To ende, we ought neither to hate this life for the toiles therein, for it is slouth and cowardise: nor loue it for the delights, which is follie and vanitie: but serue vs of it, to serue God in it, who after it shall place vs in true quietnesse, and replenish vs with pleasures whiche shall neuer more perish. Neyther ought we to flye death, for it is childish to feare it: and in flieng from it, wee meete it. Much lesse to seeke it, for that is temeritie: nor euery one that would die, can die. As much despaire in the one, as cowardise in the other: in neither any kinde of magnanimitie. It is enough that we constantly and continually waite for her comming, that shee may neuer finde vs vnprouided. For as there is nothing more certaine then death, so is there nothing more vncertaine then the houre of death, knowen onlie to God, the onlie Author of life and death, to whom wee all ought endeuour both to liue and die. _Die to liue,_ _Liue to die._ The 13. of May 1590. At Wilton. * * * * * * * * * [Transcriber’s Note: The play was printed in Italic type, with Roman for emphasis. For this e-text, only the _emphasis_ is shown. Acts 1 and 3 are unlabeled in the text. Act 1 can only be Antony’s soliloquy, with following Chorus, but Act 3 is ambiguous. Between Act 2 and Act 4 are: (scene) Cleopatra. Eras. Charmion. Diomede. (soliloquy): Diomed. Chorus (scene) M. Antonius. Lucilius. Chorus Structurally the play seems to have six Acts, but Act 4 and Act 5 are each labeled as such.] [Decoration] The Argument.