A nt. 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 I 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 1 fare thee well.

Oct. My noble brother 1

Ant. The April s in her eyes: it is love's spring. And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful. Oct. Sir, look well to ray husband's bouse; and— Cas. What, Octavia? Oct. f'11 tell you in your ear.

A fit. Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart obey bertonguc; the swan's-down feathers, That stands upon the swell at full of tide. And neither way inclines.

Eno. [ Aside to Agr. I Will Caesar weep?

AA r. [Aside to Eno.] He has a cloud in *s face.

Eno. [Aside to Agr. J He were the worse for that, were he a horse; So is he, being a man.

Agr. \ 4siutrEwo.\ Why, Enobarbus, When Antony found Julius Carsar dead. He cried almost to roaring ; and he wept. When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.

lino. [Asideto Agr.) That year, indeed, he was troubled with a rheum; What willingly he did confound, he wail'd: Believe "t tiR I weep too.

Cm No, sweet Octavia,

You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
Out-go my thinking on you.

Ant. Come, sir, come;

I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
Look, here I have you ; thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods.

Ctes. Adieu; be happy I

Lefi. Let all the number of the stars give light To thy fair way 1

Cizs, Farewell, farewell J

[R'isees Octavia.

A ni. Farewell J

f Trumpets. Exeunt.

SCENE III.—Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
Enter Cleopatra, Charnuaa. Iras, otui A lex as.
Cleo. Where is the fellow?
Alex.

Cleo. Go to, go to.

EfUer a Messenger.

Come, hither, sir.' ■

Alex. Good majesty,

Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you.
But when you are well pleas'd.

Cleo. That Herod's head

I'll have; but Iww, when Antony is gone
Through whom I might command it* Come thou

Affss. Most gracious majesty,— {near,

Cleo. Didst thou, behold

Octavia?

Mess. Ay, dread queen.

Cleo. Where!

Mess. Madam, in Rome

I look'd her in the face: and saw her led
Between her brother and Mark Antony.

Cleo. Is she as tall as me?

Afcss. She is not, madam.

Cleo. Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongu'd. or low?

Mess. Madam, I heard her speak: she ts low-voic'd.
Cleo. That's not so good: he cannot like her long.
Char. Like her I 0 Isis! 'tis impossible.
Cleo. I think so, Chanuian: dull of tongue, and
dwarfish I

What majesty k tn her gait? Remember,
If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.

Mess. She creeps;

Her motion and her station are as one:
She shows u Iwdy rather than a life;
A statue, than a breather.

Cleo Is this certain'?

Afcss. Or I have no observance.

Char. Three in Egypt

Camr.ot make better note.

C-uj. .He*5 very knowing;

Half afeard to come.

I do perceive't: there *s nothing In her yet i

The fellow lias good judgment.

Cliar. Excellent.

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

Mess. Madam, She was a widow,—

Cleo. Widow? Chanuian, hark.

Mess. And I do think she's thirty.

Cleo. Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long o

Afess. Round, even to fauhiness. [round

Cleo. For the most part, too, they are foolish tha. Her hair, what colour? [are so.

Mess. Brown, madam ; and her forehead As low as she would wish it.

Cleo. There's gold for thee.

Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:
[ will employ thee back again: I find thee
Most fit for business . go, make thee ready;
Our letters are prepar'd. I Exit Messenger,

Char. A proper man.

Cleo. Indeed, lie is so: I repent me much. That so I harried lum. Why, methiaks, by him. This creature's no such thing.

Char. Nothing, madam. [know.

Cleo. The man hath seen some majesty, and should

Char. Hath he seen majesty? Isk efse defend, And serving you so long I {Chanuian:

Cleo. I have one thing more to ask him yet, good But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me Where 1 will write. All may be well enough.

Char. I warrant you, madam. [Exeunt.

SCENE IV.—Athens. A Room in Antony's House.
Enter Antony and Octavia.
Ant. Nay, nay, Octavia. not only that,—
That were excusable, that, and thousands more
Of seinblable import,—but he hath wag'd
New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it
To public ear:

Spoke scanlly of me: when perforce he could not
But i>ay ute terms of honour, cold and sickly
He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:
When the best hint was given'hiin. he not took t.
Or did it from bis teeth.

Oct. O my good lord,

Believe not all; or. if you must believe.
Stomach not alL A more untiappy lady.
If this division chance, ne'er stood between.
Praying for both parts;
The good gods will mock me presently.
When I shall pray, " 0, bless my lordand husband/"
Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,
"O, bless my brother / ' Husband win, win brother,
Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway
"Twixt these extremes at all.
1 Ant. Gentle Octavia,

Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,
I lose myself; better I were not yours,
Thau yours so branchless But, as you requested.
Yourself shall go between us; the mean time, lady,
I'll raise the preparation of a war
Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste:
So, your desires are yours.

Oct. Tlianks to my lord.

The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak* Your reconciler I Wars 'twixt you twain would be As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rift.

Ant. When it appears to you where this begins. Turn your displeasure that way ; itx 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 lias mind to. \_Exeunt.

SCENE V.—Athens. Another Room in Antony's

House.

Enter Enobarbus and Eros, meeting,
Eno, How now, friend Erosi
Eros. There's strange news come, sir.
Eno. What, man?

Eros. Crvsar and Lepidus have made wars upon

Pompey.

Eno. This is old: what is the success?

Eros. Cesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Porrrpey. presentty denied him rivality; would not let him partake in the glory of the action, and not resting here, accuses hhu of letters be had formerly wrote to Ponipey; upon his own appeal, seizes htm: so the poor third is up, till death, enlarge his confine. [more;

Eno. Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no And throw between them all the food thou hast. They'll grind the one the other, Where's Antony?

Eros. Hes walking in the garden—thus; and

The rush"* that lies before him; cries. " Fool, LeAml threats the throat of that his officer. [pidus I" That murder'd Pompey.

hno. Our great navy's rigg'd.

Eros. For Italy, and Carsar. More, Dotnidos;
My lord desires you presently: my news
I might hare told hereafter.

Eno. Twill be nought:

,But let it be.—Bring me to Antony.

Eros. Come, sir. [Exeunt.

SCENE VI.—Rome. A Room in Cesar's House. Enter Ca»sar, Agrippa, and Mccxnas.

Cat. Contemning Koine, he has done all this and In Alexandria: here's the manner of it:— (ra°re1' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd. Cleopatra ana himself in chairs of gold Were publicly enthron'd: at the feet sat Ca?sanon. whom they call my father's son, And all the unlawful issue, that their lust Since then hath made between them. Unto her He gave the 'stabhshment of Egypt, made her Of Lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, Absolute queen.

Mec. This in the public cyef

Cat. V the common show-place, where they exercise.

His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of Icings:

Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia,

He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd

Syria, Ctlicia, and Phoenicia: she

In the habiliments of the goddess Isrs

That day appear'd; and oft before gare audience.

As 'tis reported, so.

Mec. Let Rome be thus inform'd.

Agr. Who, queasy with his insolence already, Will their good thoughts call from him.

Cas. The people know it; and have now receiv'd His accusations.

Agr. Whom does he accuser

Cas. Ca?sar : and that, having in Sicily
Scxtus Ptmipeius spoil'd, we had not rated hnn
His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me
Some shipping unrestor'd: lastly, he frets,
That Lepidusof the triumvirate
Should be depos'd; and, being, that we detain
All his revenue.

Agr. Sir. this should he answered.

L as. *Tis done already, ami the messenger gone. I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; That he his high authority abus'd. [quer'd. Ami did deserve his change: for what I have conI grant him part; hut then, in his Armenia* And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I Demand the like.

Mec. Hell never yield to that.

Cas. Nor must not, then, be yielded to in this.

Enter Octavia. (Carsar I

Oct. Hail, Cresar, and my lord I hail, most dear

Cat. That ever I should call thee cast-away!

Oct. Yon have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.

Cas. Why have you stol'n upon us thust You come not

Like Carsar's sister: the wife of Antony
Should have an army for an usher, and
The neighs of horse tn 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 ostentation of our lore, which, left unshown,
Is often left unlov'd: we should have met you
sea and land; supplying every stage

Oct. Good my lord.

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it
Onniy free-will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Hearing that you prepar'd for war, acquainted
My grieved ear withal; whereon, 1 liegg'd
His pardon for return.

Cas. Which soon he granted,

Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.

Oct. Do not say so, my lord.

Cas. 1 have e,.

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

Oct. Mv lord, in Athens.

Cas. 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 Lybia; Archelaus, Of Cappadocia; Philadelphia, king Of I'apfilagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas; King Malchus of Arabia; king of Pont; Herod uf Jewry; Mithridates, king Of Comagene; Polemon and Amintas, The kings of Mede, and Lycaonia, With a more larger List of sceptres.

Oct. Ah roe, roost wretched*

That have my heart parted betwixt two friends
That do afflict each other I

Your letters did withhold our break ir
Till we perceiv d. lioth how you were wrong led,
And we in negligent danger. Cheer yotu neart:
Be you not troubled with the tiuie, which dnves
O'er your content these strong necessities;
But let itetermm'd things to destiny
Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;
Nothing more dear to me You are abus'd
Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods.
To you do justice, make their ministers
Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;
And ever welcome to us.

Agr. Welcome lady. .

Afec. Welcome, dear madam.
Each heart m Rome does love and pity you:
Only the adulterous Antony, most large
In his abominations, .urns you off;
And gives his potent regiment to a trull.
That noises it against us.

Oct. Is it so, sir f

Cas. Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray yoo. Be ever known to patience: my dearest sister 1

\ Exeunt.

SCENE VII.—Antony's Camp, near to the Promon-
tory of Actium.
Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbos.
Cleo. I will even with thec. doubt it not
Eno. But why, why, why?

Cleo. Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,

And say'st, it is not fit.
Eno. Well, is it, is it f »

Cleo. If not denoune'd against us, why should nM

Be there in person i [we Eno. [Aside ) Well. I could reply :—

If we should serve with horse and marcs together.

The horse were merely lost: the marcs would bear

A soldier, and his horse.
Cleo. What is *t you say T

Eno. Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;

Take from his heart, take from his brain, from his time.

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

Cleo. Sink Rome; and their tongues rot.

That speak against us I A charge we bear i'the war.
And, as the president of my kingdom, will
Appear there for a man. Speak not against h;
I will not stay behind.

Eno. Nay. I hare done.

Here comes |he emperor.

Enter Antony and Canidius.
Ant. Is it not strange, Canidins,

That from Tarentum, and Brtmdusium,
He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea.
And take in Toryne t You have heard on't, Sweet?

CUo. Celerity is never more admir'd. Than by the negligent.

Ant, A good rebuke.

Which might have well become the best of men,
To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we
Will fight with htm by sea.

CUo. By sea I What else!

Can. Why will my lord do so!

Ant. For that he dares us to't

Eno. So hath my lord dar'd hiin to single fight.

Can. Ay, and to wage his battle at Pharsalia, Where Qesar fought with Pompey: but these offers, Which serve not tor his vantage, he shakes off; And so should you.

Eno. Your ships are not well mann'd,

Your mariners are muleteers, reapers, people
Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet
Are those, that often have *gainst Pompey fought:
Their ships are yare , 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 most ctfnsist
Of war-mark'd footmen ; leave unexecuted
Your own renowned knowledge: quite forego
The way which promises assurance ; and
Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard.
From firm security.

Ant. IH fight at sea.

CUo. I have sixty sails, Ca?sar none better.

Ant. Our overplus of shipping will we burn;
And, with the rest, full-mann'd, from the head of
Actium

Beat the approaching Caesar: but if we fail.
We then can do t at land.

Enter a Messenger.

Thy business?

Mess. The news is true, my lord; he is descried; Caesar has taken Toryne.

Ant. Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible; Strange, that his power should be.—Canidius, Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship: Away, my Thetis t

Enter a Soldier.

How now, worthy soldier I

Sold. O noble emperor, do not fight by sea; Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt This sword, and these my wounds! Let the Egyptians, And the Phoenicians, go a ducking: we Have us'd to conquer, standing on the earth. And fighting foot to foot.

Ant. Well, well: away

\Exeunt Ant., Cleo., and Enobarbus.

Sold. By Hercules. I think 1 am i' the right.

Can. Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows Not in the power on t: so qur leader's led. And we are women's men.

Sold. You keep by land

The legions and the horse whole, do you not?

Can. Marcus Octavius. Marcus Justeius, Publicola. and Caelius, are for sea: But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's Carries beyond belief.

Sold. "While he was yet in Rome,

His power went out in such distractions,
As beguil'd all spies.

Can. Who's his lieutenant, hear you?

Sold. They say, one Taurus.

Can. Well I know the man.

Enter a Messenger.
Mess. The emperor calls Canidius.
Can. With news the time's with labour; and
throes forth.

Each minute, some. {Exeunt.
SCENE VIII.—A Plain near Actium.
Enter Caesar, Taurus, Officers, and others.
Cas. Taurus,—
Taur. My lord?

Ctes. Strike not by land; keep whole:

Provoke not battle, till we have done at Sea.
Do not evceed 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 Caesar's battle; from which place We may the number of the ships behold, And so proceed accordingly. j Exeunt.

Enter Canidius, marching with his land army one ■way ; and Taurus, the lieutenant of Caesar, with his army, the other way. After they are gone, the noise of a sea Jlght is Iteard.

Alarum. Re-enter Enobarbus.

Eno Naught, naught, all naught 1 I can behold no longer: The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral. With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder: To see't, mine eyes are blasted.

Enter Scarus.

Scar. Gods, and goddesses,

All the whole synod of them I

Eno. What's that passion?

Scar, The greater cantle 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 nag of Egypt, Whom leprosy o'ertake I 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. That I beheld;

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and coutd not
Endure a further view.

Scar. She once being loofd,

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:
I never saw an action of such shame;
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate so itself.

Eno. Alack, alack 1

Enter Canidius.

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

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why, then, good night, indeed.

Can. Towards Peloponnesus are they fled.

Scar. 'Tis easy lo "t. and there I will attend What further comes.

Can. To Caesar will I render

My legions, and my horse : six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.

Eno. Ill yet follow

The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason Sits in the wind against me. \Exeunt.

SCENE IX.—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 1—Friends, come hither,
I am so latcd in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever;—I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it, fly,
And make your peace with Caesar.
■ Attendants. Fly I not we.

Ant. I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards

To run, and sliowtheir 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.—O,
1 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 cone: 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 itseil: to the sea-side straightway:
I will possess ymi of that ship and treasure-
Leave ine, 1 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,

[Mils dawn.

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. OJunol
Ant. No, no, no, no, no.
Eros. See you here, sir!
Ant. O fie, fie. fie 1
Char, Madam,—
Iras. Madam, O Rood empress,—
Bros. 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 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.

Cieo. Ah, stand by.

Eros. The queen, iny lord, the queen.

Iras. Go to nuu, madam, speak to him: He is unqualified with very shame.

CIta. \V ell then— sustain me :—O I

Eros. Most noble sir, arise ; the queen approaches; Her head's declin'd, and death will seize her, 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 what I have left behind 'Stroy'd in dishonour.

Cleo. O iny lord, my lordl

Forgive my fearful sails: I little thought
You would have follow'd.

Aut. Egypt, thou knew'st too well.

My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings.
And thou thooldst tow me after: o'er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods

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. Pardon, pardon!

Ant, Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates
All that is won and lost : give me a ktss;
Even this repays inc.—We sent our schoolmaster J
Is he tome back ?—1-ove. I am full of lead:
Some wine, within there, and our viands: Fortune
knows.

We scorn her most when most she offers blows.

[Exeunt.

SCENE X.—Caesar's Camp in Egypt Enter Cxsar. Dotabclla, Thyreus, and others. Cas Let him appear that's come from Antony. Know you him?

Dot. Cresar, 'tis his schoolmaster:

An argument that he spluck'd, when hither
Ho sends so poor a pinion of his wing.
Which had superfluous kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Enter Euphronius.

Cat, Approach, and speak.

Euph, 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.

Car. Be it so: declare thine office.

Euph. Lord of his fortunes lie 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
A private man in Athens: this for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might; and of thee crave'

The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,

Now hazarded to thy grace.

Cats. 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 [lis life there: this if she perform.
She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.

Euph. Fortune pursue thee!

Cos. Bring him through the bands.

\Exit Euphronius.

[TiuThyr.J To .try thy eloquence, now 'tis time; despatch: From Antony win Cleopatra: promise. And in our name, what site requires; add more. From thine invention, offers: women are not In their best fortunes strong; but want willperjure 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. Ca;sar, I go.

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

Thyr. Cassar, I shall.

[Exeunt.

SCENE XI.—Alexandria. A Room in the Palace,

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
Lord of his reason. What though you fled
From that great face of war, whose several ranges
Frighted each other, why should be 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 sname no less
Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,
And leave his navy gazing.

Cleo, Pr'ythee, peace.

Enter Antony, with Euphronius.

Ant. Is that his answer?

Eitph. Ay, my lord.

Ant. The queen shall, then, have courtesy, so she

Will yield us up?
Euph. He says so.

Ant. Let her know it.—

To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,
And he will till thy wishes to the brim
With principalities

Cleo. That head, my lord?

A nt. To him again: tell him, he wears the rose. Of youth upon him ; from which the worid should note Something particular ; his coin, ships, legions. May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail Under the service of a child, as soon As i' the command of Caesar; I dare him, therefore. To lay his gay comparisons apart. And answer me declin'd, sword against sword, Ourselves alone: 111 write it: follow me.

[Exeunt Antony and Euphronius.

F.no. Yes, like enough, high-hattled Ca*sar will
(instate his happiness, and be stag'd to the show
Against a swonier. 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 Caesar will
Answer his emptiness!—Ciesar, thou hast subdu'd
His judgment too.

Enter an Attendant.

Att A messenger from Cfesar.

Cleo. What, no more ceremony? See, my women 1 Against the blown rose may they stop their nose, That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.

[Exit Attendant

Eno. [Aside.] Mine honesty and I begin to &
The loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly: yet he, that can endure
To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,
Does conquer him that did his master conquer,
And earns a place t' the story.

# Enter Thyreus.

Clro. Caesar's will 1

Thy, Hear it apart.

cut.

None but friends: say boldly.

Thyr. So. haply, arc they friends to Antony.

Eno. He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has; Or needs not us. If Ca;sar please, our master Will leap to be his friend: fur us, you know, Whose nc is, we are, and that is Cassar's.

Thyr. So,— Thus then, thou most renown'd: Cassar entreats, Not to consider in what case thou stand'st, Further than he is Caesar.

Cleo. Go on: right royal.

Thyr. He knows, that you embrace not Antony As you did love, but as you fear'd him.

Cleo. 01

Thyr. The scars upon your honour; therefore, he Does pity, as constrained blemishes, Not as deserv'd.

Cleo. He is a god, and knows

What is most right : mine nonour was not yielded,
But conquer'd merely.

Eno. j Aside.} To be sure of that,

I will ask Antony.—Sir, sir, thou'rt so leaky,
That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for
Thy dearest quit thee. [Exit.

Thyr. Shall I say to Ca;sar

What you require of him? for he partly begs
To be desir'd to give. It much would please him,
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.

Cfep. What's your name?

Thyr. My name is Thyreus.

Cleo. Most kind messenger,

Say to gTeat Caesar this,—in disputation
I kiss his conqu'ring hand: tell him, I am prompt
To lay my crown at's 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. Give me grace to lay
My duty on your hand.

Cleo. Your Caesar's father oft,'

When he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in,
Bcstow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it Fain'd kisses.

Re-enter Antony and Enobarbus.

Ant. Favours, by Jove that thunders I—

What art thou, fellow?

Thyr. One, that but performs

The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest
To have command obey'd.

Eno. [Aside.] You will be whipp'd.

Ant. Approach, there I—Ay, you kite !—Now, gods and devils I

Authority melts from ine: of late, when I cried, " ho 1'
Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,
And cry, ■' Your will? "—Have you no ears?

Enter Attendants. I am Antony yet. Take hence this Jack, and whip him.

Eno. 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp, Than with an old one dying.

A fit. Moon and stars 1

Whip him :—Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries 'at do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them

: (What s her name,

Tha

So saucy with the hand of she 1
Since she was Cleopatra?) W
Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face.
And whine aloud for mercy : take him hence.
Thyr, Mark Antony,—

Ant. Tug him away: being whipp'd,

Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall
Bear us an errand to him.

[Exeunt Attendants ivith Thyreus
You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha I
Have 1 my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,
Forborne the getting of a lawful race.
Aild by a gem of women, to be abus'd
By one that looks on feeders?

Cleo. Good my lord,—

Ant. You have been a boggier ever:
But when we in our viciousness grow hard,

iO misery on t !} the wise gods seel our eyes
n our own tilth; drop our clear judgments; make us

Adore our errors; laugh at us, while we strut
To our confusion.

Cleo. O, is it come to this?

Ant. I found yoti as a morsel, cold upon Dead Caesar's trencher; nay. you were a fragment Of Cneius Pompey's; besides wh.it 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 I O, that 1 were
Upon the hil! of Basan, to outroar
The homed herd 1 for I have savage cause ,
And to proclaim it civilly, were like
A halter'd neck, which does the hangman thank
For being yare about him.

Re-enter Attendants, with Thyreus.

Is he whipp'd!

1 Att. Soundly, my lord.

Ant. Cried he? and begg'd he pardon?

t Att. He did ask favour.

Ant, If that thy father live, let him repent Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry To follow CaeMr in his triumph, since Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceThe white hand of a lady fever thee; [forth. Shake thou to look on't. Get thee back to Caesar, Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say. He makes me angry with him; for he seems Proud and disdainful, harping on what 1 am. Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry; And at this time most easy 'tis to do't. When my good stars, that were my former guides. Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires Into their abysm of hell. If he inislike 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 ine: urge it thou: Hence with thy stripes, begone. [Exit Thyreus.

Cleo. Have you done yet?

Ant. Alack, our terrene mooa

Is now ecllps'd; and it portends alone
The fall of Antony I

Cleo. I must stay his time.

Ant. To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes With one that ties his points?

Cleo. 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 1 The next Caesarion smite I
Till, by degrees, the memory of my womb,
Together with my brave Egyptians all,
IJy the dlscanderrng of tins pelleted storm.
Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile
Have buried them for prey I

Ant. I am satisfied.

C.-esar sits down In Alexandria , where
I will oppose his fate Our force by land
Hath nobly held: our sever'd navy, too,
H ive knit again, and fleet, threat'ning most sea-like.
Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear.
If from the field 1 shall return once more [ladyt
To kiss these lips, 1 will appear in blood;
1 and my sword will earn our chronicle:
There s hope in't yet

Cleo That's my brave lord I

Ant I wilt be trehle-sinew'd. hearted, breath'd.
And ti^Iit maliciously: for when mine hours
Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives
Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,
And semi to darkness all that stop me: com*.
Let's have one other (randy night: call to me
All my sad captains; till our bowls; once more
Let s mock the midnight bell.

Cleo. It is my birthday:

I had thought to have held it poor; but, since my lord Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.

Ant. We will yet do well.

Cleo. Call all his noble captains to my lord.