PROLOGUE: In Troy there lyes the Scene / Prologue.1 TLN 2
PROLOGUE: And hither am I come,
A Prologue arm’d, but not in confidence
Of Authors pen, or Actors voyce; but suited
In like conditions, as our Argument;
To tell you (faire Beholders) that our Play
Leapes ore the vaunt and firstlings of those broyles,
Beginning in the middle: starting thence away,
To what may be digested in a Play / Prologue.22–29 TLN 23–30
ULYSSES: And like a strutting Player, whose conceit
Lies in his Ham-string, and doth thinke it rich
To heare the woodden Dialogue and sound
‘Twixt his stretcht footing, and the Scaffolage / 1.3.153–6 TLN 613–6
ULYSSES: The large Achilles (on his prest-bed lolling)
From his deepe Chest, laughes out a lowd applause;
Cries excellent, ‘tis Agamemnon iust.
Now play me Nestor / 1.3.162–5 TLN 622–5
ULYSSES: ‘Tis Nestor right. Now play him (me) Patroclus,
Arming to answer in a night-Alarme,
And then (forsooth) the faint defects of Age
Must be the Scene of myrth / 1.3.170–3 TLN 630–3
TROILUS: In all Cupids Pageant there is presented no monster / 3.2.74–5 TLN 1705
TROILUS: This is the monstruositie in loue Lady, that the will is in-
Finite, and the execution confin’d; that the desire is bound-
lesse, and the act a slaue to limit / 3.2.81–3 TLN 1711–3
CRESSIDA: They
that haue the voyce of Lyons, and the act of Hares:
are they not Monsters?
TROILUS: Are there such? such are not we / 3.2.88–90 TLN 1717–20
CRESSIDA: If I confesse much you will play the tyrant / 3.2.119 TLN 1750
CALCHAS: Th’ aduantage of the time promps me aloud,
To call for recompence / 3.3.2–3 TLN 1850–1
ULYSSES: How some men creepe in skittish fortunes hall,
Whiles others play the Ideots in her eyes / 3.3.134–5 TLN 1986–7
THERSITES: I will put on his presence; let Pa-
troclus make demands to me, you shall see the Page-
ant of Ajax / 3.3.270–2 TLN 2126–8
DIOMEDES: By Ioue, Ile play the hunter for thy life / 4.1.18 TLN 2190
AUFIDIUS: What euer haue bin thought on in this State
That could be brought to bodily act, ere Rome
Had circumvention / 1.2.4–6 TLN 318–20
VALERIA: I must haue you
Play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone / 1.3.69–70 TLN 432–3
MARCIUS CORIOLANUS: He that ha’s but effected his good will,
Hath ouerta’ne mine Act / 1.9.18–9 TLN 768–9
COMINIUS: in that dayes feates,
When he might act the Woman in the Scene,
He prou’d best man i’th’ field / 2.2.95–7 TLN 1309–11
CORIOLANUS: It is a part that I shall blush in acting / 2.2.144–5 TLN 1366
CORIOLANUS: So then the Volces stand but as at first,
Readie when time shall prompt them, to make roade
Vpon’s againe / 3.1.4–6 TLN 1677–9
CORIOLANUS: Would you haue me
False to my Nature? Rather say, I play
The man I am / 3.2.14–6 TLN 2099–2101
VOLUMNIA: speake to th’ people:
Not by your owne instruction, nor by’th’matter
Which your heart prompts you / 3.2.52–4 TLN 2151–3
VOLUMNIA: I would dissemble with my Nature, where
My Fortunes and my Friends at stake / 3.2.62–3 TLN 2161–2
COMINIUS: Come, come, wee’le prompt you / 3.2.106 TLN 2213
VOLUMNIA: performe a part
Thou hast not done before / 3.2.109–10 TLN 2216–7
MENENIUS: The Generall is my Louer: I haue beene
The booke of his good Acts, whence men haue read
His Fame vnparalell’d, happely amplified / 5.2.14–6 TLN 3252–4
CORIOLANUS: Like a dull Actor now, I haue forgot my part / 5.3.40–1 TLN 3390
VOLUMNIA: the Gods will plague thee
That thou restrain’st from me the Duty, which
To a Mothers part belongs / 5.3.166–8 TLN 3523–5
CORIOLANUS: Behold, the Heauens do ope,
The Gods looke downe, and this vnnaturall Scene
They laugh at / 5.3.183–5 TLN 3541–3
TAMORA: But on mine honour dare, I vndertake
For good Lord Titus innocence in all;
Whose fury not dissembled speakes his griefes / 1.1.436–8 TLN 486–8
TAMORA: My Lord, be rul’d by me, be
wonne at last,
Dissemble all your griefes and discontents / 1.1.443–4 TLN 492–3
TAMORA: Then all too late I bring this fatall writ,
The complot of this timelesse Tragedie / 2.3.264–5 TLN 1020–1
CHIRON: Write downe thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,
An if thy stumpes will let thee play the Scribe / 2.4.3–4 TLN 1072–3
TITUS: This is the tragicke tale of Philomel? / 4.1.47 TLN 1592
MARCUS ANDRONICUS: O, why should nature build so foule a den,
Vnlesse the Gods delight in tragedies? / 4.1.59–60 TLN 1603–4
AARON: For I must talke of Murthers, Rapes and Massacres,
Acts of Blacke-night, abhominable Deeds,
Complots of Mischiefe, Treason, Villanies
Ruthfull to heare, yet pittiously perform’d / 5.1.63–6 TLN 2175–8
AARON: I play’d the Cheater for thy Fathers hand / 5.1.111 TLN 2227
TAMORA: See heere he comes, and I must play my theame / 5.2.80 TLN 2366
TITUS: So now bring them in, for Ile play the Cooke,
And see them ready, gainst their Mother comes / 5.2.204–5 TLN 2494–5
AARON: Some deuill whisper curses in mine eare,
And prompt me, that my tongue may vtter forth
The Venomous Mallice of my swelling heart / 5.3.11–3 TLN 2507–9
[In faire Verona where we lay our Scene / Prologue.2 / Q2 (not in F)]
The fearfull passage of their death-markt loue,
And the continuance of their Parents rage:
Which but their childrens end nought could remoue,
Is now the two houres trafficque of our Stage / Prologue.9–12 / Q2 (not in F)]
BENVOLIO: The date is out of such prolixitie,
Weele haue no Cupid hood winkt with a skarfe,
Bearing a Tartars painted Bow of lath,
Skaring the Ladies like a Crow-keeper.
[Nor no without booke Prologue faintly spoke
After the Prompter, for our entrance / Q1 (not in F)]
But let them measure vs by what they will,
Weele measure them a Measure, and be gone / 1.4.3–10 TLN 458–63
ROMEO: By Loue that first did prompt me to enquire / 2.2.80 TLN 878
FRIAR LAURENCE: So smile the heauens vpon this holy act / 2.6.1 TLN 1393
JULIET: till strange Loue grown bold,
Thinke true Loue acted simple modestie / 3.2.15–6 TLN 1659–60
NURSE: There’s no trust, no faith, no honestie in men,
All periur’d, all forsworne, all naught, all dissemblers / 3.2.85–7 TLN 1738–9
FRIAR LAURENCE: Thy teares are womanish, thy wild acts denote
The vnreasonable Furie of a beast / 3.3.110–1 TLN 1927–8
JULIET: Twixt my extreames and me, this bloody knife
Shall play the vmpeere / 4.1.62–3 TLN 2357–8
FRIAR LAURENCE: And this shall free thee from this present shame,
If no inconstant toy nor womanish feare,
Abate thy valour in the acting it / 4.1.118–20 TLN 2413–5
CAPULET: let me alone:
Ile play the husewife for this once / 4.2.42–3 TLN 2471–2
JULIET: My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone / 4.3.19 TLN 2500
FLAVIUS: I did indure
Not sildome, nor no slight checkes, when I haue
Prompted you in the ebbe of your estate,
And your great flow of debts / 2.2.139–42 TLN 811–4
PAINTER: Performance, is euer the duller for his acte / 5.1.24 TLN 2226
TIMON: I, and you hear him cogge,
See him dissemble,
Know his grosse patchery, loue him, feede him,
Keepe in your bosome, yet remaine assur’d
That he’s a made-vp-Villaine / 5.1.95–8 TLN 2316–20
2nd SENATOR: now the publike Body, which doth sildome
Play the re-canter, feeling in it selfe
A lacke of Timons ayde, hath since withall
Of its owne fall / 5.1.145–8 TLN 2381–4
CAESAR: He loues no Playes,
As thou dost Antony: he heares no Musicke / 1.2.203–4 TLN 305–6
CASCA: If the tag-ragge people did not
clap him, and hisse him, according as he pleas’d, and dis-
pleas’d them, as they vse to do the Players in |the Thea-|tre / 1.2.258–61 TLN 362–5
CASSIUS: That done, repayre to Pompeyes Theater / 1.3.152 TLN 599
BRUTUS: Betweene the acting of a dreadfull thing,
And the first motion, all the Interim is
Like a Phantasma, or a hideous Dreame / 2.1.63–5 TLN 684–6
BRUTUS: Let not our lookes put on our purposes,
But beare it as our Roman Actors do,
With vntyr’d Spirits, and formall Constancie / 2.1.225–7 TLN 863–5
CASSIUS: How many Ages hence
Shall this our lofty Scene be acted ouer,
In State vnborne, and Accents yet vnknowne / 3.1.111–3 TLN 1326–8
BRUTUS: How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport / 3.1.114 TLN 1329
BRUTUS: Though now we must appeare bloody and cruell,
As by our hands, and this our present Acte,
You see we do / 3.1.165–7 TLN 1386–8
TITINIUS: By your leaue Gods: This is a Romans part,
Come Cassius Sword, and find Titinius hart / 5.3.89–90 TLN 2575–6
MACBETH: Two Truths are told,
As happy Prologues to the swelling Act
Of the Imperiall Theame / 1.3.127–29 TLN 238–40
MACBETH: Your Highnesse part is to receiue our Duties / 1.4.23–4 TLN 307
ROSS: Thou seest the Heauens, as troubled with mans Act,
Threaten his bloody Stage / 2.4.5–6 TLN 930–1
MACBETH: Our selfe will mingle with Society,
And play the humble Host / 3.4.3–4 TLN 1259–60
HECATE: And I the Mistris of your Charmes,
The close contriuer of all harmes,
Was neuer call’d to beare my part / 3.5.6–8 TLN 1436–8
MACDUFF: O I could play the woman with mine eyes,
And Braggart with my tongue. But gentle Heauens,
Cut short all intermission / 4.3.230–2 TLN 2080–2
MACBETH: Life’s but a walking Shadow, a poore Player
That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage,
And then is heard no more / 5.5.24–6 TLN 2345–7
MACBETH: Why should I play the Roman Foole, and dye
On mine own sword? / 5.8.1–2 TLN 2436–7
[ HORATIO: And euen the like precurse of feare euents
As harbingers preceading still the fates
And prologue to the Omen comming on
Haue heauen and earth together demonstrated
Vnto our Climatures and countrymen. / 1.1.121–125 Q2 (not in F) ]
HAMLET: These indeed Seeme,
For they are actions that a man might play / 1.2.83–4 TLN 264–5
ROSENCRANTZ: To thinke, my Lord, if you delight not in man,
What Lenton entertainment the Players shall receiue
From you: wee coated them on the way, and hither are
They comming to offer you Seruice / 2.2.315–8 TLN 1362–5
HAMLET: He that playes the King shall be welcome / 2.2.319 TLN 1366
HAMLET: the humourous man shall end his part
in peace / 2.2.322–3 TLN 1369–70
HAMLET: What Players are they? / 2.2.325 TLN 1372
ROSENCRANTZ: Euen those you were wont to take delight in
The Tragedians of the City / 2.2.327–8 TLN 1374–5
HAMLET: if they should grow themselues tocommon Players (as
it is most like their meanes are not better) their Wri-
ters do them wrong / 2.2.348–50 TLN 1395–7
ROSENCRANTZ: There was for a while, no mony bid for argu-
ment, vnless the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes in
the Question. / 2.2.354–6 TLN 1401–3
GUILDENSTERN: There are the Players / 2.2.369 TLN 1417
HAMLET: Let me comply with you in the Garbe,
lest my extent to the Players (which I tell you must shew
fairely outward) should more appeare like entertainment
then yours / 2.2.372–5 TLN 1419–22
HAMLET: I will Prophesie. Hee comes to tell me of the
Players / 2.2.386–7 TLN 1434–5
HAMLET: My Lord, I haue Newes to tell you
When Rossius was an Actor in Rome / 2.2.390–1 TLN 1438–9
POLONIUS: The Actors are come hither my Lord / 2.2.392 TLN 1440
HAMLET: Then can each Actor on his Asse / 2.2.395 TLN 1443
POLONIUS: The best Actors in the world, either for Trage
die, Comedie, Historie, Pastorall: PastoricallComicall
HistoricallPastorall: TragicallHistoricall: Tragicall-
ComicallHistoricall-Pastorall: Scene indiuidible: or Po-
em vnlimited. Seneca cannot be too heauy, nor Plautus
too light, for the law of Writ, and the Liberty. These are
the onely men / 2.2.396–402 TLN 1444–50
HAMLET: I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was
neuer Acted: or if it was, not aboue once, for the Play I
remember pleas’d not the Million, ‘twas Cauiarie to the
Generall: but it was (as I receiu’d it, and others, whose
iudgement in such matters, cried in the top of mine) an
excellent Play; well digested in the Scoenes / 2.2.432–8 TLN 1479–84
HAMLET: Good my Lord, will you see the Players wel Be-
stow’d / 2.2.5223 TLN 1563–4
HAMLET: Follow him Friends: wee’l heare a play to mor-
row.Dost thou heare me old Friend, can you play the
murther of Gonzago / 2.2.535–8 TLN 1576–8
HAMLET: Is it not monstrous that this Player heere,
But in a Fixion, in a dreame of Passion,
Could force his soule so to his whole conceit / 2.2.551–3 TLN 1591–3
HAMLET: What would he doe,
Had he the Motiue and the Cue for passion
That I haue? He would drowne the Stage with teares / 2.2.60–2 TLN 1600–2
HAMLET: This is most braue,
That I, the Sonne of the Deerer murthered,
Prompted to my Reuenge by Heauen, and Hell / 2.2.582–4 TLN 1623–5
HAMLET: I haue heard, that guilty Creatures sitting at a Play,
Haue by the very cunning of the Scoene,
Bene strooke so to the soule, that presently
They haue proclaim’d their Malefactions.
For Murther, though it haue no tongue, will speake
With most myraculous Organ. Ile haue these Players,
Play something like the murder of my Father / 2.2.588–95 TLN 1629–35
HAMLET: the Play’s the thing
Wherein Ile catch the Conscience of the King / 2.2.604–5 TLN 1644–5
ROSENCRANTZ: Madam, it so fell out, that certaine Players
We ore-wrought on the way: of these we told him / 3.1.16–7 TLN 1664–5
ROSENCRANTZ: And (as I thinke) they haue already order
This night to play before him / 3.1.20–1 TLN 1668–9
HAMLET: with more offences at my becke,
then I haue thoughts to put them in imagination, to giue
them shape, or time to acte them in / 3.1.124–6 TLN 1780–2
HAMLET: Let the doores be shut vpon him, that he may
play the Foole no way, but in’s owne house / 3.1.131–2 TLN 1787–8
POLONIUS: But if you hold it fit after the Play
Let his Queene Mother all alone intreat him
To shew his Greefes / 3.1.181–3 TLN 1838–40
HAMLET: But if you mouth it,
as many of your Players do, I had as liue the Town-Cryer
had spoke my Lines / 3.2.2–4 TLN 1850–2
HAMLET: That you ore-stop not the modestie of Nature; for any
thing so ouer-done, is fro the purpose of Playing, whose
end both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as ‘twer
the Mirrour vp to Nature / 3.2.19–22 TLN 1867–70
HAMLET: The
censure of the which One, must in your allowance o’er-
way a whole Theater of Others. Oh, there bee Players
that I haue seene Play / 3.2.26–9 TLN 1874–7
HAMLET: And let those that
Play your Clownes, speake no more than is set downe for
Them / 3.2.38–40 TLN 1886–8
HAMLET: though in the meane time, some necessary Question
of the Play be then to be considered / 3.2.42–3 TLN 1890–1
HAMLET: Bid the Players make haste / 3.2.49 TLN 1898
HAMLET: There is a Play to night to before the King.
One Scoene of it comes neere the Circumstance
Which I haue told thee of my Fathers death:
I prythee, when thou see’st that Acte a-foot,
Euen with the verie Comment of thy Soule
Obserue mine Vnkle / 3.2.75–80 TLN 1926–31
HORATIO: If he steale ought the whil’st this Play is playing,
And scape detecting, I will pay the Theft / 3.2.88–9 TLN 1940–1
HAMLET: They are comming to the Play: I must be idle / 3.2.90–1 TLN 1946
HAMLET: Now my Lord, you plaid once
i’th Vniuersity, you say?
POLONIUS: That I did my Lord, and was accounted a good
Actor
HAMLET: And what did you enact?
POLONIUS: I did enact Iulius Caesar, I was kill’d i’th’ Capitol: Brutus kill’d me
HAMLET: It was a bruite part of him, to kill so Capitall a
Calfe there. Be the Players ready? / 3.2.98–106 TLN 1953–61
OPHELIA: Belike this shew imports the Argument of the
Play / 3.2.139–40 TLN 2006–7
HAMLET: We shall know by thes Fellowes: the Players
Cannot keepe counsell, they’l tell all / 3.2.141–2 TLN 2008–9
OPHELIA: You are naught, you are naught, Ile marke the
Play / 3.2.147–8TLN 2014–5
PROLOGUE: For vs, and for our Tragedie / 3.2.149 TLN 2017
HAMLET: Is this a Prologue, or the Poesie of a Ring / 3.2.152 TLN 2020
PLAYER KING: The violence of other Greefe or Ioy,
Their owne ennactors with themselues destroy / 3.2.196–7 TLN 2064–5
HAMLET: Madam, how like you this Play? / 3.2.229 TLN 2097
KING CLAUDIUS: What do you call the Play? / 3.2.236 TLN 2104
HAMLET: The Mouse-trap: Marry how? Tropically:
This Play is the Image of a murder done in Vienna / 3.2.237–9 TLN 2105–6
POLONIUS: Giue o’re the Play / 3.2.268 TLN 2139
HAMLET: get me a Fellowship in a crie
of Players sir / 3.2.277–8 TLN 2149–50
HAMLET: For if the King like not the Comedie
Why then belike he likes it not perdie / 3.2.293–4 TLN 2165–6
HAMLET: Do you not come your tardy Sonne to chide,
That laps’t in Time and Passion, lets go by
Th’ important acting of your dread command? / 3.4.106–8 TLN 2487–9
GERTRUDE: Each toy seemes Prologue, to some great amisse / 4.5.18 TLN 2763
1ST CLOWN: If I drowne my selfe wittingly, it ar-
gues an Act: and an Act hath three branches. It is an
Act to doe and to performe; argall she drown’d her selfe
Wittingly / 5.1.10–3 TLN 3199–202
HAMLET: Being thus benetted round with Villaines,
Ere I could make a Prologue to my braines,
They had begun the Play / 5.2.29–31 TLN 3530–2
HAMLET: You that looke pale, and tremble at this chance,
That are but Mutes or audience to this acte / 5.2.334–5 TLN 3818–9
HORATIO: giue order that these bodies
High on a stage be placed to the view,
And let me speake to th’ yet vnknowing world,
How these things came about / 5.2.377–80 TLN 3872–5
FORTINBRAS: Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage / 5.2.396 TLN 3896
!!!THEATRE IN THE TRAGEDIE OF KING LEAR (1605 rev. 1610)
EDMUND: Pat he comes like the Catastrophe of the old Comedie:
my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a sighe like Tom
o’ Bedlam / 1.2.134–6 TLN 463–5
FOOL: That such a King should play bo-peepe,
And goe the Foole among / 1.4.177–8 TLN 690–1
EDMUND: My Father hath set guard to take my Brother,
And I haue one thing, of a queazie question
Which I must act / 2.1.16–8 TLN 946–8
KENT: Draw you Rascall, you come with Letters a-
gainst the King, and take Vanitie the puppets part, a-
gainst the Royaltie of her Father / 2.2.35–7 TLN 1109–11
LEAR: This act perswades me
That this remotion of the Duke and her
Is practise only / 2.4.113–5 TLN 1390–2
GLOUCESTER: Edmund, enkindle all the sparkes of Nature,
To quit this horrid acte / 3.7.86–7 TLN 2163–4
EDGAR: Bad is the Trade that must play Foole to sorrow / 4.1.38 TLN 2225
MESSENGER: A seruant that he bred, thrill’d with remorse,
Oppos’d against the act / 4.2.73–4 TLN 2318–9
LEAR: When we are borne, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of Fooles / 4.6.182–3 TLN 2625–6
IAGO: For when my outward Action doth demonstrate
The natiue act, and figure of my heart
In Complement externe, ‘tis not long after
But I will weare my heart vpon my sleeue
For Dawes to pecke at; I am not what I am / 1.1.61–5 TLN 67–71
IAGO: For he’s embark’d
With such loud reason to the Cyprus Warres,
(Which euen now stands in Act) / 1.1.149–51 TLN 164–6
BRABANTIO: Fathers, from hence trust not your Daughters minds
By what you see them act / 1.1.170–1 TLN 187–8
OTHELLO: Were it my Cue to fight, I should haue knowne it
Without a Prompter / 1.2.83–4 TLN 302–3
1ST SENATOR: ‘Tis a Pageant
To keepe vs in false gaze / 1.3.18–9 TLN 348–9
IAGO: Players in your Huswiferie, and Huswiues in your
Beds / 2.1.112 TLN 882–3
IAGO: it had beene better you had not kiss’d your three fin-
gers so oft, which now againe you are most apt to play
the Sir, in / 2.1.172–4 TLN 947–9
IAGO: Leacherie by this hand: an Index, and obscure
Prologue to the History of Lust and foul Thoughts / 2.1.257–8 TLN 1039–40
IAGO: ‘Tis euermore his prologue to his sleepe,
He’le watch the Horologe a double Set,
If Drinke rocke not his Cradle / 2.3.129–31 TLN 1242–4
IAGO: And what’s he then,
That saies I play the Villaine / 2.3.335–6 TLN 1460–1
IAGO: Euen as her Appetite shall play the God,
With his weake Function / 2.3.347–8 TLN 1473–4
OTHELLO: Well my good Lady. Oh hardnes to dissemble!
How do you, Desdemona / 3.4.34–5 TLN 2175–6
EMILIA: I will play the Swan.
And dye in Musicke / 5.2.247–8 TLN 3546–7
LODOVICO: My selfe will straight aboord, and to the State
This heauie Act, with heauie heart relate. / 5.2.370–1 TLN 3684–5
ENOBARBUS: I haue seene her dye twenty times vppon
farre poorer moment: I do think there is mettle in death,
which commits some louing acte vpon her, she hath such
a celerity in dying / 1.2.141–4 TLN 240–3
CLEOPATRA: Good now, play one Scene
Of excellent dissembling, and let it looke
Like perfect Honor / 1.3.78–80 TLN 394–6
ANTONY: You do mistake your busines, my Brother neuer
Did vrge me in his Act / 2.2.45–6 TLN 735–6
ANTONY: as neerely as I may,
Ile play the penitent to you / 2.2.91–2 TLN 784–5
OCTAVIUS CAESAR: for’t cannot be,
We shall remaine in friendship, our conditions
So diffring in their acts / 2.2.112–4 TLN 809–11
ANTONY: let me have thy hand
Further this act of Grace / 2.2.145–6 TLN 847–8
CLEOPATRA: Though’t come to short
The Actor may pleade pardon / 2.5.8–9 TLN 1035–6
POMPEY: Repent that ere thy tongue,
Hath so betraide thine acte / 2.7.78–9 TLN 1423–4
VENTIDIUS:
I haue done enough. A lower place note well,
May make too great an act / 3.1.12–3 TLN 1509–10
ANTONY: To this great Faiery, Ile commend thy acts / 4.8.12 TLN 2662
ANTONY: They are blacke Vespers Pageants / 4.14.8 TLN 2833
DERCETAS: that selfe-hand
Which writ his Honor in the Acts it did,
Hath with the Courage which the heart did lend it,
Splitted the heart / 5.1.21–4 TLN 3134–7
CLEOPATRA: Let the World see
His Noblenesse well acted / 5.2.44–5 TLN 3251–2
CLEOPATRA: The quicke Comedians
Extemporally will stage vs, and present
Our Alexandrian Reuels: Anthony
Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
Some squeaking Cleopatra Boy my greatnesse
I’th’ posture of a Whore / 5.2.216–21 TLN 3459–64
CLEOPATRA: Me thinkes I heare
Anthony call: I see him rowse himselfe
To praise my Noble Act / 5.2.283–5 TLN 3534–6
DOLABELLA: To see perform’d the dreaded Act which thou
So sought’st to hinder / 5.2.331–2 TLN 3593–4
BELARIUS: Nature prompts them / 3.3.84 TLN 1645
BELARIUS: euen then
The Princely blood flowes in his Cheeke, he sweats,
Straines his yong Nerues, and puts himselfe in posture
That acts my words / 3.3.92–5 TLN 1653–6
IMOGEN: Thy Mistris (Pisanio) hath plaide the Strumpet / 3.4.21–2 TLN 1693
IMOGEN: That part, thou
(Pisanio) must acte for me / 3.4.25–6 TLN 1696–7
BELARIUS: Cadwal, and I
Will play the Cooke, and Servant / 3.6.29–30 TLN 2112–3
CLOTEN: therein I must play the Workman / 4.1.6–7 TLN 2224
GUIDERIUS: why should we be tender,
To let an arrogant peece of flesh threat vs?
Play Iudge, and Executioner, all himselfe / 4.2.126–8 TLN 2411–3
BELARIUS: You and Fidele play the Cookes / 4.2.164 TLN 2456