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.

Oetavius 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. Mecænas, 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 ;

Oficers of Mr. Ackman. Mardian, an Eunuch ; Cleopatra's

Mr. Perry.
Seleucus ;

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

Mrs. Yates.
Charmian,

Miss Hippisley. her Women, and Iras,

Miss Mills. Octavia, Cæsar's Sifter,

Mrs. Glen.

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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,