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• Antony and Cleopatra: Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: Alexandria. a Room Incleopatra’spalace.
• Scene II.—: The Same. Another Room.
• Scene III.—: The Same. Another Room.
• Scene IV.—: Rome. a Room Incæsar’shouse.
• Scene V.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: Messina. a Room Inpompey’shouse.
• Scene II.—: Rome. a Room Inlepidus’ House.
• Scene III.—: The Same a Room Incæsar’shouse.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. a Street.
• Scene V.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene VI.—: Near Misenum.
• Scene VII.—: On Boardpompey’sgalley Off Misenum.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: A Plain In Syria.
• Scene II.—: Rome. a Room Incæsar’shouse.
• Scene III.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene IV.—: Athens. a Room Inantony’shouse.
• Scene V.—: The Same. Another Room.
• Scene VI.—: Rome. a Room Incæsar’shouse.
• Scene VII.—: Antony’scamp, Near to the Promontory Ofactium.
• Scene VIII.—: A Plain Nearactium.
• Scene IX.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene X.—: Egypt.cæsar’scamp.
• Scene XI.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: Before Alexandria.cæsar’scamp.
• Scene II.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene III.—: The Same. Before the Palace.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene V.—: Alexandria.antony’scamp.
• Scene VI.—: Before Alexandria.cæsar’scamp.
• Scene VII.—: Field of Battle Between the Camps.
• Scene VIII.—: Under the Walls of Alexandria.
• Scene IX.—: Cæsar’scamp.
• Scene X.—: Between the Two Camps.
• Scene XI.—: Alexandria. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene XII.—: The Same. Another Room.
• Scene XIII.—: The Same. a Monument.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: Alexandria.cæsar’scamp.
• Scene II.—: The Same. the Monument.

Scene VIII.—

A Plain nearActium.

EnterCæsar, Taurus, Officers, and Others.

Cæs.

Taurus!

Taur.

My lord?

Cæs.

Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle.

Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed

The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies

Upon this jump.

[Exeunt.

EnterAntonyandEnobarbus.

Ant.

Set we our squadrons on yond side o’ the hill,

In eye of Cæsar’s battle; from which place

We may the number of the ships behold,

And so proceed accordingly.

[Exeunt.

EnterCanidius,marching with his land army one way over the stage; andTaurus,the lieutenant ofCæsar,the other way. After their going in is heard the noise of a sea-fight.

Alarum. Re-enterEnobarbus.

Eno.

Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.

The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,

With all their sixty, fly, and turn the rudder;

To see ’t mine eyes are blasted.

EnterScarus.

Scar.

Gods and goddesses,

All the whole synod of them!

Eno.

What’s thy passion?

Scar.

The greater cantle of the world is lost

With very ignorance; we have kiss’d away

Kingdoms and provinces.

Eno.

How appears the fight?

Scar.

On our side like the token’d pestilence,

Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,

Whom leprosy o’ertake! i’ the midst o’ the fight,

When vantage like a pair of twins appear’d,

Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,

The breese upon her, like a cow in June,

Hoists sails and flies.

Eno.

That I beheld:

Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not

Endure a further view.

Scar.

She once being loof’d,

The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,

Clapson his sea-wing, and like a doting mallard,

Leaving the fight in height, flies after her.

I never saw an action of such shame;

Experience, manhood, honour, ne’er before

Did violate so itself.

Eno.

Alack, alack!

EnterCanidius.

Can.

Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,

And sinks most lamentably. Had our general

Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:

O! he has given example for our flight

Most grossly by his own.

Eno.

Ay, are you thereabouts?

Why, then, good night, indeed.

Can.

Towards Peloponnesus are they fled.

Scar.

’Tis easy to ’t; and there I will attend

What further comes.

Can.

To Cæsar will I render

My legions and my horse; six kings already

Show me the way of yielding.

Eno.

I’ll yet follow

The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason

Sits in the wind against me.

[Exeunt.