an historical Play, -

written by

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:

fitted for the Stage by abridging only;

and now aEted, at the

Theatre-Royal in Drury - Lane,

by his Majesty's Servants.

No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
A pair so famous,

p. 99.

LONDON:

Printed for J. and R. Tonson in the Strand.

MDCCLVIII.

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA,

an

historical Play.

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Octavius Cæfar,

Mr. Fleetwood. Marcus Antonius, Triumvirs. Mr. Garrick. M. Æmil. Lepidus;

Mr. Blakes. Sextus Pompeius :

Mr. Austin. Menas, bis Follower.

Mr. Burton. Dolabella,

Mr. Mozeen. Thyreus,

Mr. Holland. Mecanas, Cæfarians.

Mr. Atkins. Agrippa,

Mr. Packer, Proculeius ;

Mr. Austin. Enobarbus,

Mr. Berry. Canidius,

Mr. Wilkinson. Diomede, Antonians.

Mr. Bransby. Eros, and

Mr. Davies, Dercetas;

Mr. Blakes. a Soothsayer.

Mr. Burton. Alexas ;

Officers of Mr. Ackman. Mardian, an Eunuch ; Cleopatra's Perry Seleucus ;

Houshold. Mr. Burton.
Attendants, Mesengers, Officers, and Soldiers,
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt :

Mrs. Yates.

Miss Hippisley. her Women, and Iras,

Miss Mills. Octavia, Cæsar's Sifter.

Mrs. Glen.

Mr.

Divers other Attendants, Soldiers, &c.

Scene, dispers'd; in several Parts

of the Roman Empire,

ANTONY and CLEOPATRA.

ACT I.

SCENE I. Alexandria.
A Room in Cleopatra's Palace.
Enter THYREUS, and DOLABELLA;

fent from Cæfar.
Thr. 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 luft. Look, where they come:
Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, and

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.

CLE, If it be love indeed, tell me how much,