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Eno. Sir,

I never lov'd you much: but I have prais'd you,
When you have well deserv'd ten times as much
As I have said you did.

Pom. Enjoy thy plainness,

It nothing ill beconies thee.

Aboard my galley I invite you all:
Will you lead, lords?

Ces. Ant. Lep. Shew us the way, Sir.
Pom. Come.

[Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, Soldiers, and Attendants. Men. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty.-[Aside.]-You and I have known, Sir.

Eno. At sea, I think.

Men. We have, Sir.

Eno. You have done well by water.
Men. And you by land.

Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me: though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.

Men. Nor what I have done by water.

Eno. Yes, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea. Men. And you by land.

Eno. There I deny my land service. But give me your hand, Menas: If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing.

Men. All men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are.

Eno. But there is never a fair woman has a true face.

Men. No slander; they steal hearts. Eno..We came hither to fight with you. Men. For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.

Eno. If he do, sure, he cannot weep it back again.

Men. You have said, Sir. We looked not for Mark Antony: Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra ?

Eno. Cesar's sister is call'd Octavia.

Men. True, Sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.

Eno. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

Men. Pray you, Sir?

Eno. 'Tis true.

Men. Then is Cesar, and he, for ever knit together.

Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so.

Men. I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage, than the love of the parties.

will use his affection where it is: he married but his occasion here.

Men. And thus it may be. Come, Sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you.

Eno. I shall take it, Sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.

Men. Come, let's away.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VII.-On Board POMPEY's Galley,
lying near Misenum.

Music. Enter two or three SERVANTS with a
Banquet.

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1 Serv. Here they'll be, man: Some o'their plants are ill-rooted already, the least wind i'the world will blow them down.

2 Serv. Lepidus is high-coloured.

1 Serv. They have made him drink almsdrink.

2 Serv. As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out, no more; reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.

1 Serv. But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion.

2 Serv. Why, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship; I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service, as a partizan ‡ I could not heave.

1 Serv. To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.

A Sennet sounded. Enter CESAR, ANTONY,
POMPEY, LEPIDUS, AGRIPPA, MECENAS,
ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other Captains.
Ant. Thus do they, Sir: [To CESAR.] They
take the flow o'the Nile.

By certain scales i'the pyramid; they know,
By the height, the lowness, or the mean, § if
dearth,

Or foizon, follow; The higher Nilus swells,
The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
And shortly comes to harvest.

Lep. You have strange serpents there.
Ant. Ay, Lepidus.

Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.

Ant. They are so.

Pom. Sit,-and some wine.-A health to Lepidus.

Lep. I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.

Eno. Not till you have slept; I fear me, you'll be in, till then.

Lep. Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies' pyramises ¶ are very goodly things; with. out contradiction, I have heard that. Men. Pompey, a word.

[Aside.

Pom. Say in mine ear: What is't?
Men. Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee,
captain,
[Aside.

And hear me speak a word.

Pom. Forbear me till anon.

This wine for Lepidus.

Lep. What manner o'thing is your crocodile ? Ant. It is shaped, Sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once

Eno. I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship toge-out of it, it transmigrates. ther, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. +

Men. Who would not have his wife so ? Eno. Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Cesar: and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony

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Lep. What colour is it of?
Ant. Of its own colour too.
Lep. "Tis a strange serpent.

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Ant. "Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.
Ces. Will this description satisfy him?
Ant. With the health that Pompey gives him,
else he is a very epicure.

Pom. [To MENAS aside.] Go, hang, Sir, hang
Tell me of that? away!

⚫ Desert.

Plenty.

+ Feet.

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Do as 1 bid you.-Where's this cup I call'd | Make battery to our ears with the loud music ;for t The while, I'll place you: Then the boy shal

Men. If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me, Rise from thy stool.

[Aside. Pom. I think thou'rt mad. The matter? [Rises, and walks aside. Men. I have ever held my cap off to thy for

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cup.

Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove :
Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, †
Is thine, if thou wilt have't.

Pom. Show me which way.

Men. These three world-sharers, these competitors, t

Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;
And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:
All there is thine.

Pom. Ah, this thou should'st have done,
And not have spoke on't! In me, 'tis villany;
In thee it had been good service. Thou must
know,

'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour ; Mine honour it. Repent, that e'er thy tongue Hath so betray'd thine act: Being done unknown, I should have found it afterwards well done; But must condemn it now. Desist and drink. Men. For this, [Aside. I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis Shall never find it more. [offer'd,

Ant. Bear him ashore.-I'll pledge it for him,

Pom. This health to Lepidus.

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The holding every man shall bear, as loud
As his strong sides can volley.

[Music plays. ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand.

SONG.

Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne
In thy vats our cares be drown'd:
With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd
Cup us, till the world go round;
Cup us, till the world go round!

Ces. What would you more ?-Pompey, good night. Good brother,

Let me request you off: our graver business Frowns at this levity.-Gentle lords, let's part; You see, we have burnt ou cheeks: strong Enobarbe

Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost

Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.

Good Antony your hand.

Pom. I'll try you o'the shore.

Ant. And shall, Sir: give's your hand.
Pom. O Antony,

You have my father's house, But what? we are friends:

Come, down into the boat.

Eno. Take heed you fall not.

[Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, and Attendants.

Menas, I'll not on shore.

Men. No, to my cabin.

These drums!-these trumpets, flutes! what!-
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: Sound, and be hang'd
sound out.

[A Flourish of Trumpets, with Drums. Eno. Ho, says 'a!-There's my cap. Men. Ho-noble captain!

Come.

[Exeunt.

Pom. Fill, till the cup be hid.

Eno. There's a strong fellow, Menas.

[Pointing to the Attendant who carries off

LEPIDUS.

Men. Why?

Eno. He bears

The third part of the world, man: See'st not?

ACT III.

SCENE I.—A plain in Syria.

Enter VENTIDIUS, as after conquest, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him.

Ven. Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now

Men. The third part then is drunk: 'Would it | Pleas'd fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death

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It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain, And it grows fouler.

Ant. Be a child o'the time.

Ces. Possess ¶ it, I'll make answer: but I had rather fast

From all, four days, than drink so much in one. Eno. Ha, my brave emperor! [To ANTONY. Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals And celebrate our drink?

Pom. Let's ha't, good soldier.

Ant Come, let us all take hands;

Make me revenger.-Bear the king's son's body
Before our army:-Thy Pacorus, Orodes, t
Pays this for Marcus Crassus.

Sil. Noble Ventidius,

warm,

Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is
[Media,
The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through
Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither
The routed fly: so thy grand captain, Antony,
Shall set thee on triumphant chariots, and
Put garlands on thy head.

Ven. O Silius, Silius,

I have done enough: A lower place, note well,
May make too great an act: For learn this, Silius;
Better leave undone, than by our deed acquire
Too high a fame, when him we serve's away.
Cesar, and Antony, have ever won
More in their officer than person: Sossius,
One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,

Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our senзe For quick accumulation of renown,

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Becomes bis captain's captain; and ambition,
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,
Than gain, which darkens him.

I could do more to do Antonius good,
But 'twould offend him; and in his offence
Should my performance perish.

Sil. Thou hast, Ventidius,

That without which a soldier, and his sword, Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony?

Ven. I'll humbly signify what in his name, That magical word of war, we have effected; How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks, The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia

We have jaded out o'the field.

Sil. Where is he now?

Ven. He purposeth to Athens: whither with what haste

The weight we must convey with us will permit, We shall appear before him.-On, there; pass along. [Exeunt. SOENE II.-Rome.-An Antechamber in CESAR'S house.

Enter AGRIPPA, and ENOBARBUS, meeting. Agr. What, are the brothers parted?

Eno. They have despatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;

The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
To part from Rome: Cesar is sad; and Lepidus,
Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
With the green-sickness.

Agr. 'Tis a noble Lepidus.

Eno. A very fine one: Oh! how he loves Cesar!

Agr. Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark
Antony !

Eno. Cesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
Agr. What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.

For what you seem to fear: So, the gods keep you,

And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! We will here part.

Ces. Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well;

The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
Oct. My noble brother!-

Ant. The April's in her eyes: It is love's spring And these the showers to bring it on.-Be cheerful.

Oct. Sir, look well to my husband's house; and

Ces. What,

Octavia ?

Oct. I'll tell you in your ear.

Ant. Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor

can

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Ant. Come, Sir, come;

I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:

Eno. Spake you of Cesar? How? the nonpa-Look, here I have you; thus I let you go riel ¡

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And give you to the gods.

Ces. Adieu; be happy!

Lep. Let all the number of the stars give light To thy fair way!

Ces. Farewell, Farewell! [Kisses OCTAVIA. Ant. Farewell! [Trumpets sound. Exeunt.

SCENE III.-Alexandria.-A Room in the Palace.

Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and

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Char. A proper man.

Cleo. Indeed, he is so: I repent me much, That so I harry'd + him. Why, methinks, by him, This creature's no such thing.

Char. O nothing, madam.

Cleo. The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.

Char. Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend, And serving you so long!

Cleo, I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian :

But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me Where I will write: All may be well enough. Char. I warrant you, madam.

[Exeunt.

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Eno. What, man?

Eros. Cesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.

Eno. This is old: What is the success ? +

Eros. Cesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let him partake in the glory of the action and not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: So poor the third is up, till death enlarge his confine.

Eno. Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps;

no more;

And throw between them all the food thou hast, They'll grind the one the other. Where's Autony?

Eros. He's walking in the garden-thus; and [dus! spurns The rush that lies before him; cries, Fool, LepiAnd threats the throat of that his officer, That murder'd Pompey.

Eno. Our great navy's rigged.

Eros. For Italy and Cesar. More, Domitius; My lord desires you presently : "my_news I might have told hereafter.

Eno Twill be naught:

But let it be.-Bring me to Antony. Eros. Come Sir.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VI.-Rome.-A Room in CESAR'S

House.

Enter CESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECENAS.
Ces. Contemning Rome, he has done all this:
And more;

In Alexandria,-here's the manner of it,-
l'the market place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
Were publicly enthron'd: at the feet, sat
Cæsarion whom they call my father's son ;
And all the unlawful issue, that their lust
Since then hath made between them.
He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute queen.

Mec. This in the public eye?

Unto her

Ces. l'the common show-place, where they

exercise.

His sons, he there proclaim'd The kings of kings:
Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia,

He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd
Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia : She
In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
That day appear'd; and oft before gave andi-
As 'tis reported, so.

• Opening.

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I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; That he his high authority abus'd,

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And did deserve his change; for what I have Be ever known to patience: My dearest sister!

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Oct. Good my lord,

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it
On my free-will. My lord, Mark Antony,
Hearing that you prepar'd for war, acquainted
My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd
His pardon for return.

Ces. Which soon he granted,

Being an obstruct 5 'tween his lust and him.

Oct. Do not say so, my lord.

Ces. I have eyes upon him,

And his affairs come to me on the wind.
Where is he now?

Oct. My lord, in Athens.

Ces. No, my most wronged sister: Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his

empire

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Up to a whore; who now are levying
The kings o'the earth for war: He hath assem-
Bocchus, the king of Lybia; Archelaus,
Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king
Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas :
King Malchus of Arabia; king of Pont;
Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king
Of Comagene; Polemon and Amintas,
The kings of Mede, and Lycaonia, with a
More larger list of sceptres.

Oct. Ah me, most wretched,

That have my heart parted betwixt two friends, That do afflict each other!

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[Exeunt.

SCENE VII-ANTONY'S Camp, near the Promontory of Actium.

Enter CLEOPATRA and ENOBARBUS. Cleo. I will be even with thee, doubt it not. Eno. But why, why, why?

Cleo. Thou hast forespoke § my being in these

wars;

And say'st, it is not fit.

Eno. Well, is it, is it?

Cleo. Is't not? Denounce against us, why should not we

Be there in person?

Eno. [Aside.] Well, I could reply:

If we should serve with horse and mares together, [bear The horse were merely lost; the mares would A soldier and his horse.

Cleo. What is't you say?

Eno. Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;

Take from his heart, take from his brain, from

his time,

What should not then be spar'd. He is already Traduc'd for levity; and 'tis said in Rome, That Photinus a eunuch, and your maids, Manage this war.

Cleo. Sink Rome; and their tongues rot, That speak against us! A charge we bear i'the

war,

And, as the president of my kingdom, will Appear there for a man. Speak not against it; I will not stay behind.

Eno. Nay, I have done :

Here comes the emperor.

Enter ANTONY and CANIDIUS.

Ant. Is't not strange, Canidius,

That from Tarentum, and Brundusium,
He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,

And take in ¶ Toryne ?-You have heard on't sweet?

Cleo. Celerity is never more admir'd, Than by the negligent.

Ant. A good rebuke,

Which might have well becom'd the best of men,
To taunt at slackness.-Canidius, we
Will fight with him by sea.

Cleo. By sea! What else?

Can. Why will my lord do so?
Ant. For he dares us to't.

Eno. So hath my lord dar'd him to single

fight.

Can. Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia, Where Cesar fought with Pompey: But these offers,

Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off; And so should you.

Eno. Your ships are not well mann'd :

Power and empire. Forbid.

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