Enter Antony and Enobarbus. Ant. Set we our fquadrons on yond fide o' th' hill, In eye of Cafar's battle; from which place We may the number of the fhips behold, And fo proceed accordingly. SCENE [Exeunt. VII. Canidius, marching with his land-army one way over the Stage; and Taurus, the lieutenant of Cæfar, the other After their going in, is heard the noise of a feafight. Alarm. Enter Enobarbus. way. Eno. Naught, naught, all naught. I can behold no longer; Th' Antonias, the Egyptian admiral, With all their fixty, fly, and turn the rudder; Enter Scarus, Scar. Gods and Goddeffes, All the whole Synod of them! Scar. The greater cantle of the world is loft Eno. How appears the fight? Scar. On our fide like the 7 token'd pestilence, Where death is fure. Yon ribauld nag of Egypt, Enc. That I beheld: Mine eyes did ficken at the fight, and could not Scar. She once being looft, The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, Eno. Alack, alack, Enter Canidius. Can. Our fortune on the fea is out of breath, And finks moft lamentably. Had our General Been what he knew himself, it had gone well: Oh, he has given example for our flight, Moft grofly by his own. Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? why then, good night, indeed. Can. Towards Peloponnefus are they fled. And there I will attend what further comes. 8-ribauld-] A luxurious fquanderer. POPE. The word is in the old edition ribaudred, which I do not underftand, but mention it, in hopes others may raife fome hapРу conjecture. 9 Whom leprafy o'ertake! -] Ler, an epidemical distemper of the Egyptians; to which Ho- Contaminato cum grege turpium The brieze upon her,-] The brieze is the gad-fy, which in fummer ftings the cows, and drives them violently about. Can. 1 Can. To Cafar will I render My legions and my horfe; fix Kings already Eno. I'll yet follow The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason Sits in the wind against me. [Exeunt, feverally. Enter Antony, with Eros and other attendants. Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't, It is afham'd to bear me. I am 3 fo lated in the world, Have loft my way for ever. Friends, come hither, I've a fhip divide it; fly, And make your peace with Cafar. Ant. I've fled myself, and have inftructed cowards To run, and fhew their fhoulders. Friends, be gone. I have myself refolv'd upon a course, Which has no need of you. Be gone, My treasure's in the harbour. Take it. Oh, I follow'd that I blufh to look upon; My very hairs do mutiny; for the white Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them For fear and doating. Friends, be gone; you fhall 2 The wounded chance of Antony,-] I know not whether the authour, who loves to draw his images from the fports of the field, might not have written, The wounded chafe of Antony,The allufion is to a deer wound ed and chafed, whom all other deer avoid. I will, fays Enobarbus, foliow Antony, though chafed and wounded. The common reading however may very well stand. fo lated in the world.-] Alluding to a benighted traveller. I will poffefs you of that ship and treasure. 4 [Sits down. Enter Cleopatra, led by Charmion and Iras, to Antony. Eros. Sir, Sir. Ant. Yes, my Lord, yes.- He at Philippi kept His fword e'en like a dancer, while I ftrook The lean and wrinkled Caffius, and 'twas I, In the brave fquares of war; yet now-no matter→ Eros. The Queen, my Lord, the Queen Iras. Go to him, Madam, fpeak to him, He is unqualitied with very fhame. Cleo. Well then, fustain me; oh! 8 Eros. Moft noble Sir, arife, the Queen approaches; Her head's declin'd, and death will feize her, but Your comfort makes the refcue. Ant. I have offended reputation; A most unnoble swerving Eros. Sir, the Queen. Ant. O whether haft thou led me, Egypt? fee, 9 How I convey my fhame out of thine eyes; By looking back on what I've left behind, 'Stroy'd in difhonour, Cleo. Oh, my Lord, my Lord; Forgive my fearful fails; I little thought, Ant. Egypt, thou knew'ft too well, My heart was to thy rudder 'ty'd by th' ftring, Cleo. Oh, my pardon. Ant. Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge With half the bulk o' th' world, play'd as I pleas'd, Cleo. O, pardon, pardon. 8-death will feize ber, but Your comfort, &c.] But has here, as once before in this play, the force of except, or unless. 9 How I convey ny fhame] How, by looking another way, I withdraw my ignominy from your fight. 1 -ty'd by th' ftring,] That is, by the heart firing. Ant. |