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Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.
[Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
CLEOPATRA
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I will | be ev|en with | thee, doubt | it not.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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But | why,| why,| why?|
CLEOPATRA
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Thou hast | forspoke | my be|ing in | these^wars,
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And sayst | it is / not fit.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Well: is it, is it.
CLEOPATRA
If not, denounced against us, why should not we be there in person.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Well, I could reply: if we should serve with horse and mares together, the
horse were merely lost; the mares would bear a soldier and his horse.
CLEOPATRA
What is it you say?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Your pres|ence needs | must^puz|zle Ant|ony,
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Take from | his heart,| take from | his brain,|
from his time,
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What should | not then | be spared.| He is
al|ready
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Traduced | for lev|ity,| and 'tis said | in Rome,
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That Phot|inus | a eun|uch, and | your maids
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Manage this | war.
CLEOPATRA
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Sink Rome,| and their / tongues rot
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That speak | against us.| A charge | we bear | in
the war,
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And as | the pres|ident | of my king|dom will
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Appear | there for a | man. Speak not | against
it,
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I will | not stay | behind. \\
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Nay^I | have done,| here comes the emp|eror.
[Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS]
MARK ANTONY
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Is it / not strange | Canid|ius,|
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That from | Taren|tum, and | Brundus|ium,
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He could | so quick|ly cut | the Ion|ian sea,
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And take | in Troyne?| You have | heard on | it
(sweet)?
CLEOPATRA
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Celer|ity | is nev|er more | admired,
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Than by | the neg|ligent.
MARK ANTONY
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A good | rebuke,
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Which might | have well | becomed | the best | of
men
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To taunt | at slack|ness. Can|idi|us, we
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Will fight | with him | by sea.
CLEOPATRA
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By sea,| what else?
CANIDIUS
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Why will | my lord,| do so?
MARK ANTONY
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For that | he dares | us to it. (tri
with prev)
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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So hath | my lord,| dared him | to sing|le fight.
CANIDIUS
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Aye, and | to wage | this battle | at Phar|salia.
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Where Cae|sar fought | with Pom|pey. But | these
of||fers
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Which serve | not for | his vant|age, he / shakes
off,
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And so | should you.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Your ships | are not well manned,
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Your mar|iners | are mule|ters, reap|ers,
peo||ple
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Ingrossed | by swift | impress.| In Cae|sar's
fleet,
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Are those,| that of|ten have | against^Pom|pey
fought,
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Their ships | are yare, yours hea|vy: no |
disgrace
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Shall fall | you for | refus|ing him | at sea,
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Being | prepared | for land.
MARK ANTONY
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By sea,| by sea.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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Most^worth|y sir,| you there|in throw | away
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The abs|olute* sol|diership | you have | by land,
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Distract | your ar|my, which | doth^most |
consist
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Of war-marked foot|men, leave | unex|ecut||ed
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Your own | renown|ed know|ledge, quite | forego
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The way | which prom|ises | assur|ance, and
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Give^up | yourself | merely to | chance and |
hazard,
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From firm | secur|ity.
MARK ANTONY
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I'll fight | at sea.
CLEOPATRA
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I have | sixty | sails, Cae/sar none^|better.
MARK ANTONY
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Our ov|erplus | of ship|ping will | we burn,
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And with the | rest full-manned,| from the head |
of Act||ium
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Beat | the approach|ing Cae|sar. But | if we
fail,
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We then | can do / it at | land. Thy | business?
[enter MESSENGER]
MESSENGER
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The news | is true,| my lord, he is | descried,
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Caesar | has tak|en Tor|yne. \\
MARK ANTONY
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Can he | be there in person?| 'Tis
im|possible
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Strange, that | power | should be.| Canid|ius,
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Our nine|teen^leg|ions thou | shalt hold | by
land,
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And our / twelve thous|and horse.| We'll to | our
ship,
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Away | my Thetis.| How* now,| worthy | soldier?
[enter SOLDIER]
SOLDIER
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O nob|le emp|eror, do | not fight | by sea,
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Trust not to rot|ten planks:| do you | misdoubt
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This sword,| and these | my wounds;| Let the
Eg|yptians
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And the | Phoeni|cians go | a-duck|ing: we
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Have used | to con|quer stand|ing on | the earth,
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And fight|ing foot | to foot.
MARK ANTONY
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Well, well, away.
[Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
SOLDIER
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By Her|cules | I think | I am | in the right.
CANIDIUS
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Soldier | thou art:| but his / whole ac|tion
grows
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Not in | the power | on it: so | our lead|er's
led,
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And we | are wom|en's men. \\
SOLDIER
You keep by land the legions and the horse whole, do you
not?
CANIDIUS
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Marcus | Octa|vius, Marc|us Just|eius,
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Public|ola,| and Caeli|us, are | for sea:
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But we | keep^whole | by land.| This speed | of
Cae||sar's
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Car|ries beyond | belief.
SOLDIER
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While he | was yet | in Rome, (tri with
prev)
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His power | went out | in such | distrac|tions,
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As beguiled | all* spies.
CANIDIUS
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Who's his lieu|tenant,| hear you?
SOLDIER
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They say,| one^Taur|us.
CANIDIUS
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Well,| I know | the man.
[Enter a Messenger]
MESSENGER
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The emp|eror | calls | Canid|ius.
CANIDIUS
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With news | the time's | with lab|or,
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And throws | forth each min|ute, some.
(tetra with prev)
[Exeunt]