For doughty-handed are you, and have fought Not as you ferv'd my cause, but as't had been Tell them your feats, whilst they with joyful tears * To this great faiery I'll commend thy acts, Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' th' world, Cleo. Lord of lords, Oh infinite virtue, com't thou fmiling from Ant. My nightingale, We've beat them to their beds. What! girl, though grey Cleo. I'll give thee, friend, An armour all of gold; it was a King's. Ant. He has deferv'd it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand; Bear our hackt targets, like the men that owe them, To camp this hoft, we all would fup together, And drink carowses to the next day's fate With brazen din blaft you the city's ear, 1 *The word Faiery here is to be understood in the fenfe of it chantress which it often carries in the old Romances. That That heav'n and earth may ftrike their founds together, Applauding our approach. SCENE VIII. Cæfar's Camp. [Exeunt Enter a Centry, and bis Company. Ænobarbus follows. We must return to th' court of guard; the night I Watch. This laft day was A fhrewd one to's. Eno. O bear me witness, night! 2 Watch. What man is this? I Watch. Stand close, and liften to him. Eno, Be witness to me, O thou bleffed moon, When men revolted fhall upon record Bear hateful memory; poor #nobarbus did Cent. Enobarbus? 3 Watch. Peace; Hark further.` Eno. Oh fovereign miftrefs of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night difperge 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. Oh Antony, Nobler than my revolt is infamous, Forgive me in thine own particular, I Watch. Let's speak to him. Cent. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæfar. 2 Watch. Let's do fo, but he fleeps. Cent. Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his Was never yet for fleep. I Watch, Go we to him. 2 Watch. Awake, Sir, awake, fpeak to us. Dd 2 [Dies 1 Watch I Watch. Hear, you Sir! Cent. The hand of death hath caught him. [Drums afar off. Hark how the drums din early wakes the fleepers : Of note. Our hour is fully out. 2 Watch. Come on, He may recover yet. [Exeunt SCENE IX. Between the two Camps: Enter Antony, and Scarus, with their Army. 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'th' fire, or in the air, Shall stay with us. Order for fea is given, [Exeunt Enter Cæfar, and bis Army. ว [Exeunt. [Alarum afar off, as at a fea-fight, Enter Antony and Scarus. Ant. Yet they're not join'd: Where yond pine ftands, I fhall difcover all. I'll bring thee word ftraight, how 'tis like to go. [Exit Scar, Swallows have built In Cleopatra's fails their nefts. The augurs Say, they know not-they cannot tell-look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Is valiant, and dejected, and by starts Antony His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear SCENE X. [Exit. ALEXANDRIA, This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me, 1 Like friends long loft. Triple-turn'd whore! 'tis thou Beguil'd me to the very heart of lofs. What, Eres, Eros! Enter Cleopatra. Ah, thou spell! avant. Cleo. Why is my Lord enrag'd against his love? With her prepared nails. 'Tis well thou'rt gone, If it be well to live. But better 'twere Dd 3 Subduc Subdue thy worthieft felf. The witch fhall die; [Exit Re-enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian. Char. To th' monument, There lock your felf, and fend him word you're dead : Cleo. To th' monument : Mardian, go tell him I have flain my self, And word it, pr'ythee, piteously. Hence, Mardian, [Exeunt. SCENE XI. Enter Antony and Eros. Ant. Eros, thou yet behold'ft me. Eros. Ay, noble Lord. Ant. Sometime we fee a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour fometime like a bear, or lion, tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air. Thou'ft feen thefe figns, Eros. Ay, my Lord. Ant. That which is now a horfe, even with a thought The rack diflimns, and makes it indiftinct As water is in water. Eros. It do's, my Lord. Ant. My good knave, Eros, now thy captain is Yet cannot hold this vifible fhape, my knave. Unto |