Not as you serv'd the cause, but as it had been
Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.
Enter the city, clip* 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 + I'll commend thy acts,
Make her thanks bless thee.-O 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! com'st thou smiling from
The world's great snare uncaught?

Ant.

My nightingale, We have beat then 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 deserv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phœbus' car.-Give me thy hand; Through Alexandria make a jolly march;

Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them§:

* Embrace.

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

Armour of proof.

As becomes the brave warriors that own 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;
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines* ;

That heaven and earth may strike their sounds to

gether,

Applauding our approach.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IX.

Cæsar's camp.

Sentinels on their post. Enter Enobarbus.

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.

Stand close, and list to 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;

Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponget upon me;

Small drums.

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

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.

To him.

Let's speak

[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. 2 Sold.

1 Sold. The hand of death

Hark, the drums

Hear you, sir?

hath raught him.

[Drums afar off.

Demurelyt wake the sleepers. Let us bear him

To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour

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 Cæsar, and his forces, marching.

Cas. Butt being charg'd, 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.

[Exit.

Swallows have built

Scar. In Cleopatra's sails their nest: the augurers Say, they know not,-they cannot tell; look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony

* Discover their numbers, and see their motions. + Without.

Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,

His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,
Of what he has, and has not.

Ant.

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
They cast their caps up, and carouse together
Like friends long lost.-Triple-turn'd whore*! 'tis
thou

Hath sold me to this novice; and my heart
Makes only wars on thee.-Bid them all fly;
For when I am reveng'd upon my charm,
I have done all :-Bid them all fly, begone.

[Erit Scarus.

O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Fortune and Antony part here; even here

Do we shake hands.-All come to this?-The hearts
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Cæsar; and this pine is bark'd
That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am :
O this false soul of Egypt; this grave charm t,
Whose eye beck'd ‡ forth my wars, and call'd them
home;

Whose bosom was my crownet ý, my chief end,-
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose ||,
Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss.-
What, Eros, Eros!

* Cleopatra first belonged to Julius Cæsar, then to Antony, and now, as Antony supposes, to Augustus. t Deadly piece of witchcraft.

§ Finish.

I Was the motion for. A cheating game, at present named pricking at the belt.