Enter, led in with Soldiers, CORNELIA and FULVIA.

And is this Fulvia, Sylla's daughter, too? FULVIA.

And this is Fulvia, Sylla's daughter, too.

Poor Fulvia, now thy happy days are done!

By'r lady,[140] Fulvia, you are gaily read: Your mother well may boast you for her own;

what, well at ease? FULVIA.

Why, think you Marius hath confirm'd your death? FULVIA.

So, Fulvia, now the latest doom is fix'd, And nought remains but constant Roman hearts To bear the brunt of irksome fury's spite.

Madam, confirm'd as well to die as live, Fulvia awaiteth nothing but her death.

Th'Euxinian Sea, the fierce Sicilian Gulf, The river Ganges and Hydaspes' stream Shall level lie, and smooth as crystal ice, While Fulvia and Cornelia pass thereon.

Live, Cornelia: live, fair and fairest Fulvia!

O, call Cornelia forth: let Sylla see His daughter Fulvia, ere his eyes be shut.

Enter CORNELIA, FULVIA. CORNELIA.

Thus, having made my final testament, Come, Fulvia, let thy father lay his head Upon thy lovely bosom, and entreat A virtuous boon and favour at thy hands.

Thy plenteous beauties sweetly did appear; And with this lesson, lovely maid, farewell. FULVIA.

Content thee, Fulvia, for it needs must be.

Cornelia, I must leave thee to the world; And by those loves that I have lent thee oft, In mutual wedlock-rites and happy war, Remember Sylla in my Fulvia still.

Fulvia, dead is he In whom thy life, for whom thy death, must be.

I and my Fulvia with dispersed hair Will wait upon this noble Roman's hearse.

And Fulvia, clad in black and mournful pall, Will wait upon her father's funeral.

At this stage, however, it would seem that ambition was paramount with him, not love; for his wife Fulvia having died, he did not marry Cleopatra, but Octavia, sister of Octavius, his fellow-triumvir and general rival.

[Footnote 7: mandate: 'Where's Fulvia's process?' Ant. and Cl., act i. sc.

[Footnote 10: Fulvia, who had been the wife of Clodius, and afterwards of Curio, was now the wife of Antonius.]

[Footnote 23: It had been explained before that Fulvia had been the widow of Clodius and of Curio, before she married Antonius.]

Vasco Nuñez sent this Fulvia to invite her brother to return, and he immediately responded to his sister's invitation.