The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,

With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder; To see't, mine eyes are blasted.

Enter SCARUS.

Scar. Gods and Goddesses, All the whole synod of them! Eno. What's thy passion?

Scar. The greater cantle of the world is lost With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away Kingdoms and provinces.

Eno. How appears the fight?

Scar. On our side like the token'd pestilence, Where death is sure. Yon' ribald-rid nag of Egypt, Whom leprosy o'ertake! i' the midst o' the fight, When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd, Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, The brize upon her, like a cow in June, Hoists sails, and flies.

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Eno. That I beheld mine eyes

Did sicken at the sight on't, aud could not
Eadure a further view!

Scar. She once being loof'd,

The noble ruin of her magick, Antony,
Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,
Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:

I never saw an action of such shame';
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate so itself.

Eno. Alack, alack!

Enter CANIDIUS.

Can. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, And sinks most lamentably. Had our general

Been what he knew himself, it had gone well :
O, be has given example for bur flight,
Most grossly, by his own. şar

Why then,

Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts?
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Can. Towards Peloponnesus are they fled. Scar Tis easy to't; and there I will attend } What further comes.

Can To Caesar will I render

My legions, and my horse; six Kings already
Show me the way of yielding.
Eno. I'll yet follow 3d 1.

The wounded chance of Antony,

breason

Sits in the wind against me.

though my

[Exeunt.

Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more safe dupon't feel

It is asham'd to bear me!

Friends, come hither

I am so lated in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever

I have a ship
Laden with gold; take that, divide it; Ay,
And make your peace with Caesar,

Att. Fly! not we. I hoc 0.

Ant. I have fled myself; and have instructed

To run

Cowards

and show their shoulders.

l 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.
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

huli yent 376 shall

Have letters from me to some friends, that will

Sweep your way for you. Pray yon, look not sad,
Nor make replies of loathiness: take the hinti)
Which my despair proclaims; Jet 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 → I
Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
Therefore I pray you see you by hnd by.
[Sits down.

Enter EROS, and CLEOPATRA, led by CHARMIAN 2011 and IRAs.

Eros. Nay, gentle Madam, to him: - Com

fort him. "'Iras. Do", "most dear Queen. Salt Char. Do! Why what else?

79 Cleo. Let me sit down. O Junon modòs, kish
Ant. No, no, no, no, no aristai de rts I
Erbs. See you here, Sir?"
Ant. O fye, fye', fye. Sar
Char. Madame dow

Iras.

O good Empress! by Bros. Sir S1987. Ant,, Yes, my Lord, yes;

arblue skept

He, at Philippi,

His sword even like a dancer; while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and twas 1,7 I

That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on Heutenantry, and no practice had
In the brave squares of war: Yet now-
Cleo. Ah, stand by.

No matter.

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:

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0!

Eros. Most noble Sir, arise; the Queen ap

proaches;

Her head's declin'd, and death will seize her; but
Your comfort makes the rescue.

Ant. I have offended reputation;

A most unnoble swerving."

Eros. 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.in e kom

Ant. Egypt, thou knew'st too well,

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
Coinmand me. dhage bus

Cleo. O my pardon. I

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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,

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;

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Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster, Is he come back? Love, I am full oflead:

Some wine, within there, and our viands :

Fortune knows,

We scorn her most, when most she offers blows. [Exeunt

Caes. Let him appea

Know you him?

Others.

appear that's come from Antony,

Dol. Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster/:{}

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An argument that he is
hat he is pluck'd; when hither
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing, birow
Which had superfluous Kings for messengers,
Not many moons gone by..

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Enter Ambassador from ANTONY,

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Caes. Approach, and speak.

Amb. Such as I am, I come from Antony I was of late as petty to his ends, how tak As is the morn-dew on the myrile leafood T To his grand sea,nwol to hide ad un sting hu A Caes. Be it so Declare thine offices; tid di Amb. Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and Requires to live in Egypt; which not granted, He lessens his requests; and to thee sues