But let the world rank me in register

A mafter leaver, and a fugitive :
Oh Antony! oh Antony!

1 Watch. Let's fpeak to him.

Cent. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæfar.

2 Watch. Let's do fo, but he fleeps.

[Dies.

Cent. Swoons rather, for fo bad a prayer as his Was never yet for fleep.

1 Watch. Go we to him.

2 Watch. Awake, Sir, awake, fpeak to us. Watch. Hear you, Sir?

Cent. The hand of death hath raught him.

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[Drums afar off. Hark, how the drums demurely wake the fleepers : Let's bear him to the court of guard; he is of note. Our hour is fully out.

2 Watch, Come on then, he may recover yet. [Exeunt.

SCENE VIII. Between the two camps. Enter Antony and Scarus, with their army. Ant. Their preparation is to day by fea,

We please them not by land.

Scar. For both, my Lord.

Ant. I would they'd fight i' th' fire, or in the air, We'd fight there too. But this it is; our foot

Upon the hills adjoining to the city

Shall ftay with us.

Order for fea is given;

They have put forth the haven: Further on,

Where their appointment we may best discover,
And look on their endeavour t.

Enter Cæfar and his army.

[Exeunt.

Caf. But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take't, we fhall; for his beft force
Is forth to man his gallies. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.

* Demurely, for folemnly.

[Exeunt.

[Alarum afar off, as at a fea-fight.

† i. e. Where we may best discover their numbers, and fee their motions.

Enter Antony and Scarus.

Ant. Yet they are not join'd:

Where yon pine ftands, I fhall discover 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. Antony
Is valiant, and dejected; and by starts,
His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
Of what he has, and has not.

[Exit.

SCENE IX. Changes to the palace in Alexandria. Enter Antony.

Ant. All's loft! this foul Egyptian hath betray'd me! My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder They caft their caps up, and caroufe together Like friends long loft. Triple-turn'd whore! 'tis thou Haft fold me to this novice, and my heart Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly; For when I am reveng'd upon my charm, I have done all. Bid them all fly, be gone. "Oh, fun, thy uprife fhall I fee no more: "Fortune and Antony part here, even here "Do we shake hands-all come to this!-the hearts, "That pantler'd me at heels, to whom I gave "Their-wifhes, do difcandy, melt their sweets "On bloffoming Cæfar: And this pine is bark'd, That overtopt them all. Betray'd I am. Oh, this falle foul of Egypt! this gay charm, Whofe eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home, Whofe bofom was my crownet, my chief end,

Like a right gypfy, hath at fast and loofe

Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss *.

What, Eros! Eros !

Enter Cleopatra.

Ah! thou fpell! avant..

wood.

i. e. To the very centre; alluding to the term of the beart of

Cleo. Why is my Lord enrag'd against his love? An. Vanish, or I fhall give thee thy deferving, And blemish Cæfar's triumph. Let him take thee, And hoift thee up to the shouting Plebeians; Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot

Of all thy fex.

Moft monster-like, be fhewn
For poor'ft diminutives, for doits; and let
Patient Octavia plow thy visage up
With her prepared nails *.

'Tis well thou'rt gone,

[Exit Cleopatra.`

If it be well to live. But better 'twere,
Thou fell'st into my fury; for one death
Might have prevented many. Eros, hoa!
The shirt of Neffus is upon me; teach me,
Alcides, thou mine ancestor; thy rage

Led thee lodge Lichas on the horns o' th' moon,
And with thofe hands that grafp'd the heaviest club,
Subdue thy worthieft felf. The witch shall die;
To the young Roman boy fhe hath fold me, and I fall
Under his plot: fhe dies for't. Eros, hoa! [Exit.
Re-enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian.
Cleo. Help me, my women! oh, he is mòre mad
Than Telamon for his fhield; the boar of Theffaly
Was never fo imbofs'd.

Char. To th' monument,

There lock yourself, and fend him word you're dead. "The foul and body rive not more in parting, "Than greatness going off.

Cleo. To th' monument:

Mardian, go tell him I have flain myself;

Say, that the laft I fpoke was Antony!.

And word it, pr'ythee, piteoudly. Hence, Mardian,

And bring me how he takes my death.

ment.

To the monu`

[Exeunt.

SCENE X. Re-enter Antony and Eros.

Ant. Eros, thou yet behold'st me.

Eros. Ay, Noble Lord.

Ant. Sometime we fee a cloud that's dragonish;

*.e. With nails which the fuffered to grow for this purpose,

A vapour, fometime like a bear, or lion, 'A 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. • They are black vefper's pageants.

Eros. Ay, my Lord.

Ant. That which is now a horfe, even with a thought

'The rack diflimns, and makes it indiftin&t

• As water is in water.

Eros. It do's, my Lord.

Ant. My good knave, Eros, now thy captain is
Even fuch a body; here I'm Antony,

Yet cannot hold this vifible fhape, my knave.
I made these wars for Egypt; and the Queen,
Whofe heart I thought I had, (for fhe had mine;
Which, whilft it was mine, had annex'd unto't
A million more, now loft !) fhe, Eros, has
Pack'd cards with Cæfar, and false play'd my glory
Unto an enemy's triumph-

Nay, weep not, gentle Eros, there is left us
Ourselves to end ourselves.

Mar. No, Antony !

My mistress lov'd thee, and her fortunes mingled
With thine entirely.

Ant. Hence, faucy eunuch, peace, fhe hath betray'd And fhe fhall die the death.

[me,

Mar. Death of one perfön can be paid but once, And that she has discharg'd. What thou would'st do, Is done unto thy hand; the last she spake

Was Antony! Moft Noble Antony!

Then in the midst a tearing groan did treak
The name of Antony; it was divided
Between her heart and lips; fhe render'd life,
Thy name fo buried in her.

Ant. Unarm me, Eros, the long day's task is done, And we must fleep; that thou depart'ft hence safe, Does pay thy labour richly; go

Off, pluck off;·

The fevenfold fhield of Ajax cannot keep

[Exit Mardian.

The battery from my heart. O cleave, my fides!
Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,
Crack thy frail cafe ! apace, Eros, apace.
No more a foldier-bruifed pieces, go;

[Unarming himself.

- from me a while

[Exit Eros.

I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
Weep for my pardon. So't must be, for now
All length is torture; fince thy torch is out,
Lie down, and fray no further.

Now all labour

Mars what it does, yea, very force intangles
Itself with strength; feal then, and all is done.
Eros!-I come, my Queen-Eros!-stay for me,
Where fouls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,
And with our fprightly port make the ghosts gaze;
Dido and her Sichæus fhall want troops,

And all the haunt be ours.— -Come, Eros, Eros!
Enter Eros.

Eros. What would my Lord?
Ant. Since Cleopatra died,

I've liv'd in fuch dishonour, that the gods
Deteft my baseness. 1, that with my fword

Eneas is in all the old editions; but is rightly altered in fome of the latter to Sichaus: For Dido's fondness did not reach to the other world: fhe then despised Æneas, and returned to her old affec

tion for Sichæus.

Tandem corripuit fefe, atque inimica refugit

In nemus umbriferum; conjunx ubi priftinus illi
Refpondet curis, aquetque Sichæus amorem.

This comparison of Antony to Sichæus is remarkably appofite. Si chaus was murdered by his brother Pygmalion for his wealth, on which his wife Dido fed into Africa: So Antony was fought with and defeated at Actium by his brother Octavius, for his fhare of the do. minion of the world; whereon Cleopatra fled from the victor's rage nto Egypt.