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A house in Rome.
[ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table]
ANTONY
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These many | then shall | die, their | names are
| pricked.
OCTAVIUS
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Your || brother | too must | die: con|sent you
| Lepidus?
LEPIDUS
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I do | consent.
OCTAVIUS
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Prick him | down Ant/ony.
LEPIDUS
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Upon | condi|tion Pub|lius shall | not live,
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Who is | your sis|ter's son,| Mark^Ant|ony.
ANTONY
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He shall | not live;| look, with a | spot I |
damn him.
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But Lep|idus,/ go you | to Cae|sar's house;
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Fetch the | will hith/er, and | we shall
de|termine
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How to | cut^off | some charge | in leg|acies.
LEPIDUS
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What? Shall I | find you | here?
OCTAVIUS
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Or here,| or at the | Capitol. (tri with prev)
[Exit LEPIDUS]
ANTONY
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This is | a slight | unmer|itab|le man,
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Meet to | be sent | on er|rands: is | it fit,
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The three-fold world | divid|ed, he | should stand
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One of the | three to | share it?
OCTAVIUS
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So you | thought him,
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And took | his voice | who should | be pricked |
to die
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In our / black sent|ence and | proscrip|tion.
ANTONY
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Octav|ius, I | have seen | more* days | than
you,
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And though | we lay | these hon|ors on | this
man,
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To ease | ourselves | of di/vers sland|erous
loads,
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He shall | but bear | them, as the | ass bears
gold,
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To groan | and sweat | under | the bus|iness,
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Eith||er led | or driv|en, as / we point |
the way:
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And hav|ing brought | our treas|ure, where | we
will,
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Then take | we down | his load,| and turn | him
off
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(Like to | the emp|ty ass)| to shake | his ears,
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And graze | in com|mons.
OCTAVIUS
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You | may do | your will:
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But he's | a tried,| and val/iant | soldier.
ANTONY
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So is | my horse | Octav|ius, and | for that
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I do | appoint | him store | of prov|ender.
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It is | a creat|ure that | I teach | to fight,
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To wind,| to stop,| to run | direct|ly on:
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His cor|poral mo|tion, gov|erned by | my spirit,
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And in | some taste,| is Lep|idus | but so:
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He must | be taught,| and trained,| and bid | go
forth:
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A bar|ren-spirit|ed fel|low; one | that feeds
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On ob|jects*, arts,|and im|ita|tions.
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Which^out | of use,| and staled | by oth|er men
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Begin | his fash|ion. do | not talk | of him,
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But as | a prop|erty:| and now | Octav||ius,
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list|en great | things. Brut/us and | Cassius
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Are lev|ying powers;| we must | straight make head:
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Therefore | let our | alli|ance be | combined,
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Our best | friends | made, | our means |
stretched,
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And || let us | present|ly go | sit in |
council,
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How cov|ert mat|ters may | be best | disclosed,
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And op|en per|ils sur|est ans|wered.
OCTAVIUS
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Let us | do so:| for we | are at | the stake,
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And bayed | about | with ma|ny en|emies,
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And some | that smile | have in | their hearts |
I fear
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Millions | of mis|chiefs. \\
[Exeunt]