MARK ANTONY,
            Triumvirs

    OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
                Triumvirs

    M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS,
             Triumvirs

    SEXTUS POMPEIUS,
            Triumvirs

    DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,
           friend to Antony

    VENTIDIUS,
            friend to Antony

    EROS,
            friend to Antony

    SCARUS,
            friend to Antony

    DERCETAS,
            friend to Antony

    DEMETRIUS,
            friend to Antony

    PHILO,
            friend to Antony

    MAECENAS,
             friend to Caesar

    AGRIPPA,
              friend to Caesar

    DOLABELLA,
            friend to Caesar

    PROCULEIUS,
           friend to Caesar

    THYREUS,
            friend to Caesar

    GALLUS,
            friend to Caesar

    MENAS,
            friend to Pompey

    MENECRATES,
            friend to Pompey

    VARRIUS,
            friend to Pompey

    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,
              attendant on Cleopatra

    SELEUCUS,
             attendant on Cleopatra

    DIOMEDES,
              attendant on Cleopatra

   A SOOTHSAYER

   A CLOWN

    CLEOPATRA,
           Queen of Egypt

    OCTAVIA,
           sister to Caesar
               and wife to Antony

    CHARMIAN,
           lady attending on Cleopatra

    IRAS,
            lady attending on Cleopatra

    Officers,
           Soldiers,
         Messengers,
           and Attendants

   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,