ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

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V.

The return of OCTAVIA to Rome.

"OCT. Hail, Cæsar, and my lord! hail, most dear Cæsar!

CESAR. That ever I should call thee cast-away!

OCT. You have not call'd me so, nor have

you cause.

CESAR. Why have you stol'n upon us thus? You come

not

Like Cæsar's sister: The wife of Antony

Should have an army for an usher, and

The neighs of horse to tell of her approach,

Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way,
Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,
Longing for what it had not: nay, the dust
Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,

Raised by your populous troops: But you are come
A market-maid to Rome.

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it

On my free will.

AGRIPPA.

MECENAS.

Welcome, lady.

Welcome, dear madam.

Each heart in Rome does love and pity you."

ACT III. S. 6.

VI.

ANTONY perceiving CLEOPATRA's flight from the battle of Actium.

"The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.

She once being loof'd,

The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,

Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,
Leaving the fight in height, flies after her."

My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,

And thou should'st tow me after.

CLEO.

O, my pardon!"

ACT III. S. 9.