The holding euery man shall beate as loud, As his strong sides can volly.
Musicke Playes. Enobarbus places them hand in hand.
The Song.
Come thou Monarch of the Vine,
Plumpie Bacchus, with pinke eyne:
In thy Fattes our Cares be drown’d, With thy Grapes our haires be Crown’d.
Cup vs till the world go round,
Cup vs till the world go round
Caesar. What would you more?
Pompey goodnight. Good Brother
Let me request you of our grauer businesse Frownes at this leuitie. Gentle Lords let’s part, You see we haue burnt our cheekes. Strong Enobarbe Is weaker then the Wine, and mine owne tongue Spleet’s what it speakes: the wilde disguise hath almost Antickt vs all. What needs more words? goodnight. Good Anthony your hand
Pom. Ile try you on the shore
Anth. And shall Sir, giues your hand
Pom. Oh Anthony, you haue my Father house. But what, we are Friends?
Come downe into the Boate
Eno. Take heed you fall not Menas: Ile not on shore, No to my Cabin: these Drummes,
These Trumpets, Flutes: what
Let Neptune heare, we bid aloud farewell To these great Fellowes. Sound and be hang’d, sound out.
Sound a Flourish with Drummes.
Enor. Hoo saies a there’s my Cap
Men. Hoa, Noble Captaine, come.
Exeunt.
Enter Ventidius as it were in triumph, the dead body of Pacorus borne
before him.
Ven. Now darting Parthya art thou stroke, and now Pleas’d Fortune does of Marcus Crassus death Make me reuenger. Beare the Kings Sonnes body, Before our Army, thy Pacorus Orades,
Paies this for Marcus Crassus
Romaine. Noble Ventidius,
Whil’st yet with Parthian blood thy Sword is warme, The Fugitiue Parthians follow. Spurre through Media, Mesapotamia, and the shelters, whether
The routed flie. So thy grand Captaine Anthony Shall set thee on triumphant Chariots, and Put Garlands on thy head
Ven. Oh Sillius, Sillius,
I haue done enough. A lower place note well May make too great an act. For learne this Sillius, Better to leaue vndone, then by our deed Acquire too high a Fame, when him we serues away. Caesar and Anthony, haue euer wonne
More in their officer, then person. Sossius One of my place in Syria, his Lieutenant, For quicke accumulation of renowne,
Which he atchiu’d by’th’ minute, lost his fauour. Who does i’th’ Warres more then his Captaine can, Becomes his Captaines Captaine: and Ambition (The Souldiers vertue) rather makes choise of losse Then gaine, which darkens him.
I could do more to do Anthonius good, But ‘twould offend him. And in his offence, Should my performance perish
Rom. Thou hast Ventidius that, without the which a Souldier and his Sword graunts scarce distinction: thou wilt write to Anthony
Ven. Ile humbly signifie what in his name, That magicall word of Warre we haue effected, How with his Banners, and his well paid ranks, The nere-yet beaten Horse of Parthia,
We haue iaded out o’th’ Field
Rom. Where is he now?
Ven. He purposeth to Athens, whither with what hast The waight we must conuay with’s, will permit: We shall appeare before him. On there, passe along.
Exeunt.
Enter Agrippa at one doore, Enobarbus at another.
Agri. What are the Brothers parted?
Eno. They haue dispatcht with Pompey, he is gone, The other three are Sealing. Octauia weepes To part from Rome: Caesar is sad, and Lepidus Since Pompey’s feast, as Menas saies, is troubled With the Greene-Sicknesse
Agri. ‘Tis a Noble Lepidus
Eno. A very fine one: oh, how he loues Caesar
Agri. Nay but how deerely he adores Mark Anthony
Eno. Caesar? why he’s the Iupiter of men
Ant. What’s Anthony, the God of Iupiter? Eno. Spake you of Caesar? How, the non-pareill? Agri. Oh Anthony, oh thou Arabian Bird! Eno. Would you praise Caesar, say Caesar go no further
Agr. Indeed he plied them both with excellent praises
Eno. But he loues Caesar best, yet he loues Anthony: Hoo, Hearts, Tongues, Figure,
Scribes, Bards, Poets, cannot
Thinke speake, cast, write, sing, number: hoo, His loue to Anthony. But as for Caesar,
Kneele downe, kneele downe, and wonder
Agri. Both he loues
Eno. They are his Shards, and he their Beetle, so: This is to horse: Adieu, Noble Agrippa
Agri. Good Fortune worthy Souldier, and farewell. Enter Caesar, Anthony, Lepidus, and Octauia.
Antho. No further Sir
Caesar. You take from me a great part of my selfe: Vse me well in’t. Sister, proue such a wife As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest Band Shall passe on thy approofe: most Noble Anthony, Let not the peece of Vertue which is set Betwixt vs, as the Cyment of our loue
To keepe it builded, be the Ramme to batter The Fortresse of it: for better might we Haue lou’d without this meane, if on both parts This be not cherisht
Ant. Make me not offended, in your distrust
Caesar. I haue said
Ant. You shall not finde,
Though you be therein curious, the lest cause For what you seeme to feare, so the Gods keepe you, And make the hearts of Romaines serue your ends: We will heere part
Caesar. Farewell my deerest Sister, fare thee well, The Elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well
Octa. My Noble Brother
Anth. The Aprill’s in her eyes, it is Loues spring, And these the showers to bring it on: be cheerfull
Octa. Sir, looke well to my Husbands house: and- Caesar. What Octauia?
Octa. Ile tell you in your eare
Ant. Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart informe her tongue.
The Swannes downe feather
That stands vpon the Swell at the full of Tide: And neither way inclines
Eno. Will Caesar weepe?
Agr. He ha’s a cloud in’s face
Eno. He were the worse for that were he a Horse, so is he being a man
Agri. Why Enobarbus:
When Anthony found Iulius Caesar dead, He cried almost to roaring: And he wept, When at Phillippi he found Brutus slaine
Eno. That year indeed, he was trobled with a rheume, What willingly he did confound, he wail’d, Beleeu’t till I weepe too
Caesar. No sweet Octauia,
You shall heare from me still: the time shall not Out-go my thinking on you
Ant. Come Sir, come,
Ile wrastle with you in my strength of loue, Looke heere I haue you, thus I let you go, And giue you to the Gods
Caesar. Adieu, be happy
Lep. Let all the number of the Starres giue light To thy faire way
Caesar. Farewell, farewell.
Kisses Octauia.
Ant. Farewell.
Trumpets sound. Exeunt.
Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas.
Cleo. Where is the Fellow?
Alex. Halfe afeard to come
Cleo. Go too, go too: Come hither Sir. Enter the Messenger as before.
Alex. Good Maiestie: Herod of Iury dare not looke vpon you, but when you are well pleas’d
Cleo. That Herods head, Ile haue: but how? When Anthony is gone, through whom I might commaund it: Come thou neere
Mes. Most gratious Maiestie
Cleo. Did’st thou behold Octauia?
Mes. I dread Queene
Cleo. Where?
Mes. Madam in Rome, I lookt her in the face: and saw her led betweene her Brother, and Marke Anthony
Cleo. Is she as tall as me?
Mes. She is not Madam
Cleo. Didst heare her speake?
Is she shrill tongu’d or low?
Mes. Madam, I heard her speake, she is low voic’d
Cleo. That’s not so good: he cannot like her long
Char. Like her? Oh Isis: ’tis impossible
Cleo. I thinke so Charmian: dull of tongue, & dwarfish What Maiestie is in her gate, remember
If ere thou look’st on Maiestie
Mes. She creepes: her motion, & her station are as one. She shewes a body, rather then a life,
A Statue, then a Breather
Cleo. Is this certaine?
Mes. Or I haue no obseruance
Cha. Three in Egypt cannot make better note
Cleo. He’s very knowing, I do perceiu’t, There’s nothing in her yet.
The Fellow ha’s good iudgement
Char. Excellent
Cleo. Guesse at her yeares, I prythee
Mess. Madam, she was a widdow
Cleo. Widdow? Charmian, hearke
Mes. And I do thinke she’s thirtie
Cle. Bear’st thou her face in mind? is’t long or round? Mess. Round, euen to faultinesse
Cleo. For the most part too, they are foolish that are so. Her haire what colour?
Mess. Browne Madam: and her forehead As low as she would wish it
Cleo. There’s Gold for thee,
Thou must not take my former sharpenesse ill, I will employ thee backe againe: I finde thee Most fit for businesse. Go, make thee ready, Our Letters are prepar’d
Char. A proper man
Cleo. Indeed he is so: I repent me much That so I harried him. Why me think’s by him, This Creature’s no such thing
Char. Nothing Madam
Cleo. The man hath seene some Maiesty, and should know
Char. Hath he seene Maiestie? Isis else defend: and seruing you so long
Cleopa. I haue one thing more to aske him yet good Charmian: but ’tis no matter, thou shalt bring him to me where I will write; all may be well enough
Char. I warrant you Madam.
Exeunt.
Enter Anthony and Octauia.
Ant. Nay, nay Octauia, not onely that, That were excusable, that and thousands more Of semblable import, but he hath wag’d
New Warres ‘gainst Pompey. Made his will, and read it, To publicke eare, spoke scantly of me,
When perforce he could not
But pay me tearmes of Honour: cold and sickly He vented then most narrow measure: lent me, When the best hint was giuen him: he not took’t, Or did it from his teeth
Octaui. Oh my good Lord,
Beleeue not all, or if you must beleeue, Stomacke not all. A more vnhappie Lady,
If this deuision chance, ne’re stood betweene Praying for both parts:
The good Gods wil mocke me presently, When I shall pray: Oh blesse my Lord, and Husband, Vndo that prayer, by crying out as loud, Oh blesse my Brother. Husband winne, winne Brother, Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway ‘Twixt these extreames at all
Ant. Gentle Octauia,
Let your best loue draw to that point which seeks Best to preserue it: if I loose mine Honour, I loose my selfe: better I were not yours Then your so branchlesse. But as you requested, Your selfe shall go between’s, the meane time Lady, Ile raise the preparation of a Warre
Shall staine your Brother, make your soonest hast, So your desires are yours
Oct. Thanks to my Lord,
The Ioue of power make me most weake, most weake, Your reconciler: Warres ‘twixt you twaine would be, As if the world should cleaue, and that slaine men Should soalder vp the Rift
Anth. When it appeeres to you where this begins, Turne your displeasure that way, for our faults Can neuer be so equall, that your loue
Can equally moue with them. Prouide your going, Choose your owne company, and command what cost Your heart he’s mind too.
Exeunt.
Enter Enobarbus, and Eros.
Eno. How now Friend Eros?
Eros. Ther’s strange Newes come Sir
Eno. What man?
Ero. Caesar & Lepidus haue made warres vpon Pompey
Eno. This is old, what is the successe? Eros. Caesar hauing made vse of him in the warres ‘gainst Pompey: presently denied him riuality, would not let him partake in the glory of the action, and not resting here, accuses him of Letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey. Vpon his owne appeale seizes him, so the poore third is vp, till death enlarge his Confine
Eno. Then would thou hadst a paire of chaps no more, and throw betweene them all the food thou hast, they’le grinde the other. Where’s Anthony?
Eros. He’s walking in the garden thus, and spurnes The rush that lies before him. Cries Foole Lepidus, And threats the throate of that his Officer, That murdred Pompey
Eno. Our great Nauies rig’d
Eros. For Italy and Caesar, more Domitius, My Lord desires you presently: my Newes
I might haue told heareafter
Eno. ‘Twillbe naught, but let it be: bring me to Anthony
Eros. Come Sir,
Exeunt.
Enter Agrippa, Mecenas, and Caesar.
Caes Contemning Rome he ha’s done all this, & more In Alexandria: heere’s the manner of’t:
I’th’ Market-place on a Tribunall siluer’d, Cleopatra and himselfe in Chaires of Gold Were publikely enthron’d: at the feet, sat Caesarion whom they call my Fathers Sonne, And all the vnlawfull issue, that their Lust Since then hath made betweene them. Vnto her, He gaue the stablishment of Egypt, made her Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia, absolute Queene
Mece. This in the publike eye?
Caesar. I’th’ common shew place, where they exercise, His Sonnes hither proclaimed the King of Kings, Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia
He gaue to Alexander. To Ptolomy he assign’d, Syria, Silicia, and Phoenetia: she
In th’ abiliments of the Goddesse Isis That day appeer’d, and oft before gaue audience, As ’tis reported so
Mece. Let Rome be thus inform’d
Agri. Who queazie with his insolence already, Will their good thoughts call from him
Caesar. The people knowes it,
And haue now receiu’d his accusations
Agri. Who does he accuse?
Caesar. Caesar, and that hauing in Cicilie Sextus Pompeius spoil’d, we had not rated him His part o’th’ Isle. Then does he say, he lent me Some shipping vnrestor’d. Lastly, he frets That Lepidus of the Triumpherate, should be depos’d, And being that, we detaine all his Reuenue
Agri. Sir, this should be answer’d
Caesar. ‘Tis done already, and the Messenger gone: I haue told him Lepidus was growne too cruell, That he his high Authority abus’d,
And did deserue his change: for what I haue conquer’d, I grant him part: but then in his Armenia, And other of his conquer’d Kingdoms, I demand the like Mec. Hee’l neuer yeeld to that
Caes Nor must not then be yeelded to in this. Enter Octauia with her Traine.
Octa. Haile Caesar, and my L[ord]. haile most deere Caesar
Caesar. That euer I should call thee Cast-away
Octa. You haue not call’d me so, nor haue you cause
Caes Why haue you stoln vpon vs thus? you come not Like Caesars Sister, The wife of Anthony Should haue an Army for an Vsher, and
The neighes of Horse to tell of her approach, Long ere she did appeare. The trees by’th’ way Should haue borne men, and expectation fainted, Longing for what it had not. Nay, the dust Should haue ascended to the Roofe of Heauen, Rais’d by your populous Troopes: But you are come A Market-maid to Rome, and haue preuented The ostentation of our loue; which left vnshewne, Is often left vnlou’d: we should haue met you By Sea, and Land, supplying euery Stage
With an augmented greeting
Octa. Good my Lord,
To come thus was I not constrain’d, but did it On my free-will. My Lord Marke Anthony,
Hearing that you prepar’d for Warre, acquainted My greeued eare withall: whereon I begg’d His pardon for returne
Caes Which soone he granted,
Being an abstract ‘tweene his Lust, and him
Octa. Do not say so, my Lord
Caes I haue eyes vpon him,
And his affaires come to me on the wind: wher is he now? Octa. My Lord, in Athens
Caesar. No my most wronged Sister, Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath giuen his Empire Vp to a Whore, who now are leuying
The Kings o’th’ earth for Warre. He hath assembled, Bochus the King of Lybia, Archilaus
Of Cappadocia, Philadelphos King
Of Paphlagonia: the Thracian King Adullas, King Manchus of Arabia, King of Pont,
Herod of Iewry, Mithridates King
Of Comageat, Polemen and Amintas,
The Kings of Mede, and Licoania,
With a more larger List of Scepters
Octa. Aye me most wretched,
That haue my heart parted betwixt two Friends, That does afflict each other
Caes Welcom hither: your Letters did with-holde our breaking forth
Till we perceiu’d both how you were wrong led, And we in negligent danger: cheere your heart, Be you not troubled with the time, which driues O’re your content, these strong necessities, But let determin’d things to destinie
Hold vnbewayl’d their way. Welcome to Rome, Nothing more deere to me: You are abus’d Beyond the marke of thought: and the high Gods To do you Iustice, makes his Ministers
Of vs, and those that loue you. Best of comfort, And euer welcom to vs
Agrip. Welcome Lady
Mec. Welcome deere Madam,
Each heart in Rome does loue and pitty you, Onely th’ adulterous Anthony, most large In his abhominations, turnes you off,
And giues his potent Regiment to a Trull That noyses it against vs
Octa. Is it so sir?
Caes Most certaine: Sister welcome: pray you Be euer knowne to patience. My deer’st Sister.
Exeunt.
Enter Cleopatra, and Enobarbus.
Cleo. I will be euen with thee, doubt it not
Eno. But why, why, why?
Cleo. Thou hast forespoke my being in these warres, And say’st it is not fit
Eno. Well: is it, is it
Cleo. If not, denounc’d against vs, why should not we be there in person
Enob. Well, I could reply: if wee should serue with Horse and Mares together, the Horse were meerly lost: the Mares would beare a Soldiour and his Horse
Cleo. What is’t you say?
Enob. Your presence needs must puzle Anthony, Take from his heart, take from his Braine, from’s time, What should not then be spar’d. He is already Traduc’d for Leuity, and ’tis said in Rome, That Photinus an Eunuch, and your Maides Mannage this warre
Cleo. Sinke Rome, and their tongues rot That speake against vs. A Charge we beare i’th’ Warre, And as the president of my Kingdome will Appeare there for a man. Speake not against it, I will not stay behinde.
Enter Anthony and Camidias.
Eno. Nay I haue done, here comes the Emperor
Ant. Is it not strange Camidius,
That from Tarientum, and Brandusium, He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea,
And take in Troine. You haue heard on’t (Sweet?) Cleo. Celerity is neuer more admir’d,
Then by the negligent
Ant. A good rebuke,
Which might haue well becom’d the best of men To taunt at slacknesse. Camidius, wee
Will fight with him by Sea
Cleo. By Sea, what else?
Cam. Why will my Lord, do so?
Ant. For that he dares vs too’t
Enob. So hath my Lord, dar’d him to single fight
Cam. I, and to wage this Battell at Pharsalia, Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers Which serue not for his vantage, he shakes off, And so should you
Enob. Your Shippes are not well mann’d, Your Marriners are Militers, Reapers, people Ingrost by swift Impresse. In Caesars Fleete, Are those, that often haue ‘gainst Pompey fought, Their shippes are yare, yours heauy: no disgrace Shall fall you for refusing him at Sea,
Being prepar’d for Land
Ant. By Sea, by Sea
Eno. Most worthy Sir, you therein throw away The absolute Soldiership you haue by Land, Distract your Armie, which doth most consist Of Warre-markt-footmen, leaue vnexecuted Your owne renowned knowledge, quite forgoe The way which promises assurance, and
Giue vp your selfe meerly to chance and hazard, From firme Securitie
Ant. Ile fight at Sea
Cleo. I haue sixty Sailes, Caesar none better
Ant. Our ouer-plus of shipping will we burne, And with the rest full mann’d, from th’ head of Action Beate th’ approaching Caesar. But if we faile, We then can doo’t at Land.
Enter a Messenger.
Thy Businesse?
Mes. The Newes is true, my Lord, he is descried, Caesar ha’s taken Toryne
Ant. Can he be there in person? ‘Tis impossible Strange, that his power should be. Camidius, Our nineteene Legions thou shalt hold by Land, And our twelue thousand Horse. Wee’l to our Ship, Away my Thetis.
Enter a Soldiour.
How now worthy Souldier?
Soul. Oh Noble Emperor, do not fight by Sea, Trust not to rotten plankes: Do you misdoubt This Sword, and these my Wounds; let th’ Egyptians And the Phoenicians go a ducking: wee
Haue vs’d to conquer standing on the earth, And fighting foot to foot
Ant. Well, well, away.
exit Ant. Cleo. & Enob
Soul. By Hercules I thinke I am i’th’ right
Cam. Souldier thou art: but his whole action growes Not in the power on’t: so our Leaders leade, And we are Womens mens
Soul. You keepe by Land the Legions and the Horse whole, do you not?
Ven. Marcus Octauius, Marcus Iusteus, Publicola, and Celius, are for Sea:
But we keepe whole by Land. This speede of Caesars Carries beyond beleefe
Soul. While he was yet in Rome,
His power went out in such distractions, As beguilde all Spies
Cam. Who’s his Lieutenant, heare you? Soul. They say, one Towrus
Cam. Well, I know the man.
Enter a Messenger.
Mes. The Emperor cals Camidius
Cam. With Newes the times with Labour, And throwes forth each minute, some.
Exeunt.
Enter Caesar with his Army, marching.
Caes Towrus?
Tow. My Lord
Caes Strike not by Land,
Keepe whole, prouoke not Battaile
Till we haue done at Sea. Do not exceede The Prescript of this Scroule: Our fortune lyes Vpon this iumpe.
Enter.
Enter Anthony, and Enobarbus.
Ant. Set we our Squadrons on yond side o’th’ Hill, In eye of Caesars battaile, from which place We may the number of the Ships behold,
And so proceed accordingly.
Enter.
Camidius Marcheth with his Land Army one way ouer the stage, and Towrus
the Lieutenant of Caesar the other way: After their going in, is heard the
noise of a Sea fight. Alarum. Enter Enobarbus and Scarus.
Eno. Naught, naught, al naught, I can behold no longer: Thantoniad, the Egyptian Admirall,
With all their sixty flye, and turne the Rudder: To see’t, mine eyes are blasted.
Enter Scarrus.
Scar. Gods, & Goddesses, all the whol synod of them! Eno. What’s thy passion
Scar. The greater Cantle of the world, is lost With very ignorance, we haue kist away
Kingdomes, and Prouinces
Eno. How appeares the Fight?
Scar. On our side, like the Token’d Pestilence, Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred Nagge of Egypt, (Whom Leprosie o’re-take) i’th’ midst o’th’ fight, When vantage like a payre of Twinnes appear’d Both as the same, or rather ours the elder; (The Breeze vpon her) like a Cow in Iune, Hoists Sailes, and flyes
Eno. That I beheld:
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not Indure a further view
Scar. She once being looft,
The Noble ruine of her Magicke, Anthony, Claps on his Sea-wing, and (like a doting Mallard) Leauing the Fight in heighth, flyes after her: I neuer saw an Action of such shame;
Experience, Man-hood, Honor, ne’re before, Did violate so it selfe
Enob. Alacke, alacke.
Enter Camidius
Cam. Our Fortune on the Sea is out of breath, And sinkes most lamentably. Had our Generall Bin what he knew himselfe, it had gone well: Oh his ha’s giuen example for our flight, Most grossely by his owne
Enob. I, are you thereabouts? Why then goodnight indeede
Cam. Toward Peloponnesus are they fled
Scar. ‘Tis easie toot,
And there I will attend what further comes
Camid. To Caesar will I render
My Legions and my Horse, sixe Kings alreadie Shew me the way of yeelding
Eno. Ile yet follow
The wounded chance of Anthony, though my reason Sits in the winde against me.
Enter Anthony with Attendants.
Ant. Hearke, the Land bids me tread no more vpon’t, It is asham’d to beare me. Friends, come hither, I am so lated in the world, that I
Haue lost my way for euer. I haue a shippe, Laden with Gold, take that, diuide it: flye, And make your peace with Caesar
Omnes. Fly? Not wee
Ant. I haue fled my selfe, and haue instructed cowards To runne, and shew their shoulders. Friends be gone, I haue my selfe resolu’d vpon a course,
Which has no neede of you. Be gone, My Treasure’s in the Harbour. Take it: Oh, I follow’d that I blush to looke vpon,
My very haires do mutiny: for the white Reproue the browne for rashnesse, and they them For feare, and doting. Friends be gone, you shall Haue Letters from me to some Friends, that will Sweepe your way for you. Pray you looke not sad, Nor make replyes of loathnesse, take the hint Which my dispaire proclaimes. Let them be left Which leaues it selfe, to the Sea-side straight way; I will possesse you of that ship and Treasure. Leaue me, I pray a little: pray you now, Nay do so: for indeede I haue lost command, Therefore I pray you, Ile see you by and by.
Sits downe
Enter Cleopatra led by Charmian and Eros.
Eros. Nay gentle Madam, to him, comfort him
Iras. Do most deere Queene
Char. Do, why, what else?
Cleo. Let me sit downe: Oh Iuno
Ant. No, no, no, no, no
Eros. See you heere, Sir?
Ant. Oh fie, fie, fie
Char. Madam
Iras. Madam, oh good Empresse
Eros. Sir, sir
Ant. Yes my Lord, yes; he at Philippi kept His sword e’ne like a dancer, while I strooke The leane and wrinkled Cassius, and ’twas I That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on Lieutenantry, and no practise had In the braue squares of Warre: yet now: no matter
Cleo. Ah stand by
Eros. The Queene my Lord, the Queene
Iras. Go to him, Madam, speake to him, Hee’s vnqualitied with very shame
Cleo. Well then, sustaine me: Oh
Eros. Most Noble Sir arise, the Queene approaches, Her head’s declin’d, and death will cease her, but Your comfort makes the rescue
Ant. I haue offended Reputation,
A most vnnoble sweruing
Eros. Sir, the Queene
Ant. Oh whether hast thou lead me Egypt, see How I conuey my shame, out of thine eyes, By looking backe what I haue left behinde Stroy’d in dishonor
Cleo. Oh my Lord, my Lord,
Forgiue my fearfull sayles, I little thought You would haue followed
Ant. Egypt, thou knew’st too well,
My heart was to thy Rudder tyed by’th’ strings, And thou should’st towe me after. O’re my spirit The full supremacie thou knew’st, and that Thy becke, might from the bidding of the Gods Command mee
Cleo. Oh my pardon
Ant. Now I must
To the young man send humble Treaties, dodge And palter in the shifts of lownes, who
With halfe the bulke o’th’ world plaid as I pleas’d, Making, and marring Fortunes. You did know How much you were my Conqueror, and that My Sword, made weake by my affection, would Obey it on all cause
Cleo. Pardon, pardon
Ant. Fall not a teare I say, one of them rates All that is wonne and lost: Giue me a kisse, Euen this repayes me.
We sent our Schoolemaster, is a come backe? Loue I am full of Lead: some Wine
Within there, and our Viands: Fortune knowes, We scorne her most, when most she offers blowes.
Exeunt.
Enter Caesar, Agrippa, and Dollabello, with others.
Caes Let him appeare that’s come from Anthony. Know you him
Dolla. Caesar, ’tis his Schoolemaster, An argument that he is pluckt, when hither He sends so poore a Pinnion of his Wing, Which had superfluous Kings for Messengers, Not many Moones gone by.
Enter Ambassador from Anthony.
Caesar. Approach, and speake
Amb. Such as I am, I come from Anthony: I was of late as petty to his ends,
As is the Morne-dew on the Mertle leafe To his grand Sea
Caes Bee’t so, declare thine office
Amb. Lord of his Fortunes he salutes thee, and Requires to liue in Egypt, which not granted He Lessons his Requests, and to thee sues To let him breath betweene the Heauens and Earth A priuate man in Athens: this for him.
Next, Cleopatra does confesse thy Greatnesse, Submits her to thy might, and of thee craues The Circle of the Ptolomies for her heyres, Now hazarded to thy Grace
Caes For Anthony,
I haue no eares to his request. The Queene, Of Audience, nor Desire shall faile, so shee From Egypt driue her all-disgraced Friend, Or take his life there. This if shee performe, She shall not sue vnheard. So to them both
Amb. Fortune pursue thee
Caes Bring him through the Bands:
To try thy Eloquence, now ’tis time, dispatch, From Anthony winne Cleopatra, promise
And in our Name, what she requires, adde more From thine inuention, offers. Women are not In their best Fortunes strong; but want will periure The ne’re touch’d Vestall. Try thy cunning Thidias, Make thine owne Edict for thy paines, which we Will answer as a Law
Thid. Caesar. I go
Caesar. Obserue how Anthony becomes his flaw, And what thou think’st his very action speakes In euery power that mooues
Thid. Caesar, I shall.
Exeunt.
Enter Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, & Iras.
Cleo. What shall we do, Enobarbus?
Eno. Thinke, and dye
Cleo. Is Anthony, or we in fault for this? Eno. Anthony onely, that would make his will Lord of his Reason. What though you fled, From that great face of Warre, whose seuerall ranges Frighted each other? Why should he follow? The itch of his Affection should not then Haue nickt his Captain-ship, at such a point, When halfe to halfe the world oppos’d, he being The meered question? ‘Twas a shame no lesse Then was his losse, to course your flying Flagges, And leaue his Nauy gazing
Cleo. Prythee peace.
Enter the Ambassador, with Anthony.
Ant. Is that his answer?
Amb. I my Lord
Ant. The Queene shall then haue courtesie, So she will yeeld vs vp
Am. He sayes so
Antho. Let her know’t. To the Boy Caesar send this grizled head, and he will fill thy wishes to the brimme, With Principalities
Cleo. That head my Lord?
Ant. To him againe, tell him he weares the Rose Of youth vpon him: from which, the world should note Something particular: His Coine, Ships, Legions, May be a Cowards, whose Ministers would preuaile Vnder the seruice of a Childe, as soone
As i’th’ Command of Caesar. I dare him therefore To lay his gay Comparisons a-part,
And answer me declin’d, Sword against Sword, Our selues alone: Ile write it: Follow me
Eno. Yes like enough: hye battel’d Caesar will Vnstate his happinesse, and be Stag’d to’th’ shew Against a Sworder. I see mens Iudgements are A parcell of their Fortunes, and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them
To suffer all alike, that he should dreame, Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will Answer his emptinesse; Caesar thou hast subdu’de His iudgement too.
Enter a Seruant.
Ser. A Messenger from Caesar
Cleo. What no more Ceremony? See my Women, Against the blowne Rose may they stop their nose, That kneel’d vnto the Buds. Admit him sir
Eno. Mine honesty, and I, beginne to square, The Loyalty well held to Fooles, does make Our Faith meere folly: yet he that can endure To follow with Allegeance a falne Lord,
Does conquer him that did his Master conquer, And earnes a place i’th’ Story.
Enter Thidias.
Cleo. Caesars will
Thid. Heare it apart
Cleo. None but Friends: say boldly
Thid. So haply are they Friends to Anthony
Enob. He needs as many (Sir) as Caesar ha’s, Or needs not vs. If Caesar please, our Master Will leape to be his Friend: For vs you know, Whose he is, we are, and that is Caesars
Thid. So. Thus then thou most renown’d, Caesar intreats, Not to consider in what case thou stand’st Further then he is Caesars
Cleo. Go on, right Royall
Thid. He knowes that you embrace not Anthony As you did loue, but as you feared him
Cleo. Oh
Thid. The scarre’s vpon your Honor, therefore he Does pitty, as constrained blemishes,
Not as deserued
Cleo. He is a God,
And knowes what is most right. Mine Honour Was not yeelded, but conquer’d meerely
Eno. To be sure of that, I will aske Anthony. Sir, sir, thou art so leakie
That we must leaue thee to thy sinking, for Thy deerest quit thee.
Exit Enob.
Thid. Shall I say to Caesar,
What you require of him: for he partly begges To be desir’d to giue. It much would please him, That of his Fortunes you should make a staffe To leane vpon. But it would warme his spirits To heare from me you had left Anthony,
And put your selfe vnder his shrowd, the vniuersal Landlord
Cleo. What’s your name?
Thid. My name is Thidias
Cleo. Most kinde Messenger,
Say to great Caesar this in disputation, I kisse his conqu’ring hand: Tell him, I am prompt To lay my Crowne at’s feete, and there to kneele. Tell him, from his all-obeying breath, I heare The doome of Egypt
Thid. ‘Tis your Noblest course:
Wisedome and Fortune combatting together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. Giue me grace to lay My dutie on your hand
Cleo. Your Caesars Father oft,
(When he hath mus’d of taking kingdomes in) Bestow’d his lips on that vnworthy place, As it rain’d kisses.
Enter Anthony and Enobarbus.
Ant. Fauours? By Ioue that thunders. What art thou Fellow? Thid. One that but performes
The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest To haue command obey’d
Eno. You will be whipt
Ant. Approch there: ah you Kite. Now Gods & diuels Authority melts from me of late. When I cried hoa, Like Boyes vnto a musse, Kings would start forth, And cry, your will. Haue you no eares?
I am Anthony yet. Take hence this Iack, and whip him. Enter a Seruant.
Eno. ‘Tis better playing with a Lions whelpe, Then with an old one dying
Ant. Moone and Starres,
Whip him: wer’t twenty of the greatest Tributaries That do acknowledge Caesar, should I finde them So sawcy with the hand of she heere, what’s her name Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him Fellowes, Till like a Boy you see him crindge his face, And whine aloud for mercy. Take him hence
Thid. Marke Anthony
Ant. Tugge him away: being whipt
Bring him againe, the Iacke of Caesars shall Beare vs an arrant to him.
Exeunt. with Thidius.
You were halfe blasted ere I knew you: Ha? Haue I my pillow left vnprest in Rome,
Forborne the getting of a lawfull Race, And by a Iem of women, to be abus’d
By one that lookes on Feeders?
Cleo. Good my Lord
Ant. You haue beene a boggeler euer, But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard (Oh misery on’t) the wise Gods seele our eyes In our owne filth, drop our cleare iudgements, make vs Adore our errors, laugh at’s while we strut To our confusion
Cleo. Oh, is’t come to this?
Ant. I found you as a Morsell, cold vpon Dead Caesars Trencher: Nay, you were a Fragment Of Gneius Pompeyes, besides what hotter houres Vnregistred in vulgar Fame, you haue
Luxuriously pickt out. For I am sure, Though you can guesse what Temperance should be, You know not what it is
Cleo. Wherefore is this?
Ant. To let a Fellow that will take rewards, And say, God quit you, be familiar with
My play-fellow, your hand; this Kingly Seale, And plighter of high hearts. O that I were Vpon the hill of Basan, to out-roare
The horned Heard, for I haue sauage cause, And to proclaime it ciuilly, were like
A halter’d necke, which do’s the Hangman thanke, For being yare about him. Is he whipt?
Enter a Seruant with Thidias.
Ser. Soundly, my Lord
Ant. Cried he? and begg’d a Pardon? Ser. He did aske fauour
Ant. If that thy Father liue, let him repent Thou was’t not made his daughter, and be thou sorrie To follow Caesar in his Triumph, since
Thou hast bin whipt. For following him, henceforth The white hand of a Lady Feauer thee,
Shake thou to looke on’t. Get thee backe to Caesar, Tell him thy entertainment: looke thou say He makes me angry with him. For he seemes Proud and disdainfull, harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was. He makes me angry, And at this time most easie ’tis to doo’t: When my good Starres, that were my former guides Haue empty left their Orbes, and shot their Fires Into th’ Abisme of hell. If he mislike,
My speech, and what is done, tell him he has Hiparchus, my enfranched Bondman, whom
He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture, As he shall like to quit me. Vrge it thou: Hence with thy stripes, be gone.
Exit Thid.
Cleo. Haue you done yet?
Ant. Alacke our Terrene Moone is now Eclipst, And it portends alone the fall of Anthony
Cleo. I must stay his time?
Ant. To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes With one that tyes his points
Cleo. Not know me yet?
Ant. Cold-hearted toward me?
Cleo. Ah (Deere) if I be so,
From my cold heart let Heauen ingender haile, And poyson it in the sourse, and the first stone Drop in my necke: as it determines so
Dissolue my life, the next Caesarian smile, Till by degrees the memory of my wombe,
Together with my braue Egyptians all, By the discandering of this pelleted storme, Lye grauelesse, till the Flies and Gnats of Nyle Haue buried them for prey
Ant. I am satisfied:
Caesar sets downe in Alexandria, where I will oppose his Fate. Our force by Land, Hath Nobly held, our seuer’d Nauie too
Haue knit againe, and Fleete, threatning most Sea-like. Where hast thou bin my heart? Dost thou heare Lady? If from the Field I shall returne once more To kisse these Lips, I will appeare in Blood, I, and my Sword, will earne our Chronicle, There’s hope in’t yet
Cleo. That’s my braue Lord
Ant. I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath’d, And fight maliciously: for when mine houres Were nice and lucky, men did ransome liues Of me for iests: But now, Ile set my teeth, And send to darkenesse all that stop me. Come, Let’s haue one other gawdy night: Call to me All my sad Captaines, fill our Bowles once more: Let’s mocke the midnight Bell
Cleo. It is my Birth-day,
I had thought t’haue held it poore. But since my Lord Is Anthony againe, I will be Cleopatra
Ant. We will yet do well
Cleo. Call all his Noble Captaines to my Lord
Ant. Do so, wee’l speake to them,
And to night Ile force
The Wine peepe through their scarres. Come on (my Queene)
There’s sap in’t yet. The next time I do fight Ile make death loue me: for I will contend Euen with his pestilent Sythe.
Exeunt.
Eno. Now hee’l out-stare the Lightning, to be furious Is to be frighted out of feare, and in that moode The Doue will pecke the Estridge; and I see still A diminution in our Captaines braine,
Restores his heart; when valour prayes in reason, It eates the Sword it fights with: I will seeke Some way to leaue him.
Exeunt.
Enter Caesar, Agrippa, & Mecenas with his Army, Caesar reading a Letter.
Caes He calles me Boy, and chides as he had power To beate me out of Egypt. My Messenger
He hath whipt with Rods, dares me to personal Combat. Caesar to Anthony: let the old Ruffian know, I haue many other wayes to dye: meane time Laugh at his Challenge
Mece. Caesar must thinke,
When one so great begins to rage, hee’s hunted Euen to falling. Giue him no breath, but now Make boote of his distraction: Neuer anger Made good guard for it selfe
Caes Let our best heads know,
That to morrow, the last of many Battailes We meane to fight. Within our Files there are, Of those that seru’d Marke Anthony but late, Enough to fetch him in. See it done,
And Feast the Army, we haue store to doo’t, And they haue earn’d the waste. Poore Anthony.
Exeunt.
Enter Anthony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas, with others.
Ant. He will not fight with me, Domitian? Eno. No?
Ant. Why should he not?
Eno. He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune, He is twenty men to one
Ant. To morrow Soldier,
By Sea and Land Ile fight: or I will liue, Or bathe my dying Honor in the blood
Shall make it liue againe. Woo’t thou fight well
Eno. Ile strike, and cry, Take all
Ant. Well said, come on:
Call forth my Houshold Seruants, lets to night Enter 3 or 4 Seruitors.
Be bounteous at our Meale. Giue me thy hand, Thou hast bin rightly honest, so hast thou, Thou, and thou, and thou: you haue seru’d me well, And Kings haue beene your fellowes
Cleo. What meanes this?
Eno. ‘Tis one of those odde tricks which sorow shoots Out of the minde
Ant. And thou art honest too:
I wish I could be made so many men, And all of you clapt vp together, in
An Anthony: that I might do you seruice, So good as you haue done
Omnes. The Gods forbid
Ant. Well, my good Fellowes, wait on me to night: Scant not my Cups, and make as much of me, As when mine Empire was your Fellow too, And suffer’d my command
Cleo. What does he meane?
Eno. To make his Followers weepe
Ant. Tend me to night;
May be, it is the period of your duty, Haply you shall not see me more, or if,
A mangled shadow. Perchance to morrow, You’l serue another Master. I looke on you, As one that takes his leaue. Mine honest Friends, I turne you not away, but like a Master
Married to your good seruice, stay till death: Tend me to night two houres, I aske no more, And the Gods yeeld you for’t
Eno. What meane you (Sir)
To giue them this discomfort? Looke they weepe, And I an Asse, am Onyon-ey’d; for shame, Transforme vs not to women
Ant. Ho, ho, ho:
Now the Witch take me, if I meant it thus. Grace grow where those drops fall (my hearty Friends) You take me in too dolorous a sense,
For I spake to you for your comfort, did desire you To burne this night with Torches: Know (my hearts) I hope well of to morrow, and will leade you, Where rather Ile expect victorious life, Then death, and Honor. Let’s to Supper, come, And drowne consideration.
Exeunt.
Enter a Company of Soldiours.
1.Sol. Brother, goodnight: to morrow is the day
2.Sol. It will determine one way: Fare you well. Heard you of nothing strange about the streets
1 Nothing: what newes?
2 Belike ’tis but a Rumour, good night to you
1 Well sir, good night.
They meete other Soldiers.
2 Souldiers, haue carefull Watch
1 And you: Goodnight, goodnight.
They place themselues in euery corner of the Stage.
2 Heere we: and if to morrow
Our Nauie thriue, I haue an absolute hope Our Landmen will stand vp
1 ‘Tis a braue Army, and full of purpose.
Musicke of the Hoboyes is vnder the Stage.
2 Peace, what noise?
1 List, list
2 Hearke
1 Musicke i’th’ Ayre
3 Vnder the earth
4 It signes well, do’s it not?
3 No
1 Peace I say: What should this meane? 2 ‘Tis the God Hercules, whom Anthony loued, Now leaues him
1 Walke, let’s see if other Watchmen Do heare what we do?
2 How now Maisters?
Speak together.
Omnes. How now? how now? do you heare this? 1 I, is’t not strange?
3 Do you heare Masters? Do you heare? 1 Follow the noyse so farre as we haue quarter. Let’s see how it will giue off
Omnes. Content: ‘Tis strange.
Exeunt.
Enter Anthony and Cleopatra, with others.
Ant. Eros, mine Armour Eros
Cleo. Sleepe a little
Ant. No my Chucke. Eros, come mine Armor Eros. Enter Eros.
Come good Fellow, put thine Iron on,
If Fortune be not ours to day, it is Because we braue her. Come
Cleo. Nay, Ile helpe too, Anthony.
What’s this for? Ah let be, let be, thou art The Armourer of my heart: False, false: This, this, Sooth-law Ile helpe: Thus it must bee
Ant. Well, well, we shall thriue now. Seest thou my good Fellow. Go, put on thy defences
Eros. Briefely Sir
Cleo. Is not this buckled well?
Ant. Rarely, rarely:
He that vnbuckles this, till we do please To daft for our Repose, shall heare a storme. Thou fumblest Eros, and my Queenes a Squire More tight at this, then thou: Dispatch. O Loue, That thou couldst see my Warres to day, and knew’st The Royall Occupation, thou should’st see A Workeman in’t.
Enter an Armed Soldier.
Good morrow to thee, welcome,
Thou look’st like him that knowes a warlike Charge: To businesse that we loue, we rise betime, And go too’t with delight
Soul. A thousand Sir, early though’t be, haue on their Riueted trim, and at the Port expect you.
Showt. Trumpets Flourish. Enter Captaines, and Souldiers.
Alex. The Morne is faire: Good morrow Generall
All. Good morrow Generall
Ant. ‘Tis well blowne Lads.
This Morning, like the spirit of a youth That meanes to be of note, begins betimes. So, so: Come giue me that, this way, well-sed. Fare thee well Dame, what ere becomes of me, This is a Soldiers kisse: rebukeable,
And worthy shamefull checke it were, to stand On more Mechanicke Complement, Ile leaue thee. Now like a man of Steele, you that will fight, Follow me close, Ile bring you too’t: Adieu.
Exeunt.
Char. Please you retyre to your Chamber? Cleo. Lead me:
He goes forth gallantly: That he and Caesar might Determine this great Warre in single fight; Then Anthony; but now. Well on.
Exeunt.
Trumpets sound. Enter Anthony, and Eros.
Eros. The Gods make this a happy day to Anthony
Ant. Would thou, & those thy scars had once preuaild To make me fight at Land
Eros. Had’st thou done so,
The Kings that haue reuolted, and the Soldier That has this morning left thee, would haue still Followed thy heeles
Ant. Whose gone this morning?
Eros. Who? one euer neere thee, call for Enobarbus, He shall not heare thee, or from Caesars Campe, Say I am none of thine
Ant. What sayest thou?
Sold. Sir he is with Caesar
Eros. Sir, his Chests and Treasure he has not with him
Ant. Is he gone?
Sol. Most certaine
Ant. Go Eros, send his Treasure after, do it, Detaine no iot I charge thee: write to him, (I will subscribe) gentle adieu’s, and greetings; Say, that I wish he neuer finde more cause To change a Master. Oh my Fortunes haue
Corrupted honest men. Dispatch Enobarbus.
Exit
Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar, with Enobarbus, and Dollabella.
Caes Go forth Agrippa, and begin the fight: Our will is Anthony be tooke aliue:
Make it so knowne
Agrip. Caesar, I shall
Caesar. The time of vniuersall peace is neere: Proue this a prosp’rous day, the three nook’d world Shall beare the Oliue freely.
Enter a Messenger.
Mes. Anthony is come into the Field
Caes Go charge Agrippa,
Plant those that haue reuolted in the Vant, That Anthony may seeme to spend his Fury Vpon himselfe.
Exeunt.
Enob. Alexas did reuolt, and went to Iewry on Affaires of Anthony, there did disswade
Great Herod to incline himselfe to Caesar, And leaue his Master Anthony. For this paines, Caesar hath hang’d him: Camindius and the rest That fell away, haue entertainment, but
No honourable trust: I haue done ill, Of which I do accuse my selfe so sorely, That I will ioy no more.
Enter a Soldier of Caesars.
Sol. Enobarbus, Anthony
Hath after thee sent all thy Treasure, with His Bounty ouer-plus. The Messenger
Came on my guard, and at thy Tent is now Vnloading of his Mules
Eno. I giue it you
Sol. Mocke not Enobarbus,
I tell you true: Best you saf’t the bringer Out of the hoast, I must attend mine Office, Or would haue done’t my selfe. Your Emperor Continues still a Ioue.
Exit
Enob. I am alone the Villaine of the earth, And feele I am so most. Oh Anthony,
Thou Mine of Bounty, how would’st thou haue payed My better seruice, when my turpitude
Thou dost so Crowne with Gold. This blowes my hart, If swift thought breake it not: a swifter meane Shall out-strike thought, but thought will doo’t. I feele I fight against thee: No I will go seeke Some Ditch, wherein to dye: the foul’st best fits My latter part of life.
Enter.
Alarum, Drummes and Trumpets. Enter Agrippa.
Agrip. Retire, we haue engag’d our selues too farre: Caesar himselfe ha’s worke, and our oppression Exceeds what we expected.
Enter.
Alarums. Enter Anthony, and Scarrus wounded.
Scar. O my braue Emperor, this is fought indeed, Had we done so at first, we had drouen them home With clowts about their heads.
Far off.
Ant. Thou bleed’st apace
Scar. I had a wound heere that was like a T, But now ’tis made an H
Ant. They do retyre
Scar. Wee’l beat ’em into Bench-holes, I haue yet Roome for six scotches more
Enter Eros.
Eros. They are beaten Sir, and our aduantage serues For a faire victory
Scar. Let vs score their backes,
And snatch ’em vp, as we take Hares behinde, ‘Tis sport to maul a Runner
Ant. I will reward thee
Once for thy sprightly comfort, and ten-fold For thy good valour. Come thee on
Scar. Ile halt after.
Exeunt.
Alarum. Enter Anthony againe in a March. Scarrus, with others.
Ant. We haue beate him to his Campe: Runne one Before, & let the Queen know of our guests: to morrow Before the Sun shall see’s, wee’l spill the blood That ha’s to day escap’d. I thanke you all, For doughty handed are you, and haue fought Not as you seru’d the Cause, but as’t had beene Each mans like mine: you haue shewne all Hectors. Enter the Citty, clip your Wiues, your Friends, Tell them your feats, whil’st they with ioyfull teares Wash the congealement from your wounds, and kisse The Honour’d-gashes whole.
Enter Cleopatra.
Giue me thy hand,
To this great Faiery, Ile commend thy acts, Make her thankes blesse thee. Oh thou day o’th’ world, Chaine mine arm’d necke, leape thou, Attyre and all Through proofe of Harnesse to my heart, and there Ride on the pants triumphing
Cleo. Lord of Lords.
Oh infinite Vertue, comm’st thou smiling from The worlds great snare vncaught
Ant. Mine Nightingale,
We haue beate them to their Beds.
What Gyrle, though gray
Do somthing mingle with our yonger brown, yet ha we A Braine that nourishes our Nerues, and can Get gole for gole of youth. Behold this man, Commend vnto his Lippes thy fauouring hand, Kisse it my Warriour: He hath fought to day, As if a God in hate of Mankinde, had
Destroyed in such a shape
Cleo. Ile giue thee Friend
An Armour all of Gold: it was a Kings
Ant. He has deseru’d it, were it Carbunkled Like holy Phoebus Carre. Giue me thy hand, Through Alexandria make a iolly March,
Beare our hackt Targets, like the men that owe them. Had our great Pallace the capacity
To Campe this hoast, we all would sup together, And drinke Carowses to the next dayes Fate Which promises Royall perill, Trumpetters With brazen dinne blast you the Citties eare, Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines, That heauen and earth may strike their sounds together, Applauding our approach.
Exeunt.
Enter a Centerie, and his Company, Enobarbus followes.
Cent. If we be not releeu’d within this houre, We must returne to’th’ Court of Guard: the night Is shiny, and they say, we shall embattaile By’th’ second houre i’th’ Morne
1.Watch. This last day was a shrew’d one too’s
Enob. Oh beare me witnesse night
2 What man is this?
1 Stand close, and list him
Enob. Be witnesse to me (O thou blessed Moone) When men reuolted shall vpon Record
Beare hatefull memory: poore Enobarbus did Before thy face repent
Cent. Enobarbus?
2 Peace: Hearke further
Enob. Oh Soueraigne Mistris of true Melancholly, The poysonous dampe of night dispunge vpon me, That Life, a very Rebell to my will,
May hang no longer on me. Throw my heart Against the flint and hardnesse of my fault, Which being dried with greefe, will breake to powder, And finish all foule thoughts. Oh Anthony, Nobler then my reuolt is Infamous,
Forgiue me in thine owne particular, But let the world ranke me in Register
A Master leauer, and a fugitiue:
Oh Anthony! Oh Anthony!
1 Let’s speake to him
Cent. Let’s heare him, for the things he speakes May concerne Caesar
2 Let’s do so; but he sleepes
Cent. Swoonds rather, for so bad a Prayer as his Was neuer yet for sleepe
1 Go we to him
2 Awake sir, awake, speake to vs
1 Heare you sir?
Cent. The hand of death hath raught him.
Drummes afarre off.
Hearke the Drummes demurely wake the sleepers: Let vs beare him to’th’ Court of Guard: he is of note: Our houre is fully out
2 Come on then, he may recouer yet.
Exeunt.
Enter Anthony and Scarrus, with their Army.
Ant. Their preparation is to day by Sea, We please them not by Land
Scar. For both, my Lord
Ant. I would they’ld fight i’th’ Fire, or i’th’ Ayre, Wee’ld fight there too. But this it is, our Foote Vpon the hilles adioyning to the Citty
Shall stay with vs. Order for Sea is giuen, They haue put forth the Hauen:
Where their appointment we may best discouer, And looke on their endeuour.
Exeunt.
Enter Caesar, and his Army.
Caes But being charg’d, we will be still by Land, Which as I tak’t we shall, for his best force Is forth to Man his Gallies. To the Vales, And hold our best aduantage.
Exeunt.
Alarum afarre off, as at a Sea-fight. Enter Anthony, and Scarrus.
Ant. Yet they are not ioyn’d:
Where yon’d Pine does stand, I shall discouer all. Ile bring thee word straight, how ’tis like to go. Enter.
Scar. Swallowes haue built
In Cleopatra’s Sailes their nests. The Auguries Say, they know not, they cannot tell, looke grimly, And dare not speake their knowledge. Anthony, Is valiant, and deiected, and by starts
His fretted Fortunes giue him hope and feare Of what he has, and has not.
Enter Anthony.
Ant. All is lost:
This fowle Egyptian hath betrayed me: My Fleete hath yeelded to the Foe, and yonder They cast their Caps vp, and Carowse together Like Friends long lost. Triple-turn’d Whore, ’tis thou Hast sold me to this Nouice, and my heart Makes onely Warres on thee. Bid them all flye: For when I am reueng’d vpon my Charme,
I haue done all. Bid them all flye, be gone. Oh Sunne, thy vprise shall I see no more, Fortune, and Anthony part heere, euen heere Do we shake hands? All come to this? The hearts That pannelled me at heeles, to whom I gaue Their wishes, do dis-Candie, melt their sweets On blossoming Caesar: And this Pine is barkt, That ouer-top’d them all. Betray’d I am. Oh this false Soule of Egypt! this graue Charme, Whose eye beck’d forth my Wars, & cal’d them home: Whose Bosome was my Crownet, my chiefe end, Like a right Gypsie, hath at fast and loose Beguil’d me, to the very heart of losse. What Eros, Eros?
Enter Cleopatra.
Ah, thou Spell! Auaunt
Cleo. Why is my Lord enrag’d against his Loue? Ant. Vanish, or I shall giue thee thy deseruing, And blemish Caesars Triumph. Let him take thee, And hoist thee vp to the shouting Plebeians, Follow his Chariot, like the greatest spot Of all thy Sex. Most Monster-like be shewne For poor’st Diminitiues, for Dolts, and let Patient Octauia, plough thy visage vp
With her prepared nailes.
exit Cleopatra.
‘Tis well th’art gone,
If it be well to liue. But better ’twere Thou fell’st into my furie, for one death Might haue preuented many. Eros, hoa!
The shirt of Nessus is vpon me, teach me Alcides, thou mine Ancestor, thy rage.
Let me lodge Licas on the hornes o’th’ Moone, And with those hands that graspt the heauiest Club, Subdue my worthiest selfe: The Witch shall die, To the young Roman Boy she hath sold me, and I fall Vnder this plot: She dyes for’t. Eros hoa? Enter.
Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, Mardian.
Cleo. Helpe me my women: Oh hee’s more mad Then Telamon for his Shield, the Boare of Thessaly Was neuer so imbost
Char. To’th’ Monument, there locke your selfe, And send him word you are dead:
The Soule and Body riue not more in parting, Then greatnesse going off
Cleo. To’th’ Monument:
Mardian, go tell him I haue slaine my selfe: Say, that the last I spoke was Anthony,
And word it (prythee) pitteously. Hence Mardian, And bring me how he takes my death to’th’ Monument.
Exeunt.
Enter Anthony, and Eros.
Ant. Eros, thou yet behold’st me?
Eros. I Noble Lord
Ant. Sometime we see a clowd that’s Dragonish, A vapour sometime, like a Beare, or Lyon, A toward Cittadell, a pendant Rocke,
A forked Mountaine, or blew Promontorie With Trees vpon’t, that nodde vnto the world, And mocke our eyes with Ayre.
Thou hast seene these Signes,
They are blacke Vespers Pageants
Eros. I my Lord
Ant. That which is now a Horse, euen with a thoght the Racke dislimes, and makes it indistinct As water is in water
Eros. It does my Lord
Ant. My good Knaue Eros, now thy Captaine is Euen such a body: Heere I am Anthony,
Yet cannot hold this visible shape (my Knaue) I made these warres for Egypt, and the Queene, Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine: Which whil’st it was mine, had annext vntoo’t A Million moe, (now lost:) shee Eros has Packt Cards with Caesars, and false plaid my Glory Vnto an Enemies triumph.
Nay, weepe not gentle Eros, there is left vs Our selues to end our selues.
Enter Mardian.
Oh thy vilde Lady, she has rob’d me of my Sword
Mar. No Anthony,
My Mistris lou’d thee, and her Fortunes mingled with thine intirely
Ant. Hence sawcy Eunuch peace, she hath betraid me, And shall dye the death
Mar. Death of one person, can be paide but once, And that she ha’s discharg’d. What thou would’st do Is done vnto thy hand: the last she spake Was Anthony, most Noble Anthony.
Then in the midd’st a tearing grone did breake The name of Anthony: it was diuided
Betweene her heart, and lips: she tendred life Thy name so buried in her
Ant. Dead then?
Mar. Dead
Ant. Vnarme Eros, the long dayes taske is done, And we must sleepe: That thou depart’st hence safe Does pay thy labour richly: Go.
exit Mardian.
Off, plucke off,
The seuen-fold shield of Aiax cannot keepe The battery from my heart. Oh cleaue my sides. Heart, once be stronger then thy Continent, Cracke thy fraile Case. Apace Eros, apace; No more a Soldier: bruised peeces go,
You haue bin Nobly borne. From me awhile.
exit Eros
I will o’re-take thee Cleopatra, and
Weepe for my pardon. So it must be, for now All length is Torture: since the Torch is out, Lye downe and stray no farther. Now all labour Marres what it does: yea, very force entangles It selfe with strength: Seale then and all is done. Eros? I come my Queene. Eros? Stay for me, Where Soules do couch on Flowers, wee’l hand in hand, And with our sprightly Port make the Ghostes gaze: Dido, and her Aeneas shall want Troopes, And all the haunt be ours. Come Eros, Eros. Enter Eros.
Eros. What would my Lord?
Ant. Since Cleopatra dyed,
I haue liu’d in such dishonour, that the Gods Detest my basenesse. I, that with my Sword, Quarter’d the World, and o’re greene Neptunes backe With Ships, made Cities; condemne my selfe, to lacke The Courage of a Woman, lesse Noble minde Then she which by her death, our Caesar telles I am Conqueror of my selfe. Thou art sworne Eros, That when the exigent should come, which now Is come indeed: When I should see behinde me Th’ ineuitable prosecution of disgrace and horror, That on my command, thou then would’st kill me. Doo’t, the time is come: Thou strik’st not me, ‘Tis Caesar thou defeat’st. Put colour in thy Cheeke
Eros. The Gods with-hold me,
Shall I do that which all the Parthian Darts, (Though Enemy) lost ayme, and could not
Ant. Eros,
Would’st thou be window’d in great Rome, and see Thy Master thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe His corrigible necke, his face subdu’de
To penetratiue shame; whil’st the wheel’d seate Of Fortunate Caesar drawne before him, branded His Basenesse that ensued
Eros. I would not see’t
Ant. Come then: for with a wound I must be cur’d. Draw that thy honest Sword, which thou hast worne Most vsefull for thy Country
Eros. Oh sir, pardon me
Ant. When I did make thee free, swor’st y not then To do this when I bad thee? Do it at once, Or thy precedent Seruices are all
But accidents vnpurpos’d. Draw, and come
Eros. Turne from me then that Noble countenance, Wherein the worship of the whole world lyes
Ant. Loe thee
Eros. My sword is drawne
Ant. Then let it do at once
The thing why thou hast drawne it
Eros. My deere Master,
My Captaine, and my Emperor. Let me say Before I strike this bloody stroke, Farwell
Ant. ‘Tis said man, and farewell
Eros. Farewell great Chiefe. Shall I strike now? Ant. Now Eros.
Killes himselfe.
Eros. Why there then:
Thus I do escape the sorrow of Anthonies death
Ant. Thrice-Nobler then my selfe,
Thou teachest me: Oh valiant Eros, what I should, and thou could’st not, my Queene and Eros Haue by their braue instruction got vpon me A Noblenesse in Record. But I will bee
A Bride-groome in my death, and run intoo’t As to a Louers bed. Come then, and Eros, Thy Master dies thy Scholler; to do thus I learnt of thee. How, not dead? Not dead? The Guard, how? Oh dispatch me.
Enter a Guard.