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Messina. POMPEY's house.
[Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner]
POMPEY
If the great gods be just, they shall assist the deeds of justest men.
MENECRATES
Know worthy Pompey, that what they do delay, they not deny.
POMPEY
Whiles we are suitors to their throne,
decays the thing | we sue for.
MENECRATES
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We^ig|norant of | ourselves, \\
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Beg of|ten our / own harms,| which the / wise
powers
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Deny | us for | our good:| so find | we profit
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By los|ing of | our prayers.
POMPEY
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I shall | do well:
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The peo|ple love | me, and | the sea | is mine;
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My powers | are cres|cent, and | my aug|uring
hope
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Says it | will come | to the full.| Mark Ant/ony
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In Eg|ypt sits | at din|ner, and | will make
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No wars | without doors:| Caesar | gets mon|ey
where
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He los|es hearts:| Lepid|us flat|ters both,
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Of both | is flat|tered: but | he neith|er loves,
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Nor eith|er cares | for him. \\
MENAS
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Caesar | and Le|pidus | are in | the
field,
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A migh|ty strength | they car|ry. \\
POMPEY
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Where have | you this?| 'Tis false.
MENAS
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From Silv|ius, sir.
POMPEY
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He dreams:| I know | they are in | Rome to|gether
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Looking for | Antony:| but all | the charms | of
love,
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Salt *Cle|opat|ra sof|ten thy / waned lip,
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Let witch|craft join with beaut|y, lust | with
both,
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Tie^up | the lib|ertine | in a field | of feasts,
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Keep his brain fum|ing. Ep|icur|ean cooks,
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Sharpen | with cloy|less sauce | his ap|petite,
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That sleep | and feed|ing may | prorogue | his
honor,
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even till a | Lethed | dullness--
[Enter VARRIUS]
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How* now | Varrius?
VARRIUS
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This is | most cert/ain, that | I shall de|liver:
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Mark Ant/ony | is eve|ry hour | in Rome
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Expect|ed. since | he went | from Eg|ypt, 'tis
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A space | for furth|er trav|el.
POMPEY
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I could | have giv|en less | matter (tetra
with prev)
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A bet|ter ear.| Menas,| I did / not think
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This am|orous surf|eiter | would have donned |
his helm
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For such | a pet|ty war:| his sol|diership
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Is twice | the oth|er twain:| but let | us rear
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The high|er our | opin|ion, that | our stir||ring
,
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Can | from the lap | of Eg|ypt's wid|ow pluck
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The nere lust-wear|ied Ant|ony.
MENAS
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I can|not hope,
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Caesar and | Antony | shall well | greet
to|gether;
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His wife | that's dead,| did tres|passes to |
Caesar,
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His broth|er warred | upon him,| although | I
think
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Not^moved | by Ant|ony.
POMPEY
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I / know not | Menas,
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How les|ser en|mities* may | give way | to
greater, ??
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Were it not | that we | stand^up | against |
them^all:
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'Twere preg|nant they | should square | between |
themselves,
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For they | have ent|ertai|ned cause | enough
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To draw | their swords:| but how | the fear | of
us
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May ce|ment their | divis|ions, and / bind up
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The pet|ty dif|ference, we | yet not know.
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Be it as | our gods | will have it;| it on|ly
stands
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Our lives | upon,| to use | our strong|est hands.
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Come Menas. \\
[Exeunt]