Eno. Ha, my brave emperor! [To ANTONY. Let's ha't, good soldier. Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals, And celebrate our drink? Pom. Ant. Come, let us all take hands; Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense In soft and delicate Lethe. Eno. All take hands. Make battery to our ears with the loud musick :- 5 [Musick plays. ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand. SONG. .6 Come, thou monarch of the vine, Cup us, till the world Cas. What would you more?-Pompey, good Let me request you off: our graver business Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue The holding every man shall bear,] To bear the burden, or, as it is here called, the holding of a song, is the phrase at this day. with pink eyne:] Dr. Johnson, in his Dictionary, says a pink eye is a small eye, and quotes this passage for his authority. Pink eyne, however, may be red eyes: eyes inflamed with drinking, are very well appropriated to Bacchus. Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night. Good Antony, your hand. Pom. I'll try you o'the shore. O, Antony, Ant. And shall, sir: give's your hand. Pom. You have my father's house,-But what? we are friends: Come, down into the boat. Eno. [Exeunt POMPEY, CÆSAR, ANT. and Attendants. Menas, I'll not on shore. Men. Take heed you fall not.→ No, to my cabin.— These drums!—these trumpets, flutes! what!- To these great fellows: Sound, and be hang'd, sound out. [A Flourish of Trumpets, with Drums. Eno. Ho, says 'a!-There's my cap. Men. Ho!-noble captain! Come. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. A Plain in Syria. Enter VENTIDIUS, as after Conquest, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead Body of PACORUS borne before him. Ven. Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now Pleas'd fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death Before our army:-Thy Pacorus, Orodes," Sil. Noble Ventidius, Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm, The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media, Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony O Silius, Silius, Ven. Which he achiev'd by the minute, lost his favour. I could do more todo Antonius good, But 'twould offe、, dhim; and in his offence Sil. Thou hast, Ventidius, Thou wilt write to That without which a soldier, and his sword, Antony? Thy Pacorus, Orodes,] Pacorus was the son of Orodes, King of Parthia. • That without which a soldier, and his sword, Grants scarce distinction.] Grant, for afford. It is badly and obscurely expressed; but the sense is this: Thou hast that, Ventidius, which if thou didst want, there would be no distinction between thee and thy sword. You would be both equally cutting and senseless. Ven. I'll humbly signify what in his name, That magical word of war, we have effected; How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks, The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia We have jaded out o'the field. Sil. Where is he now? Ven. He purposeth to Athens: whither with what haste The weight we must convey with us will permit, We shall appear before him.-On, there; pass along. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Rome. An Ante Chamber in Cæsar's House. Enter AGRIPPA, and ENOBARBUS, meeting. Agr. What, are the brothers parted? Eno. They have despatch'd with Pompey, he is gone; The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps Agr. Agr. Indeed, he ply'd them both with excellent praises. 9 Arabian bird!] The phoenix. 3 Eno. But he loves Cæsar best;-Yet he loves Antony: Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho, his love To Antony. But as for Cæsar, Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder. Agr. Both he loves. Eno. They are his shards, and he their beetle.' So, [Trumpets. This is to horse-Adieu, noble Agrippa. Enter CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA. Cas. You take from me a great part of myself; Have loved without this mean, if on both parts You shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause For what you seem to fear: So, the gods keep you, They are his shards, and he their beetle.] i. e. They are the wings that raise this heavy lumpish insect from the ground. as my furthe t band-] As I will venture the greatest pledge of security, on the trial of thy conduct. Band and bond in our author's time, were synonymous. therein curious,] i. e. scrupulous. |