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Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
[Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS,
and others, his council of war]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Go to | him Dol|abel|la, bid | him yield,
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Being | so frus|trate, tell him,
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He mocks || the paus|es that | he makes.
DOLABELLA
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Caesar,| I shall.
[Exit. Enter DECRETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Wherefore^|is that?| and what | art thou | that
darst
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Appear | thus to us?
DECRETAS
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I am | called De|cretas;
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Mark^Ant|ony | I served,| who best | was worth||y
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Best | to be served:| whilst he | stood^up,| and
spoke
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He was | my mast|er; and | I wore | my life
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To spend | upon | his hat|ers. If | thou please
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To take | me to | thee*, as | I was | to him,
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I'll be | to Cae|sar: if | thou pleas|est not,
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I yield | thee^up | my life.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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What is it | thou sayst?
DECRETAS
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I say | (Oh Cae|sar) Ant|ony | is dead.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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The break|ing of / so great | a thing,| should
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A great|er crack:| | the round | world
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Should have / shook li|ons in|to civ|il streets,
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And cit|izens | to their dens:| the death | of
Ant||ony
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Is not | a sing|le doom,| in the / name lay
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A moi|ety of | the world.
DECRETAS
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He is dead | Caesar,
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Not by a | public | mini|ster of | justice,
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Nor by | a hired | knife,| but that / self hand
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Which writ | his hon|or in | the acts | it did,
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Hath with | the cour|age which | the heart | did
lend it,
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Splitted | the heart.| This is | his sword,
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I robbed || his wound | of it:| behold | it
stained
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With his || most^nob|le blood.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Look you sad | friends,
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The gods | rebuke | me, but | it is | tidings
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To wash | the eyes | of kings.
AGRIPPA
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And strange | it is,
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That na|ture must | compel | us to | lament
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Our most | persis|ted deeds. \\
MECAENAS
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His taints | and hon|ors, waged | equal | with him.
AGRIPPA
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A rarer spirit never ????
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Did steer | huma|nity:| but you gods | will give
us
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Some faults | to make | us men.| Caesar | is
touched.
MECAENAS
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When such | a spa|cious mir|ror's set | before
him,
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He needs | must see | himself.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Oh Ant/ony,
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I have fol|lowed thee | to this,| but we | do
lance
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Disea|ses in our | bodies.| I must | perforce
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Have shown | to thee | such a | declin|ing day,
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Or look | on thine:| we could not | stall
to|gether,
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In the / whole world.| But yet | let me | lament
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With tears | as sove|reign as | the blood | of
hearts,
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That thou | my broth|er, my | compet|itor,
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In top | of all | design;| my mate | in em||pire,
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Friend / and com|panion | in the front | of war,
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The arm | of mine^/own bo|dy, and | the heart
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Where mine | his thoughts | did kind|le; that |
our stars
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Unrec|oncil|iable, should | divide | our
e||qualness | to this.
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Hear me good | friends,
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But I will | tell you | at some^|meeter | season,
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The bus|iness of | this man | looks^out | of him,
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We'll hear | him what | he says.| Whence are you?
[Enter an Egyptian]
EGYPTIAN
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A poor | Egyp|tian yet,| The queen | my
mist||ress
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Confined | in all,| she has | her mon|ument
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Of thy | intents,| desires,| instruc|tion,
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That she | prepar|edly | may frame | herself
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To the way | she's forced | to.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Bid | her have | good* heart,
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She soon | shall know | of us,| by some | of
ours,
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How hon|ora|ble, and | how kind|ly we
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Deter|mine for her.| For Cae|sar can|not live
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To be | ungentle.
EGYPTIAN
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So the | gods pre|serve thee.
[Exit]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Come^hith|er Proc|ulei|us. Go | and say
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We pur|pose her / no shame:| give her what |
comforts
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The qual|ity | of her pas|sion shall | require;
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Lest in | her great|ness, by | some^mort|al
stroke
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She do | defeat | us. For | her life | in Rome,
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Would be | etern|al in | our tri|umph: go,
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And with | your speed|iest bring | us what | she
says,
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And how | you find | of her.
PROCULEIUS
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Caesar | I shall.
[Exit]
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Gallus, go you along: where's Dolabella, to
second Proculeius?
ALL
Dolabella.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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Let him | alone:| for I | remem|ber now
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How he's em|ployed: he | shall in | time be |
ready.
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Go with | me to | my tent,| where* you | shall
see
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How hard|ly I | was drawn | into | this war,
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How calm | and gent|le I | procee|ded still
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In all | my writ|ings. Go | with me,| and see
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What I | can show | in this. \\
[Exeunt]