Cæs.
Strike not by land: keep whole;
Provoke not battle, till we have done at sea.
Do not exceed the prescript of this scroll:
Our fortune lies upon this jump.

[Exeunt.

Enter Antony and Enobarbus.
Ant. Set we our squadrons on yon side o' the hill,
In eye of Cesar's battle; from which place
We may the number of the ships behold,
And so proceed accordingly.

[Exeunt. Enter Canidius, marching with his Land Army one way over the Stage; and Taurus, the Lieutenant of Cæsar, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a Sea-fight. Alarum. Re-enter Enobarbus.

Fly! not we. Ant. I have fled myself; and have instructed

cowards

To run, and show their shoulders.-Friends, be
gone;

I have myself resolv'd upon a course,
Which has no need of you; be gone:
My treasure's in the harbour, take it.-0,
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 doting.-Friends, be gone; you shall
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Have letters from me to some friends, that will
Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
Which my despair proclaims: let that be left
Which leaves itself: to the seaside straightways
I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little: 'pray you now :-
Therefore I pray you ;-I'll see you by and by.
[Sits down.
Enter Eros, and Cleopatra, led by Charmian
and Iras.

Eno. Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,

no longer;

The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,

With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder;
To see't, mine eyes are blasted.

Scar.

Enter Scarus.

Gods and goddesses,

All the whole synod of them!
Eno.
What's thy passion?
Scar. The greater cantle of the world is tost
With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
Kingdoms and provinces.
Eno.
How appears the fight?
Scar. On our side like the token'd pestilence,
Where death is sure. Yon' ribaudred hag of Egypt,
Whom leprosy o'ertake! i' the midst o'the fight,-
When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,-
The brize upon hier, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails, and flies.

Eno.

That I beheld:

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not

Endure a further view.

Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him ;-Comfort

him.

Iras. Do, most dear queen.

Char. Do! why, what else?
Cleo. Let me sit down. O Juno!
Ant. No, no, no, no, no.
Eros. See you here, sir?
Ant. O fie, fie, fie.
Char. Madam,-

Iras. Madam; O good empress!-
Eros. Sir, sir,-

Ant. Yes, my lord, yes;-He, at Philippi, kept
His sword e'en like a dancer: while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassins: and 'twas I,
That the mad Brutus ended he alone
In the brave squares of war; Yet now-No
Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had

matter.

Cleo. Ah, stand by.

Eros. The queen, my lord, the queen.
Iras. Go to him, madam, speak to him;
He is unqualitied with very shame.
Cleo. Well then,-Sustain me :-Oh!
Eros. Most noble sir, arise; the queen ap
proaches;

Her head's declin'd, and death will seize ber; but
Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation:
A most unnoble swerving.

Eros.
Sir, the queen.
Ant. O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,
How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
By looking back on what I have left behind
'Stroyed in dishonour.
O my lord, my lord!
Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought,
You would have follow'd.

Cleo. [Aside.

Can. Towards Peloponnesus are they fled. Scar. 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend What further comes.

Can.

To Cæsar will I render My legions, and my horse; six kings already Show me the way of yielding.

Eno.

I'll yet follow

The wounded chance of Antony, though my

reason

Bits in the wind against me.

SCENE IX.

Ant.

Ant. [Exeunt.

Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Enter Antony and Attendants.

Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't,

It is asham'd to bear me!-Friends, come hither. am so lated in the world, that I

Egypt, thon knews't too well,
My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,
And thou should'st tow me after; O'er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.
Clco.
O, my pardon.
Now I must
To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
And palter in the shifts 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 sword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all cause.
Cleo.
O pardon, pardon.
Ant. Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates

All that is won and lost: Give me a kiss;
Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster,
Is he come back?-Love, I am full of lead :-
Some wine, within there, and our viands :-For-
tune knows,

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows.
[Exeunt.

SCENE X. Cæsar's Camp, in Egypt.
Enter Cæsar, Dolabella, Thyreus, and others,
Caes. Let him appear that's come from Antony.
Know you him?
Cæsar, 'tis his schoolmaster:
An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
Which had superfluous kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Dol.

Enter Euphronius.
Cæs.
Approach, and speak.
Eup. 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 sea.
Cæs.

Be it so; Declare thine office.
Eup. Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,
He lessens his requests; and to thee sues
To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
A private man in Athens: This for him.
Next Cleopatra does.confess thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves
The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,
Now hazarded to thy grace.

Cæs.

For Antony,
I have no ears to his request. The queen
Of audience, nor desire, shall fail: so she
From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,
Or take his life there: This if she perform,"
She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.
Eup. Fortune pursue thee!
Cæs.

Bring him through the bands.
[Exit Euphronius.
To try thy eloquence, now 'tis time: Despatch;
From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,
[To Thyreus.
And in our name, what she requires; add more,
From thine invention, offers: women are not,
In their best fortune,strong: but want will perjure
The ne'er-touch'd vestal: Try thy cunning,

Thyreus ;

Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we
Will answer as a law.

Thyr.

Cæsar, I go.

Cas. Observe how Antony becomes his flaw; And what thou think'st his very action speaks In every power that moves.

Thyr.

Cæsar, I shall. [Exeunt.
SCENE XI.

Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
Enter Cleopatra, Enobarous, Charmian, and
Iras.

Cleo. What shall we do, Enobarbus ?
Eno.
Think, and die.
Cleo. Is Antony, or we, in fault for this?
Eno. Antony only, that would make his will
Lord of his reason What though you fled
From that great face of war, whose several ranges
Freighted each other? why should he follow?
The itch of his affection should not then

Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,
When half to half the world oppos'd, he being
The mered question: "Twas a shame no less
Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,
And leave his navy gazing.

Cleo.

'Pry'thee, peace.
Enter Antony, with Euphronius.
Ant. Is this his answer?
Eup.

Ay, my lord.

Ant. The queen shall then have courtesy, so she
Will yield us up.
Eup. He says so.

Ant.

Let her know it-
To the boy Cæsar send this grizzled head,
And he will fill thy wishes to the brim
With principalities.
Cleo.
That head, my lord?
Ant. To him again; Tell him, he wears the rose
Of youth upon him; from which the world should

note

Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,
May be a coward's; whose ministers would pre-
vail
Under the service of a child, as soon

As i' the command of Cæsar: I dare him therefore
To lay his gay comparisons apart,
And answer me declin'd; sword against sword,
Ourselves alone; I'll write it; follow me..
[Exeunt Antony and Euphronius
Eno. Yes, like enough, high-battled Cæsar will
Unstate his happiness, and be stag'd to the show,
Against a sworder.-I see, men's judgments are
A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
Do draw the inward quality after them,
To suffer all alike. That he should dream,
Knowing all measures, the full Cæsar will
Answer his emptiness!-Cæsar thou hast subdu'd
His judgment too.
Enter an Attendant.

Cleo.
Thyr. Hear it apart.

Cleo.

Cæsar's will

None but friends; say boldis.
Thyr. So, haply, are they friends to Antony
Eno. He needs as many, sir, as Cæsar has:
Will leap to be his friend: For us, you know,
Or needs not us. If Cæsar please, our master
Whose he is, we are; and that's Cæsar's
Thyr
So.-
Thus then, thou most renown'd; Cæsar entreats,
Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,
Further than he is Cæsar.
Cleo.
Go on Right royal
Thyr. He knows that you embrace not Antony
As you did love, but as you fear'd him.
Cleo,

0!
Thyr. The scars upon your honour, therefore, be
Does pity, as constrained blemishes,
Not as deserv'd.

To be sure of that. [Arde
I will ask Antony.-Sir, sir, thou'rt so leaky,
That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
[Exit Enobarbas
Thy dearest quit thee.
Thyr.
Shall I say to Cæsar,
What you require of him? for he partly begs
To be desir'd to give. It much would please hin
That of his fortunes you should make a staff
To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,
To hear from me you had left Antony,
And put yourself under his shroud,
The universal landlord.
Cleo.

I kiss his conqu'ring 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 Egypt.
Thyr.
'Tis your noblest course,
Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it.
My duty on your hand.
Cleo.

Give me grace to lay

Your Cæsar's father Oft, when he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in, Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,

As it rain'd kisses.

Ant.

Re-enter Antony and Enobarbus.

One, that but performs
The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
To have coinmand obey'd.
Eno.

You will be whipp'd. Ant. Approach, there :-Ay, you kite;-Now gods and devils!

Authority melts from me: Of late, when I cried,
ho!

Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,
And cry, Your will? Have you no ears? I am
Enter Attendants.

1 Att. He did ask favour.

Ant. If that thy father live, let him repent Thou wast not inade his daughter; and be thou sorry

To follow Cæsar in his triumph, since
Thou hast been whipp'd for following him:
henceforth,

The white hand of a lady fever thee, Shake thou to look on't.-Get thee back to Cæsar Tell him thy entertainment: Look, thou say, He makes me angry with him: for he seems Proud and disdainful; harping on what I am; Not what he knew I was: He makes me angry; And at this time most easy 'tis to do't; Favours, by Jove that thunders!-Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires When my good stars, that were my former guides, What art thou, fellow? Thyr Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike My speech, 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 me: Urge it thou: Hence, with thy stripes, begone. [Exit Thyreus. Cleo. Have you done yet? Ant. Alack, our terrene moon The fall of Antony! Is now eclips'd; and it portends alone Cleo. I must stay his time. Ant. To flatter Cæsar would you mingle eyes With one that ties his points? Not know me yet? Ant. Cold-hearted toward me? Cleo. Ah, dear, if I be so, From my cold heart let heaven engender hail, And poison it in the source; and the first stone Drop in my neck: as it determines, so Dissolve my life! The next Cæsarion smite! Till, by degrees, the memory of my womb, Together with my brave Egyptians all, By the discandying of this pelleted storm, Lie graveless; till the flies and goats of Nile Have buried them for prey! Ant. I am satisfied Cæsar sits down in Alexandria; where I will oppose his fate. Our force by land Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too Have knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most senlike.

Antony yet. Take hence this Jack, and whip him.
Eno. Tis better playing with a lion's whelp,
Than with an old one dying.
Ant.
Moon and stars!
Whip him :-Were't twenty of the greatest tri-

butaries

That do acknowledge Cæsar, should I find them
So saucy with the hand of she here (What's her

name,

Since she was Cleopatra ?)-Whip him, fellows,
Til, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,
Ard whine aloud for mercy: Take him hence.
Thyr. Mark Antony,-

Ant.
Tug him away: being whipp'd,
Bring him again :-This Jack of Cæsar's shall
Bear us an errand to him.-

Exeunt Attendants with Thyreus.
You were half blasted ere I knew you :-Ha!
Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,
Forborne the getting of a lawful race,
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 viciousness grow hard,
(O misery on't!) the wise gods seel our eyes;
In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make

us

ment

Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,
Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have
Luxuriously pick'd out :-For, I am sure,
Though you can guess what temperance should
be,

You know not what it is.
Cleo.
Wherefore is this?
Ant. To let a fellow that will take rewards,
And say, God quit you! be familiar with
My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal
And plighter of high hearts!-0, that I were
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar

The horned herd! for 1 have savage cause;
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. 1 Att. Soundly, my lord.

Ant.

Cried he? and begg'd he pardon
55

Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.
Ant. We'll yet do well.

Cleo. Call all his noble captains to my lord.
Ant. Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night
I'll force

The wine peep through their scars.-Come on my
queen;

There's sap in't yet.-The next time I do fight,
I'll make death love me; for I will contend
Even with his pestilent scythe.

[Exeunt Ant. Cleo. and Attendants. Eno. Now he'll out-stare the lightning. To be furious,

Is, to be frighted out of fear and in that mood,
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,"
A diminution in our captain's brain

? Restores his heart: When valour preys on reason,

To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; [Exit. And I, an ass, am onion-ey'd; for shame, Transform us not to women.

Ho, ho, ho!
Now the witch take me, if I meant it nas!
Grace grow where those drops fall! My hearty
friends,

Enter Cæsar, reading a Letter; Agrippa, Meca-You take me in too dolorous a sense:

I spake to you for your comfort: did desire you Cas. He calls me boy; and chides, as he had To burn this night with torches: Know, my

this.

The armourer of my heart :-False, false; this, [SCENE VI. Cæsar's Camp before Alexandria Flourish. Enter Cæsar with Agrippa, Enobarbus, and others."

Cleo. Sooth, la, I'll help : Thus it must be.
Ant.

Well, well;

We shall thrive now. --Seest thou, my good fel-
Go, put on thy defences.
low
Eros.
Briefly, sir.

Cas. Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
Our will is, Antony be took alive;
Make it so known.

1

[Exit Agrippa

Cleo. Is not this buckled well?
Ant.

Rarely, rarely:
He that unbuckles this, till we do please
To doff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.-
Thon fumblest Fros; and my queen's a squire
More tight at this, than thou: Despatch.--O love,
That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and
knew'st

The royal occupation; thou should'st see

Enter an Officer armed.

Agr. Cæsar, I shall.

Cas. The time of universal peace is near: Prove this a prosperous day, the three nook'd

world

Shall bear the olive freely.

Plant those that have revolted in the van,

A workman in't.-Good morrow to thee; wel-That Antony may seem to spend his fury'

To business that we love, we rise betime,
And go to it with delight.
1 Off
A thousand, sir,
Early though it be, have on their riveted trim,
And at the port expect you.

[Shout. Trumpets. Flourish.

Enter other Officers, and Soldiers. 2 Off. The morn is fair.-Good morrow, gene

ral.

All. Good morrow, general.
Ant.
'Tis well blown, lads.
This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.--
So, so; come give me that: this way; well said.
Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:
This is a soldier's kiss; rebukable, [Kisses her.
And worthy shameful check it were, to stand
On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee
Now, like a man of steel.-You, that will fight,
Follow me close; I'll bring you to't.--Adieu.
[Exeunt Ant. Eros, Officers, and Soldiers.
Char. Please you, retire to your chamber?
Cleo.
Lead me,
He goes forth gallantly. That he and Cæsar
might

Determine this great war in single fight:
Then, Antony,-But now,-Well, on. [Exeunt.
SCENE V. Antony's Camp near Alexandria.
Trumpets sound. Enter Antony and Eros, a
Soldier meeting them.

Sold. The gods make this a happy day to An-
tony!

Ant. 'Would, thou and those thy scars had once
prevail'd

To make me fight at land!
Sold

Hadst thou done so,
The kings that have revolted, and the soldier
That has this morning left thee, would have still
Follow'd thy heels.

Is he gone?

Upon himself [Exeunt Cæsar and his Train.
On affairs of Antony; there did persuade
Eno. Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry,
Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar,
And leave his master Antony: for his pains,
Cesar hath hang'd him. Canidius, and the rest
That fell away, have entertainment, but
No honourable trust. I have done ill,
That I will joy no more.
Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,

Sold.

Enter a Soldier of Cæsar's.

Enobarbus, Antony
Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
His bounty overplus: The messenger
Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now,
Unloading of his mules.
Eno. I give it you.
Sold.

Mock me not, Enobarbus..
I tell you true: Best that you saf 'd the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have don't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.
Eno. I am alone the villain of the earth,
[Exit Soldier.
And feel I am so most. O Antony,
Thou mine of bounty, how would'st thou have
My better service, when my turpitude [paid
Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my
heart:

If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't,
I feel.

I fight against thee!-No! I will go seek
My latter part of life.
Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul'st best fits
[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;
Cæsar himself has work, and our oppression
Exceeds what we expected.
[Exeunt.

Alarum. Enter Antony and Scarus, wounded.
Scar. O my brave emperor, this is fought, in-
deed!
Had we done so at first, we had driven them

Sold. Most certain; Ant. Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it. Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him I will subscribe) gentle adieus, and greetings: Say, that I wish he never find more cause To change a master.-O, my fortunes have Let us score their backs, Corrupted honest men :-Despatch :-Enobar-And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind; [Exeunt, "Tis sport to maul a runner.

bus