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Our hour is fully out.

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

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SCENE IX.

Between the two Camps.

Enter Antony, and Scarus, with their Army, Ant.HEIR preparation is to-day by fea, We please them not by land.

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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 flay with us. Order for fea is giv'n;

6 They have put forth the haven.

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

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Enter Cæfar, and his Army.

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Caf. But being charg'd, we will be ftill by land, Which, as I take 't, we fhall; for his best force Is forth to man his Gallies.

6 They have put forth the haven. Further on,] These words, further on, though not neceffary, have been inferted in the later editions, and are not in the firft.

7 Where their appointment ve may beft difcover, And look on their endeavour.] i. e. where we may best discover their numbers, and fee their motions. WARBURTON. But being charg'd, we will be fil by land,

To the vales,

Which, as I tak't, we shall ;] i.e. unless we be charged we will remain quiet at land, which quiet I fuppofe we fhall 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,

Which as I take't we shall not.
WARBURTON.

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And hold our best advantage.

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

Enter Antony and Scarus.

Ant. Yet they are not join'd.

Where yond pine ftands, I fhall difcover 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 fpeak their knowledge. Antony
Is valiant, and dejected; and by ftarts,
His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear,
Of what he has, and has not.

Ant.

SCENE X.

Changes to the Palace in Alexandria.

A

Enter Antony.

[Exit.

LL's loft! this foul Egyptian hath be
tray'd me!

My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder
They caft their caps up, and carouse together
Like friends long loft. 2 Triple-turn'd whore! 'tis

thou

Haft fold me to this Novice, and my heart
Makes only wars on thee.

9-Triple-turn'd whore!] She was first for Antony, then was fuppofed by him to have turned to Cafar, when he found his mesfenger killing her hand, then the trned again to Antony, and now has turned to Cafar. Shall I mention what has dropped into my

Bid them all fly:

imagination, that our author might perhaps have written tripletongued? Double-tongued is a common term of reproach, which rage might improve to tripletongued. But the prefent reading may fland.

For

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 spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do difcandy, melt their sweets
On bloffoming Cafar: and this pine is bark'd,
That over-topt them all. Betray'd I am.

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Oh, this falfe foul of Egypt! this grave Charm, Whofe eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home,

Whose bofom was my Crownet, my chief end,
Like a right Gipfy, hath at faft and loofe
Beguil'd me to the very heart of lofs.
What, Eros, Eros!

3

Enter Cleopatra.

Ah! thou fpell! avant.

Cleo. Why is my Lord enrag'd against his Love! Ant. Vanish, or I fhall give thee thy deferving, And blemish Cafar's Triumph. Let him take thee, And hoift thee up to the fhouting Plebeians;

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That pannell'd me at heels, Sir T. Hanmer fubftituted Spaniel'd by an emendation, with which it was reafonable to expect that even rival commentators would be fatisfied; yet Dr. Warburton propofes pantler'd, in a hote, of which he is not injured by the fuppreffion, and Mr. Up ton having in his firft edition propofed plaufibly enough,

That paged me at heels,

alteration, and maintains pannell'd to be the right reading, being a metaphor taken, he fays, from a pannel of wainscot.

2 this grave charm,] I know not by what authority, nor for what reason, this grave Charm, which the firft, the only original copy, exhibits, has been through all the modern editions changed to this gay Charm. By this grave Charm, is meant, this fublime, this majeftick beauty.

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Follow

Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
Of all thy fex. 4 Moft monter like, be fhewn
For poor'ft diminutives, for dolts; and let
Patient Oct via plough thy vifage up

5 With her prepared nails. 'Tis well, thou'rt gone;
[Exit Cleopatra,
If it be well to live. But better 'twere,
Thou fel 'ft into my fury; for one death
Might har e prevented many. Eros, hoa!
The fhirt of Neffus is upon me; teach me,
Alcides, thou mine anceftor, thy rage.

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Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' th' Moon, And with thofe hands that grafpt the heaviest club, Subdue my worthieft felf. The Witch fhall die; To the young Roman boy fhe had fold me, and I fall Under his plot: fhe dies for 't. Eros, hoa! [Exit,

Re-enter Cleopatra, Charmion, Iras, and Mardian. Cleo. Help me, my women! oh, he is more mad Than Telamon for his fhield; the boar of Theffaly Was never fo imbost.

Char. To th' monument,

4-Most monster-like, be fewn For poor'ft diminutives, for

DOLTS; As the allufion here is to monsters carried about in fhews, it is plain, that the words, for poorest diminutives, anuit mean for the leaft piece of money; we must therefore read the next word,

for DOITS, . e. farthings. which fhews what he means by poorest diminutives. WARB.

5 With her prepared nails] . e. with nails which the fuffered to grow for this purpose. WARB. Let me lodge LichasSir T. Hanmer reads thus, -thy rage

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Led thee lodge Lichas-andSubdue thy worthieft felf.This reading, harfh as it is, Dr. Warburton has received, after having rejected many better. The meaning is, Let me do fomething in my rage, becoming the fuc ceffor of Hercules.

Led thee lodge Lichas on the

kerns a' th' moon,] This image our poet feems to have taken from Seneca's Hercules, who fays Lichas being launched into the air, fprinkled the clouds with his blood. Sophocles, on the fame occafion, talks at a much foberer rate. WARBURTON.

There

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

Cleo. To th' Monument:

Mardian, go tell him I have flain myself;
Say, that the laft I spoke was Antony;

And word it, pr'ythee, piteously. Hence, Mardian, And bring me how he takes my death. To th' Mo[Exeunt.

nument.

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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; 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 horse, ev'n with a thought

The Rack diflimns, and makes it indiftinct

As water is in water.

Eros. It does, my Lord.

Ant. My good knave, Eros, now thy Captain is
Ev'n fuch a body; here I'm Antony,

Yet cannot hold this vifible fhape, my knave.
I made these wars for Ægypt; and the Queen,
Whofe heart, I thought, I had, for fhe had mine;
(Which, whilst it was mine, had annex'd unto 't
A million more, now loft!) fhe, Eros, has

Pack'd

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