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Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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You may | see Le|pidus,| and hence|forth^know,
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It is / not Cae|sar's na|tural vice,| to hate
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Our great | compet|itor. from | Alex|andria
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This is | the news:| he fish|es, drinks,| and
wastes
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The lamps of night in revel: is not more
manlike ????
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Than Cleopatra: nor the queen of Ptolemy
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More wom|anly | than he.| Hardly gave^|audience
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Or vouch|safe to | think he | had part|ners. You
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Shall find | there a man,| who is the | abstracts
of all || faults,
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That | all men | follow.
LEPIDUS
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I must not | think
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There are, evils enow to darken all his goodness:
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His faults | in him,| seem as | the spots | of
heaven,
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More fiery | by night's | blackness;|
hered|itary,
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Rather | than purch|ased: what | he can|not
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Than what | he choos|es. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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You are | too in|dulgent.| Let's^grant | it is
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Amiss | to tum|ble on the | bed of Pto|lemy,
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To give | a king|dom for | a mirth,| to sit
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And keep | the turn | of tip|pling with | a
slave,
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To reel | the streets | at noon,| and stand | the
buffet
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With knaves | that smell | of sweat:| say this
be|comes him
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(As his | compos|ure must | be rare | indeed,
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Whom these | things^can|not blem|ish) yet | must
Ant||ony
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No | way^excuse | his soils,| when we | do bear
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So great | weight in | his light|ness. If | he
filled
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His vac|ancy | with his | volup|tuousness,
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Full surf/eits, and | the dry|ness of | his
bones,
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Call on | him for it.| but to | confound |
such^time,
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That drums | him from | his sport,| and speaks |
as loud
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As his / own state,| and ours,| 'tis to | be
chid:
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As we rate boys,| who being ma|ture in |
knowledge,
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Pawn their ex|perience | to their | present |
pleasure,
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And so | rebel | to judg|ment.
[Enter a Messenger]
LEPIDUS
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Here's^/more news.
MESSENGER
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Thy bid|dings have | been^done,| and eve|ry hour,
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Most nob|le Cae|sar, shalt | thou have | report
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How 'tis | abroad.| Pompey | is strong | at sea,
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And it | appears,| he is | beloved | of those
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That on|ly have / feared Cae|sar: to | the ports
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The dis|contents | repair,| and men's | reports
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Give him | much wronged.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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I | should have known | no less,
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It hath | been taught | us from | the prim|al
state
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That he | which is | was wished,| until | he
were:
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And the ebbed | man,
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Nere*| loved, till | nere worth love,
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Comes^feared,| by be|ing lacked.| This com|mon
bo||dy,
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Like | to a vag|abond^flag | upon | the stream,
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Goes^to,| and back,| lackeying | the var|ying
tide
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To rot | itself | with mo|tion.
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Caesar | I bring | thee word,|
(tetra with prev)
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Mene|crates and | Menas | famous | pirates
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Makes the | sea serve / them, which^|they ear |
and wound
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With keels | of eve|ry kind.| Many | hot inroads
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They make | in It|aly,| the bord|ers mar|itime
(hex with prev)
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Lack blood to think | on it, and / flush youth |
revolt,
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No ves|sel can / peep forth:| but 'tis | as soon
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Taken as | seen: for | Pompey's | name strikes
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Than could | his war | resist|ed.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Ant|ony,
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Leave thy | lasciv|ious was|sails. When | thou
once
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Wast beat|en from | Moden|a, where | thou slewst
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Hirtius,| and Pan|sa cons|uls, at | thy heel
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Did fam|ine fol|low, whom | thou foughtst |
against,
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(Though daint|ily / brought up)| with pa|tience
more
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Than sav|ages | could suf|fer. Thou | didst drink
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The stale | of hors|es, and | the gild|ed puddle
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Which beasts | would cough at.| Thy pal|ate then
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The rough|est ber|ry, on | the rud|est hedge.
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Yea, like the stag,| when snow | the past|ure
sheets,
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The barks | of trees | thou browsed.| On the |
Alps,
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It is re|ported | thou didst | eat strange flesh,
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Which some | did die | to look | on: and / all
this
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(It wounds | thine^hon|or that | I speak | it
now)
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Was borne | so like a sol|dier, that | thy
cheek
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So much | as lanked | not.
LEPIDUS
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'Tis | pity | of him.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Let his shames quickly ????
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Drive him to Rome, 'tis time we twain ????
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Did show | ourselves | in the field,| and to |
that end
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Assemble | we im|mediate | council,| Pompey
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Thrives in our | idleness.
LEPIDUS
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To|morrow
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I shall be | furnished | to in|form you | rightly
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Both^what | by sea | and land | I can | be able
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To front | this pres|ent time. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Till which encounter, it is my business too. Farewell.
LEPIDUS
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Farewell | my lord,| what you shall | know
meantime
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Of stirs | abroad,| I shall | beseech | you sir
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To let me | be par|taker. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Doubt not sir,| I knew | it for | my bond.
[Exeunt]