ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

I.i.9 (110,2) And is become the bellows, and the fan,/To cool a gypsy's

lust] In this passage something seems to be wanting. The bellows and fan

being commonly used for contrary purposes, were probably opposed by the

author, who might perhaps have written,

_--is become the bellows, and the fan_,

To kindle and _to cool a gypsy's lust_.

I.i.10 (110,3) gypsy's lust] Gypsy is here used both in the original

meaning for an _Egyptian_, and in its accidental sense for a _bad

woman_.

1.i.17 (110,6) Then must thou needs find out new heaven] Thou must set

the boundary of my love at a greater distance than the present visible

universe affords.

1.i.18 (110,7) The sum] Be brief, _sum_ thy business in a few words.

I.i.33 (111,8) and the wide arch/Of the rang'd empire fall!] [Taken from

the Roman custom of raising triumphal arches to perpetuate their

victories. Extremely noble. WARBURTON.] I am in doubt whether

Shakespeare had any idea but of a fabrick standing on pillars. The later

editions have all printed the _raised_ empire, for the _ranged_ empire,

as it was first given, (see 1765, VII, 107, 8)

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