Are level now with men ; the odds is gone; Char. Oh, quietness, Lady! Iras. She's dead too, our fovereign. Ghar, Lady! Iras. Madam! Char. Oh Madam, Madam, Madam Iras. Royal Egypt! Emprefs! Char. Peace, peace, Iras. [She faints. Cleo, No more but a mere woman, and commanded By fuch poor paffion as the maid that milks, And does the meanest chares! It were for me To throw my fcepter at th' injurious Gods; To tell them, that this world did equal theirs, Become a dog that's mad: Then is it fin, And make death proud to take us. Come away, This cafe of that huge spirit now is cold. Ah, women, women! come, we have no friend But refolution, and the briefeft end. [Exeunt, bearing off Antony's body, ACT V. SCENE, Cæfar's Camp. (32) Enter Cæfar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Mecænas, Gallus, and Train. G CESAR O to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; He mocks the paufes that he makes. [Exit Dolabella. (32) Enter Caefar, Agrippa, Dolabella, and MENAS.] But Menas and Menecrates, we may remember, were the two famous Pirates linked with Sextus Pompeius, and who affifted him to infest the Italian Coaft. We no where learn, exprefly in the Play, that Menas ever attached himself to Octavius's Party. Notwithstanding the old Folio's concur in marking the Entrance thus, yet in the two places in the Scene, where this Character is made to fpeak, they have marked in the Margin, Mec. fo that, as Dr. Thirlby fagaciously conjectured, we muft cafhier Menas, and fubftitute Mecanas in his Room. Menas, indeed, deferted to Cæsar no less than twice, and was preferred by him. But then we are to confider' Alexandria was taken, and Antony killed himself, Anno U¡ C. 723.4 Ments made the fecond Revolt over to Auguftus, U. C. 717: and the next Year was flain at the Siege of Belgrade in Pannonia, five Years before the Death of Antony. (33) Dol. Cæfar, I fhall. I make no Doubt, but it fhould be mark'd here, that Dolabella goes out. "Tis reafonable to imagine, he fhould prefently depart, upon Cafar's Command; fo that the Speeches, placed to him in the Sequel of this Scene, must be tranfferred to Agrippa, or he is introduced as a Mute. Befides, that Dolabella fhould be gone out, appears from this, that when Cæfar afks for him, he recollects that he had fent him on Bufinefs. Enter Enter Dercetas, with the fword of Antony. Caf. Wherefore is that? and what art thou, that dar’st Appear thus to us? Der. I am call'd Dercetas ; Mark Antony I ferv'd, who beft was worthy Caf. What is't thou say'st? Der. I fay, oh, Cafar, Antony is dead. Caf. The breaking of fo great a thing fhould make A greater crack. The round world fhould have shook Lions into civil ftreets, and citizens Into their dens-The death of Antony Is not a fingle doom, in that name lay Der. He is dead, Cafar,. Not by a publick minifter of juftice, Nor by a hired knife; but that felf-hand, Which writ his honour in the acts it did, Hath with the courage, which the heart did lend it, I robb'd his wound of it: behold it ftain'd Caf. Look you fad, friends : The Gods rebuke me, but it is a tiding To wash the eyes of Kings! Agr. And ftrange it is, That nature muft compel us to lament Our moft perfifted deeds. Mec. His taints and honours Weigh'd equal in him Agr. A rarer fpirit never Did fteer humanity; but you Some faults to make us men. to a Mec. Mec. When fuch a fpacious mirror's fet before him, He needs muft fee himself. Caf. O Antony! I've follow'd thee to this-but we do lance Our equalnefs to this. Hear me, good friends, Egypt. A poor Egyptian yet; the Queen my mistress, Confin'd in all fhe has, (her monument) Of thy intents defires instruction; That the preparedly may frame herself Caf. Bid her have good heart ; She foon fhall know of us, by fome of ours, Determine for her. For Cafar cannot live, Egypt. May the Gods preferve thee! Caf. Come hither, Proculeius; go, and fay, [Exit. We purpose her no fhame; give her what comforts Left in her greatnefs by fome mortal stroke And with your speediest bring us what the fays, Pre Pro. Cafar, I shall. Dokê dix [Exit Proculeius. Caf. Gallus, go you along; where's Dolabella, " To fecond Proculeius. 421 visor tq = con [Exit Gallus. } OV All. Dolabella! Caf. Let him alone; for I remember now? 1 [Exeunt. SCENE changes to the Monument. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Mardian, and Seleucus, Cleo. M' above. Y defolation does begin to make To do that thing, that ends all other deeds; Enter Proculeius. Pro. Cafar fends greeting to the Queen of Egypt, And bids thee ftudy on what fair demands Thou mean'ft to have him grant thee. Cleo. What's thy name? Did tell me of you, bade me truft I do not greatly care to be deceiv'd, you, but That have no ufe for trufting. If your mafter No lefs beg than a kingdom; if he please 2 1 |