ANTONY
Eros! Mine armour, Eros!
CLEOPATRA
Sleep a little.
ANTONY
No, my chuck.—Eros! Come, mine armour, Eros!
ANTONY
Come, good fellow, put iron on.
If fortune be not ours today, it is
Because we brave her. Come.
CLEOPATRA
Nay, I’ll help too.
What’s this for?
ANTONY
Ah, let be, let be! art
The armourer of my heart. False, false. This, this!
CLEOPATRA
Sooth, la, I’ll help. Thus it must be.
ANTONY
Well, well,
We shall thrive now. Seest , my good fellow?
Go put on defences.
EROS
Briefly, sir.
CLEOPATRA
Is not this buckled well?
ANTONY
Rarely, rarely.
He that unbuckles this, till we do please
To daff’t for our repose, shall hear a storm.
fumblest, Eros, and my queen’s a squire
More tight at this than . Dispatch. O love,
That see my wars today, and knew’st
The royal occupation, see
A workman in’t.
ANTONY
Good morrow to . Welcome.
look’st like him that knows a warlike charge.
To business that we love we rise betime
And go to’t with delight.
OFFICER
A thousand, sir,
Early though’t be, have on their riveted trim
And at the port expect you.
CAPTAIN
The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.
ALL
Good morrow, general.
ANTONY
well blown, lads.
This morning, like the spirit of a youth
That means to be of note, begins betimes.
So, so. Come, give me that. This way. Well said.
Fare well, dame.
Whate’er becomes of me,
This is a soldier’s kiss. Rebukeable
And worthy shameful check it were, to stand
On more mechanic compliment. I’ll leave
Now like a man of steel.—You that will fight,
Follow me close, I’ll bring you to’t. Adieu.
CHARMIAN
Please you, retire to your chamber.
CLEOPATRA
Lead me.
He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might
Determine this great war in single fight!
Then Antony—but now—. Well, on.