The Tragedie Of Anthonie And Cleopatra By William Shakespeare

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So there may be differences (other than what I have mentioned above) between this and other first folio editions. This is due to the printer’s habit of setting the type and running off a number of copies and then proofing the printed copy and correcting the type and then continuing the printing run. The proof run wasn’t thrown away but incorporated into the printed copies. This is just the way it is. The text I have used was a composite of more than 30 different First Folio editions’ best pages. If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation errors, or if you disagree with my spelling choices please feel free to email me those errors. I wish to make this the best etext possible. My email address for right now are haradda@aol.com and davidr@inconnect.com. I hope that you enjoy this. David Reed The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. Enter Demetrius and Philo. Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals Ore-flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes That o’re the Files and Musters of the Warre, Haue glow’d like plated Mars:Now bend, now turneThe Office and Deuotion of their view Vpon a Tawny Front. His Captaines heart, Which in the scuffles of great Fights hath burst The Buckles on his brest, reneages all temper, And is become the Bellowes and the FanTo coole a Gypsies Lust. Flourish. Enter Anthony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Traine, with Eunuchsfanning her. Looke where they come:Take but good note, and you shall see in him (The triple Pillar of the world) transform’d Into a Strumpets Foole. Behold and see Cleo. If it be Loue indeed, tell me how much Ant. There’s beggery in the loue that can be reckon’d Cleo. Ile set a bourne how farre to be belou’d Ant. Then must thou needes finde out new Heauen, new Earth.Enter a Messenger. Mes. Newes (my good Lord) from Rome Ant. Grates me, the summe Cleo. Nay heare them Anthony.Fuluia perchance is angry: Or who knowes, If the scarse-bearded Caesar haue not sent His powrefull Mandate to you. Do this, or this; Take in that Kingdome, and Infranchise that: Perform’t, or else we damne thee Ant. How, my Loue? Cleo. Perchance? Nay, and most like: You must not stay heere longer, your dismission Is come from Caesar, therefore heare it Anthony, Where’s Fuluias Processe? (Caesars I would say) both? Call in the Messengers: As I am Egypts Queene, Thou blushest Anthony, and that blood of thine Is Caesars homager: else so thy cheeke payes shame, When shrill-tongu’d Fuluia scolds. The Messengers Ant. Let Rome in Tyber melt, and the wide Arch Of the raing’d Empire fall: Heere is my space, Kingdomes are clay: Our dungie earth alike Feeds Beast as Man; the Noblenesse of life Is to do thus: when such a mutuall paire, And such a twaine can doo’t, in which I binde One paine of punishment, the world to weete We stand vp Peerelesse Cleo. Excellent falshood:Why did he marry Fuluia, and not loue her? Ile seeme the Foole I am not. Anthony will be himselfe Ant. But stirr’d by Cleopatra.Now for the loue of Loue, and her soft houres, Let’s not confound the time with Conference harsh; There’s not a minute of our liues should stretch Without some pleasure now. What sport to night? Cleo. Heare the Ambassadors Ant. Fye wrangling Queene:Whom euery thing becomes, to chide, to laugh, To weepe: who euery passion fully striues To make it selfe (in Thee) faire, and admir’d. No Messenger but thine, and all alone, to night Wee’l wander through the streets, and note The qualities of people. Come my Queene, Last night you did desire it. Speake not to vs. Exeunt. with the Traine. Dem. Is Caesar with Anthonius priz’d so slight? Philo. Sir, sometimes when he is not Anthony, He comes too short of that great Property Which still should go with Anthony Dem. I am full sorry, that hee approues the common Lyar, who thus speakes of him at Rome; but I will hope of better deeds to morrow. Rest you happy. Exeunt. Enter Enobarbus, Lamprius, a Southsayer, Rannius, Lucillius, Charmian,Iras, Mardian the Eunuch, and Alexas. Char. L[ord]. Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas, almost most absolute Alexas, where’s the Soothsayer that you prais’d so to’th’ Queene? Oh that I knewe this Husband, which you say, must change his Hornes with Garlands Alex. Soothsayer Sooth. Your will? Char. Is this the Man? Is’t you sir that know things? Sooth. In Natures infinite booke of Secrecie, a little I can read Alex. Shew him your hand Enob. Bring in the Banket quickly: Wine enough, Cleopatra’s health to drinke Char. Good sir, giue me good Fortune Sooth. I make not, but foresee Char. Pray then, foresee me one Sooth. You shall be yet farre fairer then you are Char. He meanes in flesh Iras. No, you shall paint when you are old Char. Wrinkles forbid Alex. Vex not his prescience, be attentiue Char. Hush Sooth. You shall be more belouing, then beloued Char. I had rather heate my Liuer with drinking Alex. Nay, heare him Char. Good now some excellent Fortune: Let mee be married to three Kings in a forenoone, and Widdow them all: Let me haue a Childe at fifty, to whom Herode of Iewry may do Homage. Finde me to marrie me with Octauius Caesar, and companion me with my Mistris Sooth. You shall out-liue the Lady whom you serue Char. Oh excellent, I loue long life better then Figs Sooth. You haue seene and proued a fairer former fortune, then that which is to approach Char. Then belike my Children shall haue no names: Prythee how many Boyes and Wenches must I haue Sooth. If euery of your wishes had a wombe, & foretell euery wish, a Million Char. Out Foole, I forgiue thee for a Witch Alex. You thinke none but your sheets are priuie to your wishes Char. Nay come, tell Iras hers Alex. Wee’l know all our Fortunes Enob. Mine, and most of our Fortunes to night, shall be drunke to bed Iras. There’s a Palme presages Chastity, if nothing els Char. E’ne as the o’re-flowing Nylus presageth Famine Iras. Go you wilde Bedfellow, you cannot Soothsay Char. Nay, if an oyly Palme bee not a fruitfull Prognostication, I cannot scratch mine eare. Prythee tel her but a worky day Fortune Sooth. Your Fortunes are alike Iras. But how, but how, giue me particulars Sooth. I haue said Iras. Am I not an inch of Fortune better then she? Char. Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better then I: where would you choose it Iras. Not in my Husbands nose Char. Our worser thoughts Heauens mend Alexas. Come, his Fortune, his Fortune. Oh let him mary a woman that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee, and let her dye too, and giue him a worse, and let worse follow worse, till the worst of all follow him laughing to his graue, fifty-fold a Cuckold. Good Isis heare me this Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: good Isis I beseech thee Iras. Amen, deere Goddesse, heare that prayer of the people. For, as it is a heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-Wiu’d, so it is a deadly sorrow, to beholde a foule Knaue vncuckolded: Therefore deere Isis keep decorum, and Fortune him accordingly Char. Amen Alex. Lo now, if it lay in their hands to make mee a Cuckold, they would make themselues Whores, but they’ld doo’t.Enter Cleopatra. Enob. Hush, heere comes Anthony Char. Not he, the Queene Cleo. Saue you, my Lord Enob. No Lady Cleo. Was he not heere? Char. No Madam Cleo. He was dispos’d to mirth, but on the sodaine A Romane thought hath strooke him.Enobarbus? Enob. Madam Cleo. Seeke him, and bring him hither: wher’s Alexias? Alex. Heere at your seruice.My Lord approaches.Enter Anthony, with a Messenger. Cleo. We will not looke vpon him:Go with vs. Exeunt. Messen. Fuluia thy Wife,First came into the Field Ant. Against my Brother Lucius? Messen. I: but soone that Warre had end, And the times stateMade friends of them, ioynting their force ‘gainst Caesar, Whose better issue in the warre from Italy, Vpon the first encounter draue them Ant. Well, what worst Mess. The Nature of bad newes infects the Teller Ant. When it concernes the Foole or Coward: On. Things that are past, are done, with me. ‘Tis thus, Who tels me true, though in his Tale lye death, I heare him as he flatter’d Mes. Labienus (this is stiffe-newes) Hath with his Parthian ForceExtended Asia: from Euphrates his conquering Banner shooke, from Syria to Lydia,And to Ionia, whil’st- Ant. Anthony thou would’st say Mes. Oh my Lord Ant. Speake to me home,Mince not the generall tongue, name Cleopatra as she is call’d in Rome:Raile thou in Fuluia’s phrase, and taunt my faults With such full License, as both Truth and Malice Haue power to vtter. Oh then we bring forth weeds, When our quicke windes lye still, and our illes told vs Is as our earing: fare thee well awhile Mes. At your Noble pleasure. Exit Messenger Enter another Messenger. Ant. From Scicion how the newes? Speake there 1.Mes. The man from Scicion,Is there such an one? 2.Mes. He stayes vpon your will Ant. Let him appeare:These strong Egyptian Fetters I must breake, Or loose my selfe in dotage.Enter another Messenger with a Letter. What are you? 3.Mes. Fuluia thy wife is dead Ant. Where dyed she Mes. In Scicion, her length of sicknesse, With what else more serious,Importeth thee to know, this beares Antho. Forbeare meThere’s a great Spirit gone, thus did I desire it: What our contempts doth often hurle from vs, We wish it ours againe. The present pleasure, By reuolution lowring, does becomeThe opposite of it selfe: she’s good being gon, The hand could plucke her backe, that shou’d her on. I must from this enchanting Queene breake off, Ten thousand harmes, more then the illes I know My idlenesse doth hatch.Enter Enobarbus. How now Enobarbus Eno. What’s your pleasure, Sir? Anth. I must with haste from hence Eno. Why then we kill all our Women. We see how mortall an vnkindnesse is to them, if they suffer our departure death’s the word Ant. I must be gone Eno. Vnder a compelling an occasion, let women die. It were pitty to cast them away for nothing, though betweene them and a great cause, they should be esteemed nothing. Cleopatra catching but the least noyse of this, dies instantly: I haue seene her dye twenty times vppon farre poorer moment: I do think there is mettle in death, which commits some louing acte vpon her, she hath such a celerity in dying Ant. She is cunning past mans thought Eno. Alacke Sir no, her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure Loue. We cannot cal her winds and waters, sighes and teares: They are greater stormes and Tempests then Almanackes can report. This cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a showre of Raine as well as Ioue Ant. Would I had neuer seene her Eno. Oh sir, you had then left vnseene a wonderfull peece of worke, which not to haue beene blest withall, would haue discredited your Trauaile Ant. Fuluia is dead Eno. Sir Ant. Fuluia is dead Eno. Fuluia? Ant. Dead Eno. Why sir, giue the Gods a thankefull Sacrifice: when it pleaseth their Deities to take the wife of a man from him, it shewes to man the Tailors of the earth: comforting therein, that when olde Robes are worne out, there are members to make new. If there were no more Women but Fuluia, then had you indeede a cut, and the case to be lamented: This greefe is crown’d with Consolation, your old Smocke brings foorth a new Petticoate, and indeed the teares liue in an Onion, that should water this sorrow Ant. The businesse she hath broached in the State, Cannot endure my absence Eno. And the businesse you haue broach’d heere cannot be without you, especially that of Cleopatra’s, which wholly depends on your abode Ant. No more light Answeres:Let our OfficersHaue notice what we purpose. I shall breake The cause of our Expedience to the Queene, And get her loue to part. For not aloneThe death of Fuluia, with more vrgent touches Do strongly speake to vs: but the Letters too Of many our contriuing Friends in Rome,Petition vs at home. Sextus Pompeius Haue giuen the dare to Caesar, and commands The Empire of the Sea. Our slippery people, Whose Loue is neuer link’d to the deseruer, Till his deserts are past, begin to throw Pompey the great, and all his DignitiesVpon his Sonne, who high in Name and Power, Higher then both in Blood and Life, stands vp For the maine Souldier. Whose quality going on, The sides o’th’ world may danger. Much is breeding, Which like the Coursers heire, hath yet but life, And not a Serpents poyson. Say our pleasure, To such whose places vnder vs, requireOur quicke remoue from hence Enob. I shall doo’t.Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Alexas, and Iras. Cleo. Where is he? Char. I did not see him since Cleo. See where he is,Whose with him, what he does:I did not send you. If you finde him sad, Say I am dauncing: if in Myrth, reportThat I am sodaine sicke. Quicke, and returne Char. Madam, me thinkes if you did loue him deerly, You do not hold the method, to enforceThe like from him Cleo. What should I do, I do not? Ch. In each thing giue him way, crosse him in nothing Cleo. Thou teachest like a foole: the way to lose him Char. Tempt him not so too farre. I wish forbeare, In time we hate that which we often feare. Enter Anthony. But heere comes Anthony Cleo. I am sicke, and sullen An. I am sorry to giue breathing to my purpose Cleo. Helpe me away deere Charmian, I shall fall, It cannot be thus long, the sides of Nature Will not sustaine it Ant. Now my deerest Queene Cleo. Pray you stand farther from mee Ant. What’s the matter? Cleo. I know by that same eye ther’s some good news. What sayes the married woman you may goe? Would she had neuer giuen you leaue to come. Let her not say ’tis I that keepe you heere, I haue no power vpon you: Hers you are Ant. The Gods best know Cleo. Oh neuer was there QueeneSo mightily betrayed: yet at the first I saw the Treasons planted Ant. Cleopatra Cleo. Why should I thinke you can be mine, & true, (Though you in swearing shake the Throaned Gods) Who haue beene false to Fuluia?Riotous madnesse,To be entangled with those mouth-made vowes, Which breake themselues in swearing Ant. Most sweet Queene Cleo. Nay pray you seeke no colour for your going, But bid farewell, and goe:When you sued staying,Then was the time for words: No going then, Eternity was in our Lippes, and Eyes,Blisse in our browes bent: none our parts so poore, But was a race of Heauen. They are so still, Or thou the greatest Souldier of the world, Art turn’d the greatest Lyar Ant. How now Lady? Cleo. I would I had thy inches, thou should’st know There were a heart in Egypt Ant. Heare me Queene:The strong necessity of Time, commands Our Seruices a-while: but my full heartRemaines in vse with you. Our Italy, Shines o’re with ciuill Swords; Sextus Pompeius Makes his approaches to the Port of Rome, Equality of two Domesticke powers,Breed scrupulous faction: The hated growne to strength Are newly growne to Loue: The condemn’d Pompey, Rich in his Fathers Honor, creepes apace Into the hearts of such, as haue not thriued Vpon the present state, whose Numbers threaten, And quietnesse growne sicke of rest, would purge By any desperate change: My more particular, And that which most with you should safe my going, Is Fuluias death Cleo. Though age from folly could not giue me freedom It does from childishnesse. Can Fuluia dye? Ant. She’s dead my Queene.Looke heere, and at thy Soueraigne leysure read The Garboyles she awak’d: at the last, best, See when, and where shee died Cleo. O most false Loue!Where be the Sacred Violles thou should’st fill With sorrowfull water? Now I see, I see, In Fuluias death, how mine receiu’d shall be Ant. Quarrell no more, but bee prepar’d to know The purposes I beare: which are, or cease, As you shall giue th’ aduice. By the fire That quickens Nylus slime, I go from hence Thy Souldier, Seruant, making Peace or Warre, As thou affects Cleo. Cut my Lace, Charmian come,But let it be, I am quickly ill, and well, So Anthony loues Ant. My precious Queene forbeare,And giue true euidence to his Loue, which stands An honourable Triall Cleo. So Fuluia told me.I prythee turne aside, and weepe for her, Then bid adiew to me, and say the teares Belong to Egypt. Good now, play one Scene Of excellent dissembling, and let it looke Like perfect Honor Ant. You’l heat my blood no more? Cleo. You can do better yet: but this is meetly Ant. Now by Sword Cleo. And Target. Still he mends.But this is not the best. Looke prythee Charmian, How this Herculean Roman do’s becomeThe carriage of his chafe Ant. Ile leaue you Lady Cleo. Courteous Lord, one word:Sir, you and I must part, but that’s not it: Sir, you and I haue lou’d, but there’s not it: That you know well, something it is I would: Oh, my Obliuion is a very Anthony,And I am all forgotten Ant. But that your RoyaltyHolds Idlenesse your subiect, I should take you For Idlenesse it selfe Cleo. ‘Tis sweating Labour,To beare such Idlenesse so neere the heart As Cleopatra this. But Sir, forgiue me,Since my becommings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you. Your Honor calles you hence, Therefore be deafe to my vnpittied Folly, And all the Gods go with you. Vpon your Sword Sit Lawrell victory, and smooth successe Be strew’d before your feete Ant. Let vs go.Come: Our separation so abides and flies, That thou reciding heere, goes yet with mee; And I hence fleeting, heere remaine with thee. Away. Exeunt. Enter Octauius reading a Letter, Lepidus, and their Traine. Caes You may see Lepidus, and henceforth know, It is not Caesars Naturall vice, to hate One great Competitor. From AlexandriaThis is the newes: He fishes, drinkes, and wastes The Lampes of night in reuell: Is not more manlike Then Cleopatra: nor the Queene of Ptolomy More Womanly then he. Hardly gaue audience Or vouchsafe to thinke he had Partners. You Shall finde there a man, who is th’ abstracts of all faults, That all men follow Lep. I must not thinkeThere are, euils enow to darken all his goodnesse: His faults in him, seeme as the Spots of Heauen, More fierie by nights Blacknesse; Hereditarie, Rather then purchaste: what he cannot change, Then what he chooses Caes You are too indulgent. Let’s graunt it is not Amisse to tumble on the bed of Ptolomy,To giue a Kingdome for a Mirth, to sit And keepe the turne of Tipling with a Slaue, To reele the streets at noone, and stand the Buffet With knaues that smels of sweate: Say this becoms him (As his composure must be rare indeed,Whom these things cannot blemish) yet must Anthony No way excuse his foyles, when we do beare So great waight in his lightnesse. If he fill’d His vacancie with his Voluptuousnesse,Full surfets, and the drinesse of his bones, Call on him for’t. But to confound such time, That drummes him from his sport, and speakes as lowd As his owne State, and ours, ’tis to be chid: As we rate Boyes, who being mature in knowledge, Pawne their experience to their present pleasure, And so rebell to iudgement.Enter a Messenger. Lep. Heere’s more newes Mes. Thy biddings haue beene done, & euerie houre Most Noble Caesar, shalt thou haue report How ’tis abroad. Pompey is strong at Sea, And it appeares, he is belou’d of thoseThat only haue feard Caesar: to the Ports The discontents repaire, and mens reports Giue him much wrong’d Caes I should haue knowne no lesse, It hath bin taught vs from the primall state That he which is was wisht, vntill he were: And the ebb’d man,Ne’re lou’d, till ne’re worth loue, Comes fear’d, by being lack’d. This common bodie, Like to a Vagabond Flagge vpon the Streame, Goes too, and backe, lacking the varrying tyde To rot it selfe with motion Mes. Caesar I bring thee word,Menacrates and Menas famous Pyrates Makes the Sea serue them, which they eare and wound With keeles of euery kinde. Many hot inrodes They make in Italy, the Borders Maritime Lacke blood to thinke on’t, and flush youth reuolt, No Vessell can peepe forth: but ’tis as soone Taken as seene: for Pompeyes name strikes more Then could his Warre resisted Caesar. Anthony,Leaue thy lasciuious Vassailes. When thou once Was beaten from Medena, where thou slew’st Hirsius, and Pansa Consuls, at thy heele Did Famine follow, whom thou fought’st against, (Though daintily brought vp) with patience more Then Sauages could suffer. Thou did’st drinke The stale of Horses, and the gilded Puddle Which Beasts would cough at. Thy pallat the[n] did daine The roughest Berry, on the rudest Hedge. Yea, like the Stagge, when Snow the Pasture sheets, The barkes of Trees thou brows’d. On the Alpes, It is reported thou did’st eate strange flesh, Which some did dye to looke on: And all this (It wounds thine Honor that I speake it now) Was borne so like a Soldiour, that thy cheeke So much as lank’d not Lep. ‘Tis pitty of him Caes Let his shames quickelyDriue him to Rome, ’tis time we twaine Did shew our selues i’th’ Field, and to that end Assemble me immediate counsell, PompeyThriues in our Idlenesse Lep. To morrow Caesar,I shall be furnisht to informe you rightly Both what by Sea and Land I can be ableTo front this present time Caes Til which encounter, it is my busines too. Farwell Lep. Farwell my Lord, what you shal know mean time Of stirres abroad, I shall beseech you Sir To let me be partaker Caesar. Doubt not sir, I knew it for my Bond. Exeunt. Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, & Mardian. Cleo. Charmian Char. Madam Cleo. Ha, ha, giue me to drinke Mandragora Char. Why Madam? Cleo. That I might sleepe out this great gap of time: My Anthony is away Char. You thinke of him too much Cleo. O ’tis Treason Char. Madam, I trust not so Cleo. Thou, Eunuch Mardian? Mar. What’s your Highnesse pleasure? Cleo. Not now to heare thee sing. I take no pleasure In ought an Eunuch ha’s: Tis well for thee, That being vnseminar’d, thy freer thoughts May not flye forth of Egypt. Hast thou Affections? Mar. Yes gracious Madam Cleo. Indeed? Mar. Not in deed Madam, for I can do nothing But what in deede is honest to be done:Yet haue I fierce Affections, and thinke What Venus did with Mars Cleo. Oh Charmion:Where think’st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he? Or does he walke? Or is he on his Horse? Oh happy horse to beare the weight of Anthony! Do brauely Horse, for wot’st thou whom thou moou’st, The demy Atlas of this Earth, the ArmeAnd Burganet of men. Hee’s speaking now, Or murmuring, where’s my Serpent of old Nyle, (For so he cals me:) Now I feede my selfe With most delicious poyson. Thinke on me That am with Phoebus amorous pinches blacke, And wrinkled deepe in time. Broad-fronted Caesar, When thou was’t heere aboue the ground, I was A morsell for a Monarke: and great Pompey Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow, There would he anchor his Aspect, and dye With looking on his life.Enter Alexas from Caesar. Alex. Soueraigne of Egypt, haile Cleo. How much vnlike art thou Marke Anthony? Yet comming from him, that great Med’cine hath With his Tinct gilded thee.How goes it with my braue Marke Anthonie? Alex. Last thing he did (deere Queene)He kist the last of many doubled kisses This Orient Pearle. His speech stickes in my heart Cleo. Mine eare must plucke it thence Alex. Good Friend, quoth he:Say the firme Roman to great Egypt sends This treasure of an Oyster: at whose foote To mend the petty present, I will peeceHer opulent Throne, with Kingdomes. All the East, (Say thou) shall call her Mistris. So he nodded, And soberly did mount an Arme-gaunt Steede, Who neigh’d so hye, that what I would haue spoke, Was beastly dumbe by him Cleo. What was he sad, or merry? Alex. Like to the time o’th’ yeare, between y extremes Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merrie Cleo. Oh well diuided disposition: Note him, Note him good Charmian, ’tis the man; but note him. He was not sad, for he would shine on those That make their lookes by his. He was not merrie, Which seem’d to tell them, his remembrance lay In Egypt with his ioy, but betweene both. Oh heauenly mingle! Bee’st thou sad, or merrie, The violence of either thee becomes,So do’s it no mans else. Met’st thou my Posts? Alex. I Madam, twenty seuerall Messengers. Why do you send so thicke? Cleo. Who’s borne that day, when I forget to send to Anthonie, shall dye a Begger. Inke and paper Charmian. Welcome my good Alexas. Did I Charmian, euer loue Caesar so? Char. Oh that braue Caesar! Cleo. Be choak’d with such another Emphasis, Say the braue Anthony Char. The valiant Caesar Cleo. By Isis, I will giue thee bloody teeth, If thou with Caesar Paragon againe:My man of men Char. By your most gracious pardon, I sing but after you Cleo. My Sallad dayes,When I was greene in iudgement, cold in blood, To say, as I saide then. But come, away, Get me Inke and Paper,he shall haue euery day a seuerall greeting, or Ile vnpeople Egypt. Exeunt. Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike manner. Pom. If the great Gods be iust, they shall assist The deeds of iustest men Mene. Know worthy Pompey, that what they do delay, they not deny Pom. Whiles we are sutors to their Throne, decayes the thing we sue for Mene. We ignorant of our selues,Begge often our owne harmes, which the wise Powres Deny vs for our good: so finde we profit By loosing of our Prayers Pom. I shall do well:The people loue me, and the Sea is mine; My powers are Cressent, and my Auguring hope Sayes it will come to’th’ full. Marke Anthony In Egypt sits at dinner, and will makeNo warres without doores. Caesar gets money where He looses hearts: Lepidus flatters both, Of both is flatter’d: but he neither loues, Nor either cares for him Mene. Caesar and Lepidus are in the field, A mighty strength they carry Pom. Where haue you this? ‘Tis false Mene. From Siluius, Sir Pom. He dreames: I know they are in Rome together Looking for Anthony: but all the charmes of Loue, Salt Cleopatra soften thy wand lip,Let Witchcraft ioyne with Beauty, Lust with both, Tye vp the Libertine in a field of Feasts, Keepe his Braine fuming. Epicurean Cookes, Sharpen with cloylesse sawce his Appetite, That sleepe and feeding may prorogue his Honour, Euen till a Lethied dulnesse-Enter Varrius. How now Varrius? Var. This is most certaine, that I shall deliuer: Marke Anthony is euery houre in RomeExpected. Since he went from Egypt, ’tis A space for farther Trauaile Pom. I could haue giuen lesse matter A better eare. Menas, I did not thinkeThis amorous Surfetter would haue donn’d his Helme For such a petty Warre: His Souldiership Is twice the other twaine: But let vs reare The higher our Opinion, that our stirring Can from the lap of Egypts Widdow, plucke The neere Lust-wearied Anthony Mene. I cannot hope,Caesar and Anthony shall well greet together; His Wife that’s dead, did trespasses to Caesar, His Brother wan’d vpon him, although I thinke Not mou’d by Anthony Pom. I know not Menas,How lesser Enmities may giue way to greater, Were’t not that we stand vp against them all: ‘Twer pregnant they should square between themselues, For they haue entertained cause enoughTo draw their swords: but how the feare of vs May Ciment their diuisions, and binde vp The petty difference, we yet not know:Bee’t as our Gods will haue’t; it onely stands Our liues vpon, to vse our strongest hands Come Menas. Exeunt. Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus. Lep. Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed, And shall become you well, to intreat your Captaine To soft and gentle speech Enob. I shall intreat himTo answer like himselfe: if Caesar moue him, Let Anthony looke ouer Caesars head,And speake as lowd as Mars. By Iupiter, Were I the wearer of Anthonio’s Beard,I would not shaue’t to day Lep. ‘Tis not a time for priuate stomacking Eno. Euery time serues for the matter that is then borne in’t Lep. But small to greater matters must giue way Eno. Not if the small come first Lep. Your speech is passion: but pray you stirre No Embers vp. Heere comes the Noble Anthony. Enter Anthony and Ventidius. Eno. And yonder Caesar.Enter Caesar, Mecenas, and Agrippa. Ant. If we compose well heere, to Parthia: Hearke Ventidius Caesar. I do not know Mecenas, aske Agrippa Lep. Noble Friends:That which combin’d vs was most great, and let not A leaner action rend vs. What’s amisse,May it be gently heard. When we debate Our triuiall difference loud, we do commit Murther in healing wounds. Then Noble Partners, The rather for I earnestly beseech,Touch you the sowrest points with sweetest tearmes, Nor curstnesse grow to’th’ matter Ant. ‘Tis spoken well:Were we before our Armies, and to fight, I should do thus.Flourish. Caes Welcome to Rome Ant. Thanke you Caes Sit Ant. Sit sir Caes Nay then Ant. I learne, you take things ill, which are not so: Or being, concerne you not Caes I must be laught at, if or for nothing, or a little, I Should say my selfe offended, and with you Chiefely i’th’ world. More laught at, that I should Once name you derogately: when to sound your name It not concern’d me Ant. My being in Egypt Caesar, what was’t to you? Caes No more then my reciding heere at Rome Might be to you in Egypt: yet if you there Did practise on my State, your being in Egypt Might be my question Ant. How intend you, practis’d? Caes You may be pleas’d to catch at mine intent, By what did heere befall me. Your Wife and Brother Made warres vpon me, and their contestation Was Theame for you, you were the word of warre Ant. You do mistake your busines, my Brother neuer Did vrge me in his Act: I did inquire it. And haue my Learning from some true reports That drew their swords with you, did he not rather Discredit my authority with yours,And make the warres alike against my stomacke, Hauing alike your cause. Of this, my Letters Before did satisfie you. If you’l patch a quarrell, As matter whole you haue to make it with, It must not be with this Caes You praise your selfe, by laying defects of iudgement to me: but you patcht vp your excuses Anth. Not so, not so:I know you could not lacke, I am certaine on’t, Very necessity of this thought, that IYour Partner in the cause ‘gainst which he fought, Could not with gracefull eyes attend those Warres Which fronted mine owne peace. As for my wife, I would you had her spirit, in such another, The third oth’ world is yours, which with a Snaffle, You may pace easie, but not such a wife Enobar. Would we had all such wiues, that the men might go to Warres with the women Anth. So much vncurbable, her Garboiles (Caesar) Made out of her impatience: which not wanted Shrodenesse of policie to: I greeuing grant, Did you too much disquiet, for that you must, But say I could not helpe it Caesar. I wrote to you, when rioting in Alexandria you Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts Did gibe my Misiue out of audience Ant. Sir, he fell vpon me, ere admitted, then: Three Kings I had newly feasted, and did want Of what I was i’th’ morning: but next day I told him of my selfe, which was as much As to haue askt him pardon. Let this Fellow Be nothing of our strife: if we contendOut of our question wipe him Caesar. You haue broken the Article of your oath, which you shall neuer haue tongue to charge me with Lep. Soft Caesar Ant. No Lepidus, let him speake,The Honour is Sacred which he talks on now, Supposing that I lackt it: but on Caesar, The Article of my oath Caesar. To lend me Armes, and aide when I requir’d them, the which you both denied Anth. Neglected rather:And then when poysoned houres had bound me vp From mine owne knowledge, as neerely as I may, Ile play the penitent to you. But mine honesty, Shall not make poore my greatnesse, nor my power Worke without it. Truth is, that Fuluia, To haue me out of Egypt, made Warres heere, For which my selfe, the ignorant motiue, do So farre aske pardon, as befits mine Honour To stoope in such a case Lep. ‘Tis Noble spoken Mece. If it might please you, to enforce no further The griefes betweene ye: to forget them quite, Were to remember: that the present neede, Speakes to attone you Lep. Worthily spoken Mecenas Enobar. Or if you borrow one anothers Loue for the instant, you may when you heare no more words of Pompey returne it againe: you shall haue time to wrangle in, when you haue nothing else to do Anth. Thou art a Souldier, onely speake no more Enob. That trueth should be silent, I had almost forgot Anth. You wrong this presence, therefore speake no more Enob. Go too then: your Considerate stone Caesar. I do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his speech: for’t cannot be, We shall remaine in friendship, our conditions So diffring in their acts. Yet if I knew, What Hoope should hold vs staunch from edge to edge Ath’ world: I would persue it Agri. Giue me leaue Caesar Caesar. Speake Agrippa Agri. Thou hast a Sister by the Mothers side, admir’d Octauia: Great Mark Anthony is now a widdower Caesar. Say not, say Agrippa; if Cleopater heard you, your proofe were well deserued of rashnesse Anth. I am not marryed Caesar: let me heere Agrippa further speake Agri. To hold you in perpetuall amitie, To make you Brothers, and to knit your hearts With an vn-slipping knot, take Anthony,Octauia to his wife: whose beauty claimes No worse a husband then the best of men: whose Vertue, and whose generall graces, speake That which none else can vtter. By this marriage, All little Ielousies which now seeme great, And all great feares, which now import their dangers, Would then be nothing. Truth’s would be tales, Where now halfe tales be truth’s: her loue to both, Would each to other, and all loues to both Draw after her. Pardon what I haue spoke, For ’tis a studied not a present thought, By duty ruminated Anth. Will Caesar speake? Caesar. Not till he heares how Anthony is toucht, With what is spoke already Anth. What power is in Agrippa,If I would say Agrippa, be it so,To make this good? Caesar. The power of Caesar,And his power, vnto Octauia Anth. May I neuer(To this good purpose, that so fairely shewes) Dreame of impediment: let me haue thy hand Further this act of Grace: and from this houre, The heart of Brothers gouerne in our Loues, And sway our great Designes Caesar. There’s my hand:A Sister I bequeath you, whom no Brother Did euer loue so deerely. Let her liueTo ioyne our kingdomes, and our hearts, and neuer Flie off our Loues againe Lepi. Happily, Amen Ant. I did not think to draw my Sword ‘gainst Pompey, For he hath laid strange courtesies, and great Of late vpon me. I must thanke him onely, Least my remembrance, suffer ill report: At heele of that, defie him Lepi. Time cals vpon’s,Of vs must Pompey presently be sought, Or else he seekes out vs Anth. Where lies he? Caesar. About the Mount-Mesena Anth. What is his strength by land? Caesar. Great, and encreasing:But by Sea he is an absolute Master Anth. So is the Fame.Would we had spoke together. Hast we for it, Yet ere we put our selues in Armes, dispatch we The businesse we haue talkt of Caesar. With most gladnesse,And do inuite you to my Sisters view, Whether straight Ile lead you Anth. Let vs Lepidus not lacke your companie Lep. Noble Anthony, not sickenesse should detaine me. Flourish. Exit omnes. Manet Enobarbus, Agrippa, Mecenas. Mec. Welcome from aegypt Sir Eno. Halfe the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecenas. My honourable Friend Agrippa Agri. Good Enobarbus Mece. We haue cause to be glad, that matters are so well disgested: you staid well by’t in Egypt Enob. I Sir, we did sleepe day out of countenaunce: and made the night light with drinking Mece. Eight Wilde-Boares rosted whole at a breakfast: and but twelue persons there. Is this true? Eno. This was but as a Flye by an Eagle: we had much more monstrous matter of Feast, which worthily deserued noting Mecenas. She’s a most triumphant Lady, if report be square to her Enob. When she first met Marke Anthony, she purst vp his heart vpon the Riuer of Sidnis Agri. There she appear’d indeed: or my reporter deuis’d well for her Eno. I will tell you,The Barge she sat in, like a burnisht Throne Burnt on the water: the Poope was beaten Gold, Purple the Sailes: and so perfumed thatThe Windes were Loue-sicke.With them the Owers were Siluer,Which to the tune of Flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beate, to follow faster; As amorous of their strokes. For her owne person, It beggerd all discription, she did lyeIn her Pauillion, cloth of Gold, of Tissue, O’re-picturing that Venus, where we seeThe fancie out-worke Nature. On each side her, Stood pretty Dimpled Boyes, like smiling Cupids, With diuers coulour’d Fannes whose winde did seeme, To gloue the delicate cheekes which they did coole, And what they vndid did Agrip. Oh rare for Anthony Eno. Her Gentlewoman, like the Nereides, So many Mer-maides tended her i’th’ eyes, And made their bends adornings. At the Helme, A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the Barge A strange inuisible perfume hits the sense Of the adiacent Wharfes. The Citty castHer people out vpon her: and Anthony Enthron’d i’th’ Market-place, did sit alone, Whisling to’th’ ayre: which but for vacancie, Had gone to gaze on Cleopater too,And made a gap in Nature Agri. Rare Egiptian Eno. Vpon her landing, Anthony sent to her, Inuited her to Supper: she replyed,It should be better, he became her guest: Which she entreated, our Courteous Anthony, Whom nere the word of no woman hard speake, Being barber’d ten times o’re, goes to the Feast; And for his ordinary, paies his heart,For what his eyes eate onely Agri. Royall Wench:She made great Caesar lay his Sword to bed, He ploughed her, and she cropt Eno. I saw her onceHop forty Paces through the publicke streete, And hauing lost her breath, she spoke, and panted, That she did make defect, perfection,And breathlesse powre breath forth Mece. Now Anthony, must leaue her vtterly Eno. Neuer he will not:Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale Her infinite variety: other women cloyThe appetites they feede, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies. For vildest things Become themselues in her, that the holy Priests Blesse her, when she is Riggish Mece. If Beauty, Wisedome, Modesty, can settle The heart of Anthony: Octauia isA blessed Lottery to him Agrip. Let vs go. Good Enobarbus, make your selfe my guest, whilst you abide heere Eno. Humbly Sir I thanke you. Exeunt. Enter Anthony, Caesar, Octauia betweene them. Anth. The world, and my great office, will Sometimes deuide me from your bosome Octa. All which time, before the Gods my knee shall bowe my prayers to them for you Anth. Goodnight Sir. My OctauiaRead not my blemishes in the worlds report: I haue not kept my square, but that to come Shall all be done byth’ Rule: good night deere Lady: Good night Sir Caesar. Goodnight.Enter. Enter Soothsaier. Anth. Now sirrah: you do wish your selfe in Egypt? Sooth. Would I had neuer come from thence, nor you thither Ant. If you can, your reason? Sooth. I see it in my motion: haue it not in my tongue, But yet hie you to Egypt againe Antho. Say to me, whose Fortunes shall rise higher Caesars or mine? Sooth. Caesars. Therefore (oh Anthony) stay not by his side Thy Daemon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable,Where Caesars is not. But neere him, thy Angell Becomes a feare: as being o’re-powr’d, therefore Make space enough betweene you Anth. Speake 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 loose: And of that Naturall lucke, He beats thee ‘gainst the oddes. Thy Luster thickens, When he shines by: I say againe, thy spirit Is all affraid to gouerne thee neere him: But he alway ’tis Noble Anth. Get thee gone:Say to Ventigius I would speake with him. Enter. He shall to Parthia, be it Art or hap, He hath spoken true. The very Dice obey him, And in our sports my better cunning faints, Vnder his chance, if we draw lots he speeds, His Cocks do winne the Battaile, still of mine, When it is all to naught: and his Quailes euer Beate mine (in hoopt) at odd’s. I will to Egypte: And though I make this marriage for my peace, I’th’ East my pleasure lies. Oh come Ventigius. Enter Ventigius. You must to Parthia, your Commissions ready: Follow me, and reciue’t. Exeunt. Enter Lepidus, Mecenas and Agrippa. Lepidus. Trouble your selues no further: pray you hasten your Generals after Agr. Sir, Marke Anthony, will e’ne but kisse Octauia, and weele follow Lepi. Till I shall see you in your Souldiers dresse, Which will become you both: Farewell Mece. We shall: as I conceiue the iourney, be at Mount before you Lepidus Lepi. Your way is shorter, my purposes do draw me much about, you’le win two dayes vpon me Both. Sir good successe Lepi. Farewell. Exeunt. Enter Cleopater, Charmian, Iras, and Alexas. Cleo. Giue me some Musicke: Musicke, moody foode of vs that trade in Loue Omnes. The Musicke, hoa.Enter Mardian the Eunuch. Cleo. Let it alone, let’s to Billiards: come Charmian Char. My arme is sore, best play with Mardian Cleopa. As well a woman with an Eunuch plaide, as with a woman. Come you’le play with me Sir? Mardi. As well as I can Madam Cleo. And when good will is shewed, Though’t come to shortThe Actor may pleade pardon. Ile none now, Giue me mine Angle, weele to’th’ Riuer there My Musicke playing farre off. I will betray Tawny fine fishes, my bended hooke shall pierce Their slimy iawes: and as I draw them vp, Ile thinke them euery one an Anthony,And say, ah ha; y’are caught Char. ‘Twas merry when you wager’d on your Angling, when your diuer did hang a salt fish on his hooke which he with feruencie drew vp Cleo. That time? Oh times:I laught him out of patience: and that night I laught him into patience, and next morne, Ere the ninth houre, I drunke him to his bed: Then put my Tires and Mantles on him, whilst I wore his Sword Phillippan. Oh from Italie, Enter a Messenger. Ramme thou thy fruitefull tidings in mine eares, That long time haue bin barren Mes. Madam, Madam Cleo. Anthonyo’s dead.If thou say so Villaine, thou kil’st thy Mistris: But well and free, if thou so yeild him. There is Gold, and heereMy blewest vaines to kisse: a hand that Kings Haue lipt, and trembled kissing Mes. First Madam, he is well Cleo. Why there’s more Gold.But sirrah marke, we vseTo say, the dead are well: bring it to that, The Gold I giue thee, will I melt and powr Downe thy ill vttering throate Mes. Good Madam heare me Cleo. Well, go too I will:But there’s no goodnesse in thy face if Anthony Be free and healthfull; so tart a fauour To trumpet such good tidings. If not well, Thou shouldst come like a Furie crown’d with Snakes, Not like a formall man Mes. Wilt please you heare me? Cleo. I haue a mind to strike thee ere thou speak’st: Yet if thou say Anthony liues, ’tis well, Or friends with Caesar, or not Captiue to him, Ile set thee in a shower of Gold, and haile Rich Pearles vpon thee Mes. Madam, he’s well Cleo. Well said Mes. And Friends with Caesar Cleo. Th’art an honest man Mes. Caesar, and he, are greater Friends then euer Cleo. Make thee a Fortune from me Mes. But yet Madam Cleo. I do not like but yet, it does alay The good precedence, fie vpon but yet,But yet is as a Iaylor to bring foorth Some monstrous Malefactor. Prythee Friend, Powre out the packe of matter to mine eare, The good and bad together: he’s friends with Caesar, In state of health thou saist, and thou saist, free Mes. Free Madam, no: I made no such report, He’s bound vnto Octauia Cleo. For what good turne? Mes. For the best turne i’th’ bed Cleo. I am pale Charmian Mes. Madam, he’s married to Octauia Cleo. The most infectious Pestilence vpon thee. Strikes him downe. Mes. Good Madam patience Cleo. What say you? Strikes him. Hence horrible Villaine, or Ile spurne thine eyes Like balls before me: Ile vnhaire thy head, She hales him vp and downe. Thou shalt be whipt with Wyer, and stew’d in brine, Smarting in lingring pickle Mes. Gratious Madam,I that do bring the newes, made not the match Cleo. Say ’tis not so, a Prouince I will giue thee, And make thy Fortunes proud: the blow thou had’st Shall make thy peace, for mouing me to rage, And I will boot thee with what guift beside Thy modestie can begge Mes. He’s married Madam Cleo. Rogue, thou hast liu’d too long. Draw a knife. Mes. Nay then Ile runne:What meane you Madam, I haue made no fault. Enter. Char. Good Madam keepe your selfe within your selfe, The man is innocent Cleo. Some Innocents scape not the thunderbolt: Melt Egypt into Nyle: and kindly creatures Turne all to Serpents. Call the slaue againe, Though I am mad, I will not byte him: Call? Char. He is afeard to come Cleo. I will not hurt him,These hands do lacke Nobility, that they strike A meaner then my selfe: since I my selfe Haue giuen my selfe the cause. Come hither Sir. Enter the Messenger againe. Though it be honest, it is neuer good To bring bad newes: giue to a gratious Message An host of tongues, but let ill tydings tell Themselues, when they be felt Mes. I haue done my duty Cleo. Is he married?I cannot hate thee worser then I do, If thou againe say yes Mes. He’s married Madam Cleo. The Gods confound thee,Dost thou hold there still? Mes. Should I lye Madame? Cleo. Oh, I would thou didst:So halfe my Egypt were submerg’d and made A Cesterne for scal’d Snakes. Go get thee hence, Had’st thou Narcissus in thy face to me, Thou would’st appeere most vgly: He is married? Mes. I craue your Highnesse pardon Cleo. He is married? Mes. Take no offence, that I would not offend you, To punnish me for what you make me doSeemes much vnequall, he’s married to Octauia Cleo. Oh that his fault should make a knaue of thee, That art not what th’art sure of. Get thee hence, The Marchandize which thou hast brought from Rome Are all too deere for me:Lye they vpon thy hand, and be vndone by em Char. Good your Highnesse patience Cleo. In praysing Anthony, I haue disprais’d Caesar Char. Many times Madam Cleo. I am paid for’t now: lead me from hence, I faint, oh Iras, Charmian: ’tis no matter. Go to the Fellow, good Alexas bid himReport the feature of Octauia: her yeares, Her inclination, let him not leaue outThe colour of her haire. Bring me word quickly, Let him for euer go, let him not Charmian, Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other wayes a Mars. Bid you AlexasBring me word, how tall she is: pitty me Charmian, But do not speake to me. Lead me to my Chamber. Exeunt. Flourish. Enter Pompey, at one doore with Drum and Trumpet: at anotherCaesar, Lepidus, Anthony, Enobarbus, Mecenas, Agrippa, Menas with SouldiersMarching. Pom. Your Hostages I haue, so haue you mine: And we shall talke before we fight Caesar. Most meete that first we come to words, And therefore haue weOur written purposes before vs sent, Which if thou hast considered, let vs know, If ’twill tye vp thy discontented Sword, And carry backe to Cicelie much tall youth, That else must perish heere Pom. To you all three,The Senators alone of this great world, Chiefe Factors for the Gods. I do not know, Wherefore my Father should reuengers want, Hauing a Sonne and Friends, since Iulius Caesar, Who at Phillippi the good Brutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him. What was’t That mou’d pale Cassius to conspire? And what Made all-honor’d, honest, Romaine Brutus, With the arm’d rest, Courtiers of beautious freedome, To drench the Capitoll, but that they would Haue one man but a man, and that his itHath made me rigge my Nauie. At whose burthen, The anger’d Ocean fomes, with which I meant To scourge th’ ingratitude, that despightfull Rome Cast on my Noble Father Caesar. Take your time Ant. Thou can’st not feare vs Pompey with thy sailes. Weele speake with thee at Sea. At land thou know’st How much we do o’re-count thee Pom. At Land indeedThou dost orecount me of my Fathers house: But since the Cuckoo buildes not for himselfe, Remaine in’t as thou maist Lepi. Be pleas’d to tell vs,(For this is from the present how you take) The offers we haue sent you Caesar. There’s the point Ant. Which do not be entreated too, But waigh what it is worth imbrac’d Caesar. And what may follow to try a larger Fortune Pom. You haue made me offerOf Cicelie, Sardinia: and I mustRid all the Sea of Pirats. Then, to send Measures of Wheate to Rome: this greed vpon, To part with vnhackt edges, and beare backe Our Targes vndinted Omnes. That’s our offer Pom. Know then I came before you heere, A man prepar’dTo take this offer. But Marke Anthony, Put me to some impatience: though I loose The praise of it by telling. You must know When Caesar and your Brother were at blowes, Your Mother came to Cicelie, and did finde Her welcome Friendly Ant. I haue heard it Pompey,And am well studied for a liberall thanks, Which I do owe you Pom. Let me haue your hand:I did not thinke Sir, to haue met you heere, Ant. The beds i’th’ East are soft, and thanks to you, That cal’d me timelier then my purpose hither: For I haue gained by’t Caesar. Since I saw you last, ther’s a change vpon you Pom. Well, I know not,What counts harsh Fortune cast’s vpon my face, But in my bosome shall she neuer come,To make my heart her vassaile Lep. Well met heere Pom. I hope so Lepidus, thus we are agreed: I craue our composion may be writtenAnd seal’d betweene vs, Caesar. That’s the next to do Pom. Weele feast each other, ere we part, and lett’s Draw lots who shall begin Ant. That will I Pompey Pompey. No Anthony take the lot: but first or last, your fine Egyptian cookerie shall haue the fame, I haue heard that Iulius Caesar, grew fat with feasting there Anth. You haue heard much Pom. I haue faire meaning Sir Ant. And faire words to them Pom. Then so much haue I heard,And I haue heard Appolodorus carried- Eno. No more that: he did so Pom. What I pray you? Eno. A certaine Queene to Caesar in a Matris Pom. I know thee now, how far’st thou Souldier? Eno. Well, and well am like to do, for I perceiue Foure Feasts are toward Pom. Let me shake thy hand,I neuer hated thee: I haue seene thee fight, When I haue enuied thy behauiour Enob. Sir, I neuer lou’d you much, but I ha’ prais’d ye, When you haue well deseru’d ten times as much, As I haue said you did Pom. Inioy thy plainnesse,It nothing ill becomes thee:Aboord my Gally, I inuite you all.Will you leade Lords? All. Shew’s the way, sir Pom. Come. Exeunt. Manet Enob. & Menas] Men. Thy Father Pompey would ne’re haue made this Treaty. You, and I haue knowne sir Enob. At Sea, I thinke Men. We haue Sir Enob. You haue done well by water Men. And you by Land Enob. I will praise any man that will praise me, thogh it cannot be denied what I haue done by Land Men. Nor what I haue done by water Enob. Yes some-thing you can deny for your owne safety: you haue bin a great Theefe by Sea Men. And you by Land Enob. There I deny my Land seruice: but giue mee your hand Menas, if our eyes had authority, heere they might take two Theeues kissing Men. All mens faces are true, whatsomere their hands are Enob. But there is neuer a fayre Woman, ha’s a true Face Men. No slander, they steale hearts Enob. We came hither to fight with you Men. For my part, I am sorry it is turn’d to a Drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his Fortune Enob. If he do, sure he cannot weep’t backe againe Men. Y’haue said Sir, we look’d not for Marke Anthony heere, pray you, is he married to Cleopatra? Enob. Caesars Sister is call’d Octauia Men. True Sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus Enob. But she is now the wife of Marcus Anthonius Men. Pray’ye sir Enob. ‘Tis true Men. Then is Caesar and he, for euer knit together Enob. If I were bound to Diuine of this vnity, I wold not Prophesie so Men. I thinke the policy of that purpose, made more in the Marriage, then the loue of the parties Enob. I thinke so too. But you shall finde the band that seemes to tye their friendship together, will bee the very strangler of their Amity: Octauia is of a holy, cold, and still conuersation Men. Who would not haue his wife so? Eno. Not he that himselfe is not so: which is Marke Anthony: he will to his Egyptian dish againe: then shall the sighes of Octauia blow the fire vp in Caesar, and (as I said before) that which is the strength of their Amity, shall proue the immediate Author of their variance. Anthony will vse his affection where it is. Hee married but his occasion heere Men. And thus it may be. Come Sir, will you aboord? I haue a health for you Enob. I shall take it sir: we haue vs’d our Throats in Egypt Men. Come, let’s away. Exeunt. Musicke playes. Enter two or three Seruants with a Banket. 1 Heere they’l be man: some o’ their Plants are ill rooted already, the least winde i’th’ world wil blow them downe 2 Lepidus is high Coulord 1 They haue made him drinke Almes drinke 2 As they pinch one another by the disposition, hee cries out, no more; reconciles them to his entreatie, and himselfe to’th’ drinke 1 But it raises the greater warre betweene him & his discretion 2 Why this it is to haue a name in great mens Fellowship: I had as liue haue a Reede that will doe me no seruice, as a Partizan I could not heaue 1 To be call’d into a huge Sphere, and not to be seene to moue in’t, are the holes where eyes should bee, which pittifully disaster the cheekes. A Sennet sounded. Enter Caesar, Anthony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa,Mecenas, Enobarbus, Menes, with other Captaines. Ant. Thus do they Sir: they take the flow o’th’ Nyle By certaine scales i’th’ Pyramid: they know By’th’ height, the lownesse, or the meane: If dearth Or Foizon follow. The higher Nilus swels, The more it promises: as it ebbes, the Seedsman Vpon the slime and Ooze scatters his graine, And shortly comes to Haruest Lep. Y’haue strange Serpents there? Anth. I Lepidus 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 should be: But Ile ne’re out Enob. Not till you haue slept: I feare me you’l bee in till then Lep. Nay certainly, I haue heard the Ptolomies Pyramisis are very goodly things: without contradiction I haue heard that Menas. Pompey, a word Pomp. Say in mine eare, what is’t Men. Forsake thy seate I do beseech thee Captaine, And heare me speake a word Pom. Forbeare me till anon. Whispers in’s Eare. This Wine for Lepidus Lep. What manner o’ thing is your Crocodile? Ant. It is shap’d sir like it selfe, and it is as broad as it hath bredth; It is iust so high as it is, and mooues with it owne organs. It liues by that which nourisheth it, and the Elements once out of it, it Transmigrates Lep. What colour is it of? Ant. Of it owne colour too Lep. ‘Tis a strange Serpent Ant. ‘Tis so, and the teares of it are wet Caes Will this description satisfie him? Ant. With the Health that Pompey giues him, else he is a very Epicure Pomp. Go hang sir, hang: tell me of that? Away: Do as I bid you. Where’s this Cup I call’d for? Men. If for the sake of Merit thou wilt heare mee, Rise from thy stoole Pom. I thinke th’art mad: the matter? Men. I haue euer held my cap off to thy Fortunes Pom. Thou hast seru’d me with much faith: what’s else to say? Be iolly Lords Anth. These Quicke-sands Lepidus,Keepe off, them for you sinke Men. Wilt thou be Lord of all the world? Pom. What saist thou? Men. Wilt thou be Lord of the whole world? That’s twice Pom. How should that be? Men. But entertaine it, and though thou thinke me poore, I am the man will giue thee all the world Pom. Hast thou drunke well Men. No Pompey, I haue kept me from the cup, Thou art if thou dar’st be, the earthly Ioue: What ere the Ocean pales, or skie inclippes, Is thine, if thou wilt ha’t Pom. Shew me which way? Men. These three World-sharers, these Competitors Are in thy vessell. Let me cut the Cable, And when we are put off, fall to their throates: All there is thine Pom. Ah, this thou shouldst haue done, And not haue spoke on’t. In me ’tis villanie, In thee, ‘t had bin good seruice: thou must know, ‘Tis not my profit that does lead mine Honour: Mine Honour it, Repent that ere thy tongue, Hath so betraide thine acte. Being done vnknowne, I should haue found it afterwards well done, But must condemne it now: desist, and drinke Men. For this, Ile neuer followThy paul’d Fortunes more,Who seekes and will not take, when once ’tis offer’d, Shall neuer finde it more Pom. This health to Lepidus Ant. Beare him ashore,Ile pledge it for him Pompey Eno. Heere’s to thee Menas Men. Enobarbus, welcome Pom. Fill till the cup be hid Eno. There’s a strong Fellow Menas Men. Why? Eno. A beares the third part of the world man: seest not? Men. The third part, then he is drunk: would it were all, that it might go on wheeles Eno. Drinke thou: encrease the Reeles Men. Come Pom. This is not yet an Alexandrian Feast Ant. It ripen’s, towards it: strike the Vessells hoa. Heere’s to Caesar Caesar. I could well forbear’t, it’s monstrous labour when I wash my braine, and it grow fouler Ant. Be a Child o’th’ time Caesar. Possesse it, Ile make answer: but I had rather fast from all, foure dayes, then drinke so much in one Enob. Ha my braue Emperour, shall we daunce now the Egyptian Backenals, and celebrate our drinke? Pom. Let’s ha’t good Souldier Ant. Come, let’s all take hands,Till that the conquering Wine hath steep’t our sense, In soft and delicate Lethe Eno. All take hands:Make battery to our eares with the loud Musicke, The while, Ile place you, then the Boy shall sing.