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.

M. ANTONY,
OCTAVIUS CÆSAR, Triumvirs.
M. ÆMIL. LEPIDUS,
SEXTUS POMPEIUS.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,
VENTIDIUS,
EROS,
SCARUS,

Friends to ANTONY.
DERCETAS,
DEMETRIUS,
PHILO,
MECÆNAS,
AGRIPPA,
DOLABELLA,

Friends to CÆSAR.
PROCULEIUS,
THYREUS,
GALLUS,
MENAS,
MENECRATES,

Friends to POMPEY.
VARRIUS,
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, Attendas:ts

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.

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, 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 ;