Enter Cleopatra, 'To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, Cleo. Lord of lords! Oh, infinite virtue! com'ft thou fmiling from Ant. My nightingale, We have beat them to their beds. What, girl? though gray Do fomething mingle with our younger brown, Yet have we a brain that nourishes our nerves, 2 And can get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man; Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand. Deftroy'd in fuch a shape. Cleo. I'll give thee, friend, An armour all of gold; it was a king's. ' To this great fairy-] Mr. Upton has well observed, that fairy, which Dr Warburton and fir T. Hanmer explain by Inchantrefs, comprifes the idea of power and beauty. JOHNSON. get goal for goal of youtb.-] At all plays of barriers, the boundary is called a goal; to win a goal, is to be fuperiour in a conteft of activity. JOHNSON. 3 It was a king's.] So in fir T. North's tranflation of Plu"tarch. ——“Then came Antony again to the palace greatly "boafting of this victory, and fweetly kiffed Cleopatra, armed as he was when he came from the fight, recommending one "of his men of arms unto her, that had valiantly fought in this "kirmish. Cleopatra, to reward his manlinefs, gave him an "armour and head-piece of clean gold." STEEVENS. Like holy Phoebus' car.Give me thy hand;- + Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them.. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this hoft, we would all fup together, SCENE IX. CESAR's CAMP. . Enter a Sentry and his compary. Enter Enobarbus. Sent. If we be not reliev'd within this hour, 1 Watch. This laft day was a fhrewd one to us. Eno. O bear me witness, night !— 2 Watch. What man is this? 1 Watch. Stand close, and lift him. Eno. Be witnefs to me, O thou blessed moon, Bear hateful memory; poor Enobarbus did Sent. Enobarbus ! 4 Bear our back'd targets, like the men that owe them ] i. e. hack'd as much as the men are to whom they belong. WARB. Why not rather, Bear our hack'd targets with spirit and exaltation, fuch as becomes the brave warriors that own them? JOHNSON. Eno. Eno. O fovereign miftrefs of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night difpunge upon me; That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me. 5 Throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault; Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, Nobler than my revolt is infamous, 1 Watch. Let's speak to him. [Dies. Sent. Let's hear him, for the things he speaks May concern Cæfar. 2 Watch. Let's do fo. But he fleeps. Sent. Swoons rather; for fo bad a prayer as his Was never yet for sleep. 1 Watch. Go we to him. 2 Watch. Awake, fir, awake; speak to us. 1 Watch. Hear you, fir? Sent. The hand of death has raught him. [Drums afar off. Hark, how the drums demurely wake the fleepers : Let's bear him to the court of guard; he is of note. Our hour is fully out... 2 Watch. Come on then; he may recover yet. [Exeunt. -Throw my heart] The pathetick of Shakespeare too often ends in the ridiculous. It is painful to find the gloomy dig. nity of this noble fcene destroyed by the intrufion of a conceit fo far-fetched and unaffecting. JOHNSON. Hark, bow the drums demurely-] Demurely for folemnly. WARBURTON. SCENE SCENE X. Between the two Camps. Enter Antony, and Scarus, with their army. Ant. Their preparation is do-day by fea; We please them not by land. Scar. For both, my lord. Ant. I would, they'd fight i' the fire, or in the air; We'd fight there too. But this it is; our foot Upon the hills adjoining to the city Shall ftay with us. Order for fea is given; 7 They have put forth the haven. 8 Where their appointment we may best discover, 9 Enter Cefar, and his army. [Exeunt. Caf. But being charg'd we will be still by land, Which, as I take 't, we fhall; for his best force Is forth to man his gallies. To the vales, And hold our best advantage. [Exeunt. [Alarm afar off, as at a fea-fight. They have fut forth the haven. Further on.] Thefe words, further on, though not neceffary, have been inferted in the later editions, and are not in the first. JOHNSON. s Where their appointment we may best discover, i e. where we may beft difcover their numbers, and fee their mo tions. WARBURTON. But b ing charg'd, we will be fill by land, i.e. unless we be charged we will remain quiet at land, which quiet I fuppofe we fhall keep. But being charged was a phrafe of that time, equivalent to unless we le, which the Oxford Editor not understanding, he has alter'd the line thus, Not being charg'd, we will be fill by land, VOL. VIII. WARBURTON. Re Re enter Antony and Scarus. Ant. Yet they are not join'd. Where yonder pine does ftand, I fhall discover all: I'll bring thee word ftraight, how 'tis like to go. Scar. Swallows have built [Exit. In Cleopatra's fails their nefts :-the augurs Say, they know not,- they cannot tell,—look grimly, And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear, Re-enter Antony. [Exit. Ant. All is loft; this foul Egyptian hath be- My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder thou Haft fold me to this novice; and my heart 1 -Triple-turn'd whore!-] She was firft for Antony, then was fuppofed by him to have turned to Caefar, when he found his mesfenger kiffing her hand, then the turned again to Antony, and now has turned to Cæfar. Shall I mention what has dropped into my imagination, that our author might perhaps have written triple-tongued? Double-tongued is a common term of reproach, which rage might improve to triple-tongued. But the prefent reading may ftand. JOHNSON. Do |