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the figs, the aspic should bite her before she should see her. Howbeit, that, when she would have taken away the leaves from the figs, she perceived it, and said, Art thou here then? And so, her arm being naked, she put it to the aspic to be bitten. Other say again she kept it in a box, and that she did prick and thrust it with a spindle of gold, so that the aspic, being angered withal, leapt out with great fury, and bit her in the arm. Howbeit, few can tell the truth: for they report also co that she had hidden poison in a hollow razor which she carried in the hair of her head; and yet was there no mark seen of her body, or any sign discerned that she was poisoned, neither also did they find this serpent in her tomb. But it was reported only that there were seen certain fresh steps or tracks where it had gone on the tomb side toward the sea, and specially by the door's side. Some say also that they found two little pretty bitings in her arm, scant to be discerned: the which it seemeth Cæsar himself gave credit unto, because in his triumph he carried Cleopatra's image with an aspic biting of her arm. And thus goeth the report of her death. Now Caesar, though he was marvellous sorry for the death of Cleopatra, yet he wondered at her noble mind and courage, and therefore commanded she should be nobly buried, and laid by Antonius; and willed also that her two women should have honourable burial.'

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

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(Appears)

Act I. sc. 1; sc. 2; c. 3. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act III. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7;

sc. 8; sc. 9;

sc. 11. Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 5; sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 10; sc. 12; sc. 13. Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 6; Act III. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 8; sc. 10. Act V. sc. 1;

sc. 7.

Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 10.

sc. 2.

Act I. sc. 4. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7.
Act III. sc. 2.

Act II. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7.

Act I. sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 7.
Act III. sc. 2; sc. 5; sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 11.
Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 6; sc. 9.
Act II. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Act III. sc. 1.

Act III. sc. 5; sc. 9. Act IV. sc. 4; sc. 5;

sc. 7; sc. 12.

Act III. sc. 8.

Act IV. sc. 12.
Act I. sc. 1.
Act I. sc. 1.

Act II. sc. 2;

Act IV. sc. 7; sc. 8; sc. 10.
Act V. sc. 1.

sc. 4; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act III sc. 7. Act IV. sc. 1. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 7. Act. III. sc. 2; sc. 7. Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7. Act V. sc. 1.

Act III. sc. 10. Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.

Act III. sc. 10; sc. 11.
Act V. sc. 1; sc. 2.
Act II. sc. 1; sc. 6; sc. 7.
Act II. sc. 1.

Act II. sc. 1.

Act III. sc. 8.

Act III. sc. 7; sc. 8.

Act III. sc. 1.

Act III. sc. 10; sc. 11.

Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act II. sc. 5. Act III. sc. 3. Act IV. sc. 2.

Act I. sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5. Act IV. sc. 11; sc. 12.

Act V. sc. 2.

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Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 3; sc. 9; sc. 11. Act IV.
sc. 2; sc. 4; sc. 11; sc. 13. Act V. sc. 2.
Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 5.
Act III. sc. 3; sc. 9; sc. 11. Act IV.
sc. 2; sc. 11; sc. 13. Act V. sc. 2.

Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.
SCENE, DISPERSED; 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.

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 glowed like plated1 Mars, now bend,2 now turn
The office and devotion of their view,

Upon a tawny front :3 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's5 lust. Look, where they come !

[Flourish without.

Take but good note, and you shall see in him

1 Plated.] In armour of plate.

2 Bend.] Are directed.

• Front.] Face.

Reneges.] Disowns; renounces; abjures. In K. Lear, ii. 2, we have Renege, affirm,' &c. Reneye was another form of the word, as in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, 'We reneyed Mahound our creance' (Lat. renego). Shakspeare probably wrote 'reneyes.'

5 Gipsy.] Egyptian.

This word was supposed to be a corruption of

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