Antony And Cleopatra
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
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subject: antony
subject: cleopatra
subject: caesar
subject: mark
subject: files
subject: musters
subject: war
subject: glow
subject: plated
subject: mars
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA DRAMATIS PERSONAE MARK ANTONY | | OCTAVIUS CAESAR | triumvirs. | M. AEMILIUS | LEPIDUS (LEPIDUS:) | SEXTUS POMPEIUS (POMPEY:) DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS | | VENTIDIUS | | EROS | | SCARUS | friends to Antony. | DERCETAS | | DEMETRIUS | | PHILO | MECAENAS | | AGRIPPA | | DOLABELLA | | PROCULEIUS | friends to Caesar. | THYREUS | | GALLUS | | MENAS | MENECRATES | | friends to Pompey. 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 | | MARDIAN a Eunuch. | | attendants on Cleopatra. SELEUCUS | | DIOMEDES | A Soothsayer. (Soothsayer:) A Clown. (Clown:) CLEOPATRA queen of Egypt. OCTAVIA sister to Caesar and wife to Antony. CHARMIAN | | attendants on Cleopatra. IRAS | Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. (First Officer:) (Second Officer:) (Third Officer:) (Messenger:) (Second Messenger:) (First Servant:) (Second Servant:) (Egyptian:) (Guard:) (First Guard:) (Second Guard:) (Attendant:) (First Attendant:) (Second Attendant:) SCENE In several parts of the Roman empire. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA ACT I SCENE I Alexandria. A room in 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. MARK ANTONY There's beggary in the love that can be r…