With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder; Scar. Enter SCARUS. Gods, and goddesses, What's thy passion? All the whole synod of them! Eno. 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-rid3 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. Eno. Did sicken at the sight on't, and could not Scar. That I beheld: mine eyes She once being loof'd,' The noble ruin of her magick, Antony, Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard, The greater cantle-] A piece or lump, or rather a corner. Cæsar, in this play, mentions the three-nook'd world. Of this triangular world every triumvir had a corner. 2 token'd-] Spotted. The death of those visited by the plague was certain, when particular eruptions appeared on the skin; and these were called God's tokens. 3 Yon ribald-rid nag-] i. e. Yon strumpet, who is common to every wanton fellow. • The brize upon her,] The brize is the gad-fly. S wind. being loof'd,] To loof is to bring a ship close to the Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before Can. Our fortune on the sea is out of breath, Eno. Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then, good Indeed. [Aside. Can. Towards Peloponnesus are they fled. Can. Eno. I'll yet follow The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason Sits in the wind against me. SCENE IX. [Exeunt. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace. Enter ANTONY and Attendants. Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon't, 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 6 The wounded chance of Antony,] i. e. the broken fortunes of Antony. - so lated in the world,] Alluding to a benighted traveller. Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly, 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, Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them 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. Ant. No, no, no, no, no. O Juno! I have lost command,] i. e. I entreat you to leave me, because I have lost all power to command your absence. Ant. O fye, fye, fye. Char. Madam, Iras. Madam; O good empress !— Ant. Yes, my lord, yes;-He, at Philippi, kept 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 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. 9 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. he alone Dealt on lieutenantry,] i. e. fought by proxy, made war by his lieutenants, or on the strength of his lieutenants. 2 He is unqualitied-] Perhaps, unqualitied, signifies unmanned in general, disarmed of his usual faculties. 3 death will seize her; but -] But has here, as once before in this play, the force of except, or unless. 4 How I convey my shame-] How, by looking another way, I withdraw my ignominy from your sight. Cleo. O my lord, my lord! Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought, 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 Command me. Cleo. Ant. O, my pardon. Now I must To the young man send humble treaties, dodge 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. [Exeunt. SCENE X. Cæsar's Camp, in Egypt. Enter CESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, and Others. Cæs. Let him appear that's come from Antony.Know you him? 5 tied by the strings,] That is, by the heart-string. |