SCENE VI.-Cæsar's Camp before Alexandria.
Flourish.-Enter CESAR with AGRIPPA, ENOBAR
BUS, and others.

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

Make it so known.

Agr. Cæsar, I shall.

[Exit Agrippa.

Cas. The time of universal peace is near:

Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world Shall bear the olive freely.

Mess. Antony

Enter a MESSENGER.

Is come into the field.

Cæs. Go, charge Agrippa

Plant those that have revolted in the van,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury

Upon himself.

[Exeunt Cæsar and his Train. 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 to sorely, That I will joy no more.

Enter a SOLDIER of Cæsar's.

Sold. 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 safed the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.
[Exit, Soldier.

Eno. I am alone the villain of the earth,
And feel I am so most. O Antony,

Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid My better service, when my turpitude

Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my

heart:

• Swells.

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
Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul'st best fits
My latter part of life.

[Exit.

SCENE VII.-Field of Battle between the Camps. Alarum.-Drums and Trumpets.-Enter AGRIPPA, and others.

Agr. Retire, we have engaged 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 indeed!

Had we done so at first, we had driven them home With clouts about their heads.

Ant. Thou bleed'st apace.

Scar. I had a wound here that was like a T, But now 'tis made an H.

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

serves

For a fair victory.

Scar. Let us score their backs,

And snatch 'em up, as we take liares, behind; 'Tis sport to maul a runner.

Ant. I will reward thee

Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold

For thy good valour. Come thee on.

Scar. 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 guests.-To-morrow, Before the sun shall see us, we'll spill the blood

That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;
For doughty-handed are you; and have fought
Not as you served the cause, but as it had been
Each man's like mine; you have shewn all Hectors.
Enter the city, clipt your wives, your friends,
Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears
Wash the congealment from your wounds, and
kiss

The honour'd gashes whole.-Give me thy hand; [To Scarus.

Enter CLEOPATRA, attended.

To this great fairy t I'll commend thy acts, Make her thanks bless thee.-0 thou day o' the world,

Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all, Through proof of harness to my heart, and there Ride on the pants triumphing.

Cleo. Lord of lords!

O infinite virtue! comest thou smiling from
The world's great snare uncaught?

Ant. My nightingale,

We have beat them to their beds. What, girl? though grey

Do something mingle with our brown; yet have we
A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can
Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man ;
Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand;-
Kiss it, my warrior :-He hath fought to-day,
As if a god, in hate of mankind, had
Destroy'd in such a shape.

Cleo. I'll give thee, friend,

An armour all of gold; it was a king's.

Ant. He has deserved it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand; Through Alexandria make a jolly march; 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;
And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril.-Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;

* Brave.

+ Embrace. Beauty united with power, was the popular characteristic of fairies.

Armour of proof.

As becomes the brave warriors that own them.

Make mingle with our rattling tabourines ; That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,

Applauding our approach.

SCENE IX.-Casar's Camp.

[Exeunt.

SENTINELS on their Post.-Enter ENOBARBUS. 1 Sold. If we be not relieved within this hour, We must return to the court of guard: the night Is shiny; and, they say, we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.

2 Sold. This last day was

A shrewd one to us.

Eno. O, bear me witness, night.3 Sold. What man is this?

2 Sold. Stand close,-and list to him.

Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blessed modn,
When men revolted shall upon record

Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!-

1 Sold. Enobarbus !

3 Sold. Peace;

Hark further.

Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy; The poisonous damp of night disponget upon me; That life, a very rebel to my will,

May hang no longer on me throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault;
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Nobler than my revolt is infamous,
Forgive me in thine own particular;
But let the world rank me in register
A master-leaver, and a fugitive:
O Antony! O Antony!

2 Sold. Let's speak

To him.

[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 sleeping.

2 Sold. Go we to him.

3 Sold. Awake, awake, Sir; speak to us.

Small drums.

+ Discharge, as a sponge when squeezed, dis charges the moisture it had imbibed.

2 Sold. Hear you, Sir?

1 Sold. The hand of death hath raught

him.

Hark, the drums [Drums afar off. Demurely + wake the sleepers. Let us bear him To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour Is fully out,

3 Sold. Come on then;

He may recover yet.

[Exeunt with the Body.

SCENE X.-Between the two Camps.

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 further on,
Where their appointment we may best discover,
And look on their endeavour ‡.
[Exeunt.

Enter CESAR, and his Forces, marching.

Cas. 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,
And hold our best advantage,

Re-enter ANTONY and SCARUS.

[Exeunt,

Ant. Yet they're not join'd: where yonder pine

does stand,

I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word

Straight, how 'tis like to go.

Scar. Swallows have built

In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers

[Exit.

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,
Of what he has, and has not.

Alarum afar off, as at a Sea-Fight.

Re-enter ANTONY.

Ant. All is lost;

* Reached.

+ Solemnly.

Discover their numbers, and see their motions.

$ Without.