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Man with his skill against his knowledge strives, Where death his way attends, that way he tends, And to Atropos the fatal razor gives, To cut the thread on which his life depends. When the Asian victor after all his wars, To visit Babylon had bent his mind: Both I, and others, studious of the stars, Did show that there his ruin was designed. To his successors too we oft have shown, The means by which their fate might be controlled; Yet was our skill contemnde, and they overthrown, As we foretold, and as they now have told. Since that world's conqeror then while free from Weighed with his greatness down so soon was dead, What makes each of his captains strive to bear, The diadem that crushed so strong a head? Oh when my mind is ravished through the stars, To search the secret secrets of the fates: What treasons, murders, mutinies and wars, Are threatening once overthrow usurped seats. And false Cassandra that betrayed his Lord, And spoiled the princely raze in mischief chief: A traitor, both of heaven and earth abhorred, Shall live but with disgrace, and die with grief. His sons, in wickedness himself t'exceede, Shall make the woman die that made them live: Then when being drunk with blood, to death shall bleed And none of theirs their funerals shall survive. Then when ambition should be cold by age, Lysimachus shall by Seleucus die: Nor shall Seleucus long enjoy the stage, But by Like violence shall breathless lie. And subtle Ptolemy's degenerd raze, Long only famous for infamous things: Shall end, and once to enemies pride give place, While a lascivious Queen confusion brings. Antigonus shall be in battle killed, His son a captive perish with disgrace: And after that it Greece with blood hath filled, In end, destruction does attend that raze. The last in pour, though of their line not bred, A niggard and a dastard beaten down: Shall through a strangers town a captive led, Bound of the Macedonians th'old renown.
Plot summary
Plot — The Alexandraean Tragedy
Juno remains angry that a Trojan adjudged Venus the most beautiful goddess. Through the centuries, she has sought to avenge herself by harrying the Trojans’ 1607 descendants, the Romans, most recently by fomenting a civil war. But the victor of that war was Caesar, who traces his descent from Venus; he has conquered much of the world and established his ascendancy in Rome, but Juno now intends to work his overthrow. Caesar explains to Antonius that he wants to be a king not for personal ambition but to comply with a Sibylline prophecy which makes monarchy a precondition for a Roman victory in the east. Antonius warns him that there are Romans who desire his death. Cicero laments the loss of Rome’s liberty, and Decius Brutus agrees that, though Caesar’s past actions have been honourable, he should have demobilized his armies now that there is no further external threat. Brutus and Cassius agree that they will not participate in any ceremony aimed at making Caesar a king. Brutus is Caesar’s friend, but reasons that he must assassinate the tyrant for the public good. His wife Portia wrings the secret of the conspiracy out of him. Brutus and Cassius recruit conspirators, both patriots and men who have a personal grudge against Caesar. However, they exclude Cicero and agree not to kill Antonius. Caesar’s wife Calpurnia tries to persuade him not to go to the Senate on the Ides of March — an astrologer has foretold his death, and she herself has had bad dreams - but Decius Brutus induces him to change his mind. The conspirators assassinate Caesar. Antonius makes a show of friendship with them, but is obviously planning reprisals. A messenger brings Caesar’s wife Calpurnia a full account of the circumstances of the murder.