1    Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;
2    It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:
3    I am so lated in the world, that I
4    Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship
5    Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,
6    And make your peace with Caesar.

7    Fly! not we.

8    I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards
9    To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;
10   I have myself resolved upon a course
11   Which has no need of you; be gone:
12   My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,
13   I follow'd that I blush to look upon:
14   My very hairs do mutiny; for the white
15   Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them
16   For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall
17   Have letters from me to some friends that will
18   Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,
19   Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint
20   Which my despair proclaims; let that be left
21   Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:
22   I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
23   Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:
24   Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,
25   Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.

26   Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.

27   Do, most dear queen.

28   Do! why: what else?

29   Let me sit down. O Juno!

30   No, no, no, no, no.

31   See you here, sir?

32   O fie, fie, fie!

33   Madam!

34   Madam, O good empress!

35   Sir, sir,--

36   Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept
37   His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck
38   The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I
39   That the mad Brutus ended: he alone
40   Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had
41   In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter.

42   Ah, stand by.

43   The queen, my lord, the queen.

44   Go to him, madam, speak to him:
45   He is unqualitied with very shame.

46   Well then, sustain him: O!

47   Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:
48   Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but
49   Your comfort makes the rescue.

50   I have offended reputation,
51   A most unnoble swerving.

52   Sir, the queen.

53   O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,
54   How I convey my shame out of thine eyes
55   By looking back what I have left behind
56   'Stroy'd in dishonour.

57   O my lord, my lord,
58   Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought
59   You would have follow'd.

60   Egypt, thou knew'st too well
61   My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,
62   And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit
63   Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that
64   Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods
65   Command me.

66   O, my pardon!

67   Now I must
68   To the young man send humble treaties, dodge
69   And palter in the shifts of lowness; who
70   With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,
71   Making and marring fortunes. You did know
72   How much you were my conqueror; and that
73   My sword, made weak by my affection, would
74   Obey it on all cause.

75   Pardon, pardon!

76   Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates
77   All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;
78   Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;
79   Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.
80   Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows
81   We scorn her most when most she offers blows.