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Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.
[Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS]
LEPIDUS
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Good^E|nobar|bus, 'tis | a worth|y deed,
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And shall | become | you well,| to entreat | your
cap||tain
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To soft | and gent|le speech.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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I shall en|treat him
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To ans|wer like | himself:| if Cae|sar move ||
him,
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Let | Antony | look^ov|er Cae|sar's head,
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And speak | as loud | as Mars.| By Jup/iter,
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Were I | the wear|er of / Anton|ius' beard,
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I would / not shave it | today. \\
LEPIDUS
'Tis not a time for private stomaching.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Every time serves for the matter that is then born in
it.
LEPIDUS
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But small | to great|er mat|ters must | give^way.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Not if the | small come first. \\
LEPIDUS
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Your speech | is pass|ion:| but pray | you stir
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No emb|ers^up.| Here* comes | the noble |
Antony.
[Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS]
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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And | yonder | Caesar. \\
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]
MARK ANTONY
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If we com|pose well here,| to parth|ia:
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Hark ven|tidi|us. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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I do / not know | Mecaen|as, ask | Agrip|pa.
LEPIDUS
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Noble | friends:
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That which com|bined us | was most | great, and |
let not
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A lean|er ac|tion rend | us. What's | amiss,
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May it | be gent|ly heard.| When we | debate
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Our triv|ial dif|ference loud,| we do | commit
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Murder in | healing | wounds. Then | noble |
partners,
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The rath|er for | I earn|estly | beseech,
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Touch you | the sour|est points | with sweet|est
terms,
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Nor cursed|ness grow | to the mat|ter.
MARK ANTONY
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'Tis spok|en well:
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Were we | before | our arm|ies, and | to fight,
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I should | do thus. \\
[Flourish]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Welcome to Rome.
MARK ANTONY
Thank you.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Sit.
MARK ANTONY
Sit sir.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Nay then.
MARK ANTONY
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I learn,| you take | things^ill,| which are / not
so:
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Or being,| concern | you not.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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I must | be laughed || at, if | or for |
nothing,| or a / little, I
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Should say | myself | offend|ed, and | with you
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Chiefly | in the world.| More laughed at,| that I
should
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Once^name | you derog|ately:| when to sound |
your name ??
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It not | concerned | me. \\
MARK ANTONY
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My being | in Eg|ypt Cae|sar, what / was it to
you? ??
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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No more | than my | resid|ing here | at Rome
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Might be to | you in | Egypt:| yet if | you there
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Did prac|tice on | my state,| your being | in
Egypt
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Might be my | question.
MARK ANTONY
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How in|tend you,| practised?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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You may | be pleased | to catch | at mine |
intent,
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By what | did here | befall | me. Your | wife and
| brother
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Made wars upon | me, and | their con|testa|tion
(hex with prev)
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Was theme | for you,| you were | the word | of
war.
MARK ANTONY
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You do mis|take your | business,| my broth|er
never
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Did urge | me in | his act:| I did | inquire it,
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And have | my learn|ing from | some true |
reports
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That drew | their swords | with you,| did he not
| rather
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Discred|it my | author|ity | with yours,
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And make | the wars | alike | against my |
stomach,
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Having a|like your | cause. Of | this, my |
letters
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Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a
quarrel, ????
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As mat|ter whole | you have not | to make | it
with,
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It must | not be | with this. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
You praise yourself, by laying defects of judgment to me; but you patched up your excuses.
MARK ANTONY
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Not so,| not so: \\
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I know | you could | not lack,| I am cert|ain on
it,
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Very | neces|sity of | this thought,| that I
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Your part|ner in | the cause gainst which | he
fought,
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Could not | with grace|ful eyes | attend | those
wars
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Which front|ed mine / own peace.| As for | my
wife,
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I would | you had her | spirit, in | such
a|nother,
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The third | of the world | is yours,| which with
a | snaffle,
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You may*| pace^ea|sy, but / not such | a wife.
??
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Would we had all such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women.
MARK ANTONY
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So much un|curbable,| her garboils |(Caesar)
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Made^out | of her | impa|tience: which | not
want||ed
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Shrewd|ness of pol|icy too:| I griev|ing grant,
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Did you | too* much | disquiet,| for that | you
must,
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But say | I could / not help it.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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I wrote | to you,
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When ri|oting | in Al|exand|ria you
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Did pock|et up | my let|ters: and | with taunts
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Did gibe | my mis|sive out | of aud|ience.
MARK ANTONY
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Sir,
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He fell | upon | me, ere | admit|ted, then:
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Three kings / I had | newly | feasted,| and did
want
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Of what | I was | in the morn|ing: but / next day
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I told | him of | myself,| which was | as much
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As to have | asked him | pardon.| Let this |
fellow
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Be noth|ing of | our strife:| if we | contend
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Out of our | question | wipe him. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
You have broken the article of your oath, which you shall never have tongue
to charge me with.
LEPIDUS
Soft Caesar.
MARK ANTONY
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No Le|pidus,| let him speak,|
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The hon|or is sac|red which | he talks | on now,
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Suppos|ing that | I lacked it:| but on | Caesar,
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The art|icle of | my oath. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
To lend me arms, and aid when I required them, the which you both denied.
MARK ANTONY
Neglected rather:
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And then | when pois|oned hours | had bound | me
up
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From mine / own know|ledge, as | nearly | as I
may,
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I'll play the penitent to you. But mine
honesty, ????
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Shall not | make poor my great|ness, nor | my
power
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Work with|out it.| Truth^is,| that Ful|via,
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To have | me out | of Eg|ypt, made^/wars here,
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For which | myself,| the ig|norant mot|ive, do
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So far | ask pard/on as be|fits mine | honor
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To stoop | in such | a case.
LEPIDUS
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'Tis nob|le spoken.
MECAENAS
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If it | might please | you, to en|force no |
further
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The griefs | between | ye: to | forget | them
quite,
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Were to | remem|ber: that | the pres|ent need,
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Speaks to a|tone you.
LEPIDUS
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Worthily | spoken Me|caenas.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Or if you borrow one another's love for the instant, you may, when you hear
no more words of Pompey return it again: you shall have time to wrangle in,
when you have nothing else to do.
MARK ANTONY
Thou art a soldier, only speak no more.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
That truth should be silent, I had almost forgot.
MARK ANTONY
You wrong this presence, therefore speak no more.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Go to then: your considerate stone.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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I do | not much | dislike | the mat|ter, but
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The man|ner of | his speech:| for it can|not be,
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We shall re|main in | friendship,| our
con|ditions
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So dif|fering in | their acts.| Yet if | I knew,
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What hoop | should hold | us staunch | from edge
| to edge
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Of the world:| I would | pursue | it. \\
AGRIPPA
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Give me leave | Caesar.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Speak A|grippa.
AGRIPPA
Thou hast a sister by the mother's side, admired Octavia? Great Mark Antony
is now a widower.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Say not, say Agrippa, if Cleopatra heard you, your reproof were well
deserved of rashness.
MARK ANTONY
I am not married Caesar: let me hear Agrippa further speak.
AGRIPPA
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To hold | you in | perpet|ual am|ity,
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To make | you broth|ers, and | to knit | your
hearts
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With an / unslip|ping knot,| take Ant/ony,
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Octav|ia to | his wife:| whose beaut|y claims
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No worse | a hus|band than | the best | of men:
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Whose vir|tue, and | whose gene|ral gra|ces,
speak
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That which | none^else | can utter.| By this |
marriage,
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All^lit|tle jeal|ousies | which now | seem^great,
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And all great fears,| which now im|port their
| dangers,
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Would* then | be* noth|ing. Truths | would be
tales,
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Where now | half tales be truths:| her love | to
both,
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Would each | to oth|er, and / all loves | to
both,
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Draw^aft|er her.| Pardon | what I | have spoke,
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For 'tis | a stud|ied not | a pres|ent thought,
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By du|ty rum|inat|ed.
MARK ANTONY
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Will Cae|sar speak?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Not till | he hears | how Ant|ony | is touched,
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With what | is spoke | alrea|dy.
MARK ANTONY
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What power | is in | Agrip|pa, (tetra
with prev)
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If I | would say | Agrip|pa, be | it so,
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To make | this good?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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The power | of Cae|sar,
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And || his power,| unto | Octav|ia.
MARK ANTONY
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May | I never
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(To this / good pur|pose, that / so fair|ly
shows)
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Dream of | imped|iment*: Let | me have | thy
hand,
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Further | this act | of grace:| and from | this
hour,
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The heart | of broth|ers gov|ern in | our loves,
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And sway | our great | designs.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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There's my | hand:
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A || sister | I be|queath you,| whom no |
brother
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Did ev|er love | so dear|ly. Let | her live
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To join | our king|doms, and | our hearts,| and
never
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Fly^off | our loves | again.
LEPIDUS
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Happily,| amen.
MARK ANTONY
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I did not | think to | draw my | sword gainst
| Pompey,
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For he | hath laid | strange court/esies,| and
great
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Of late | upon | me. I | must thank | him on||ly,
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Lest | my remem|brance, suf|fer ill | report:
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At heel | of that,| defy him. ??
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Time calls upon us: ??
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Of us | must Pom|pey pres|ently | be sought,
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Or else | he seeks | out^us.
MARK ANTONY
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Where lies he?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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About | the mount | Misen|um. \\
MARK ANTONY
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What is his | strength by | land?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Great,/ and in|creasing:
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But by | sea he / is an | absolute | master.
MARK ANTONY
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So is | the fame, \\
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Would we | had spoke | togeth|er. Haste | we for
it,
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Yet ere | we put | ourselves | in arms,| dispatch
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The bus|iness we | have talked | of.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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With most | gladness,
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And do | invite | you to | my sis|ter's view,
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Whither | straight I'll | lead you. \\
MARK ANTONY
Let us Lepidus not lack your company.
LEPIDUS
Noble Antony, not sickness should detain me.
[Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, and LEPIDUS]
MECAENAS
Welcome from Egypt, sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas. My honorable friend Agrippa.
AGRIPPA
Good Enobarbus.
MECAENAS
We have cause to be glad, that matters are so well digested: You stayed well
by it in Egypt.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Aye sir, we did sleep day out of countenance: and made the night light with
drinking.
MECAENAS
Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast: and but twelve persons there.
Is this true?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more monstrous matter of
feast, which worthily deserved noting.
MECAENAS
She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon the river of
Cydnus.
AGRIPPA
There she appeared indeed: or my reporter devised well for her.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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I will | tell you, \\
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The barge | she sat | in, like | a burn|ished
throne
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Burnt on the | water:| the poop | was beat|en
gold,
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Purple | the sails:| and so | perfum|ed that
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The winds | were love-|sick.
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With them the | oars were | silver, (tri
with prev)
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Which to the | tune of | flutes kept stroke,| and
made
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The wat|er which | they beat,| to fol|low faster;
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As am|orous of | their strokes.| For her own |
person,
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It beg|gared all | descrip|tion, she | did lie
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In her | pavil|ion, cloth | of gold,| of tissue,
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Ore-pic/turing | that Ven|us, where | we see
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The fan|cy out|work* na|ture. On | each side |
her, ??
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Stood* pret|ty dim|pled boys,| like^smi|ling
Cup|ids, ?? (hex with prev)
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With div|ers-col|ored fans | whose wind | did
seem
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To glow | the del|icate cheeks | which they | did
cool,
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And what | they un|did^did.
AGRIPPA
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Oh rare | for Ant|ony. (tri with prev)
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Her gent|lewom|en, like | the Ner|eides,
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So ma|ny mer|maids, tend/ed her | in the eyes,
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And made | their bends | adorn|ings. At | the
helm,
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A seem|ing mer|maid steers: the silk|en tackle,
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Swell with the | touches | of those | flower-soft
hands,
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That yare|ly frame | the of|fice. From | the
barge
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A strange | invis|ible per|fume hits the sense
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Of the | adja|cent wharfs.| The ci|ty cast
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Her peo|ple out | upon | her: and | Antony
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Enthroned | in the mark|et-place,| did sit |
alone,
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Whistling | to the air:| which but | for
vac|ancy,
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Had gone | to gaze | on Cle|opat|ra too,
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And made | a gap | in na|ture.
AGRIPPA
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Rare | Egyp||tian.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Upon | her land|ing, Ant|ony sent | to her,
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Invit|ed her | to sup|per: she | replied,
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It should | be bet|ter, he | became*/ her guest:
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Which she en|treated,| our cour/teous | Antony,
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Whom nere | the word | of no | woman heard speak,
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Being bar|bered ten | times ore, goes | to the
feast;
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And for | his ord|inar|y, pays | his heart,
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For what his | eyes eat on|ly.
AGRIPPA
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Roy|al wench:
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She made | great* Cae|sar lay | his sword | to bed,
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He plowed | her, and / she cropped.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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I saw | her once
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Hop* for|ty pa|ces through | the pub|lic street,
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And hav|ing lost | her breath,| she spoke,| and
pant||ed,
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That | she did / make de|fect, per|fection,
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And breath|less power | breathe forth.
MECAENAS
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Now | Antony,|| must leave | her ut|terly.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Never he will not:
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Age can|not with|er her,| nor cust|om stale
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Her in|finite | vari|ety: oth|er wom|en cloy
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The ap|petites | they feed,| but she | makes
hungry, (hex with prev)
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Where most | she sat|isfies.| For vil|est things
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Become | themselves | in her,| that the ho|ly
priests
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Bless her,| when she is | riggish. \\
MECAENAS
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If beaut|y, wis|dom, mod|esty,| can settle
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The heart | of Ant|ony:| Octav|ia is
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A bles|sed lot|tery to him. \\
AGRIPPA
Let us go. Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest whilst you abide here.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Humbly sir I thank you.
[Exeunt]