A Collection of the Pieces Formerly Published by Henry Brooke, Esq; To Which Are Added Several Plays and Poems, Now First Printed in Four Volumes Vo. Henry Brooke
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1778 edition. Excerpt: ... A N T O N Y AND LEOPATRA A TRAGEDY. PERSONS. Antony, Enobarbus, Demetrius, . / Romans. Agrippa, Eros, Scarus, Ptolemy Artuasdes, ? brother t0 ' Cleopatra. 1 Alexander, SonJTMny andCIeo" I Pairaj / Egyptians. Alexas, Mardian, Soothsayer, Cleopatra, fc Cleopatra, her Daughter by Antony, Charmian, Iras, Roman and Egyptian Messengers, Guards, and Attendants. SCENE Alexandria." ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. ACT I. S C E N E I. Enobareus and Demetrius, Dem. T O T fend to him, fay you? Enob. N0--he's at his pleasures; and that'a the business of the life of Antony. It were treason to disturb him. Dem. Then let the world run loose, and all things fall Into their first confusion!--Here I come Dispatch from Rome, with tidings that might shake him, Though he were pillar'd as the base of Atlas! Enob. I tell you, my worthy friend, while Antony and Cleopatra are at their revels, though every minute were hung with the weight of a province, and every province were to drop in the want of attention--they would laugh, and call the music. ' Dem. Antony cannot, sure, be so unsoldier'd; So deeply an Egyptian!--I do tell you, His half of this great world, jn monstrous cantlets, Falls hourly from his grasp--T here's not a day, But, in the want of a more powerful hand, Or wiser head to rule, some new adventurer Starts up to signiorship--All, all is faction, All broil and lawless contest; where the scum, As in a heated cauldron, boils to the top, And gives us up the vilest of the vile, To station and command.--You must awake him! Enob. Not I, by my troth; let him e'en take his nap out. Why, what is Antony to me, more than the world to Antony? Dem. I am not known to him; but they do fay, Twere pity of him!--a most generous master, A free companion, and a..."
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