Sooth. Cesar's. Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side: Ant. Speak this no more. Sooth. To none but thee; no more, but when to thee. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose ; and, of that natural luck, Ant. Get thee gone: Say to Ventidius, I would speak with him: I'the east my pleasure lies :-O come, Ventidius, SCENE IV.-The same.-A Street. Enter LEPIDUS, MECENAS. and AGRIPPA. Lep. Trouble yourselves no urther: pray you, hasten Mar. As well as I can, madam. Cleo. And when good will is show'd, though it come too short, The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now: Char. 'Twas merry, when You wager'd on your angling; when your diver The ancients used to match quails as we match cocks. f Inclosed. Mount Misenum. § Melancholy. Billiards were unknown then. Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. Cleo. That time 1-0 times! I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears, Cleo. Antony's dead ? If thou say so, villain, thou kill'st thy mistress: If thou so yield him, there is gold, and bere Mess. First, madam, he's well. Cleo. Why, there's more gold. But, Sirrah, mark: We use To say the dead are well; bring it to that, Mess. Good madam, hear me. But there's no goodness in thy face: If Antony Mess. Will't please you hear me? Cleo. I have a mind to strike thee, ere thoa speak'st: Yet, if thou say, Antony lives, is well, Or friends with Cesar, or not captive to him, Mess. Madam, he's well. Mess. And friends with Cesar. Mess. Cesar and he are greater friends than Mess. Nay, then I'll run :- Char. Good madam, keep yourself within The senators alone of this great world, bolt. Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures These hands do lack nobility, that they strike Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news: Give to a gracious message A host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell Themselves, when they be felt. Mess. I have done my duty. Cleo. Is he married? I cannot hate thee worser than I do, If thou again say, Yes. Mess. He is married, madam. Having a son and friends; since Julius Cesar, To drench the Capitol; but that they would Ces. Take your time. Ant. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails, We'll speak with thee at sea: at land thou know'st How much we do o'er-count thee. Pom. At land, indeed, Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house : Cleo. The gods confound thee! dost thou hold But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself, there still ? Mess. Should I lie, madam? Cleo. Oh! I would thou didst ; So half my Egypt were submerg'd and made A cistern for scal'd snakes! Go, get thee hence; Mess. Take no offence, that I would not offend you: To punish me for what you make me do, That art not! What? thou'rt sure of't?-Get thee hence: The merchandise which thou hast brought from Are all too dear for me; Lie they upon thy hand, Char. Many times, madam. Lead me from hence, I faint; O Iras, Charmian, Tis no matter :Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him Report the feature of Octavia, her years, Her inclination, let him not leave out The colour of her hair :-bring me word quickly.[Exit ALEXAS. Let him for ever go :-Let him not-Charmian, Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, T'other way he's a Mars :-Bid you Alexas [To MARDIAN. Remain in't as thou may'st. Lep. Be pleas'd to tell us, (For this is from the present, §) how you take The offers we have sent you. Ces. There's the point. Ant. Which do not be entreated to, but weigh What it is worth embrac'd. Ces. And what may follow, To try a larger fortune. Pom. You have made me offer Ces. Ant. Lep. That's our offer. 1 came before you here, a man prepar'd Ant. I have heard it, Pompey; Pom. Let me have your hand: I did not think, Sir, to have met you here. Ant. The beds i'the east are soft; and thanks to you, That call'd me, timelier than my purpose, hither; For I have gain'd by it. Ces. Since I saw you last, There is a change upon you. Pom. Well, I know not What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face: Bring me word how tall she is.-Pity me, Char-But in my bosom shall she never come, mian, To make my heart her vassal. Pom. I hope so, Lepidus.-Thus we are agreed: I crave our composition may be written, Ces. That's the next to do. Pom. We'll feast each other, ere we part; and let us Draws lots who shall begin. Ant. That will I, Pompey. Pom. No, Antony, take the lot: but, first Ant. You have heard much. [Cesar 1 Affright. I Marks Eno. Sir, I never lov'd you much: but I have prais'd you, Pom. Enjoy thy plainness, It nothing ill beconies thee. Aboard my galley I invite you all: Ces. Ant. Lep. Shew us the way, Sir. [Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, Soldiers, and Attendants. Men. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty.-[Aside.]-You and I have known, Sir. Eno. At sea, I think. Men. We have, Sir. Eno. You have done well by water. Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me: though it cannot be denied what I have done by land. Men. Nor what I have done by water. Eno. Yes, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea. Men. And you by land. Eno. There I deny my land service. But give me your hand, Menas: If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing. Men. All men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are. Eno. But there is never a fair woman has a -true face. Men. No slander; they steal hearts. Eno. We came hither to fight with you. Men. For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune. Eno. If he do, sure, he cannot weep it back again. Men. You have said, Sir. We looked not for Mark Antony: Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra ? Eno. Cesar's sister is call'd Octavia. SCENE VII.-On Board POMPEY'S Galley Music. Enter two or three SERVANTS with a 1 Serv. Here they'll be, man: Some o'their plants are ill-rooted already, the least wind i'the world will blow them down. 2 Serv. Lepidus is high-coloured. 1 Serv. They have made him drink almsdrink. 2 Serv. As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out, no more; reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink. 1 Serv. But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion. 2 Serv. Why, this is to have a name in great men's fellowship; 1 had as lief have a reed that will do me no service, as a partizan ‡ I could not heave. 1 Serv. To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks. Enter CESAR, ANTONY, By certain scales i'the pyramid; they know, Or foizon, || follow; The higher Nilus swells, Lep. You have strange serpents there. Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun: so is your crocodile. Ant. They are so. Pom. Sit, and some wine.-A health to Lepidus. Lep. I am not so well as I shonld be, but I'll ne'er out. Eno. Not till you have slept; I fear me, you'll be in, till then. Lep. Nay, certainly, I have heard the PtoleMen. True, Sir; she was the wife of Caius mies' pyramises are very goodly things; withMarcellus. Eno. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. Men. Pray you, Sir? Eno. 'Tis true. Men. Then is Cesar, and he, for ever knit together. Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so. Men. I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage, than the love of the parties. out contradiction, I have heard that. [Aside. Pom. Say in mine ear: What is't? And hear me speak a word. Pom. Forbear me till anon.- Lep. What manner o'thing is your crocodile ? Ant. It is shaped, Sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once Eno. I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship toge-out of it, it transmigrates. ther, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.t Men. Who would not have his wife so? Eno. 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 Cesar: and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Alitony Behaviour. • Been acquainted. Lep. What colour is it of? Ant. 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet. Pom. [To MENAS aside.] Go, hang, Sir, hang • Desert. + Feet. 1 Pike. 6 Middle. Plenty. Pyramids. Do as 1 bid you.-Where's this cup I call'd | Make battery to our ears with the loud music ;for t The while, I'll place you: Then the boy shal Men. If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me, Rise from thy stool. [Aside. Pom. I think thou'rt mad. The matter? [Rises, and walks aside. Men. I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes. Pom. Thou hast serv'd me with much faith: What's else to say? Be jolly, lords. Ant. These quick-sands, Lepidus, Keep off them, for you sink. Men. Wilt thou be lord of all the world? Pom. What say'st thou ? Men. Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice. Pom. How should that be? Men. But entertain it, and, Pom. Hast thou drunk well? Men. No, Pompey, I have kept me from the спр. Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove: Pom. Show me which way. Men. These three world-sharers, these competitors, t Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable; Pom. Ah, this thou should'st have done, 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour; Pom. This health to Lepidus. Pompey. Eno. Here's to thee, Menas. Men. Enobarbus, welcome. Pom. Fill, till the cup be hid. Eno. There's a strong fellow, Menas. [Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS. It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain, And it grows fouler. Ant. Be a child o'the time. Ces. Possess ¶ it, I'll make answer: but I had rather fast From all, four days, than drink so much in one. Eno. Ha, my brave emperor! [To ANTONY. Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals And celebrate our drink? Pom. Let's ha't, good soldier. Ant Come, let us all take hands ; sing: The holding every man shall bear, as loud [Music plays. ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand. SONG. Come, thou monarch of the vine, Ces. What would you more ?-Pompey, good night. Good brother, Let me request you off: our graver business Frowns at this levity.-Gentle lords, let's part; You see, we have burnt ou cheeks: strong Enobarbe Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night. Good Antony your hand. Pom. I'll try you o'the shore. Ant. And shall, Sir: give's your hand. You have my father's house, But what? we are friends: Come, down into the boat. Eno. Take heed you fall not. [Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, and Attendants. Menas, I'll not on shore. Men. No, to my cabin. These drums !-these trumpets, flutes! what!-Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell To these great fellows: Sound, and be hang'd sound out. [A Flourish of Trumpets, with Drums. Eno. Ho, says 'a!-There's my cap. Men. Ho!-noble captain! Come. ACT III. [Exeunt. I have done enough: A lower place, note well, More in their officer than person: Sossius, Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense For quick accumulation of renown, Which he achiev'd by the minute, lost his favour, Who does i'the wars more than his captain can, • Chorus. + Red eyes. ↑ Pacorus was the son of Orodes, king of Parthia. Becomes his captain's captain; and ambition, I could do more to do Antonius good, Sil. Thou hast, Ventidius, That without which a soldier, and his sword, Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? Ven. I'll humbly signify what in his name, That magical word of war, we have effected; How, with his banners, and his well-paid ranks, The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia We have jaded out o'the field. Sil. Where is he now 1 Ven. He purposeth to Athens: whither with what haste The weight we must convey with us will permit, We shall appear before him.-On, there; pass along. [Exeunt. SOENE II.-Rome.-An Antechamber in CESAR's house. Enter AGRIPPA, and ENOBARBUS, meeting. Agr. What, are the brothers parted? Eno. They have despatch'd with Pompey, he is gone ; The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps Agr. 'Tis a noble Lepidus. Eno. A very fine one: Oh! how he loves Cesar! Agr. Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Eno. Cesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men. For what you seem to fear: So, the gods keep you, And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends ! We will here part. Ces. Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well; The elements be kind to thee, and make | Thy spirits all of comfort ! fare thee well. Oct. My noble brother! Ant. The April's in her eyes: It is love's spring And these the showers to bring it on.-Be cheerful. Oct. Sir, look well to my husband's house; and Ces. What, Octavia ? Oct. I'll tell you in your ear. Ant. Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can You shall hear from me still; the time shall not Out-go my thinking on you. Ant. Come, Sir, come ; I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love: Eno. Spake you of Cesar? How? the nonpa-Look, here I have you; thus I let you go riel ! Agr. O Antony! O thou Arabian bird! Eno. Would you praise Cesar, say,-Cesar; -go no farther. Agr. Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises. Eno. But he loves Cesar best ;-Yet he loves Antony: Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot [love Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho, his Eno. They are his shards, t and he their bee- This is to horse.-Adien, noble Agrippa. Agr. Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell. Enter CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and Oc TAVIA. Ant. No farther, Sir. Ces. You take from me a great part of myself; Use me well in it.-Sister, prove such a wife Shall pass on thy approof.-Most noble Antony, Have lov'd without this mean, if on both parts Ant. Make me not offended In your distrust. Ces. I have said. Ant. You shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause And give you to the gods. Ces. Adieu; be happy! This scene is levelled at Queen Elizabeth's", "ealousy of her rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. |