Dramatis Perfonæ. M. ANTONY. Octavius Cæfar. Emilius Lepidus. Sex. Pompeius. Domitius Enobarbus,. Varrius, Silius, an Officer in Ventidius's Army. Taurus, Lieutenant-General to Cæfar. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Octavia, Sifter to Cæfar, and Wife to Antony. Charmian, Iras, } Ladies attending on Cleopatra. Ambafadors from Antony to Cæfar, Captains, Soldiers, Meffengers, and other Attendants. The SCENE is difpers'd in feveral Parts of the Roman Empire, ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. ACTI SCENE, the Palace at Alexandria in Ægypt. Enter Demetrius and Philo. PHILO. AY, but this dotage of our General now turn, Upon a tawny front. His Captain's heart, To cool a Gypfy's luft. Look, where they come ! Flourish. Enter Antony, and Cleopatra, ber Ladies in the train, Eunuchs fanning her. Take but good note, and you shall see in him The The triple pillar of the world transform'd Cleo. If it be love, indeed, tell me, how much? Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heav'n, new earth. Enter a Meffenger. Mef. News, my good Lord, from Rome. Ant. It grates me. Tell the fum. Cleo. Nay, hear it, Antony. Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or who knows, His powerful Mandate to you, "Do this, or this; "Take in that Kingdom, and infranchise that; "Perform't, or else we damn thee.. Ant. How, my love? Cleo. Perchance, (nay, and moft like,) You must not stay here longer, your difiniffion Cleo. Excellent falfhood! [Embracing. Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? Will be himself. Ant. But ftirr'd by Cleopatra. Now Now for the love of love, and his foft hours, Ant. Fy, wrangling Queen! Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, [Exeunt, with their Train. That he approves the common liar, Fame, [Exe Enter Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas, and a Sooth-fayer. Char. Alexas, fweet Alexas, moft any thing Alexas, almost most abfolute Alexas, where's the Sooth-fayer that you prais'd fo to th' Queen? (1) Oh! that I knew this husband, which you fay, muft charge his horns with garlands. (1) Oh, that I knew this Husband, which, you say, muft change bis Horns with Garlands.] Changing Horns with Garlands, is, surely, a fenseless, unintelligible, Phrase. We must restore, in Oppofition, to all the printed Copies, which you fay, muft charge bis Horns with Garlands. i. e. muft be an honourable Cuckold, must have his Horns hung with Garlands. Charge and change frequently ufurp each other's Place in our Author's old Editions, as I have occafionally obferv'd in my Notes on other Paffages. I ought to take Notice, that Mr. Warburton likewife ftarted this Emendation. . |