Ces. Cleopatra, know, . We answer others' merits* in our name, Ces. Cleopatra, [ledge, (Which towards you are most gentle,) you Not what you have reserv'd, nor what acknow. shall find Put we i'the roll of conquest: still be it yours, A benefit in this change; but if you seek Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe, To lay on me a cruelty, by taking Cesar's no merchant, to make prize with you Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself of things that merchants sold. Therefore be Of my good purposes, and put your children cheer'd;. To that destruction which I'll guard them Make not your thoughts your prisons: Do, from, dear queen; If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave. For we intend so to dispose you, as (sleep: Cleo. And may, through all the world : 'tis Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and yours: and we Our care and pity is so much upon you, Your 'scutcheons, and your signs of conquest, ( That we remain your friend; And so adieu. shall [lord. Cleo. My master, and my lord! Hang in what place you please. Here, my good Ces. Not so: Adieu. Ces. You shall advise me in all for Cleopa- ! . (Eseunt CESAR, and his Train tra. Cleo. He words me, girls, he words me, that Cleo. This is the brief of money, plate, and I should not jewels, Be noble to myself: but hark thee, Charmian. I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued; [Whispers CHARMIAN. Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus? Iras. Finish, good lady; the bright day is Sel. Here, madam. And we are for the dark. [dos, Cleo. This is my treasurer; let him speak, Cleo. Hie thee again: my lord, I have spoke already, and it is provided; Upon his peril, that I have reserv'd Go, put it to the haste. Sel. Madam, Re-enter DOLABELLA. Dol. Where is the queen ? Cleo. What have I kept back? Char. Behold, Sir." Sel. Enough to purchase what you have (Exit CHARMIAS. Cleo. Dolabella ? made known. Dol. Madam, as thereto sworn by your conCes. Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve mand, Your wisdom in the deed. Which my love makes religion to obey, Cleo. See, Cesar! 0, behold, I tell you this: Cesar through Syria How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be Iotends his journey; and, within three days, yours; . (mine. You with our You with your children will be send before: And, should we shift estates, yours would be | Make your best use of this: I have perform'd The ingratitude of this Seleucus does [trust | Your pleasure, and my promise. Even make me wild :-0 slave, of no more Cleo. Dolabella, Than love that's hir'd! What, goest thou I shall remain your debtor. back? thou shalt [eyes, DoL Dol. I your servant. Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine A dies | Adien, good queen; I must attend on Cesar. Though they had wings: Slave, soulless vil. Cleo. Farewell, and thanks. (Esrit DOL.] lian, dog! Now, Iras, what think'st thou ? O rarelyt base! Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shall be shown Ces. Good queen, let us entreat you. In Rome, as well as I: mechanic slaves, Cleo. O Cesar, what a wounding shame is With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths, That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me, Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded, Doing the honour of thy lordliness Add forc'd to drink their vapour. To one so meek, that mine own servant should Iras. The gods forbid! Parcelt the sum of my disgraces by Cleo. Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: Saucy Addition of his envy! Say, good Cesar, lictorst (rhymers That I some lady trifles have reserv'd, Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald Immoment toys, things of such dignity. Ballad us out o'túne: the quickt comedians As we greet moderng friends withal; and say, Extemporally will stage us, and present Some nobler token I have kept apart | Our Alexandrian revels; Antony For Livia|| and Octavia, s to induce Sball be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Their mediation; must I be unfolded Some squeaking Cleopatra boyg my greatness With e that I have bred? The have bred? The gods! "P'the posture of a whore. smites me Iras. O the good gods! Beneath the fall I have. Pr’ythee, go hence ; l Cleo. Nay, that is certain. [To SELEUCUS. Irus. I'll never see it; for, I am sure, my nails True I'll | Cleo. Why that's the way Clen. wir that's th a man, To fool their preparation, and to conquer Their most absurd intents.Now, Charmjan Enter CHARMIAN. misthought For things that others do ; and, when we fall, Show me, my women, like a queen ;-Go fetch Add to. Common. | Sew up. + Uncommonly. Merits or demerits. Beadles. I Lively, Female characters were played by bort *. Fire. That y best attires ;-I am again for Cydnus, To praise my noble act; I hear him mock To meet Mark Antony :-Sirrah, Iras,ygo. The luck of Cesar, which the gods give men Now, noble Charmian, we'll despatch indeed: To excuse their after wrath : Husband, I come: And, when thou hast done this chare,* I'll Now to that name my courage prove my title ! give thee leave I am fire, and air; my other elements To play till doomsday.-Bring our crown and I give to baser life.So-have you done? Wherefore's this noise ? fall. Come then, and take the last warmth of my : [Exit Iras. A Noise within. swell. Enter one of the GUARD. Farewell,' kind Charmian ;-Iras, long' fareGuard. Here is a rural fellow, (Kisses them. IRAs falls and dies. Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall? That will not be denied your highness' presence; If thou and nature can so gently part, He brings you figs. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Cleo. Let him come in. How poor an instru Which hurts, and is desir'd. Dost thou lie still? ment [Erit GUARD. If thus thou vanishest, thou tell’st the world May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty. It is not worth leave-taking. My resolution's plac'd, and I have nothing Char. Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I Of woman in me: Now from head to foot may say Cleo. This proves me base : If she first meet the curled Antony,.. He'll make demand of her; and spend that kiss, Which is my heaven to have. Come, mortal wretch, Hast thou the pretty wormt of Nilus there, [To the Asp, which she applies to her Breust. With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate That kills and pains not? Of life at once untie : poor venomous fool, Clown. Truly I have him: but I would not be the party that should desire you to touch Be angry, and despatch. O, could'st thou him, for his biting is immortal ; those, that do die of it, do seldom or never recover. That I might hear thee call great Cesar, ass Unpolicied !* Char. O eastern star! Cleo. Peace, peace! Cloun. Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of them no longer than yesterday: Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep? a very honest woman, but something given to Char. O, break! O, break! lie; as a woman should not do, but in the way Cleo. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as of honesty: how she died of the biting of it, what pain she felt,--Truly, she makes a very gentle, O Antony !-Nay, I will take thee too :good report o'the worm : But he that will be [Applying another Asp to her Arm. lieve all that they say, shall never be saved by What should I stay-.. half that they do: But this is most fallible, the [Falls on a Bed, and dies. worm's an odd worm. Char. In this wild world ?-So, fare thee well. Now boast thee, death! in thy possession lies Cleo. Farewell. [Clown sets down the Basket. | A lass unparallel'd.-Downy windows, close; Clown. You must think this, look you, that And golden Phoebus never be beheld the worm will do his kind. Of eyes again so royal ! Your crown's awry; I'll mend it, and then play. trusted, but in the keeping of wise people; for, Enter the GUARD, rushing in. indeed, there is no goodness in the worm. Cleo. Take thou no care ; it shall be heeded. 1 Guard. Where is the queen ? Char. Speak softly, wake her not. Clown. Very good : give it nothing, I pray you, for it is not worth the feeding. 1 Guard. Cesar hath sent Char. Too slow a messenger. [Applies the Asp. but I know the devil himself will not eat á 10, come; apace, despatch : I partly feel thee. 1 Guard. Approach, ho! All's not well : Cewoman: I know, that a woman is a dish for the sar's beguil'd. gods, if the devil dress her pot. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the gods great 2 Guard. There's Dolabella sent from Ce. harm in their women; for in every ten that they sar;-call him. make, the devils mar five. i Guard. What work is here –Charmian, is Cleo. Well, get thee gone; farewell. this well done? Clown. Yes, forsooth; I wish you joy of the Char. It is well done, and fitting for a prinrit | Descended of so many royal kings. [Erit. worm. [cess Ah, soldier! (Dies. Re-enter Iras, with a Robe, Crown, &c. Cleo. Give me my robe, put on my crown; I Enter DOLABELLA have Dol. How goes it here? Immortal longings in me: Now no more 2 Guard. All dead. The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this l_ Dól. Cesar, thy thoughts_ lip : shear Touch their effects in this: Thyself art coming Yare, yare,ll good Iras ; quick.-Methinks, 1 To see perform'd the dreaded act, which thou Antony call; I see him rouse himself So sought'st to hinder. Within. A way there, way for Cesar! Job of work. Inconstant, t Serpent. | Act according to his nature. U Make haste. * Unpolitic, to leave me to myself. Enter CESÁR, and Attendants. Dok Here, on her breast, Dol. 0, Sir, you are too sure an augurer; There is a vent of blood, and something blom: That you did fear, is done. The like is on her arm. Ces. Bravest at the last : 1 Guard. This is an aspic's trail: and these She leveli'd at our purposes, and, being royal, aves Took her own way. The manner of their Have slide upon them, such as the aspic leares I do not see them bleed. rdeaths 1 °pon the caves ol Nile. · Dol. Who was last with them? Ces. Most probable, i Guard. A simple countryman, that brought That so she died; for her physician tells me, her figs; She had pursu'd conclusions infinite This was his basket. Of easy ways to die.-Take up her bed; Ces. Poison'd then, And bear her women from the monumeat:, 1 Guard. O Cesar, [spake: She shall be buried by her Antony: This Charmian lived but now; she stood, and No grave upon the earth shall clipt in it I found her trimming up the diadem A pair so famous. High events as these On her dead mistress ; tremblingly she stood, Strike those that make them: and their story i And on the sudden dropp'd. No less in pity, than his glory, which Ces. () noble weakness ! Brought them to be lamented. Our army If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear shall, By external swelling: but she looks like sleep, In solemn show, attend the funeral; As she would catch another Antony And then to Rome.--Come, Dolabella, see In her strong toil of grace." High order in this great solemnity. (Ercan Graceful appearance. Enfold. * Tried experiments TIMON OF ATHENS. PERSONS REPRESENTED. TIMON, a noble Athenian. Two SERVANTS of VARRO, and the Servant of Lucius, ISIDORE ; two of Timon's Creditors. . Lucullus, (Lords, and Flatterers of Timon CUPID, and MASKERS. SEMPRONIUS, Three STRANGERS. VENTIDIUS, one of Timon's false Friends. Poet, PAINTER, JEWELLER, and MERCHANT. APEMANTUS, a churlish Philosopher. AN OLD ATHENIAN. ALCIBIADES, an Athenian General. A Page. A FOOL. PHRYNIA,) Mistresses to Alcibiades. TIMANDRA, Other Lords, Senators, Officers, Soldiers, Thieves, and Attendants. | Scene, Athens ; and the Woods adjoining. TITUS, ACT I. Pain. You are rapt, Sir, in some work, some SCENE I,-Athens.-A Hall in TIMON'S • dedication To the great lord. Poet. A thing slipp'd idly from me. Enter Poet, PAINTER, JEWELLER, MERCHANT, Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes (flint and others, at several Doors. From whence 'tis nourished: The fire i'the Poet. Good day, Sir. Shows not, till it be struck; our gentle flame Pain. I am glad you are well. Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies Poet. I have not seen you long; How goes Each bound it chafes. What have you there? the world? Pain. A picture, Sir.-And when comes your Pain. It wears, Sir, as it grows. book forth? Poet, Ay, that's well known : Poet. Upon the heels of my presentment, * But what particular rarity? what strange, Let's see your piece.. [Sir Which manifold record not matches ? See, Pain. "Tis a good piece. Magic of bounty ! all these spirits thy power Poet. So 'tis : this comes off well and excel. Hath conjur'd to attend. I know the merchant. lent. Pain. I know them both; t'other's a jeweller. Pain. Indifferent. Mer. O, 'tis a worthy lord ! Poet. Admirable : How this grace Jew. Nay, that's most fix'd. Speaks his own standing! what a mental power Mer. A most incomparable man; breath’d, * This eye shoots forth ! how big imagination as it were, Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the ges. To an untirable and continuatet goodness : One might interpret. [ture He passes. I Pain. It is a pretty mocking of the life. Jew. I have a jewel here. Here is a touch ; Is't good ? Mer. O, pray, let's see't: For the lord Ti. Poet. I'll say of it, mon, Sir? It tutors nature : artificial strifet Jew. If he will touch the estimate: But, for Lives in these touches, livelier than life. that Enter certain SENATORS, and pass over. Poet. When we for recompense have prais’d the vile, Pain. How this lord's follow'd ! It stains the glory in that happy verse Poet. The senators of Athens:-Happy men! Which aptly sings the good. Pain. Look, more! Mer. 'Tis a good form. Poet. You see this confluence, this great flood . [Looking at the Jewel. - of visitors. Jew. And rich: here is a water, look you. I have, in this rough work, shap'd out a man, * Inured by constant practice. For continual. * As soon as my book has been presented to Timon, II. e. Exceeds, goes beyond cornmon bounds. +1.eThe contest of art with nature, Whom this beneath world doth embrace and Ven. Sero. Ay, my good lord: five talents 3 hug his debt; With amplest entertainment: My free drift His means most short, his creditors most strait: Halts not particularly,* but moves itself Your honourable letter he desires [him, In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice To those have shut him up; which failing to Infects one comma in the course I hold; Periods his comfort. But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, Tim. Noble Ventidius! Well; Leaving no tract behind. I am not of that feather, to shake off shim Pain. How shall I understand you? My friend when he must need me. I do know Poet. I'll unboltt to you. A gentleman, that well deserves a help. You see how all conditions, how all minds, | which he shall have: I'll pay the debt, and (As well of glib and slippery creatures, as free him. Of grave and austere quality,) tender down Ven. Serv. Your lordship ever binds tim. Their services to lord Timon: his large fortune, Tim. Commend me to him: I will send his Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, T. ransom ; (me:Subdues and properties to his love and tend. And, being enfranchis'd, bid him come to ance "Tis not enough to help the feeble up, All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-fac'd But to support him after.–Fare you well. flatterert Ven. Serv. All happiness to your honour! To Apemantus, that few things loves better Than to abhor himself: even he drops down The knee before him, and returns in peace Enter an old ATHENIAN. Most rich in Timon's nod. Old Ath. Lord Timon, hear me speak. Pain. I saw them speak together. Tim. Freely, good father. Poet. Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant | Old Ath. Thou bast a servant nam'd Le hill, cilius. Feign's Fortune to be thron'd: The base Tim. I have so: What of him? o'the niount Old Ath. Most noble Timon, call the man Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures, before thee. That labour on the bosom of this sphere Tim. Attends he here, or no ?—Lucilius! To propogate their states:$ amongst them all, Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd, Enter Lucilius. One do I personate of lord Timon's frame, Luc. Here, at your lordship's service. Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her; . (vants Old Ath. This fellow here, lord Timon, this Whose present grace to present slaves and ser- | , thy creature, Translates his rivals. " By night frequents my house. I am a man Puin. "Tis conceiv'd t | That from my first have been inclin'd to thrift; And my estate deserves an heir more rais | Than one which holds a trencher. Bowing his head against the steepy mount I Tim. Well; what further ? . . To climb his happiness, would be well ex Old Ath. One only daughter have I, do kin In our condition. (press'd else, Poet. Nay, Sir, but hear me on: On whom I may confer what I have got: All those which were his fellows but of late, The maid is fair, o'the youngest for a bride, (Some better than his value,) on the moment | And I have bred her at my dearest cost, Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tend | In qualities of the best. This man of thine ance, | Attempts her love: I pr’ythee, noble lord, Rain sacrificial whisperings|| in his ear, Join with me to forbid him her resort; Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him Myself have spoke in vain. Drink the free air. Tim. The man is honest. Pain. Ay, marry, what of these? Old Ath. Therefore he will be, Timon: Poet. When Fortune, in her shift and change His honesty rewards him in itself, | It must not bear my daughter. of mood, [ants, Spurns down her late belov'd, all his depend Tim. Does she love him? Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top, Old Ath. She is young, and apt: Even on their knees and hands, let him slip whole Our own precedent passions do instruct us SmPWhat levity's in youth. down, Not one accompanying his declining foot. Tim. To LUCILIUS.) Love you the maid ? Pain. "Tis common : Luc. Ay, my good lord, and she accepts A thousand moral paintings I can show of it. That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Old Ath. If in her marriage my consent be fortune missing, More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well, I call the gods to witness, I will choose To show lord l'imon, that mean eyes** have Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world, The foot above the head. And dispossess her all. seen Tim. How shall she be endow'd, Trumpets sound. Enter Timon, attended; the If she be mated with an equal husband? Servant of VENTIDIUS talking with him. Old Ath. Three talents, on the preseni; in future, all. Tim. Imprison'd is he, say you? Tim. This gentleman of mine hath serv'd me My design docs not stop at any particular character. To build his fortune, I will strain a little, + Open, explain. For 'tis a bond in men, Give him thy daugh. One who shows by reflection the looks of his patron. ter: To advance their conditions of life. • Whisperings of officious servility. What you bestow, in bim I'N counterpoise, Inbale. ** I e. Ipferior spectators. And make him weigh with her. I think Scope. |