Ant.

Scar.

I will reward thee

Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold
For thy good valour. Come thee on.

Alarum.

Scene VIII.

Under the walls of Alexandria.

Enter Antony, in a march; Scarus, with others. Ant. We have beat him to his camp: run one before,

Cleo.

And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,
Before the sun shall see 's, we 'll spill the blood
That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;
For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been
Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.
Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears
Wash the congealment from your wounds and kiss
The honour'd gashes whole. [To Scarus] Give me
thy hand;

Enter Cleopatra, attended.

To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,

II

Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world,
Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,
Through proof of harness to my heart, and there
Ride on the pants triumphing!

Lord of lords!

O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from
The world's great snare uncaught?

Ant.

My nightingale,

Cleo.

We have beat them to their beds. What, girl! though grey

Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet

ha' we

A brain that nourishes our nerves and can

Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;
Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:
Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day
As if a god in hate of mankind had
Destroy'd in such a shape.

I'll give thee, friend,
An armour all of gold; it was a king's.

Ant. He has deserved it, were it carbuncled

Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:
Through Alexandria make a jolly march;

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30

Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:
Had our great palace the capacity

To camp this host, we all would sup together
And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;

Make mingle with our rattling tabourines;

That heaven and earth may strike their sounds to

gether,

Applauding our approach.

[Exeunt.

Scene IX.

Cæsar's camp.

Sentinels at their post.

First Sold. If we be not relieved within this hour,

We must return to the court of guard: the night
Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle

Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,
When men revolted shall upon record
Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did
Before thy face repent!

First Sold.

Third Sold.

Hark further.

Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,
That life, a very rebel to my will,

May hang no longer on me: throw my heart
Against the flint and hardness of my fault;
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,
Nobler than my revolt is infamous,

Forgive me in thine own particular,

But let the world rank me in register
A master-leaver and a fugitive:

O Antony! O Antony!

Sec. Sold.

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[Dies.

Let's speak to him.

First Sold. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks

May concern Cæsar.

Third Sold.

Let's do so. But he sleeps.

First Sold. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his

Was never yet for sleep.

Sec. Sold.

Go we to him.

Third Sold. Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.

Hear you, sir?

Sec. Sold.
First Sold. The hand of death hath raught him. [Drums
afar off.] Hark! the drums

Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him
To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour
Is fully out.

Third Sold. Come on, then; he may recover yet.

Scene X.

30

[Exeunt with the body.

Between the two camps.

Enter Antony and Scarus, with their army.

Ant. Their preparation is to-day by sea;

Scar.

We please them not by land.

Ant. I would they 'ld fight

We 'ld fight there too.

For both, my lord.

i' the fire or i' the air;

But this it is; our foot

Upon the hills adjoining to the city

Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;
They have put forth the haven

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

Scene XI.

Another part of the same.

Enter Casar, and his army.

[Exeunt.

Cas. But being charged, we will be still by land,
Which, as I take 't, we shall; for his best force

[Exeunt.

Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,
And hold our best advantage.

Scene XII.

Hills adjoining to Alexandria.

Enter Antony and Scarus.

Ant. Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine does stand,
I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
Straight, how 'tis like to go.

Scar.

Ant.

[Exit.

Swallows have built
In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
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.

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

Re-enter Antony.

All is lost;

This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:

IO

My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder
They cast their caps up and carouse together
Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore! 'tis thou
Hast sold me to this novice, and my heart
Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
For when I am revenged upon my charm,
I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.

[Exit Scarus.

O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Fortune and Antony part here, even here