Before the sun shall see us, we 'll spill the blood
That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;
For doughty-handed are you, and have fought
Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been
Each man's like mine: you have shewn all Hectors.
Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,
Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears
Wash the congealment from your wounds, and
kiss

The honoured gashes whole.-Give me thy hand:

[TO SCARUS.

Enter CLEOPATRA, attended.

To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts; Make her thanks bless thee.-O thou day o' the world!

Chain mine armed neck: leap thou, attire and all,

Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand :Kiss it, my warrior.-He hath fought to-day As if a god, in hate of mankind, had Destroyed in such a shape.

Cleo.

I'll give thee, friend,

An armour all of gold: it was a king's.

Ant. He has deserved it, were it carbuncled Like holy Phoebus' car.-Give me thy hand: Through Alexandria make a jolly march; Bear our hacked targets like the men that owe them.

Had our great palace the capacity

To camp this host, we all would sup together,
And drink carouses to the next day's fate,
Which promises royal peril.—Trumpeters,
With brazen din blast you the city's ear;
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines;
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds
together,

Applauding our approach!

SCENE IX. CÆSAR's Camp.

[Exeunt.

Sentinels on their posts. Enter ENOBARBUS

1st Sol. If we be not relieved within this hour, We must return to the court of guard. The night Is shiny, and they say we shall embattle By the second hour i' the morn.

2nd Sol. This last day was a shrewd one to us. Eno. O, bear me witness, night,— 3rd Sol. What man is this?

2nd Sol. Stand close, and list him. Eno. Be witness to me, O thou blesséd moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy face repent!—

1st Sol. Enobarbus !

3rd Sol. Peace: hark further.

Eno. O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, That life, a very rebel to my will,

May hang no longer on me! throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault;

This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:
My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder
They cast their caps up, and carouse together
Like friends long lost.-Triple-turned whore!
't is thou

Hast sold me to this novice: and my heart
Makes only war on thee.-Bid them all fly:
For when I am revenged upon my charm,
I have done all.-Bid them all fly; be gone!
[Exit SCARUS.

O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more!
Fortune and Antony part here; even here

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

That spanielled me at heels, to whom I
gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Cæsar: and this pine is barked,
That overtopped them all. Betrayed I am :
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,—
Whose eye becked forth my wars, and called
them home;

Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,-
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.-
What, Eros, Eros!

Enter CLEOPatra.

Ah, thou spell: avaunt!

Cleo. Why is my lord enraged against his love?

Ant. Vanish; or I shall give thee thy deserving, And blemish Cæsar's triumph. Let him take

thee,

And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
Of all thy sex most monster-like, be shewn
For poor'st diminutives, to dolts; and let
Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
With her prepared nails. [Exit CLEOPATRA.
"T is well thou 'rt gone,

If it be well to live: but better 't were
Thou fell'st into my fury; for one death
Might have prevented many.-Eros, ho!—
The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:
Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;
And with those hands, that grasped the heaviest
club,

Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die: To the Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall

Under this plot: she dies for 't.-Eros, ho! [Exit.

Ant. My good knave, Eros, now thy captain is Even such a body: here I am Antony; Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. I made these wars for Egypt; and the queen (Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine; Which, whilst it was mine, had annexed unto 't A million more, now lost)-she, Eros, has Packed cards with Cæsar, and false played my glory Unto an enemy's triumph.

Nay, weep not, gentle Eros: there is left us Ourselves to end ourselves.-O, thy vile lady!

Enter MARDIAN.

She hath robbed me of my sword.
No, Antony;

Mar.
My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled
With thine entirely.

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

Does pay thy labour richly: go.-[Exit MARDIAN.
Off, pluck off!—

The sevenfold shield of Ajax cannot keep
The battery from my heart. O cleave, my sides!
Heart, once be stronger than thy continent;
Crack thy frail case!-Apace, Eros, apace.—
No more a soldier: bruiséd pieces, go;
You have been nobly borne.-From me awhile.-

[Exit EROS.

So it must be, for now Since the torch is out,

I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and
Weep for my pardon.
All length is torture.
Lie down and stray no further: now all labour
Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles
Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.—
Eros!-I come, my queen :-Eros!--Stay for me:
Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand,
And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:
Dido and her Æneas shall want troops,
And all the haunt be ours.-Come, Eros, Eros!

I have lived in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword
Quartered the world, and o'er green Neptune's
back

With ships made cities, condemn myself, to lack
The courage of a woman: less noble mind
Than she, which, by her death, our Cæsar tells,
"I am conqueror of myself." Thou art sworn, Eros,
That, when the exigent should come (which now
Is come indeed), when I should see behind me
The inevitable prosecution of disgrace
And horror, that, on my command, thou then
Wouldst kill me:-do 't; the time is come:
Thou strik'st not me; 't is Cæsar thou defeat'st.
Put colour in thy cheek.