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Near Misenum.
[Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door, with drum and trumpet: at
another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,
MECAENAS, with Soldiers marching]
POMPEY
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Your hos|tages / I have,| so have | you mine:
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And we | shall talk | before | we fight.|
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Most^meet | that first | we come | to words,|
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And therefore have we ????
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Our writ|ten pur|poses | before | us sent,
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Which^if | thou hast | consid|ered, let | us
know,
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If 'twill | tie^up | thy dis|content|ed sword,
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And car|ry back | to Si|cily much^/tall youth,
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That else | must per|ish here.
POMPEY
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To you all three,
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The sen|ators | alone | of this / great world,
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Chief fact/ors for | the gods.| I do | not know,
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Wherefore | my fath|er should | reveng|ers want,
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Having a | son and | friends, since^|Julius |
Caesar,
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Who at Phi|lippi | the good | Brutus | ghosted,
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There* saw | you lab|oring | for him.| What was
it
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That moved | pale Cas/sius to | conspire?| And
what
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Made* the all-|honored,| honest,| Roman | Brutus,
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With the armed | rest, court/iers and | beauteous
| freedom,
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To drench | the Cap|itol,| but that | they would
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Have one | man but a man,| and that | is it
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Hath made | me rig | my na|vy. At / whose burden,
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The ang|ered o|cean foams,| with which | I meant
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To scourge | the ingrat|itude,| that despite|ful
Rome
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Cast on | my nob|le fath|er.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Take | your time.
MARK ANTONY
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Thou canst | not fear | us Pom|pey with | thy
sails.
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We'll speak | with thee | at sea.| At land | thou
knowst
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How much | we do | ore*-count | thee.
POMPEY
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At land | indeed
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Thou dost | ore*-count | me of | my fath|er's
house:
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But since | the cuck|oo builds | not for |
himself,
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Remain | in it as | thou mayst.
LEPIDUS
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Be pleased | to tell us,
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(For this | is from | the pres|ent how | you
take)
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The of|fers we | have sent | you.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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There's | the point.
MARK ANTONY
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Which do | not be | entreat|ed to,
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But weigh | what it | is worth | embraced.
(tetra with prev)
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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And what | may fol|low to try | a larg|er
for||tune.
POMPEY
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You | have made | me offer ????
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Of Sic|ily,| Sardin|ia: and | I must
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Rid all the sea | of pir|ates. Then,| to send
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Measures | of wheat | to Rome:| this agreed |
upon,
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To part | with un|hacked^ed|ges, and / bear back
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Our tar|ges un|dinted.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR MARK ANTONY LEPIDUS
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That's our | offer.
POMPEY
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Know then | I came | before | you here,
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A man
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To | take this | offer. But | Mark Ant/ony,
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Put me | to some | impa|tience: though | I lose
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The praise | of it | by tel|ling. You | must know
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When Cae|sar and | your broth|er were | at blows,
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Your moth|er came | to Sic|ily, and | did find
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Her wel|come friend|ly.
MARK ANTONY
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I | have heard it | Pompey,
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And am | well stud/ied for | a lib|eral thanks,
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Which^I | do owe | you.
POMPEY
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Let | me have | your hand:
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I did | not think | sir, to | have met | you
here.
MARK ANTONY
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The beds | in the east | are soft,| and thanks | to
you,
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That called | me time|lier than | my pur|pose
hith||er:
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For | I have gained | by it. \\
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Since I | saw you | last, there's a | change
u|pon you.
POMPEY
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Well,| I know not, \\
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What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;
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But in | my bos|om shall | she nev|er come,
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To make | my heart | her vassal.
LEPIDUS
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Well met here.
POMPEY
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I hope | so Lepid|us, thus | we are | agreed:
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I crave | our comp|osi|tion may | be written
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And sealed | between | us,
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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That's | the next | to do.
POMPEY
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We'll feast | each oth|er, ere | we part,| and
let's
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Draw lots who | shall begin.
MARK ANTONY
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That will I,| Pompey. (tri with prev)
POMPEY
No Antony take the lot: but first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery shall
have the fame, I have heard that Julius Caesar, grew fat with feasting
there.
MARK ANTONY
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You have / heard much.
POMPEY
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I have / fair mean|ing sir.
MARK ANTONY
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And fair | words to them.
POMPEY
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Then so | much have | I heard,
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And I have | heard Ap|ollo|dorus | carried--
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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No more | that: he | did so.
POMPEY
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What I | pray you?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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A cert|ain queen | to Cae/sar in a | mattress.
POMPEY
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I know | thee now,| how farst | thou sol|dier?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Well,|| and well | am like | to do,| for^I |
perceive
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Four feasts are tow|ard.
POMPEY
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Let | me shake | thy hand,
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I nev|er hat|ed thee:| I have seen | thee fight,
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When^I | have env|ied thy | behav|ior.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Sir,|| I nev|er loved | you much,| but I have |
praised ye,
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When you have | well de|served ten times | as
much,
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As I | have said | you did.
POMPEY
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Enjoy | thy plain||ness,
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It noth|ing ill | becomes | thee:
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Aboard | my gal|ley, I | invite | you all.
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Will you / lead lords?
OCTAVIUS CAESAR MARK ANTONY LEPIDUS
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Show us | the way, sir.
POMPEY
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Come.
[Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS]
MENAS
Thy father Pompey would nere have made this treaty. You, and I have known
sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
At sea, I think.
MENAS
We have sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
You have done well by water.
MENAS
And you by land.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I
have done by land.
MENAS
Nor what I have done by water.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Yes something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief
by sea.
MENAS
And you by land.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
There I deny my land service. But give me your hand Menas, if our eyes had
authority, here they might take two thieves kissing.
MENAS
All men's faces are true, whatsomere their hands are.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
But there is never a fair woman, has a true face.
MENAS
No slander, they steal hearts.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
We came hither to fight with you.
MENAS
For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Pompey doth this day
laugh away his fortune.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
If he do, sure he cannot weep it back again.
MENAS
You've said sir, we looked not for Mark Antony here, pray you, is he
married to Cleopatra?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Caesar's sister is called Octavia.
MENAS
True sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.
MENAS
Pray ye sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
'Tis true.
MENAS
Then is Caesar and he, for ever knit together.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so.
MENAS
I think the policy of that purpose, made more in the marriage, than the love
of the parties.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their
friendship together, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of
a holy, cold, and still conversation.
MENAS
Who would not have his wife so?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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 Caesar, and
(as I said before) that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the
immediate author of their variance. Antony will use his affection where it
is. He married but his occasion here.
MENAS
And thus it may be. Come sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
I shall take it sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.
MENAS
Come, let's away.
[Exeunt]