Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
Nor make replies of loathness; take the hint
Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
Which leaves itself; to the sea-side straightway; 20
I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
Leave me, I pray, a little; pray you now:
Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
Therefore I pray you. I'll see you by and by. 24
Sits down.
Enter Cleopatra, led by Charmian and [Iras,] Eros [following].
Eros. Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.
Iras. Do, most dear queen.
Char. Do! Why, what else?
Cleo. Let me sit down. O Juno! 28
Ant. No, no, no, no, no.
Eros. See you here, sir?
Ant. O fie, fie, fie!
Char. Madam! 32
Iras. Madam; O good empress!
Eros. Sir, sir!
Ant. Yes, my lord, yes. He at Philippi kept
His sword e'en like a dancer, while I struck 36
The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I
That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had
In the brave squares of war: yet now—No matter. 40
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. 44
Cleo. Well then, sustain me: O!
39 Dealt on lieutenantry: fought by proxy
40 squares: squadrons
44 unqualitied: divested of his manly qualities
