So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This was a man!
Oct. According to his virtue, let us use him
With all respect and rites of burial.
Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.-
So, call the field to rest: and let's away,
To part the glories of this happy day.

[Exeunt.

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 CESAR 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.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

АСТ І.

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 where 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; Eunuchs 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, 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;