ΑΝΤONY

AND

CLEOPATRA.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,

VENTIDIUS,

CANIDIUS,

EROS,

SCARUS,

DERCETAS,
DEMETRIUS,

PHILO,
MECENAS,

AGRIPPA,
DOLABELLA,
PROCULEIUS,
THYREUS,

GALLUS,

MENAS,

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MENECRATES,

VARRIUS,

Friends of ANTONY.

Friends of CASAR.

Friends of POMPEY.

SILIUS, an Officer in VENTIDIUS'S Army.

TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to CÆSAR.

ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, DIOMEDES, Servants

to CLEOPATRA

A Soothsayer: A Clown.

CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt.

OCTAVIA, Sister to CESAR, and Wife to ANTONÝ.
CHARMIAN, IRAS, Attendants on CLEOPATRA.

Ambassadors from ANTONY to CÆSAR, Captains, Soldiers, Mefsengers, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is dispersed in several parts of the Roman Empire.

*** THIS PLAY, founded, like the two former, on NORTH's PLUTARCH, was probably written in the year 1608.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

ACT I.

SCENE I.

Cleopatra's Palace at Alexandria.

Enter Demetrius and Philo.

Phil. NAY, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd like a plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front: his captain heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, breneges all temper:
And is become the bellows, and the fan,
To cool a gypsy's luft.-Look, where they come !

Flourish. Enter Antony and Cleopatra, with their trains;

Eunuchs fanning her.

Take but good note, and you shall fee in him

• The triple pillar of the world transform'd

Into a strumpet's fool: behold and fee.

Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
Cleo. I'll fet da bourn how far to be belov'd.

Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new

earth.

Enter an Attendant.

Attend. News, my good lord, from Rome,
Ant. Grates me: -The fum.

Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony:

Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or, who knows
If the scarce-bearded Cæfar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you, Do this, or this;
* Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;
Perform't, or else we damn thee.

Ant. How, my love!

Cleo. Perchance,-nay, and most like, You must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Cæfar; therefore hear it, Antony.Where's Fulvia's & process ? Cæfar's, I would fay? Both?Call in the messengers. -As I am Egypt's queen, Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine Is Cæfar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame, When fhrill-tongu'd Fulvia scolds. The messengers.

Ant. Let Rome in Tyber melt! and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space;

The triple pillar of the world] - The third, one of the Triumviri, or three masters of the world.

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a bourn]-a boundary.

• Grates me: The fum.] - It offends me-let me have it in the ab