M. ANTONY, a triumvir.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 9; sc. 11.

Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 5; sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 10; sc. 12; sc. 13.

OCTAVIUS CAESAR, a triumvir.

Appears, Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 8; sc. 10. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 10. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Appears, Act I. sc. 4.

M. ÆMIL. LEPIDUS, a triumvir.

Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act III. sc. 2.

SEXTUS POMPEIUS.

Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, a friend of Antony.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act III. sc. 2; sc. 5; sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 11.

Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 9.

Appears, Act III. sc. 5; sc. 9. Act IV. sc. 4; sc. 5; sc. 7; sc. 12.

SCARUS, a friend of Antony.

Appears, Act III. sc. 8. Act IV. sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 10.

DERCETAS, a friend of Antony.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 12. Act V. sc. 1.

DEMETRIUS, a friend of Antony.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

PHILO, a friend of Antony.
Appears, Act I. sc. 1.

MECENAS, a friend of Cæsar.

Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act III. sc. 6.

Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

AGRIPPA, a friend of Cæsar.
Appears, Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7.
Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act III. sc. 2; sc. 6.
Act V. sc. 1.

DOLABELLA, a friend of Cæsar.

Appears, Act III. sc. 10. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

PROCULEIUS, a friend of Cæsar.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

THYREUS, a friend of Cæsar.
Appears, Act III. sc. 10; sc. 11.

GALLUS, a friend of Cæsar.
Appears, Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

MENAS, a friend of Pompey.
Appears, Act II. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7

MENECRATES, a friend of Pompey.
Appears, Act II. sc. 1.

VARRIUS, a friend of Pompey.
Appears, Act II. sc. 1.

TAURUS, lieutenant-general to Cæsar.
Appears, Act III. sc. 8.

CANIDIUS, lieutenant-general to Antony.
Appears, Act III. sc. 7; sc. 8.

SILIUS, an officer in Ventidius's army.
Appears, Act III. sc. 1.

EUPHRONIUS, an ambassador from Antony to Cæsar.
Appears, Act III. sc. 10; sc. 11.

ALEXAS, an attendant on Cleopatra.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 5. Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 2. MARDIAN, an attendant on Cleopatra.

Appears, Act I. sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5. Act IV. sc. 11; sc. 12.

SELEUCUS, an attendant on Cleopatra.
Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

DIOMEDES, an attendant on Cleopatra.
Appears, Act IV. sc. 12; sc. 13.

Appears, Act V. sc. 2.

CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt.

Act II. sc. 5.

Appears, Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 3; sc. 7; sc. 9; sc. 11.
Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 8; sc. 10; sc. 11; sc. 13.

Act V. sc. 2.

OCTAVIA, sister to Cæsar, and wife to Antony.
Act III. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6.

Appears, Act II. sc. 3.

CHARMIAN, an attendant on Cleopatra.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 3; sc. 9; sc. 11.

Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 11; sc. 13. Act V. sc. 2.

IRAS, an attendant on Cleopatra.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5. Act III. sc. 3; sc. 9; sc. 11. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 11; sc. 13. Act V. se. 2.

Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE,-DISPERSED; IN SEVERAL PARTS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

The Tragedy of Anthonie and Cleopatra' was first printed in the folio collection of 1623. The play is not divided into acts and scenes in the original; but the stage directions, like those of the other Roman plays, are very full. The text is, upon the whole, remarkably accurate; although the metrical arrangement is, in a few instances, obviously defective.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

ACT I.

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, reneagues all temper;
And is become the bellows, and the fan,

To cool a gipsy's lust. Look where they come!

Flourish. Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Trains;
Eunuchs fanning her.

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.

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 beford

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

earth.

Enter an Attendant.

ATT. News, my good lord, from Rome

ANT.

Grates me:-The sum

CLEO. Nay, hear them, Antony:
Fulvia, perchance, is angry; Or, who knows

If the scarce-bearded Cæsar 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 Cæsar; therefore hear it, Antony.-
Where's Fulvia's process? Cæsar's, I would say.-Both.—
Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,
Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine
Is Cæsar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds.-The messengers.
ANT. Let Rome in Tiber melt! and the wide arch
Of the rang'd empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life
Is, to do thus; when such a mutual pair,
And such a twain can do 't, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.

CLEO.

Excellent falsehood!
Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?—
I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony

Will be himself

ANT.

But stirr'd by Cleopatra.—

Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours,

Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:
There's not a minute of our lives should stretch
Without some pleasure now: What sport to-night?
CLEO. Hear the ambassadors.

ANT.

Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom everything becomes, to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives

To make itself, in thee, fair and admir'd!
No messenger; but thine and all alone,

To-night we'll wander through the streets, and note
The qualities of people. Come, my queen;
Last night you did desire it:-Speak not to us.

[Exeunt ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, with their Train. DEM. Is Cæsar with Antonius priz'd so slight? PHIL. Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony.

DEM.

I'm full sorry

That he approves the common liar, who
Thus speaks of him at Rome: But I will hope
Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!

SCENE II-The same. Another Room.

[Exeunt.

Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer.

CHAR. Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most anything Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew this husband, which, you say, must change his horns with garlands ! ALEX. Soothsayer.

SOOTH. Your will?

CHAR. Is this the man?—Is 't you, sir, that know things? SOOTH. In nature's infinite book of secrecy

A little I can read.

ENO. Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough

Cleopatra's health to drink.

CHAR. Good sir, give me good fortune.

SOOTH. I make not, but foresee.

CHAR. Pray then, foresee me one.

SOOTH. You shall be yet fairer than you are.

CHAR. He means in flesh.

IRAS. No, you shall paint when you are old.
CHAR. Wrinkles forbid.

ALEX. Vex not his prescience; be attentive.