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M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, " |
SEXTUS POMPEIUS, " |
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, friend to Antony |
VENTIDIUS, " " " |
EROS, " " " |
SCARUS, " " " |
DERCETAS, " " " |
DEMETRIUS, " " " |
PHILO, " " " |
MAECENAS, friend to Caesar |
AGRIPPA, " " " |
DOLABELLA, " " " |
PROCULEIUS, " " " |
THYREUS, " " " |
GALLUS, " " " |
MENAS, friend to Pompey |
MENECRATES, " " " |
VARRIUS, " " " |
TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Caesar |
CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony |
SILIUS, an Officer in Ventidius's army |
EUPHRONIUS, an Ambassador from Antony to Caesar |
ALEXAS, attendant on Cleopatra |
MARDIAN, " " " |
SELEUCUS, " " " |
DIOMEDES, " " " |
A SOOTHSAYER |
A CLOWN |
CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt |
OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony |
CHARMIAN, lady attending on Cleopatra |
IRAS, " " " " |
Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants |
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SCENE: |
The Roman Empire |
ACT I. SCENE I. |
Alexandria. CLEOPATRA'S palace |
Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO |
PHILO. 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. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her LADIES, the train, |
with eunuchs fanning her |
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. |
CLEOPATRA. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. |
ANTONY. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. |
CLEOPATRA. I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd. |
ANTONY. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. |
Enter a MESSENGER |
MESSENGER. News, my good lord, from Rome. |
ANTONY. Grates me the sum. |
CLEOPATRA. Nay, hear them, Antony. |
Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows |
If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent |
His pow'rful mandate to you: 'Do this or this; |
Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that; |
Perform't, or else we damn thee.' |
ANTONY. How, my love? |
CLEOPATRA. Perchance? Nay, and most like, |
You must not stay here longer; your dismission |
Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. |
Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? Both? |
Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's Queen, |
Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine |
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