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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra v .... o • » °o " © 4? .**'£'. * ^ 'bK *°«* ^ c aV* * ^ ^ 4> 2V * ^ *^A *•#!* ^* V *1 j>* c\ *!> *!*«?* * T^a » * & (if///&!. -a <N % •?•, '* O, aT • -oK +*<& •a *> •'* «Jr THE YALE SHAKESPEARE Edited by Wilbur L. Cross Tucker Brooke WlLLARD HlGLEY DURHAM Published under the Direction of THE Department of English, Yale University, on the Fund Given to the Yale University Press in 1917 by the Members of the Kingsley Trust Association To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Society o<Me.H,jM • '. • : The Yale Shakespeare THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA EDITED BY HENRY SEIDEL CANBY NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXXI 1921 Copyright, Q0Q" By Yale University Press First published, 1921 JUL 22 1921 ©CI.A622376 *Vt-0 I Ci The facsimile opposite represents the opening of ' The Life of Marcus Antonius' from the 1595 edition of Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch. This edition is probably that used by Shakespeare. THE LIFE OF sZManm Antonm. NT0N1VS grandfatherwasthatfamousOratorwhomc*//w7«f I flew, becaufc he cookc SyUaes part. His father was an other Antonim , furnamed*C/?M»,who was not Co famous.nor bareany great fway in 1 the common wealth: howbeit otherwife he was an honeftman,and |ofa very good nature, and fpecially very liberal! in giui ng , as appca- )rcih by an a&hcdid. Hewasnotvery wealthy, and therefore his t wife would not let him vfehis Iiberalitieand franke naturc.Onedajr a friend of hiscomming to him to i prayhimtohelpehim tofome money, hauing great neede : ^sfntonitu by chance had no money to giue him , but he commaunded one ofhis men to bring him feme water in a Cluer bafen, and after [DRAMATIS PERSONS Mark Antony, \ Octavius Cjesar, VTriumvirs M. 2Emilius Lepidus, J Sextus Pompeius Domitius Enobarbus, Ventidius, Eros, ScARUS, Friends to Antony Dercetas, Demetrius, Philo, M^CENAS, Agrippa, DoLABELLA, Friends to Ccesar Proculeius, Thyreus, Gallus, Menas, mene crates, Friends to Pompey Varrius, Taurus, Lieut enant-General to Ccesar Canidius, Lieutenant-General to Antony Sinus, an Officer under Ventidius Euphronius, a Schoolmaster Alexas, Mardian, 'Attendants on Cleopatra Seleucus, DlOMEDES, . A Soothsayer A Clown Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt Octavia, Sister to Ccesar, and wife to Antony Charmian,1 . _, T \ Attendants on Cleopatrar Iras, J Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants Scene: In several parts of the Roman Empire] The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra ACT FIRST Scene One [Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra's Palace] Enter Demetrius and Philo. Phi. 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 4 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, 8 And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. Look! where they come. Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her. Take but good note, and you shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transform'd 12 Into a strumpet's fool; behold and see. Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd. 16 Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. 4 plated: armored 8 reneges: renounces 12 triple: one of three; cf. n. 16 bourn: boundary [DRAMATIS PERSONJE Mark Antony, \ Octavius Caesar, VTriumvirs M. 2Emilius Lepidus, J Sextus Pompeius Domitius Enobarbus, Ventidius, Eros, ScARUS, Friends to Antony Dercetas, Demetrius, Philo, maecenas, Agrippa, DoLABELLA, Friends to Ccesar Proculeius, Thyreus, Gallus, Menas, Mene crates, Friends to Pompey Varrius, Taurus, Lieutenant-General to Ccesar Canidius, Lieut enant-General to Antony Silius, an Officer under Ventidius Euphronius, a Schoolmaster Alexas, Mardian, 'Attendants on Cleopatra Seleucus, DlOMEDES, A Soothsayer A Clown Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt Octavia, Sister to Ccesar, and wife to Antony T '\ Attendants on Cleopatrar Iras, J Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants Scene: In several parts of the Roman Empire~\ Tlie Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra ACT FIRST Scene One [Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra's Palace~\ Enter Demetrius and Philo. Phi. 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 4 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, 8 And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust. Look! where they come. Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her. Take but good note, and you shall see in him The triple pillar of the world transform'd 12 Into a strumpet's fool; behold and see. Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd. Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd. 16 Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. 4 plated: armored 8 reneges: renounces 12 triple: one of three; cf. n. 16 bourn: boundary The Tragedy of Enter a Messenger. Att. News, my good lord, from Rome. Ant. Grates me; the sum. Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony: Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or, who knows 20 If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; Perform 't, or else we damn thee.' Ant. How, my love! 24 Cleo. Perchance! nay, and most like; You must not stay here longer; your dismission Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both ? 28 Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen, Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine Is Caesar's homager; else so thy cheek pays shame When shrill-tongu'd Fulvia scolds. The messen- gers ! 32 Ant. Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the rang'd empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man; the nobleness of life 36 Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair [Embracing.'] And such a twain can do 't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless. Cleo. Excellent falsehood! 40 18 Grates: irritates 23 Take in: conquer enfranchise: set free 26 dismission: discharge from office 28 process: command 31 homager : humble servant 34 rang'd: ordered 35 d.xm%y:vile 39 weet: know Antony and Cleopatra, I. i 3 Why did he marry Fulvia and not love her? I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony Will be himself. Ant. But stirr'd by Cleopatra. Now/for the love of Love and her soft hours, 44 Let's not confound the time with conference harsh: There's not a minute of our lives should stretch Without some pleasure now. What sport to-night? Cleo. Hear the ambassadors. Ant. Fie, wrangling queen! 48 Whom everything becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weep; whose every passion fully strives To make itself, in thee, fair and admir'd. No messenger, but thine; and all alone, 52 To-night we'll wander through the streets and note The qualities of people. Come, my queen; Last night you did desire it: speak not to us. Exeunt [Antony and Cleopatra,] with the Train. Dem. Is Caesar with Antonius priz'd so slight? 56 Phi. Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony, He comes too short of that great property Which still should go with Antony. Dem. I am full sorry That he approves the common liar, who 60 Thus speaks of him at Rome; but I will hope Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy! Exeunt. 45 confound: consume 58 property: quality 60 approves: justifies The Tragedy of Scene Two [Another Rooni] Enter Enobarbus, Lamprius, a Soothsayer, Rannius, Lucillius, Charmian, Iras, Mardian the Eunuch, and Alexas. Char. Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any- thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer that you praised so to the queen? O! that I knew this husband, 4 which, you say, must charge his horns with garlands. Alex. Soothsayer! Sooth. Your will? 8 Char. Is this the man ? Is 't you, sir, that know things? Sooth. In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. Alex. Show him your hand. 12 Eno. Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough Cleopatra's health to drink. Char. Good sir, give me good fortune. Sooth. I make not, but foresee. 16 Char. Pray then, foresee me one. Sooth. You shall be yet far fairer than you are. Char. He means in flesh. Iras. No, you shall paint when you are old. 20 Char. Wrinkles forbid! Alex. Vex not his prescience; be attentive. Char. Hush! Sooth. You shall be more beloving than belov'd. 24 Scene Two S. d. Rannius, Lucillius; cf. n. 4-6 O! that I knew . garlands; cf. n. 13 banquet: dessert and wine Antony and Cleopatra, I. ii Char. I had rather heat my liver with drinking. Alex. Nay, hear him. Char. Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married to three kings in a forenoon, 28 and widow them all ; let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry may do homage; find me to marry me with Octavius Caesar, and com- panion me with my mistress.
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