N Enter Demetrius and Philo. PHILO. AY, but this dotage of our General, O'erflows the measure; thofe his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and mufters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. His Captain's heart, Which in the fcuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breaft, reneges all temper;' reneges Ireneges-] Renounces, POPE. And 5 And is become the bellows, and the fan, To cool a Gypfy's luft. Look, where they come ! Flourish. Enter Antony, and Cleopatra, ber Ladies in the train, Eunuchs fanning her. Take but good note, and you fhall fee in him Cleo. If it be love, indeed, tell me, how much? Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. Cleo. I'll fet a 5 bourn how far to be belov'd. Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heav'n, new earth. Enter a Messenger. Mef. News, my good Lord, from Rome. Cleo. Nay, hear it, Antony. Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or who knows, Ant. How, my love? Cleo. Perchance, nay and most like, You must not ftay here longer, your difmiffion 8 Is to do thus, when fuch a mutual Pair, [Embracing. And fuch a Twain can do't; in which, I bind, 7 The fum.] Be brief, fum the raised empire, for the ranged thy business in a few words. empire, as it was first given. It is not eafy to guess how Dr. Warburton miffed this opportunity of inferting a French word, by reading, -and the wide arch Of the rang'd Empire fall!-] Taken from the Roman cuftom of raifing triumphal arches to perpetuate their victories. Extremely noble. WARB. I am in doubt whether ShakeSpeare had any idea but of a fabrick ftanding on pillars. The later editions have all printed, and the wide arch Of derang'd empire fall! Which, if deranged were an Englifh word, would be preferable both to raised and ranged. On On pain of punishment, the world to weet, Cleo. [Afide.] Excellent falfhood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? Will be himself. Ant. But ftirr'd by Cleopatra. Now for the love of love, and his foft hours, Ant. Fy, wrangling Queen! Whom every thing becomes; to chide, to laugh, To night we'll wander through the streets, and note [Exeunt, with their Train. Dem. Is Cafar with Antonius priz'd fo flight? Phil. Sir, fometimes, when he is not Antony, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony. Dem. I am full forry, That he approves the common liar, who Thus fpeaks of him at Rome; but I will hope Reft you happy! [Exeunt. have the old Saxon fignification of without, unless, except. Antony, fays the Queen, will recal lect his thoughts, unless kept, he replies, in commotion by Cleopa tra. SCENE SCENE II. Enter Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas, and a Soothsayer. Char. Lord Alexas, fweet Alexas, moft any thing Alexas, almoft most abfolute Alexas, where's the Soothsayer that you prais'd fo to th' Queen? Oh! that I knew this hufband, which you fay, muft change his horns with garlands. Alex. Soothsayer, Sooth. Your will? Char. Is this the man? Is't you, Sir, that know things? Sooth. In Nature's infinite Book of Secrecy, A little I can read. Alex. Shew him your hand. Eno. Bring in the banquet quickly. Wine enough, Cleopatra's health to drink. Char. Good Sir, give me good fortune. Sooth. I make not, but forefee. Char. Pray then, foresee me one. Sooth. You fhall be yet far fairer than you are; Char. He means, in flesh. Iris. No, you fhall paint when you are old. Char. Wrinkles forbid! Alex. Vex not his prefcience, be attentive. Sooth. You fhall be more beloving, than beloved. change his horns with garlands.] This is corrupt; the true reading evidently is, muft CHARGE bis horns with garlands, i e. make him a rich and honourable cuckold, having his horns hung about with garlands. WARBURTON. Sir Thomas Hanmer reads, not improbably, change for horns his garlands. I am in doubt whether to change, is not merely to dress, or to dress with charges of garlands. Char. |