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- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
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- Act 3 Scene 2
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- (Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another)
- l1l Agrippa What, are the brothers parted?
- l2l Enobarbus They have dispatched with Pompey; he is gone.
- l3l The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
- l4l To part from Rome, Caesar is sad, and Lepidus
- l5l Since PompeyÆs feast, as Menas says, is troubled
- l6l With the green-sickness.
- Agrippa ÆTis a noble Lepidus.
- l7l Enobarbus A very fine one. O, how he loves Caesar!
- l8l Agrippa Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
- l9l Enobarbus Caesar? Why, heÆs the Jupiter of men.
- l10l Agrippa WhatÆs Antonyùthe god of Jupiter?
- l11l Enobarbus Spake you of Caesar? How, the nonpareil?
- l12l Agrippa O Antony, O thou Arabian bird!
- l13l Enobarbus Would you praise Caesar, say ôCaesarö; go no further.
- l14l Agrippa Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
- l15l Enobarbus But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antonyù
- l16l Hoo! Hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets,
- cannot
- l17l Think, speak, cast, write, sing, numberùhoo!ù
- l18l His love to Antony. But as for Caesarù
- l19l Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
- Agrippa Both he loves.
- l20l Enobarbus They are his shards, and he their beetle.
- (Trumpet within)
- So,
- l21l This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
- l22l Agrippa Good fortune, worthy soldier, and farewell.
- (Enter Caesar, Antony, Lepidus, and Octavia)
- l23l Antony (to Caesar) No further, sir.
- l24l Caesar You take from me a great part of myself.
- l25l Use me well in Æt. Sister, prove such a wife
- l26l As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest bond
- l27l Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,
- l28l Let not the piece of virtue which is set
- l29l Betwixt us as the cement of our love
- l30l To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
- l31l The fortress of it; for better might we
- l32l Have loved without this mean if on both parts
- l33l This be not cherished.
- Antony Make me not offended
- l34l In your distrust.
- Caesar I have said.
- Antony You shall not find,
- l35l Though you be therein curious, the least cause
- l36l For what you seem to fear. So, the gods keep you,
- l37l And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends.
- l38l We will here part.
- l39l Caesar Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well.
- l40l The elements be kind to thee, and make
- l41l Thy spirits all of comfort. Fare thee well.
- l42l Octavia (weeping) My noble brother!
- l43l Antony The AprilÆs in her eyes; it is loveÆs spring,
- l44l And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
- l45l Octavia Sir, look well to my husbandÆs house, andù
- l46l Caesar What, Octavia?
- Octavia IÆll tell you in your ear.
- (She whispers to Caesar)
- l47l Antony Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
- l48l Her heart inform her tongueùthe swanÆs-down feather,
- l49l That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
- l50l And neither way inclines.
- l51l Enobarbus (aside to Agrippa) Will Caesar weep?
- l52l Agrippa (aside to Enobarbus) He has a cloud in Æs face.
- l53l Enobarbus (aside to Agrippa)
- He were the worse for that were he a horse;
- l54l So is he, being a man.
- Agrippa (aside to Enobarbus) Why, Enobarbus,
- l55l When Antony found Julius Caesar dead
- l56l He cried almost to roaring, and he wept
- l57l When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
- l58l Enobarbus (aside to Agrippa)
- That year indeed he was troubled with a rheum.
- l59l What willingly he did confound he wailed,
- l60l Believe Æt, till I wept too.
- Caesar No, sweet Octavia,
- l61l You shall hear from me still. The time shall not
- l62l Outgo my thinking on you.
- Antony Come, sir, come,
- l63l IÆll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
- l64l Look, here I have you
- (embracing Caesar); thus I let you go,
- l65l And give you to the gods.
- Caesar Adieu, be happy.
- l66l Lepidus Let all the number of the stars give light
- l67l To thy fair way.
- Caesar Farewell, farewell.
- (He kisses Octavia)
- Antony Farewell.
- (Trumpets sound. Exeunt Antony, Octavia, and Enobarbus
- at one door, Caesar, Lepidus, and Agrippa at another)
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