Oct. Do so, good Messala. Mes. How died my master, Strato? Stra. I held the sword, and he did run on it. Mes. Octavius, then take him to follow thee, That did the latest service to my master. Ant. This was the noblest Roman of them all : Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar; Oct. According to his virtue let us use him, ORIGINAL TEXT. [Exeunt. TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Cæsar. CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony. SILIUS, an Officer in Ventidius' Army. EUPHRONIUS, an Ambassador from Antony to Cæsar. ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, and DIOMEDES, Attendants on Cleopatra. A Soothsayer. A Clown. CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt. OCTAVIA, Sister to Cæsar, and Wife to Antony. Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. SCENE, dispersed in several Parts of the Roman Empire. SCENE I. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra's Palace. Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO. Philo. AY, but this dotage of our General's 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, Take but good note, and you shall see in him Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much. Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd. new earth. Enter an Attendant. Att. News, my good lord, from Rome... Ant. Grates me.-The sum? Cleo. Nay, hear them, Antony: Fulvia, perchance, is angry; or, who knows Ant. How, my love! Cleo. Perchance-nay, and most likeYou must not stay here longer, your dismission Is come from Cæsar; therefore hear it, Antony. Where's Fulvia's process? Cæsar's, I would say. Both ? Call in the messengers.-As I am Egypt's Queen, [Embracing. Cleo. -Excellent Falsehood! Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her? Ant. But stirr'd by Cleopatra... Now, for the love of Love, and her soft hours, |