Ant. I am dying, Egypt, dying. Give me fome wine, and let me fpeak a little. Ant. One word, fweet Queen. Of Cæfar feek your honour, with your fafety -- oh- Ant. Gentle, hear me; None about Cafar truft, but Proculeius. Cleo. My refolution, and my hands, I'll truft; None about Cæfar. Ant. The miferable change, now at my end, Lament, nor forrow at: but please your thoughts In feeding them with thofe my former fortunes, Wherein I liv'd the greatest Prince o'th' world, The nobleft once; and do not now bafely die, Nor cowardly put off my helmet to I can no more My Countryman: A Roman, by a Roman The foldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls. Beneath the vifiting Moon. Char. Oh, quietness, Lady. Iras. She's dead too, our Sovereign. Char. Lady! Iras. Madam! Char. Oh Madam, Madam, Madam Iras. Royal Egypt! Emprefs! Char. Peace, peace, Iras. [She faints. Cleo. No more but a meer woman, and commanded By fuch poor paffion as the maid that milks, And And does the meaneft chares! It were for Me Ere death dare come to us? how do you, women? [Exeunt, bearing off Antony's body. SCENE, Cæfar's Camp. (56) Enter Cæfar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Mecænas, Gallus, and Train. G CESAR. O to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; He mocks the paufes that he makes. Dol. (56) Enter Cæfar, Agrippa, Dolabella, and MENAS.] But Menas and Menecrates, we may remember, were the two famous Pirates link'd with Sextus Pompeius, and who affifted him to infeft the Italian Coaft. We no where learn, exprefly in the Play, that Menas ever attach'd him.felf to Octavius's Party. Notwithstanding the old Folio's concur in Dol. Cæfar, I fhall. (57) [Exit Dolabella. Enter Dercetas, with the fword of Antony. Caf. Wherefore is that? and what art thou, that dar'ft Appear thus to us? Der. I am call'd Dercetas ; Mark Antony I ferv'd, who beft was worthy To spend upon his haters. If thou please Caf. What is't thou fay'ft? 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 fhook 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, Hath with the courage, which the heart did lend it, I robb'd his wound of it: behold it ftain'd With his most noble blood. marking the Entrance thus, yet in the two places in the Scene, where this Character is made to speak, they have mark'd in the Margin MEC. fo that, as Dr. Thirlby fagaciously conjectur'd, we must cashier Menas, and fubftitute Mecenas in his Room. Menas, indeed, deferted to Cafar no less than twice, and was preferr'd by him. And Horace has left one Ode, a virulent Invective on Menas for his Shifting and Treachery. (57) Dol. Cæfar, I fhall.] I make no Doubt, but it should be mark'd here, that Dolabella goes out. 'Tis reasonable to imagine, he should presently depart, upon Cafar's Command; fo that the Speeches, placed to him in the fequel of this Scene, muft be transferr'd to Agrippa, or he is introduced as a Mute. Befides, that Dolabella fhould be gone out, appears from This, that when Cafar asks for him, he recollects that he had fent him on Business. Cal. Caf. Look you fad, friends: (58) The Gods rebuke me, but it is a tiding Agr. And strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most perfifted deeds. Mec. His taints and honours Weigh'd equal in him. Agr. A rarer fpirit never I've follow'd thee to this Gods will give us but we do lance I must perforce Have fhewn to thee fuch a declining day, Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends, We'll hear him what he fays. Whence are you? (58) Look you, fad Friends.] I obferv'd in the Appendix to my SHAKESPEARE reftor'd, that it was requifite to tranfpofe this Comma. Octavius's Friends probably would avoid fhewing any Con cern on the News of Antony's Death, left it fhould give Displeasure to Cafar: which Cafar obferving, it fhews a noble Humanity in him to bid them fhare in fuch a Sorrow, and to tell them it is a Calamity, that ought to draw Tears even from the Eyes of Princes. Prince Henry, upon his Father's Death, fpeaks juft in the fame manner to his Brothers; and tho he would not have them mix Fear with their Affliction, he encourages them in their Sorrow. Yet be fad, good Brothers; For, to fpeak Truth, it very well becomes you. Young 2 Henry IV. Enter Enter an Egyptian. Egypt. A poor Ægyptian yet; the Queen my mistress, That the preparedly may frame her self Caf. Bid her have good heart; She foon fhall know of us, by fome of ours, Egypt. May the Gods preserve thee! Caf. Come hither, Proculeius; go, and fay, [Exit. We purpose her no fhame; give her what comforts Left in her Greatness by fome mortal ftroke And with your speedieft bring us what the fays, Pro. Cæfar, I fhall. [Exit Proculeius. Caf. Gallus, go you along ;-where's Dolabella, To fecond Proculeius? All. Dolabella! [Exit Gallus. Caf. Let him alone; for I remember now, [Exeunt. SCENE changes to the Monument. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Mardian, and Se Cleo. leucus, above. Y defolation does begin to make A better life; 'tis paltry to be Cæfar: Not |