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Show (5 s ) A-CHOREUS. Or Cdefar had, if he had life endur'd. CLtOPA'TRA, What faid you laft, t Or did I rightly hear ? Oh! quickly your obfcure Difcourfes clear. A C H O R E U S. Neither your carei. nori ours could fave him, who Would die in fpight of Ckfait, and of You: But Madam, in the^obleft way he dy'd, That ever falling Monarch dignifi'd : His reftor'd Virtue did his Bkth make good, And to the-Romans dearly fold his blood. He fought Antonius with fuch noble heat, That on him li£ did Tome advantage get: But Cafars crjmiwgialter'd the event > AckilfiQUthete vafiertf hotinus went: But fo as him dicbtbo much honor bring; n i With Sword in hand he perifrf d for his King. IW O fpare the Kingpin vain the Conqueror cry'd', To him fiA>h©pe>but terror it imply'd; For frigRted, he thought C<efar did intend! But to referve him to a fhameful end. He char£!d, and broke our Ranks, bravely to fhew What Virtue armed >by Defpair can do. By this miftake his Vexed foul abus'd, Still fought the death which ftill was him refus'd. Breathlefs at laft,./vijth having fought and bled, Encompafs'd rounds and his beft Soldiers dead, Into a Veffel which was near he leaps, And follow'd was b^ fuch tumultuous heaps, As by thehnhtimBdr/^ overpreft, the Ship With all its fraightflwfts fwallow'd in the Deep. Thus death .recovers all his loft Renown, Gives Crtfars Fame,, and you th' Egyptian Crown : You were proclaim*!, ?and though no Roman Sword Had touch'd the Life fo much by you deplor'd, Cdefar extreamly did concern'd appear; He fighs,Mtid he cotoplains: bat fee him here, -or, Who (59) Who better can than I his Griefs relate, For the unhappy Kings refiftlefs Fate > SCEN. IV. To them Cafar, Antonius, Lepidus. CORNELIA. Cafar be juft, and me my Gallics yield, Achillas and Photinus both are kill'd \ Nor could thy foftned heart their Mafter fave, And Pompey here, no more revenge can have. This fatal more nothing does me prefent, But th' Image of their horrible Attempt, And thy new Conqueft, with the giddy noife Of People who in change of Kings rejoyce : But what afflicts me moft, is ftill to fee Such an obliging Enemy in Thee. Releafe me then from this inglorious pain, And fet my Hate at liberty again. ; But yet before I go I muft requeft The Head of Pompey with his Bones may reft. Give it me then, as that alone, which yet I can with Honor at thy hands entreat. C JE S A R. You may fo juftly that Remainder claim, That to deny it would be Cdefar s fhame : But it is fit, after fo many Woes, ' v That we fhould give his wandring Shade repofe', And that a Pile which You and I inflame, From the firft mean one refcue Pompefs name. That he fhould be appeas'd our grief to view; And that an Urn more worthy him and you ; May (the Pomp done, and fire extinct again) His re-united Aflies entertain. This Arm, which did fo long with him debate, snail Altars to his Virtue dedicate, M m Offer |
