Not as you ferv'd the caufe, but as't had been Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, Enter Cleopatra. "7 To this great Faiery I'll commend thy acts, "Make her thanks blefs thee. O thou day o'th' world, " 8 Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all, Through proof of harness, to my heart, and there "9 Ride on the pants triumphing. Cleo. Lord of Lords! Oh, infinite virtue! com'ft thou fmiling from "The world's great snare uncaught? Ant. My nightingale! We've beat them to their beds. What! Girl, though gray Do fomething mingle with our younger brown, yet ha'we A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can Get goal for goal of youth. Commend unto his lips thy I Behold this man, Kifs it, my warrior; he hath fought to day, Cleo. I'll give thee, friend, An armour all of gold; it was a King's. 7 To this great Faiery-] For Inchantress, in which fenfe the word is often used in the old romances. 8 Chain mine arm'd neck ;- -] Alluding to the gothic cuftom of men of worship wearing gold chains about the neck. 9 Ride on the pants triumphing.] Alluding to an admiral hip on the billows after a storm. The metaphor is extremely fine. 1 Here Mr. Theobald restores an ƒ depofed by the printer to make room for an f Ant. 190 Ant. He has deferv'd it, were it carbuncled -Give me thy hand; Through Alexandria make a jolly march; 2 Bear our hackt targets, like the men that owe them. To camp this hoft, we would all fup together; That heav'n and earth may strike their founds together, [Exeunt. S CE EN E VII. Changes to Cæfar's Camp. Enter a Centry, and his Company. Enobarbus follows. we be not reliev'd within this hour, Cent. If we be not relied to the Court of Guard; the night Is fhiny, and, they fay, we fhall embattle 1 Watch. This laft day was a fhrewd one to's. 2 Watch. What man is this? 1 Watch. Stand close, and lift him. Eno. Be witness to me, O thou bleffed moon, Bear hateful memory; poor Enobarbus did Cent. Enobarbus? 3 Watch. Peace; hark further. Eno. "Oh fovereign Mistress of true melancholy, 2 Bear our backt targets, like the men that owe them.] i. 6. hackt as much as the men are, to whom they belong. "The "The poisonous damp of night' dispunge upon me, "That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, 1 Watch. Let's speak 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. I Watch. Go we to him. 2 Watch. Awake, Sir, awake, speak to us. I Watch. Hear you, Sir? Cent. The hand of death has raught him. [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. 2 -difpunge upon me,] Difpunge a word of his own invention, from the fqueezing out a fpunge upon any one. 3 Hark, how the drums demurely] Demurely for folemnly. The Oxford Editor changes demurely to din early. SCENE Between the two Camps. Enter Antony, and Scarus, with their Army. Ant. 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 stay with us. Order for fea is given; Enter Cæfar, and his Army. [Exeunt. Caf. But being charg'd, we will be still by land, Which, as I take't, we fhall; for his best force Is forth to man his Gallies. To the vales, And hold our best advantage. Exeunt. [Alarum afar off, as at a fea-fight. Enter Antony and Scarus. Ant. Yet they are not join'd: Where yond pine ftands, I fhall discover all, 4 Where their appointment we may beft difcover, And look on their endeavour.] i. e. where we may best difcover their numbers, and see their motions. 5 But being charg'd, we will be ftill by land, Which, as I take't, we shall;-] i. e. unless we be charged we will remain quiet at land, which quiet I fuppose we shall keep. But being charged was a phrafe of that time, equivalent to unless we be, which the Oxford Editor not understanding, he has alter'd the lines thus, Not being charg'd, we will be ftill by land, I'll bring thee word ftraight, how 'tis like to go. [Exit. In Cleopatra's fails their nefts. The Augurs S CE NE IX. Changes to the Palace in Alexandria, Enter Antony. [Exit. LL's loft! this foul Egyptian hath betray'd Ant. ALL's me! My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder They caft their caps up, and carouse 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, Sun, 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 7 -The hearts That PANNELL'D me at heels, &c.] Pannelling at heels mult mean here, following: but where was the word ever found in fuch a sense? Pannel fignifies but three things, that I know, in the English tongue, none of which will fuit with the allufions here requifite; viz. That roll or schedule of parchment on which the names of a Jury are enter'd, which therefore is call'd empan nelling; a pane or flip of wainscot; and a packfaddle for beafts of burden. The text is corrupt, and Shakespear muft certainly have wrote;. That PANTLER'D me at heels; i... run after me like footmen, or pantlers; which word originally VOL. 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