Lord of lords! CLEO. O, infinite virtue! com'st thou smiling from ANT. My nightingale, We have beat them to their beds. Destroy'd in such a shape. I'll give thee, friend, CLEO. ANT. He has deserv'd it, were it carbuncled Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them. To camp this host, we all would sup together, That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together SCENE IX.-Cæsar's Camp. Sentinels at their post. 1 SOLD. If we be not reliev'd 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. Was a shrewd one to's. ENO. This last day Enter ENOBARBUS. O, bear me witness, night, 3 SOLD. What man is this? 2 SOLD. Stand close, and list him. ENO. Be witness to me, O, thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy face repent!— 1 SOLD. 3 SOLD. Hark further. Enobarbus! Peace! [Exeunt. tabourines;] Tabourines was another name for drums, and coours again in 'Troilus and Cressida," Act IV. Sc. 5,-" Beat loud the tabourines." ENO. O, sovereign mistress of true melancholy, May hang no longer on me: throw my heart Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, 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 sleep. 2 SOLD. Go we to him. 3 SOLD. Awake, sir, awake! speak to us. 2 SOLD. Hear you, sir? 1 SOLD. The hand of death hath raught him! Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him 3 SOLD. Come on then; He may recover yet. Hark! the drums [Drums afar off. [Exeunt with the body. SCENE X.-Space 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 i' 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 :-© for seep.] Another instance, we apprehend, where "for" is either intended to represent fore, or has been misprinted instead of that word. See note (), p. 36, Vol. III. - -the drums Demurely wake the sleepers.] "Demurely" in this place is more than suspicious. Mr. Collier's annotator conjectures, Do early;" and Mr. Dyce, "Do merrily," but neither reading is very felicitous. They have put forth the haven :] We have adopted a suggestion of Mr. Knight in printing the sentence, "order for sea is given! They have put forth the haven:" [Exeunt. Where their appointment we may best discover, SCENE XI. Another part of the same. Enter CESAR, with his Forces marching CAS. But being charg'd, we will be still by land, SCENE XII.-Another part of the same. Enter ANTONY and SCARUS. ANT. Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine does stand, I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word Straight, how 't is like to go. SCAR. Swallows have built In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers ANT. [Exeunt. [Exit. [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter ANTONY. All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me! My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder Like friends long lost-Triple-turn'd whore! 't is thou Makes only wars on thee.-Bid them all fly! I have done all:-bid them all fly! be gone! O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more! Do we shake hands. All come to this?-The hearts Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets [Exit SCARUS. (†) First folio, pannelled; corrected by Hanmer. (*) First folio, auguries. parenthetically, though there can be little doubt some words after "haven" have been accidentally omitted. Rowe supplied the presumptive deficiency by reading, "Further on;" Capell, by "Hie we on; "Malone, by "Let's seek a spot; " Tyrwhitt, by "and Mr. Dyce, by "Forward now." The last, slightly altered to then," strikes us as preferable to any of the other additions. us go; "Let forward But being charg'd,-] "But" seems to be used here in its exceptive sense-unless or without. Triple-turn'd-] From Julius Cæsar to Cneius Pompey, from Pompey to Antony, and, as he suspects now, from him to Octavius Cæsar. On blossoming Cæsar; and this pine is bark'd, O, this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,a- Enter CLEOPATRA. Ah, thou spell! Avaunt! CLEO. Why is my lord enrag'd against his love? "Tis well thou 'rt gone, Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon; SCENE XIII.-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 emboss'd.e (*) Old text, dolts; corrected by Warburton. [Exit. O, this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,-] Mr. Collier's annotator would read, "O, this false spell of Egpyt, this great charm." Spell is very plausible; but "great charm," is infinitely less expressive and appropriate than "grave charm," i.e., pernicious, deadly, fatal sorceress. b fast and loose,-] A cheating game similar to what is now called pricking at the belt or girdle. e Subdue my worthiest self.] The commentators, excepting Hanmer, have not suspected any corruption here; but would Antony, in this hour of bitter remorse, speak of his "worthiest self"? He might have said, "my worthless self;" yet the context, "the witch shall die," makes it more probable he is thinking of Cleopatra, and that what the author wrote was, "Subdue my worthless elf." Elf being synonymous with witch or fairy. 4the boar of Thessaly-] The boar killed by Meleager. - emboss'd.] See note (•), p. 315, Vol. I. VOL. VI. L There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. CLEO. To the monument! Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself; Say, that the last I spoke was, Antony, And word it, pr'ythee, piteously: hence, Mardian, To the monument! SCENE XIV.-The same. [Exeunt. Another Room. Enter ANTONY and EROS. Ay, noble lord. ANT. Eros, thou yet behold'st me? EROS. ANT. Sometime we see a cloud that 's dragonish; (2) A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs? EROS. Ay, my lord. ANT. That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, ANT. My good knave Eros, now thy captain is Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us Hence, saucy eunuch: peace! She hath betray'd me, and shall die the death. (*) First folio, Cæsars. |