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Eros. For Italy and Cæsar. More, Domitius;

My lord desires you presently: my news

I might have told hereafter.

Eno. 'Twill be naught;

But let it be. Bring me to Antony.

Eros. Come, sir.

Cæs. Contemning Rome, he has done all this and more

In Alexandria; here's the manner of 't;

I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,

Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold

Were publicly enthron'd; at the feet sat

Cæsarion, whom they call my father's son,

And all the unlawful issue that their lust

Since then hath made between them. Unto her

He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her

Of Lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,

Absolute queen.

Mæc. This in the public eye?

Cæs. I' the common show-place, where they exercise.

His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings;

Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia

He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd

Syria, Cilicia, and Phœnicia. She

In the habiliments of the goddess Isis

 22 presently: at once  1 Contemning: scorning

3 tribunal: raised platform

6 my father's son; cf. n.

9 'stablishment: settled occupation

