(Éreunt.

Bear orr hack'd targets like the men that owe Enter CESAR with his Forces, marching. them :

Ces. But being charg'd, we will be still by Had our great palace the capacity

land, To camp this host, we all would sup together,

Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force And drink carouses to the next day's fate,

Is forth to man his gallies. To tbe vales,
Which promises royal peril.-Trumpeters, And hold our best advantage.
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines;

Re-enter ANTONY and SCARUS. That heaven and earth may strike their sounds Ant. Yet they're not join'd: Where younder together,

pine does stand, Applanding our approach.

(Exeunt. I shall discover all; P'll bring thee word

Straight how 'uis like to go.
SCENE IX.-CESAR's Camp.

(Erit.

Scar. Swallows have built SENTINELS on their post. Enter ENOBABBUS. In Cleopatra's sails their nests : the angurers

Say, they know kot,-they cannot tell ;-look 1 Sold, If we be not reliev'd within this hour,

grimly, We must return to the court of guard it The And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony night

Is valiant and dejected ; and, by starts, Is shiny; and, they say, we shall embattle

His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear, By the second hour i'the moru.

Of what he has and has not. 2 Sold. This last day was A sbrewd one to us.

Alarum afar off, as at a Sea Fight. Eno. O bear me witness, night! 3 Sold. What man is this?

Re-enter ANTONY.
2 Sold. Stand close, and list to him.
Eno. Be witness to me, 0 thou blessed moon, This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me :

Ant. All is lost!
When men revolted sball upon record
Bear bateful memory, poor Enobarbus did

My fleet have yielded to the foe ; and yonder Before thy face repent !

They cast their caps up, and carouse together 1 Sold. Enobarbus !

Like friends long lost.–Triple-turn'd whore !

'tis thou 3 Sold. Peace; Hark further.

Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart
The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me; I have done all :-Bid them all ty, begone.

Eno: O sovereign mistress of trae melancholy, Makes only wars on thee.-Bid them all fly :
That lire, a very rebel to my will,
May hang no longer on me : Throw my heart

(Exit Scards. Against the flint and hardness of my fault ;

O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more : Which, being dried with grief, will break to Fortune and Antouy part bere; even here powder,

Do we shake hands.-All come to this ?- The

hearts And finisb all foul thoughts. O Antony, Nobler than my revolt is infamous,

That spauiel'd me at heels, to whom I gave Forgive me in thine owu particular;

Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets But let the world rank me in register

On blossoming Cesar; and this piue is bark'd, A master-leaver, and a fugitive :

That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am: O Antony! 0 Antony !

[Dies.

O this false soul of Egypt ! this grave charm, t 2 Sold. Let's speak

Whose eye beck'd I forth my wars, and callid

them lioine ; To bim. Sold. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, s

Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end, May concera Cesar. 3 Sold. Let's do so. But he sleeps.

Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss.I Sold. Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer

Wbat, Eros, Eros ! as his

Enter CLEOPATRA. Was never yet for sleeping. 2 Sold. Go we to him.

Ab! thou spell! Avaunt. 3 Sold. Awake, awake, Sir; speak to us. Cleo. Why is my lord enrag'd against his 2 Sold. Hear you, Sir.

love? i Sold. The band of death hath raugot ģ him. Ant. Vanish ; or I shall give thee thy desery. Hark, the drums

ing,

(Drums afur off. And blemish Cesar's triumph. Let him take thee, Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians : To the court of guard; he is of note : our hour Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot Is fully out.

of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown 3 Sold. Come on then ;

For poor'st diminutives, to dolts : || and let He may recover yet.

Patient Octavia plough thy visage up (Ereunt with the Body. With her prepared nails. (Erit CLEO.) 'Tis well

thou'rt gone. SOENE X.-Between the two Camps. If it be well to live : But better 'twere

Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death Enter ANTONY and SCARUS, with Forces

Might have prevented many.--Eros, bo! marching.

The shirt of Nessus is upon me : Teach me, Ant. Their preparation is to-day by sea;

Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage : We please them not by land.

Let me lodge Lichas ** on the horns o'the inoon ; Scar. For both, my lord.

And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest Ant. I woulu, they'd fight i'the fire, or in the

club,

Subdue my worthiest self. Tbe witch shall die ; We'd fight there too. But this it is : Our foot To the Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall Upon the hills adjoining to the city,

Under this plot: she dies for’ı.- Eros, bo! Shall stay with us ; order for sea is given ;

(Exit. They bave put forth the haven : Further on, Where their appointment we inay best discover, Cleopatra first belonged to Jaliut Cesar, then to Aud look on their endeavour. [Exeunt. Antony, and now, as Antous supposes, te Augustus.

+ This majestic beauty.

Called forth.

A cheating game, at present named pricking at the • As becomes the warriors that own them. + The belt. ( For the smallest piece of money to clowus. guard-room. * Pour out, as a sponge when Hercules.

* The bos that brought the squeezed, The encicut preterite tense of reach. I poisoned shirt to Hercules.

air ;

Pack'd cards with Cesar and false play'd my His baseness that ensued i

Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us

Ourselves to end ourselves. -Oh! thy vile lady!
The name of Antony ; it was divided
Between ber heart and lips : she render'd life,

Ant. Eros, unarm : the long day's task is
And we must sleep --That thou depart'st hence

Does pay thy labour richly ; Go.-Off, pluck

The battery from my heart. O cleave, my sides!

leben, in hunting, is when the animal foams at the

js hest ferce

RUS, bere poende

Word

anguren

ronder

gonish;

eert

these signs ;

Eros. Ay, my lord.

come :

As water is in water.
Eros. It does, my lord.

73 SCENE X1,- Alexandria.-A Room in the Heart, once be stronger than thy continent, Palace.

Crack thy frail case ! -Apace, Eros, apace.--.

No more a soldier :-Bruised pieces, gor:
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAs, and You have been nobly borne.-From me awhile.
MARDIAN.

(Exit Eros.
Cleo. Help me, my women! Oh, he is more I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
mad

Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of All length is torture :-Since the torch is out, Was never so emboss'd +

(Thessaly Lie down, and stray no further : Now all labour Char. To the monument;

Mars what it does ; yea, very force entangles There lock yourself, and send him word you are itself with strength : Seal then, t and all is dead.

done. The soul and body rive t not more in parting, Eros II come, my queen :-Eros !-Stay for me : Than greatness going off.

Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in Cleo. To the inonument :

hand, Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;

And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze :
Say, tbat the last I spoke was, Antony;

Dido and her Æneas shall want troops,
And word it, pr’ythee, piteously : Hence,

And all the haunt be ours.-Come, Éros, Eros !
Mardian ; and bring me how he takes my death.
To the monument.

(Exeunt.

Re-enter EROS.
SCENE XII.-The same.
Another Room.

Eros. What would my lord ?

Ant. Since Cleopatra died,
Enter ANTONY and EROS.

I have liv'd in such dishonour, that the gods
Ant. Eros, thou yet behold'st me

Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword Eros. Ay, noble lord.

Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's

back
Ant. Sometime, we see a cloud that's dra. With ships made cities, condemn myself, to lack
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion,

The courage of a woman ; less noble mind
A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock,

Than she, which, by her death,

our Cesar tells, A forked mountain, or blue promontory

I am conquerer of myself. Thou art sworu, With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,

Eros,

(now And inock our eyes with air : Thou hast seen is come indeed) when I should see behind me

That, when the exigent should come, (which They are black vesper's pageants.

The inevitable prosecution of

Disgrace and borror, that, on my command,
Ant. That, which is now a borse, even with a

Thou then would'st kill me: do't; the time is
thought,
The racký dislimbs; and makes it Iodistiuct,

Thou strik'st not me, 'tis Cesar thou defeat'st.
Put colour in thy cheek.

Eros. The gods withhold me !
Ant.
My good knave, | Eros, now thy captain Tbough enemy, lost aim and could not ?

Shall I do that, which all the Parthian darts,
Even such a body: here I am Antony;
Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.

[is
Ant. Eros,

(see I made these wars for Egypt; and the queen,

Would'st thou be window'd in great Rome, and Whose bean, I thought, I had, for she had

Thy master thus with pleach'di arms, bending

down
(Which, wbilst it was mine, bad annex'd unto't

His corrigible $ neck, his face subdued
To penetrative shame ; whilst the wheeld seat

of fortunate Cesar, drawn before him, branded [glory Eros. I would not see't.

Ant. Come then ; for with a wound 1 must be

car'd.
Enter MARDIAN.

Draw that thy honest sword, which thou bast worn
Most useful for thy country.

Eros. O Sir! pardon me.
My mistress lova thee, and her fortunes mingled

Ant. When I did make thee free, swor'st thou

not then

To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once ;
She hatha betray'd me, and shall die the death

Or thy precedent services are all
Mar. Death of one person can be paid but

Bat accidents unpurpos’d. Draw and come.

Eros. Turn from me then that noble counte. And that she has discharg'd : What thou would'st wherein the torship of the whole world lies.

Ant. Lo thee.

[Turning from him. Eros. My sword is drawn.

Ant. Then let it do at once
The thing why thou hast drawn it

Eros. My dear master,
My captain, and my emperor ! let me say,
Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.

Ant. 'Tis said, man ;--and farewell.
Eros. Farewell, great chief.

now
Ant. Now, Eros.

Eros. Why, there then
The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep
(Exit MARDIAN. Of Antony's death,
Thus do I escape ihe soriow

(Dics.
Ant. Thrice nobler than myself I
Thou teachest me,

A me

Folded.
I
S.The track, or form, destroy taphor borrowed from civil contacts

Corrected

mine
A million more, now lost)-she, Eros, has
Unto an enemy's triumph.--

She has robb'd me of my sword.

Mar. No, Antony;
With thine entir-ly.
Ant. Hence, saucy eunuch ; peace :

once ;

do,
li done unto thy band; the last she spake
Was, Antony ! inost noble Antony !
Then in the midst a tearing groan did break

Thy name so buried in her.

Ant. Dead then
Mer. Dead.

done,

Shall I strike

safe,

I should, and thou could'st not. My queen and All strange and terrible events are welcome, Eros

But coniforts we despise ; our size of sorrow, Have, by their brave instruction, got upon me Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great A nobleness in record : but I will be A bridegroom in my death, and run into't

Enter DIOMEDES. As to a lover's bed. Come then; and, Eros, As that which makes it.-How now? is he dead Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus

Dio. His death's upon him, but not dead. (Falling on his Sword. Look out o'the other side your monument, I learn'd of thee. How ! not yet dead ! not His guard hath brought him thither.

dead The guard !-ho !--Oh I despatch me.

Enter ANTONY, borne by the GCARD.

Cleo. O thon sun,
Enter DERCETAS and GUARD.

Burn the great spliere thou mov'st in-dark. 1 Guard. What's the noise !

lingo stand Ant. I have doue my work ill, friends; Ob! The varying shore o'the world !-O Antony! make an end

Antony, Antony !---Charmian, belp; help, Iras : of what I have begun.

Help, friends below ; let's draw him hither. 2 Guard. The star is fallen.

Ant. Peace : í Guard. And time is at his period. Not Cesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony, All. Alas, and woe!

But Antony's hath triumphed on itself. Ant. Let him that loves me, strike me dead. Cleo. So it should be, that none but Antony 1 Guard, Not I.

Should conquer Antony : but woe 'uis so ! 2 Guard. Nor I.

Ant. I am dying, Egypt, dying ; only 3 Guard. Nor any one. (Ereunt GUARD. I here impórtune death a while, until Der. Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers of many ihousand kisses the poor last fly.

I lay upon thy lips.-
This sword but shown to Cesar, with this tidings, Cleo. I dare not, dear
Shall enter me with him.

(Dear my lord, pardon,) I dare not,

Lest I be taken : not the imperious show
Enter DIOMEDES.

of the full-fortun'd Cesar ever shall Dio. Where's Antony?

Be brooch'd + with me : if kuile, drugs, ser. Der. There, Diomed, there.

pents, have Dio. Lives he ?

Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe : Wilt thou not answer, man? (Erit DERCETAS. Your wie Octavia, with her modest eyes, Ant. Art thou there, Diomed! Draw thy And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour sword, and give me

Demuring upon me.-But comne, come, An. Sufficing strokes for death.

tony, Dio. Most absolute lord,

Help me, my women, we must draw thee up: My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.

Assist, good friends. Ant. When did she send thee

Ant. O quick, or I am gone. Dio. Now, my lord.

Cleo. Here's sport, indeed !-How heavy weighs Ant. Where is she ?

my lord ! Dio. Lock'd in her monument. She had a Our strength is all gone into heaviness, prophesying fear

That makes the weight: Had I great Juno's of what hath come pass : for when she saw

power, (Which never should be found,) you did suspect the strong-wing’d Mercury should fetch thee up, She had dispos'do with Cesar, and that your And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a rage

little, Would not be purg'd, she sent you word she was Wishers were ever fools ;-0 come, come, come; dead ;

[They draw ANTONY up. But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent And welcome, welcome ! die where thou hast Me to proclain the truth; and I am come,

liv'd : I dread, too late.

Quicken with kissing; had my lips that power, Ant. Too late, good Diomed :-Call my guard, Thus would I wear them out. I pr’ythee.

All. A heavy sight! Dio. What, ho! the emperor's guard! The Ant. I am dying, Egypt, dying : guard, what ho !

Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. Come, your lord calls.

Cleo. No, let ine speak; and let me rail so

high, Enter some of the GUARD.

That the false housewife Fortune break ber Ant. Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra Provok'd by my offence.

(wheel bides:

Ant. One word, sweet queen : 'Tis the last service that I shall command you. of Cesar seek your honour, with your safe. I Guard. Woe are we, Sir, you may not live

ty.-0! to wear

Cleo. 'They do not go together, All your true followers out.

Ant. Gentle, hear me : All. Most beavy day!

None about Cesar trust, but Proculeius. Ant. Nay, good my fellows, do not please Cleo. My resolution, and my hands, I'll trust; sharp fate

None about Cesar. To grace it with your sorrows : bid that welcome Ant. The miserable change now at my end, Which comes to punish us, and we punish it Lament nor sorrow at : but please your thoughts, Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up : In feeding them with those my former fortunes I have led you oft ; carry me now, good friends, wherein i liv'd, the greatest prince o'the world, And have my thanks for all.

The noblest; and do now not basely dic, [Exeunt, bearing ANTONY. Nor cowardly; put off my beloret to

My countryman; a Roman, by a Roman, SCENE XIII.-The same.--A Monument. Valiantly vanquisb'd. Now, my spirit is going;

I can no more. Enter above, CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and

[Dies. Cleo. Noblest of men, woo't die? IRAS.

Hast thou no care of me I shall I abide Cleo, o Charmian, I will never go from hence. In this dull world, which in thy absevce is Char. Be comforted, dear inadam.

No better than a stve 1-0 see, my women, Cleo. No, I will not:

The crown o'the earth doth welt :-My lordla • Made terms with

• Without light.

Adoracd.

Act I. Lre welcome ze of To, be a great

P; bon, la

beart:

Ces. The breaking of so great a thing should How calın and gentle I proceeded still
Scene I. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

75 Oh! wither'd is the garland of the war, Hath, with the courage which the heart did The soldier's pole is fallen ; young boys, and

lend it,
girls,

Splitted the heart. This is his sword,
Are level now with men : the odds is gone, I robb'd his wound of it: behold it stain'd
3.
And there is nothing left remarkable,

With his most noble blood.
Beneath the visiting moon.. (She faints. Ces. Look you sad, friends 3
Char. O quietness, lady!

The gods rebuke me, but it is a tidings
Tras. She is dead too, our sovereign.

To wash the eyes of kings.
Char. Lady,

Agr. And strange it is,
her.
Iras. Madam,

That nature must compel us to lament
GOALS
Char. O madam, madam, madam!

Our most persisted deeds.
Iras. Royal Egypt !

Mec. His taints and honours
Empress!
Orst in

Waged equal with him.
Char. Peace, peace, Iras.

Agr. A rarer spirit never 0 Antal

Cleo. No more, but e'en a woman; and com Did steer humanity : but you, gods, will give us manded

Some faults to make us men. Cesar is touch'd.
By such poor passion as the maid that milks, Mec. When such a spacious mirror's set be-
And does the meanest chares. It were for me

fore him,
To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods ; He needs must see himself.
To tell them, that this world did equal theirs, Ces. O Antony !
Till they had stolen our jewel. All's but naught; I have foliow'd thee to this :-But we do lance
Patielice is sottish ; and impatience does

Diseases in our bodies : I must perforce 'tis o !

Become a dog that's mad : Then, is it sin,
only

Have shown to thee such a declining day,
To rush into the secret house of death,

Or look on thine ; we could not stall together Ere death dare come to us ---How do you, In the whole world : But yet let me lament, wumen 1

With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
What, what? good cheer? Why, how now, That thou, my brother, my competitor
Charmian

In top of all design, my mate in empire,
My noble girls !-Ah, women, women! look, Friend and companion in the frout of war,
Our tanp is spent, it's out :-Good Sirs, take the arm of mine own body, and the heart

Where inine his thoughts did kindle, -that (To the GUARD belore.

our stars,
We'll bary him : and then, what's brave, what's Unreconcileable, should divide
Let's do it after the bigh Roman fashion,

Our equalness to this.—Hear me, good friends,-
And make death proud to take us. Come, away :

Rut I will tell you at some meeter season ;
This case of tot huge spirit now is cold.

Enter a MESSENGER.
Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend
the
But resolution, and the briefest eud.

The business of this man looks out of him,
(Exeunt : those above bearing off ANTONY'S

We'll hear him what he says.-Whence are you?
Mess. A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my

mistress,
Confin'd in all she bas, her monument,

of thy intents desires instruction :
ACT V.

That she preparedly may frame herself

To the way she's forced to.
SCENE 1.–Cesar's Camp before Alexan. She soon sball know of us, by some of ours,

Ces. Bid her have good heart;
dria.

How honourable and how kindly we
Enter CESAR, AGRIPPA, Dolabella, MECÆ To be ungentle.

Deterinine for her : for Cesar cannot live
NAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others.
Ces. Go to bim, Dolabella, bid him yield;

Mess. So the gods preserve thee ! (Erit.
Being so frustrate, I tell him, he mocks us by

Ces. Come hither, Proculeius : Go, and say, We purpose her no shame : give her what com

forts

The quality of her passion shall require ;

(Exit DOLABELLA. Lest, in her greatness, by soune mortal stroke Eater DERCETAS, with the sword of Antony. Would be eternal in our triumph : Go:

She do defeat us ; for her life in Rome,
Ces
. Wherefore is that ? and what art thou, And, with your speediest, bring us what she says,

And how you find of her.
Pro. Cesar I shall.

(Exit PROCULEIUS. Best to be serv'd : whilst he stood up and spoke,

Ces. Gallas, go you aloug.-Where's Dola

bella, To spend upon his haters: If thou please

To second Proculeius ?

[Exit Gallus. Agr. Mec. Dolabella!

Ces. Let him alone, for I remember now
How he's employed : he shall in time be ready.
Go with me to my tent, where you sball see

How hardly I was drawn into this war ;
(shook In all my writings : Go with me, and see

(Exeunt.

noble,

Body.

The pauses that he makes.

Dol. Cesar, I shall.

that dar'st
Appear thus g to us!

Der. I am callid Dercetas :
Mark Antony I servd, who best was worthy
He was my master; and I wore my life,
To take me to thee, as I was to him
I'll be to Cesar; if thou pleasest not,
1 yield thee up my life.
Ces. What is't thou say'st ?
Der. I say, 0 Cesar, Antony is dead.

make
A greater crack : The round world should have what I can show in this.
Lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens : The death of Antony
is not a single doom ; in the name lay
A moiety of the world.

Der. He is dead, Cesar;
Not by a public minister of justice,
Nor by a hired knife : but that self hand,
Which writ his honour in the acts it did,

SCENE II.-Alexandria.--A Room in the

Monument.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMAIN, and Iras.

Cleo. My desolation does begin to make
A better life : 'Tis paltry to be Cesar;
Not being fortune, he's but fortune's knave, t

t Servant

The soldier's object of admiration.

Frustrated

+ Task-work. With Antony's bloody sword.

• Its.

A minister of her will ; And it is great Blow me iuto abhorring ! rather make
To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; My country's high pyramids my gibbet,
Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change ; And hang me up in chains I
Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, Pro. You do extend
The beggar's nurse and Cesar's.

These thonghts of horror further than you shall Enter, to the Gates of the Monument, PROCU.

Fiad cause iu Cesar.
LEIUS, GALLUS, and Soldiers.

Enter DOLABELLA.
Pro. Cesar sends greeting to the queen of Dol. Proculeius,
Egypt;

What thou hast done thy master Cesar knows, And bids thee study on what fair demands And he hath sent for thee : as for the queen, Thou mean'st to have bim grant thee.

I'll take her to my guard. Cleo. (Within.) What's thy name ?

Pro. So, Dolabella, Pro. My name is Proculeius.

It shall content me best : be gentle to her.Cleo. [Within.) Antony

To Cesar I will speak what you shall please. Did tell me of you, bade me trust you ; but

(TO CLEOPATRA. I do not greatly care to be deceiv'd,

If you'll employ me to him. That have no use for trusting. If your master Cleo. Say, I would die. Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him, (Ereunt PROCULEIUS, and Soldiers. That majesty, to keep decorum, must

Dol. Most noble empress, you have heard of No less beg than a kingdom : if he please

me ? To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,

Cleo. I cannot tell. he gives me so much of mine owu, as i

Dol. Assuredly, you know me. Will kneel to him with thanks.

Cleo. No matter, Sir, what I have heard, or Pro. Be of good cheer :

known. You are fallen into a princely band ; fear no-You laugh, when boys, or women, tell thels thing;

dreams; Make your full reference freely to my lord, Is't not your trick 1 Who is so full of grace, that it flows over

Dol. I understand not, madamn. On all that need : Let me report to him

Cleo. dream'd, there was an emperor ArYour sweet dependancy; and you shall find

tony ;A conqueror, that will pray in aid for kindness, Oh! such another sleep, that I might see Where he for grace is kneelid to.

But such another man! Cleo. (Within.) Pray you, tell him

Dol. If it might please you,I am his fortune's vassal, and I send bim

Cleo. His face was as the heavens ; and therein The greatness he has got. • I hourly learn

stuck A doctrine of obedience, and would gladly A sun and moon ; whicb kept their course, and Look him i'the face.

lighted Pro. This l'll report, dear lady.

The little o, the earth. Have comfort: for I kuow your plight is pitied Dol. Most sovereign creature, or him that caus'd it.

Cleo. His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd Gal. Yon see how easily she may be sur.

arm priz'd ;

Crested the world : his voice was propertied (Here PROCULEIUS, and two of the Guard, As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ;

ascend the Monument by a Ladder placed But wben he meant to quail and shake the against a Window', and having descended,

orb, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of the He was as ratling thunder. For his bounty,

Guard unbar and open the Gates. There was no winter in't; an autumu 'twas, Guard her till Cesar come.

That grew the more by reaping : His delights (To PROCULEIUS und the Guard. Exit. Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above GALLUS.

The element they liv'd in : In his livery Iras. Royal queen !

Walk'd erowns and crownets ; realms and Islands Char. 0 Cleopatra ! thou art taken, qaeen ! Cleo. Quick, quick, good hands.

As plates + dropp'd from his pocket. (Drawing a Dagger. Dol. Cleopatra, Pro. Hold, worthy lady, hold :

Cleo. Think you there was, or might be, such (Seizes and disarms her. Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this As this I dream'd of Reliev'd, but not betray'd.

Dol. Gentle madam, no. Cleo. What, of death too

Cleo You lie, up to the hearing of the gods. That rids our dogs of languish ?

But, if there bé, or ever were one such, Pro. Cleopatra,

It's past the size of dreaming : Nature wants Do not abuse my master's bounty, by

stutt

(gine The undoing of yourself : let the world see To vie strange forms with fancy ; yet, to imaHis nobleness well acted, which your death An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, Will never let come forth.

Condeinning shadows quite. Cleo. Where art thou, death?

Dol. Hear me, good madam : Come hither, come ! come, come, and take a queen Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it Worth many babes and beggars !

As answering to the weight: 'Would I might Pro. O temperance, lady!

never Cleo. Sir, I will eat no meat, i'll not drink, O'ertake pursu'd success, but I do feel, If idle talk will once be necessary, (Sir; By the rebound of yours, a grief that shoots I'll not sleep neitlier : This mortal house I'll My very beart at root. ruin,

Cleo. I thank you, Sir. Do Cesar what he can. Know, Sir, that I Know you what Cesar means to do with me Will not wait pinion's + at your master's court; Dol. I ain loath to tell you what I would you Nor once be chastis'd with the sober eye

knew. of dull Octavia. Sha tbey hoist me up,

C'leo. Nay, pray you, Sir,-
And show me to the shouting varletry 1

Dol. Though he be honourable,--
or censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt Cleo. He'll lead me theu in triumph
Be gentle grave to me! rather on Nilus' mud Dol. Madam, he will:
Lay me stark naked, and let the water-ties I know it.

Within. Make way there,- Cesar. • The crown which he has won.

la bonds. • Rabble.

• Crush.

+ Silver money.

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