Antony and Cleopatra

Before Alexandria.CÆSAR’S Camp.

Flourish.Enter CÆSAR, with AGRIPPA, ENOBARBUS, and Others.

Cæs.Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:

Our will is Antony be took alive;

Make it so known.

Agr.Cæsar, I shall.[Exit.

Cæs.The time of universal peace is near:

Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook’d world

Shall bear the olive freely.

Enter a Messenger.

Mess.Antony

Is come into the field.

Cœs.Go charge Agrippa

Plant those that have revolted in the van,

That Antony may seem to spend his fury

Upon himself.[Exeunt CÆSAR and his Train.

Eno.Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on

Affairs of Antony; there did persuade

Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar,

And leave his master Antony: for this pains

Cæsar hath hang’d him. Canidius and the rest

That fell away have entertainment, but

No honourable trust. I have done ill,

Of which I do accuse myself so sorely

That I will joy no more.

Enter a Soldier of CÆSAR’S.

Sold.Enobarbus, Antony

Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with

His bounty overplus: the messenger

Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now

Unloading of his mules.

Eno.I give it you.

Sold.Mock not, Enobarbus.

I tell you true: best you saf’d the bringer

Out of the host; I must attend mine office

Or would have done ’t myself. Your emperor

Continues still a Jove.[Exit.

Eno.I am alone the villain of the earth,

And feel I am so most. O Antony!

Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid

My better service, when my turpitude

Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:

If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean

Shall outstrike thought; but thought will do ’t, I feel.

I fight against thee! No: I will go seek

Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul’st best fits

My latter part of life.[Exit.