ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to CÆSAR.
CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to ANTONY.
SILIUS, an Officer in VENTIDIUS'S Army.

EUPHRONIUS, an Ambassador from Antony to CÆSAR.
ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, and DIOMEDES, Attendants

on CLEOPATRA.

A Soothsayer. A Clown.

CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt.

OCTAVIA, Sister to CÆSAR and Wife to ANTONY.
CHARMIAN and IRAS, Attendants on CLEOPATRA.
Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE.-Dispersed; in several parts of the Roman Empire.

SCENE I.- ALEXANDRIA. A Room in CLEOPATRA'S

Palace.

Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO.

Phi. 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 plated Mars, now bend, now turn
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
And is become the bellows and the fan

To cool a gipsy's lust. [Flourish within.] Look whe

they come:

Take but good note, and you shall see in him
The triple pillar of the world transform'd

Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see!

Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Trains; Eunuch

fanning her.

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 set a bourn how far to be belov'd.

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

earth.

Enter an Attendant.

Att. News, my good lord, from Rome.
Ant.

Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony:

Grates me:-the sun

Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows

If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you, Do this or this;