...- 15 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...here Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts 20 That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming...

...usually, though not invariably, types of fawning sycophancy, and the verb spaniel' d is a brilliant image: The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave...wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Caesar;5 I think that Rylands6 was the first to point out the inwardness of this image; the dogs beneath...

...the battle of Actium, he describes the opportunistic followers who will now desert him as dogs: . . . The hearts That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave...wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets On blossoming Caesar.3 The flatterers who followed him when he was powerful were like spaniels obsequiously pressing...

...and dissolution (discandy, melt), youth and nature (blossoming, pine, barked): Fortune and Anthony part here, even here Do we shake hands? All come to this!? The hearts That spanieled [Folio: pannelled] me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy! melt their sweets...

...that needed no glossing or expansion. Later, Antony himself laments that The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave Their wishes, do discandy,...their sweets On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is barked That overtopped them all. Betrayed I am. O this false soul of Egypt! This grave charm, Whose...