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Act 4, Scene 12

Another part of the Ground.

  1. [Enter ANTONY and SCARUS.]
  2. Mark Antony
  3. 2665 Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine does stand
  4. 2666 I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
  5. 2667 Straight how 'tis like to go.
  6. [Exit.]
  7. Scarus
  8. 2668 Swallows have built
  9. 2669 In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
  10. 2670 Say they know not,—they cannot tell;—look grimly,
  11. 2671 And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
  12. 2672 Is valiant and dejected; and, by starts,
  13. 2673 His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear
  14. 2674 Of what he has and has not.
  15. [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight.]
  16. [Re-enter ANTONY.]
  17. Mark Antony
  18. 2675 All is lost;
  19. 2676 This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:
  20. 2677 My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder
  21. 2678 They cast their caps up, and carouse together
  22. 2679 Like friends long lost.—Triple-turn'd whore! 'tis thou
  23. 2680 Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart
  24. 2681 Makes only wars on thee.—Bid them all fly;
  25. 2682 For when I am reveng'd upon my charm,
  26. 2683 I have done all.—Bid them all fly; begone.
  27. [Exit SCARUS.]
  28. Mark Antony
  29. 2684 O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
  30. 2685 Fortune and Antony part here; even here
  31. 2686 Do we shake hands.—All come to this!—The hearts
  32. 2687 That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave
  33. 2688 Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
  34. 2689 On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd
  35. 2690 That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:
  36. 2691 O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,
  37. 2692 Whose eye beck'd forth my wars and call'd them home;
  38. 2693 Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,—
  39. 2694 Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose,
  40. 2695 Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss.—
  41. 2696 What, Eros, Eros!
  42. [Enter CLEOPATRA.]
  43. Mark Antony
  44. 2697 Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!
  45. Cleopatra
  46. 2698 Why is my lord enrag'd against his love?
  47. Mark Antony
  48. 2699 Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,
  49. 2700 And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee
  50. 2701 And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
  51. 2702 Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot
  52. 2703 Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown
  53. 2704 For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let
  54. 2705 Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
  55. 2706 With her prepared nails.
  56. [Exit CLEOPATRA.]
  57. Mark Antony
  58. 2707 'Tis well thou'rt gone,
  59. 2708 If it be well to live; but better 'twere
  60. 2709 Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
  61. 2710 Might have prevented many.—Eros, ho!—
  62. 2711 The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
  63. 2712 Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:
  64. 2713 Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;
  65. 2714 And with those hands that grasp'd the heaviest club
  66. 2715 Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:
  67. 2716 To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
  68. 2717 Under this plot:—she dies for't.—Eros, ho!
  69. [Exit.]