ACT IV Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters, Make mingle with our rattling tabourines; That Heaven and Earth may strike their sounds together, Applauding our approach. SCENE IX. CESAR'S Camp. Sentinels at their post. [exeunt. FIRST SOLD. If we be not reliev'd within this hour, By the second hour i' the morn. SEC. SOLD. Stand close, and list him. ENO. Be witness to me, O thou blessed Moon, Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did FIRST SOLD. Enobarbus! THIRD SOLD. Peace! hark further. ENO. O sovereign Mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, May hang no longer on me: throw my heart Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony, ΤΟ 20 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! [dies. SEC. SOLD. 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 THIRD SOLD. Awake, Sir, awake; speak to us. SEC. SOLD. 30 Hear you, Sir? 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 THIRD SOLD. Come on, then; he may recover yet. [exeunt with the body. ACT IV Sc. IX SCENE X. Between the two Camps. Enter ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army. ANT. Their preparation is to-day by sea; We please them not by land. SCAR. For both, my Lord. ANT. I would they 'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air; Upon the hills adjoining to the City Shall stay with us: order for sea is given; They have put forth the haven: Where1 their appointment we may best discover, And look on their endeavour. SCENE XI. Another Part of the Same. Enter CESAR, and his Army. CAS. But being charg'd, we will be still by land, 1 i.e. upon the hills. [exeunt. [exeunt. ACT IV SCENE XII. Another Part of the Same. 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 SCAR. Swallows have built [exit. Say they know not-they cannot tell; look grimly, Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts, His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight. Re-enter ANTONY. ANT. All is lost; this foul Egyptian hath betray'd me: My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder II They cast their caps up, and carouse together Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly; I have done all: bid them all fly; be gone. [Exit SCARUS. O Sun, thy uprise shall I see no more: 21 O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm- Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end— Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, CLEO. Why is my Lord enrag'd against his love? [Exit CLEOPATRA. If it be well to live; but better 'twere Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death Might have prevented many. Eros, ho! The shirt of Nessus is upon me! Teach me, Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the Moon; 40 [exit. SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA'S Palace. Enter CLEOPAtra, Charmian, IRAs, and MARDIAN. CLEO. Help me, my Women! O, he is more mad Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly Was never so emboss'd. CHAR To the monument! There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead. Than greatness going off. CLEO. To the monument ! Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself; ACT IV And word it, pr'ythee, piteously: hence, Mardian, [exeunt. SCENE XIV. The Same. Another Room. Enter ANTONY and EROS. Ay, noble Lord. ANT. Eros, thou yet behold'st me? EROS. ANT. Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; EROS. Ay, my Lord. ANT. That which is now a horse, even with a thought ANT. My good knave Eros, now thy Captain is Pack'd cards with Cæsar, and false-play'd my glory Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us Ourselves to end ourselves. |