Thought it convenient the fair _Cleopatra_,
(An attribute not frequent to the Climate)
Should be committed in safe Custody,
In which she is attended like her Birth,
Until her Beauty, or her royal Dowre,
Hath found her out a Husband.

_Ach._ How this may
Stand with the rules of policy, I know not;
Most sure I am, it holds no correspondence
With the Rites of _Ægypt_, or the Laws of Nature;
But grant that _Cleopatra_ can sit down
With this disgrace (though insupportable)
Can you imagine, that _Romes_ glorious Senate
(To whose charge, by the will of the dead King
This government was deliver'd) or great _Pompey_,
(That is appointed _Cleopatra_'s Guardian
As well as _Ptolomies_) will e're approve
Of this rash counsel, their consent not sought for,
That should authorize it?

_Achil._ The Civil war
In which the _Roman_ Empire is embarqu'd
On a rough Sea of danger, does exact
Their whole care to preserve themselves, and gives them
No vacant time to think of what we do,
Which hardly can concern them.

_Ach._ What's your opinion
Of the success? I have heard, in multitudes