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e violence of either thee becomes;

does it no man else. - Met'st thou my posts?

Alex. Ay, Madam, twenty several messengers:

by do you send so thick?

Cleo. Who's born that day

sen I forget to send to Antony,

ill die a beggar.

Icome

Ink and paper, Charmian.

; my good Alexas. - Did I, Charmian,

r love Caesar so?

Char. O that brave Caesar!

leo. Be chok'd with such another emphasis!

, the brave Antony.

Shar. The valiant Caesar!

Neo. By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,

hou with Caesar paragon again

man of men.

Char. By your most gracious pardon,

ng but after you.

Cleo. My sallad days;

en I was green in judgment: - Cold in blood, say, as I said then! - Bat, come, away: me ink and paper: he shall have every day

everal greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt.

[Exeunt.

11

ACT II. SCENEL

Messina. A Room in Pompey's House.

Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS. Tom. If the great Gods be just, they shall assist deeds of justest men. lene. Know, worthy Tompey,

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That what they do delay, they not deny.

Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne

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Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves,

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Beg often our own harms, which the wise power

Deny us for our good; so find we profit,

By losing of our prayers.

Pom. I shall do we

well:

The people love me, and the sea is mine;
My power's a crescent, and my auguring hope
Says, it will come to the full. Mark Antony
In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make
No wars without doors: Caesar gets money, wher
He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both
Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,
Nor either cares for him.

Men. Caesar and Lepidus

Are in the field; a mighty strength they carry.

Pom. Where have you this? 'tis false.

Men. From Silvius, Sir.

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together,

Looking for Antony: : But all charms of love,
Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wan'd lip!
Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

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Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,
Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks,
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour
Even till a Lethe'd dulness. - How now Varrius

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Var. This is most certain that I shall deliver: Mark Antony is every hour in Rome

Expected; since he went from Egypt, 'tis space for further travel. Pom. I could have given less matter better ear. - Menas, I did not think, This amorous surfeiter would have don'd his helm For such a petty war: his soldiership

twice the other twain: But let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring an from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.

Men. I cannot hope,

aesar and Antony shall well greet together: is wife, that's dead, did trespasses to Caesar; is brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,

ot mov'd by Antony.

Pom. I know not, Menas,

ow lesser enmities may give way to greater. fere't not that we stand up against them all, Iwere pregnant they should square between them

selves;

or they have entertained cause enough

draw their swords: but how the fear of us

lay cement their divisions, and bind up he petty difference, we yet not know.i shud it as our Gods will have it! It only stands ar lives upon, to use our strongest hands. w 39.

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ome, Menas.

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Lep. Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed, ad shall become you well, to entreat your captain

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To soft and gentle speech.

Eno. I shall entreat him

To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,

Let Autony look over Caesar's head,

By Jupiter,

And speak as loud as Mars.
Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,

I would not shav't to-day.
Lep. 'Tis not a time

For private stomaching.

Eno. Every time,

Serves for the matter that is then born in it.
Lep. But small to greater matters must give way
Eno. Not if the small come first.

Lep. Your speech is passion:

But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
The noble Antony.

Set fses on Enter ANTONY and VENTIDIUS.

Eno. And yonder, Caesar.

Enter CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA.

As Ant. If we compose well here, to Parthia:
Hark you, Ventidins.

Caes. I do not khów,

Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.

Lep. Noble friends,

That which combin'd us was most great, and le

not

A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,
May it be gently heard: When we debate
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit
Murder in healing wounds: Then, noble partners
(The rather, for I earnestly beseech,)
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,
Nor curstness grow to the matter.

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Ant. 'Tis spoken well:
Were we before our armies, and to fight,
I should do, thus.

Caes. Welcome to Rome.

Ant. Thank you.

Caes. Sit.

Ant. Sit, Sir!

Caes. Nay,

Then

Ant. I learn, you take things ill, which are

not so;

Or, being, concern you not.

Caes. I must be laugh'd at,

If, or for nothing, or a little, I

Should say myself offended; and with you
Chiefly i' the world: more laugh'd at, that I

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Ant. My heing in Egypt, Caesar,

What was't to you?

Caes. No more than my residing here at Rome Might be to you in Egypt: Yet, if you there Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt Might be my question.

Ant. How intend you, practis'd?
Gaes. You may be pleas'd to cate

tent,

at mine in

By what did here befal me. Your wife, and bro

ther,

Made wars upon me; and their contestation

Was theme for you, you were the word of war.

Ant. You do mistake your business; my bro

ther never

Did urge me in his act: I did enquire it;

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