For

[The fuperfcription is thus]

Mr. M. Concanen at

Mr. Woodwards at the

half moon in fleetstreet.
London.

The foregoing Letter was found about the year 1750, by Dr. Gawin Knight, firft librarian to the British Museum, in fitting up a houfe which he had taken in Crane-court Fleet-freet. The houfe had, for a long time before, been let in lodgings, and in all probability, Concanen had lodged there. The original letter has been many years in my poffeffion, and is here moft exactly copied, with its feveral little peculiarities in grammar, fpelling, and punctuation. April 30. 1766. M. A. The above is copied from an indorsement of Dr. Mark Akinfide, as is the preceding letter from a copy given by him to Efq.-I have carefully retained all the peculi

arities above mentioned, MALONE.

ANTONY

AND

CLEOPATRA.

VOL. VIII.

K

Varrius,

Silius, an Officer in Ventidius's army.

Taurus, Lieutenant-General to Cæfar.

Alexas,

Mardian,

Servants to Cleopatra.

Seleucus,

Diomedes,

A Soothsayer: A Clown.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

Octavia, Sifter to Cæfar, and Wife to Antony.

Charmian, } Attendants on Cleopatra.

Iras,

Ambaffadors from Antony to Cæfar, Captains, Soldiers, Meffengers, and other Attendants.

The SCENE is dispersed in several parts of the Roman Empire.

ANTONY
O N

AND

CLEOPATRA'.

ACT I SCENE I

Cleopatra's Palace at Alexandria.

Enter Demetrius, and Philo.

Phil. Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and mufters 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,

Which in the fcuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breaft, reneges all temper;

2

And

* Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' Company, October 19, 1593, I find " A Booke entituled the Tragedie of Cleopatra. It is entered by Symon Waterfon, for whom fome of Daniel's works were printed; and therefore it is probably by that author, of whofe Cleopatra there are several editions.

In the fame volumes, May 2, 1608, Edward Blount entered "A Booke called Anthony and Cleopatra." This is the first no tice I have met with concerning any edition of this play more ancient than the folio, 1623. STEEVENS.

reneges- -] Renounces. POPE.