together Like friends long lost.-Triple-turned whore ! 'tis thou 1 But, in its exceptive sense, for be out, i. e. without. Steevens has adduced a passage from the MS. Romance of Guillaume de Palerne, in the Library of King's Coll., Cambridge, in which the orthography almost explains the word: "I sayle now in the see as schip boute mast, 2 The old copy reads auguries. Augurs, the plural of augur, was anciently spelled augures, which we should read here, and not augurers, substituted by Malone. 3 Cleopatra first belonged to Julius Cæsar, then to Antony, and now, as Antony supposes, to Augustus. For when I am revenged upon my charm, [Exit SCARUS. O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more. gave Do we shake hands. All come to this!-The hearts Enter CLEOPATRA. Ah, thou spell! Avaunt. Cleo. Why is my lord enraged against his love? Ant. Vanish; or I shall give thee thy deserving, And blemish Cæsar's triumph. Let him take thee, And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians; Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown For poor'st diminutives, for doits; 5 and let Patient Octavia plough thy visage up With her prepared nails. [Exit CLEO.] 'Tis well thou'rt gone, If it be well to live; but better 'twere Might have prevented many.-Eros, ho!— 1 The old editions read pannell'd. Spanieled is the happy emendation of sir Thomas Hanmer. 2 "This grave charm" probably means this deadly or destructive piece of witchcraft. 3 "That which I looked to as the reward or crown of my endeavors." 4 The allusion is to the game of fast and loose, or pricking at the belt or girdle, still practised by juggling cheats at fairs, and which was practised by the gypsies in Shakspeare's time. 5 i. e. for the smallest pieces of money. The old copy reads, "for dolts ;" and, at Mr. Tyrwhitt's suggestion, Steevens reads, "to dolts." The shirt of Nessus is upon me. Teach me, Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage. Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon; [Exit. SCENE XI. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace. Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAs, and MARDIAN. Cleo. Help me, my women! O, he is more mad Than Telamon' for his shield; the boar of Thessaly Was never so embossed.2 Char. To the monument; There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. The soul and body rive not more in parting, Than greatness going off. To the monument: Cleo. Say, that the last I spoke was, Antony, Mardian; and bring me how he takes my death.— [Exeunt. SCENE XII. The same. Another Room. Enter ANTONY and EROS. Ant. Eros, thou yet behold'st me? Ay, noble lord. Eros. 1 i. e. than Ajax Telamon for the armor of Achilles, the most valuable part of which was the shield. The boar of Thessaly was the boar killed by Meleager. 2 When a hunted animal is so hard run that it foams at the mouth, it is said to be embossed. A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 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. Ay, my lord. Ant. That which is now a horse, even with a thought, The rack dislimns,' and makes it indistinct, As water is in water. Eros. It does, my lord. Ant. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is 3 Packed cards with Cæsar, and false played my glory Unto an enemy's triumph. Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us Ourselves to end ourselves.-O, thy vile lady! Enter MARDIAN. She has robbed me of my sword. No, Antony; Mar. Ant. Hence, saucy eunuch; peace; She hath betrayed me, and shall die the death. Mar. Death of one person can be paid but once; And that she has discharged. What thou wouldst do Is done unto thy hand; the last she spake Was, Antony! most noble Antony! 1 i. e. "the fleeting away of the clouds destroys the picture." 2 Knave was familiarly used for servant. 3 "To pack the cards" was to put them together in an unfair manner. It is often used, metaphorically, for contriving together to deceive another. |