Ant. Which do not be entreated to, but weigh What it is worth embraced. Cas. And what may follow, To try a larger fortune. Pom. You have made me offer Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send Cæs. Ant. Lep. That's our offer. I came before you here, a man prepared Put me to some impatience :-Though I lose Ant. I have heard it, Pompey ; And am well studied for a liberal thanks, 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 ine, timelier than my purpose, hither; For I have gain'd by it. Cas. Since I saw you last, There is a change upon you. Pom. Well, I know not What counts + harsh fortune casts upon my face; But in my bosom shall she never come, To make my heart her vassal. Lep. Well met here. Pom. I hope so, Lepidus.-Thus we are agreed: I crave, our composition may be written, And seal'd between us. Cas. That's the next to do. Pom. We'll feast each other, ere we part; and let us Draw lots who shall begin. Ant. That will I, Pompey. Pom. No, Antony, take the lot: but, first, Or last, your tine Egyptian cookery Target, shield. + Scores, marks. VOL. V. F. Shall have the fame. I have heard, that Julius Cæsar Grew fat with feasting there. Ant. You have heard much. Pom. I have fair meanings, Sir. Ant. And fair words to them. Pom. Then so much have I heard : And I have heard, Apollodorus carried- Pom. What, I pray you? Eno. A certain queen to Cæsar in a mattress. Pom. I know thee now:-How farest thou, soldier? Eno. Well; And well am like to do; for, I perceive, Four feasts are toward. Pom. Let me shake thy hand; I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight, Eno. Sir, I never loved you much; but I have praised you, When you have well deserved ten times as much As I have said you did. Pom. Enjoy thy plainness. It nothing ill becomes thee. Aboard my galley I invite you all : Will you lead, lords? Cas. Ant. Lep. Shew us the way, Pom. Come. Sir. [Exeunt Pompey, Casar, Antony, Lepidus, Soldiers, and Attendants. Men. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty. known, Sir. Eno. At sea, I think. Men. We have, Sir. Aside.]-You and I have Eno. You have done well by water. Men. And you by land. 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. Been acquainted. 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 turn'd to a drinking. Pompey doth this way laugh away his fortune. Eno. If he do, sure, he cannot weep it back again. -Men. You have said, Sir. We look'd not for Mark Antony here: Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra ? Eno. Cæsar's sister is called Octavia. Men. True, Sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. Eno. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. Men. Pray you, Sir? Eno. "Tis true. Men. Then is Cæsar, and he, for ever knit together. Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophecy so. Men. I think, the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage, than the love of the parties. Eno. I think so too. But you shall find, the band that seems to tie their friendship together, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. 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 Cæsar; and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Artony will use his affection where it is; he married but his occasion here. Men. And thus it may be. Come, Sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you. Eno. I shall take it, Sir: we have used our throats in Egypt. Men. Come; let's away. [Exeunt. Behaviour. SCENE VII-On board Pompey's Galley, lying near Misenum. 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-colour'd. 1 Serv. They have made him drink alms-drink. 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 it is to have a name in great men's fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service, as a partizant 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. A Sennet sounded.-Enter CESAR, ANTONY, POMPEY, LEPIDUS, AGRIPPA, MECENA, ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other Captains. Ant. Thus do they, Sir: [To Casar.] They take the flow o' the Nile By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know, And shortly comes to harvest. 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 should 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 Ptolemies pyramises are very goodly things; without contradiction, I have heard that. • Desert. Plenty. † Feet. Pike. 6 Middle. ¶ Pyramids. Men. Pompey, a word. Pom. Say in mine ear; what is't? [Aside. Men. Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain, And hear me speak a word. Pom. Forbear me till anon. This wine for Lepidus. [Aside. 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 out of it, it transmigrates. Lep. What colour is it of? Ant. 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet. Ant. With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a very epicure. Pom. [To Menas aside.] Go, hang, Sir, hang! Do as I bid you.-Where's this cup I call'd for? [Rises, and walks aside. Men. I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes. Pom. Thou hast served 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? Although thou think me poor, I am the man Pom. Hast thou drank well? Men. No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup. Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove: Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips +, Is thine, if thou wilt have't. Pom. Shew me which way. Men. These three world-sharers, these competitors, Encompasses. Embraces. Confederates. |