Att.

Fly! not we.

Ant. I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards
To run, and show their shoulders.-Friends, be gone;
I have myself resolv'd upon a course,
Which has no need of you; be gone:

My treasure's in the harbour, take it.-0,
I follow'd that I blush to look upon :
My very hairs do mutiny; for the white

Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
For fear and doting.-Friends, be gone; you shall
Have letters from me to some friends, that will
Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:
I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little :
: 'pray you now :—
Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
Therefore I pray you :-I'll see you by and by.

[Sits down. Enter EROS and CLEOPATRA, led by CHARMIAN

and IRAS.

Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him :-Comfort him.

Iras. Do, most dear queen.

Char. Do! Why, what else?

Cleo. Let me sit down. O Juno!

Ant. No, no, no, no, no.

Eros. See you here, sir?

Ant. O fye, fye, fye.

Char. Madam,

Iras. Madam; O good empress!

Eros. Sir, sir,—

Ant. Yes, my lord, yes;-He, at Philippi, kept
His sword even like a dancer; while I struck

The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I,
That the mad Brutus ended: he alone

b He, at Philippi, kept

His sword even like a dancer ;] i. e. Cæsar never offered to draw his sword, but kept it in the scabbard, like one who dances with a sword on which was formerly the custom in England.-STEEVENS.

Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had

In the brave squares of war: Yet now-No matter,
Cleo. Ah, stand by.

Eros. The queen, my lord, the queen.

Iras. Go to him, madam, speak to him; He is unqualitied with very shame.

Cleo. Well then,-Sustain me :-O!

Eros. Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches; Her head's declined, and death will seize her; but Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A most unnoble swerving.

Sir, the queen.

Ant. O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,
How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
By looking back on what I have left behind
'Stroy'd in dishonour.

Cleo.
O my lord, my lord!
Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought,
You would have follow'd.

Ant.
My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,'
And thou should'st tow me after: O'er my spirit
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that
Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
Command me.

Egypt, thou knew'st too well,

Cleo.

Ant.

O, my pardon.

Now I must

To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
And palter in the shifts of lowness; who

With half the bulk o'the world play'd as I pleas'd,
Making, and marring fortunes. You did know,
How much you were my conqueror; and that
My sword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all cause.

1 Dealt on the lieutenantry,] i. e. Fought by proxy, made war by his lieutenants, or on the strength of his lieutenants. STEEVENS.

— unqualitied-] i. e. Unmanned in general, disarmed of his usual faculties. STEEVENS.

How I convey my shame-] How, by looking another way, I withdraw my ignominy from your sight.-JOHNSON.

I tied by the strings,] That is, by the heart-string-JouNSON,

Cleo.

O pardon, pardon.

Ant. Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates All that is won and lost: Give me a kiss;

Even this repays me.-We sent our schoolmaster,

Is he come back?-Love, I am full of lead :

Some wine, within there, and our viands: - Fortune

knows,

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows.

SCENE X.

Cæsar's Camp in Egypt.

[Exeunt.

Enter CESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, and others. Cas. Let him appear that's come from Antony.Know you him?

Dol.

Cæsar, 'tis his schoolmaster :m

An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,

Which had superfluous kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by.

Cas.

Enter EUPHRONIUS.

Approach, and speak.

Eup. Such as I am, I come from Antony:

I was of late as petty to his ends,

As is the morn-dew on the myrtle leaf

To his grand sea."

Cas.

Be it so; Declare thine office.
Eup. Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and
Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,
He lessens his requests; and to thee sues
To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,
A private man in Athens: This for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;
Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves

m

his schoolmaster:] The name of this person was Euphronius. He was schoolmaster to Antony's children by Cleopatra.-STEEVENS and MALONE. n To his grand sea.] i. e. His full tide of prosperity.—STEEVENS.