ACT IV - Scene VII Antony and Cleopatra


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Field of battle between the camps.

Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter Agrippa and others.
Agrippa

Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:
Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
Exceeds what we expected. Exeunt.

Alarums. Enter Antony, and Scarus wounded.
Scarus

O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!
Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
With clouts about their heads.

Antony Thou bleed’st apace.
Scarus

I had a wound here that was like a T,
But now ’tis made an H.

Antony They do retire.
Scarus

We’ll beat ’em into bench-holes: I have yet
Room for six scotches more.

Enter Eros.
Eros

They are beaten, sir; and our advantage serves
For a fair victory.

Scarus

Let us score their backs,
And snatch ’em up, as we take hares, behind:
’Tis sport to maul a runner.

Antony

I will reward thee
Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold
For thy good valour. Come thee on.

Scarus I’ll halt after. Exeunt.

 

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