Cleo. O well-divided disposition! - Note him, Note him, good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him : He was not sad, for he would shine on those So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts? Alex. Ay, madam, twenty several messengers. Why do you send so thick? Cleo. Who's born that day When I forget to send to Antony, Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian. Char. O, that brave Cæsar! Cleo. Be chok'd with such another emphasis ! Say, the brave Antony. Char. The valiant Cæsar! Cleo. By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth, If thou with Cæsar paragon again But come, away; When I was green in judgment, cold in blood, To say as I said then! Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. — Messina. A Room in POMPEY's House. IF Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS. POMPEY. F the great gods be just, they shall assist Menecrates. Know, worthy Pompey, That what they do delay, they not deny. Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, de cays The thing we sue for. Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. Pom. I shall do well: The people love me, and the sea is mine; In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make No wars without doors: Cæsar gets money where He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flatter'd ; but he neither loves, Nor either cares for him. Menas. Cæsar and Lepidus Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry. Pom. Where have you this? 'tis false. Men. From Silvius, sir. Pom. He dreams: I know they are in Rome to gether, Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love, Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both: That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour, Enter VARRIUS. How now, Varrius! Varrius. This is most certain, that I shall de liver. Mark Antony is every hour in Rome Expected; since he went from Egypt, 'tis A space for farther travel. Pom. I could have given less matter A better ear. Menas, I did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm Is twice the other twain. But let us rear Men. Pom. I know not, Menas, How lesser enmities may give way to greater. Were 't not that we stand up against them all, 'Twere pregnant they should square between them selves; For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords: but how the fear of us Be it as our gods will have 't! It only stands [Exeunt. SCENE II. Rome. A Room in the House of Lepidus. Enter ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS. Lep. Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed, And shall become you well, to entreat your captain To soft and gentle speech. Eno. I shall entreat him To answer like himself: if Cæsar move him, Let Antony look over Cæsar's head, And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard, I would not shave 't to-day. Lep. Eno. For private stomaching. "Tis not a time Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in 't. Lep. But small to greater matters must give Eno. Lep. way. Not if the small come first. Your speech is passion: But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes The noble Antony. Enter ANTONY and VENTIDIUS. Eno. And yonder, Cæsar. Enter CAESAR, MECENAS, and AGRIPPA. Ant. If we compose well here, to Parthia: Hark you, Ventidius. Cæs. Mecænas; ask Agrippa. Lep. I do not know, That which combin'd us Noble friends, was most great, and let not What's amiss, May it be gently heard: when we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murther in healing wounds. Then, noble partners, (The rather, for I earnestly beseech) Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms, Nor curstness grow to th' matter. Ant. 'Tis spoken well. Were we before our armies, and to fight, I should do thus. Cas. Welcome to Rome. Ant. Cæs. Sit. Ant. Sit, sir. Cas. Nay, then Thank you. Ant. I learn you take things ill, which are not so; Or, being, concern you not. Cæs. I must be laugh'd at, If, or for nothing, or a little, I Should say myself offended; and with you Chiefly i' th' world: more laugh'd at, that I should Once name you derogately, when to sound your name It not concern'd me. Ant. What was't to you ? My being in Egypt, Cæsar, Cas. No more than my residing here at Rome Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there |