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Agr.

Both he loves.
Eno. They are his shards,' and he their beetle.
So,-
[Trumpets.

This is to horse.-Adieu, noble Agrippa.
Agr. Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
Enter Cæsar, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavia.
Ant. No further, sir.

Cas. You take from me a great part of myself;
Use me well in it.-Sister, prove such a wife
As my thoughts make thee, and as my furthest
band2

Shall pass on thy approof.-Most noble Antony,
Let not the piece of virtue, which is set
Betwixt us, as the cement of our love,
To keep it builded, be the ram, to batter
The fortress of it: for better might we
Have lov'd without this mean, if on both parts
This be not cherish'd.

Ant.

In your distrust.

Čas.

Ant.

Make me not offended

I have said.

You shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause For what you seem to fear: So, the gods keep you, And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! We will here part.

Cas. Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well; The elements' be kind to thee, and make. Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.

Octa. My noble brother!

Ant. The April's in her eyes: It is love's spring, And these the showers to bring it on.-Be cheerful. Octa. Sir, look well to my husband's house; andCæs. Octavia ?

Octa. I'll tell you in your car.

What,

Ant. Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor

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Cleo. That's not so good:-he cannot like her long
Char. Like her? O Isis! 'tis impossible.
Cleo. I think so, Charmian: Dull of tongue and
dwarfish!-

What majesty is in her gait? Remember,
If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.
Mess.
She creeps;
Her motion and her station" are as one:
She shows a body rather than a life;
A statue, than a breather.
Cleo.
Is this certain?
Mess. Or I have no observance.
Char.

Cannot make better note.
Cleo.

Three in Egypt

He's very knowing,

I do perceive't:-There's nothing in her yet :-
The fellow has good judgment.
Char.

Excellent.
Cleo. Guess at her years, I pr'ythee.
Mess.

She was a widow.

Cleo.

Madam,

Widow ?-Charmian, hark. Mess. And I do think, she's thirty.

Cleo. Bear'st thou her face in mind? is it long, or round?

Mess. Round even to faultiness. Cleo. For the most part too, They are foolish that are so.-Her hair, what colour? Mess. Brown, madam: And her forehead is as low As she would wish it.

Cleo. There is gold for thee. Thou must not take my former sharpness ill: I will employ thee back again; I find thee Most fit for business: Go, make thee ready; Our letters are prepar'd. [Exit Messenger. Char. A proper man. Cleo. Indeed, he is so: I repent me much, That so I harry'd him. Why, methinks, by him, This creature's no such thing.

Char.

O nothing, madam. Cleo. The man hath seen some majesty, and

should know.

Char. Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,

(6) Destroy. (7) Standing. (8) Puiled, 'ugged.

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To public ear:

Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not?
But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
He vented' them; most narrow measure lent me :
When the best hint was given him, he not took't,
Or did it from his teeth.

Oct.
O my good lord,
Believe not all; or, if you must believe,
Stomach' not all. A more unhappy lady,
If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
Praying for both parts:

And the good gods will mock me presently,
When I shall pray, 0, bless my lord and husband!
Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,

O, bless my brother! Husband win, win brother,
Pravs, and destroys the prayer; no midway
'Twixt these extremes at all.

Ant.

Gentle Octavia,

Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Best to preserve it: IfI lose mine honour,

I lose myself: better I were not yours,

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SCENE VI.-Rome. A room in Cæsar's house
Enter Cæsar, Agrippa, and Mæcenas.

Cas. Contemning Rome, he has done all this
And more;

In Alexandria,-here's the manner of it,-
I'the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself, in chairs of gold,
Were publicly enthron'd: at the feet, sat
Cæsarion, whom they call my father's son;
And all the unlawful issue, that their lust
Since then hath made between them.
He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute queen.

Mac.

Unto her

This in the public eye?

Cas. I'the common show-place, where they es

ercise.

His sons he there proclaim'd, The kings of kings

Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia,
Yourself shall go between us: The mean time, lady,
I'll raise the preparation of a wai

Shall stain your brother; Make your soonest haste;
So your desires are yours.
Oct.

Thanks to my lord.

The Jove of power make me most weak, most
weak,

Your renciler! Wars twat verwin we
As it the world should cleave, and that slain men
Should solder' up the rift.

be

Ant. When it appears to you where this begins,
Turn your displeasure that way; for our faults
Can never be so equal, that your love

Can equally move with them. Provide your going;
Choose your own company, and command what cost
Your heart has mind to.
[Exeunt.
Another room in the

SCENE V.-The same.

same. Enter Enobarbus and Eros, meeting.

Eno. How now, friend Eros?

Eros. There's strange news come, sir.

Eno. What, man'

He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd
Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia : She

In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience
As 'tis reported, so.
Let Rome be thus

Mac.
Inform'd.

Agr. Who, queasy's with his insolence
Already, will their good thoughts call from him.
Cas. The people know it; and have now receir'd
His accusations.
Agr.

Whom does he accuse?
Cas. Cæsar: and, that, having in Sicily
Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him
His part o'the isle: then does he say, he lent me
Some shipping unrestor'd: lastly, he frets,
That Lepidus of the triumvirate
Should be depos'd; and, being, that we detain
All his revenue.

Agr.

Sir, this should be answer'd.

Cas. 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; That he his high authority abus'd,

Eros. Cæsar and Lepidus have made wars upon And did deserve his change; for what I have con Pompey.

Eno. This is old; What is the success?"
Eros. Cæsar, having made use of him in the
wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denied him rival-
ity; would not let him partake in the glory of the
action and not resting here, accuses him of letters |
he had formerly wrote to Pompey; upon his own
appeal, seizes him: So the poor third is up till
death enlarge his confine.

(1) Similar tendency. (2) Could not help.
(3) Published. (4) Indistinct, through his teeth.
(5) Resent. (6) Disgrace. (7) Cement, close.
(8) Opening.

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Cæs. That ever I should call thee, cast away!
Oct. You have not call'd me so, nor have you

cause.

Cas. Why have you stol'n upon us thus? You

come not

Like Cæsar's sister: The wife of Antony
Should have an army for an usher, and
The neighs of horse to tell of her approach,
Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way,
Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,
Longing for what it had not: nay, the dust
Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
Rais'd by your populous troops: But you are come
A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented
The ostent' of our love, which, left unshown,
Is often left unlov'd: we should have met you
By sea, and land; supplying every stage
With an augmented greeting.

Oct.

Good my lord,

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it
On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Hearing that you prepar'd for war, acquainted
My griev'd ear withal; whereon, I begg'd
His pardon for return.

Cas.
Which soon he granted,
Being an obstruct2 'tween his lust and him.
Oct. Do not say so, my lord.
Cas.

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What should not then be spar'd. He is already
Traduc'd for levity; and 'tis said in Rome,
That Photinus an eunuch, and your maids,
Manage this war.

Cleo.

Sink Rome; and their tong
That speak against us! A charge we bear i'the war,
And, as the president of my kingdom, will

I have eyes upon him, Appear there for a man. Speak not against it;

And his affairs come to me on the wind. Where is he now?

Oct.

My lord, in Athens.

Ces. No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire Up to a whore; who now are levying

The kings o'the earth for war; He hath assembled
Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,
Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king

Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas:
King Malchus of Arabia; king of Pont;
Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king

Of Comagene; Polemon and Amintas,
The kings of Mede, and Lycaonia, with a
More larger list of sceptres.

Oct.
Ah me, most wretched,
That have my heart parted betwixt two friends,
That do afflict each other!

Cas. Welcome hither: Your letters did withhold our breaking forth; Till we perceiv'd, both how you were wrong led, And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart: Be you not troubled with the time, which drives O'er your content these strong necessities; But let detern. "'d things to destiny Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome: Nothing inore dear to me. You are abus'd Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods, To do you justice, make them ministers Of us, and those that love you. Best of comfort; And ever welcome to us.

Agr.

Welcome, lady.

Mac. Welcome, dear madam. Each heart in Rome does love and pity you: Only the adulterous Antony, most large

In his abominations, turns you off;

And gives his potent regiment' to a trull,
That noises it against us.

is it so, sir?

Oct. Cæs. Most certain. Sister, welcome: Pray you, Be ever known to patience: My dearest sister!

(1) Show, token.

(3) Government. 76) Forbid.

[Exeunt.

(2) Obstruction. (4) Harlot. (5) Threatens.

(7) Absolutely.

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Enter Antony and Canidius.

Is't not strange, Canidius, That from Tarentum, and Brundusium, He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea, And take in Toryne?-You have heard on't, sweet? Cleo. Celerity is never more admir'd, Than by the negligent.

Ant. A good rebuke, Which might have well becom'd the best of men, To taunt at slackness.-Canidius, we Will fight with him by sea. Cleo.

By sea! What else? Can. Why will my lord do so? Ant. For he dares us to❜t. Eno. So hath my lord dar'd him to single fight. Can. Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia, Where Cæsar fought with Pompey: But these offers Which serves not for his vantage, he shakes off; And so should you.

Eno. Your ships are not well mann'd: Your mariners are muleteers, 10 reapers, people Ingross'd by swift impress;" in Cæsar's fcet Are those, that ofter have 'gainst Pompey fought: Their ships are yare; 12 yours, heavy. No disgrace Shall fall you for refusing him at sea, Being prepar'd for land. Ant. By sea, by sea. Eno. Most worthy sir, you therein throw away The absolute soldiership you have by land; Distract your army, which doth nost consist Of war-mark'd foot-men; leave unexecuted Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego The way which promises assurance; and Give up yourself merely to chance and nazard, From firm security.

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My lord.
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.'

Enter Antony and Enobarbus.

[Exeunt.

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Eno. Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold
no longer :

The Antoniad, the Egyptian, adairel,
With all their sixty, fly, ard turn their rudder:
To see't, mine eyes are biased.

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All the whole synod of them!
Eno.
Scar. The greater cantle1o of the world is lost
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' ribald-rid nag12 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 her, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails, and flies.

Eno.

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That I beheld: mine eyeg Did sicken at the sight on't, and could not

Endure a further view.

Scar.
She once being loof'd,"
The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,
Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
never saw an action of such shame;
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate so itself.

Eno.

Alack, alack!

Enter Canidius.

Can. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
O, he has given example for our flight,
Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
Most grossly, by his own.

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good
night
Indeed.
[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 vet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
[Exeunt.
Sits in the wind against me.

SCENE IX.-Alexandria. A room in the pal
ace. Enter Antony and Attendants.
An'. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't,
It is asham'd to beat me!-Friends, come hither,
I am so lated in the world, that I

Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
And make your peace with Cæsar.

Ant. Set we our squadrons on yon' side o'the hill, Have lost my way for ever:-I have a ship
n eye of Cæsar's battle; from which place
We may the number of the ships behold,
And so proceed accordingly.

Att. [Exeunt.

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

To run, and show their shoulders. Friends, be

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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
Have letters from me to some friends that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:
I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little; 'pray you now :-
Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
Therefore I pray you:-I'll see you by and by.
[Sits down.
Enter Eros, and Cleopatra, led by Charmian and

Iras.

Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him:-Comfort him.
Iras. Do, most dear queen.
Char. Do? Why, what else?
Cleo. Let me sit down.

Ant. No, no, no, no, no.

Eros. See you here, sir?

Ant. O fie, fie, fie.

Char. Madam,

O Juno!

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

Ant. Yes, my lord, yes ;-He,' at Philippi, kept
His sword even like a dancer; while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I,
That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had

In the brave squares of war: Yet now-No 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 :-O!

Eros. Most noble sir, arise; the queen

ap

proaches;

Her head's declined, and death will seize her; Your comfort makes the rescue.

but

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,
Strov'd in dishonour.

Cleo.
O my lord, my lord!
Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought,
You would have follow'd.

Ant.
Egypt, thou knew'st 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 ine.
O, my pardon.

Cleo.

Ant.

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

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O pardon, pardon.

Obey it on all cause.
Cleo.
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.
Cas. Let him appear that's come from Antony.-
Know you him?

Dol.
Cesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:"
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
Which had superfluous kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by."

Cas.

Enter Euphronius.

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."

Cas.
Be it so; Declare thine office.
Eup. Lord of his fortune, 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 eartn.
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.

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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!
Cas.

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 fortunes, strong: but want will perjure
The ne'er-touch'd vestal: Try thy cunning, Thy-

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A room in the pal ace. Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, 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

(7) As is the dew to the sea.

(8) Diadem, the crown.

(9) Paramour.

(10 Conforms himself to this breach of his for

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