Then was the time for words: no going then ;- Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor, How now, lady! ANT. There were a heart in Egypt. ANT. Breeds scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to Are newly-grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey, Is Fulvia's death. I pr'ythee, turn aside and weep for her; ANT. ANT. Now, by my* sword,- And target!—Still he mends; How this Herculean Roman does become The carriage of his chief." ANT. I'll leave you, lady. Courteous lord, one word. CLEO. Though age from folly could not give Sir, you and I have lov'd, but there's not it; The commentators will have the word best to relate to the "good end" made by Fulvia. But it is no more than an epithet of endearment which Antony applies to Cleopatra;-read at your leisure the troubles she awakened; and at the last, my best one, see when and where she died. f I am quickly ill, and well, This has been misconceived: "So Antony loves" is "As Antony And give true evidence to his lore, &c.] Mr. Collier's annotator, in his eagerness to confound all traces of our early language, would poorly read, " true credence," which, like many of his suggestions, is very specious and quite wrong. The meaning of Antony is this," Forbear these taunts, and demonstrate to the world your confidence in my love by submitting it freely to the "Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloster, He be approv'd," &c.-Henry VI. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 2. " The old and every modern edition read, "The carriage of his chafe." But can any one who considers the epithet "Herculean,' which Cleopatra applies to Antony, and reads the following extract from Shakespeare's authority, hesitate for an instant to pronounce chafe a silly blunder of the transcriber or compositor for "chief," meaning Hercules, the head or principal of the house of the Antonii? "Now it had bene a speech of old time, that the family of the Antonij were descended from one Anton the son of Hercules, whereof the family took the name. This opinion did Antonius seeke to confirme in all his doings: not only resembling him in the likenesse of his body, as we have said before, but also in the wearing of his garments."-Life of Antonius. NORTH'S Plutarch. LEP. I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness: His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary, Rather than purchas'd; what he cannot change, Than what he chooses. CES. You are too indulgent. Let us grant, To tumble on the bed of Ptolemy; As his composure must be rare indeed No way excuse his soils," when we do bear As his own state and ours,-'t is to be chid MESS. Thy biddings have been done; and every hour, Most noble Cæsar, shalt thou have report CES. I should have known no less :It hath been taught us from the primal state, That he which is was wish'd until he were: And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd till ne'er worth love, Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to, and back, lackeying† the varying tide, To rot itself with motion. MESS. With keels of every kind: many hot inroads Antony, CAS. The roughest berry on the rudest hedge; Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he? Or does he walk? or is he on his horse? The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm And burgonet of men.-He's speaking now, Cæsar, [Exeunt. When thou wast here above the ground, I was brow; There would he anchor his aspéct, and die With looking on his life. CLEO. Ha, ha!-Give me to drink mandra- Yet, coming from him, that great med'cine hath a (*) First folio, me. · orient-] Pellucid, lustrous. See note (a), p. 395. b — an arm-gaunt steed,-] The epithet "arm-gaunt" has been fruitful of controversy. Hanmer reads arm-girt; Mason suggests, not unhappily, termagant; and Mr. Boaden, arrogant. If the original lection be genuine, which we doubt, " gaunt must be understood to mean fierce, eager; a sense it, perhaps, bears in the following passage from Ben Jonson's "Catiline," Act III. Sc. 3, " |