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Caes. Ant. Lep. Show us the way, Sir..
Pom. Come.

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[Exeunt POMPEY, CAESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, Soldiers, and Attendants.

Men. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty. [aside.]

known Sir.

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Eno. At sea, I think.

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Men. We have, Sir. baren

You and I have

Eno. You have done well by water.

Men, And you by land.

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Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me: though it cannot be denied what I have done by landbo

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 seas Men. And you by land.

nolgå deM 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, dugers aMen. All men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are. Jad

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Men. No slander; they steal hearts.
Eno. We scame 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.

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. Caesar's sister is call'd Octavia.

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Men. True, Sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.

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Eno. But she is now the wife of Marcus Autonius.

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Men. Pray you, Sir?

End. 'Tis true.

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Men. Then is Caesar, and he, for ever knit together.

Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophecy so.

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Men. I think, the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage, than the love of the parties.

Eno. I think so too.sa But you shall find,the baud 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?? odd 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 upin Caesar; and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony 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.

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ww Eno. I shall take it, Sire we have us'd our throats in Egypt.

Men. Come, let's away.

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SCENE VII.

On board Pompey's Galley, lying near Misenum,

Musick. Enter two or three Servants, with a banquet.

1. Serv. Here they'le 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 partizan I could not heave,

1. Serv. To be call'd 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.

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Asennet sounded, Enter CAESAR, ANTONY, POMPEY, LEPIDUS, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS, ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other Captains. Ant. Thus do they, Sir: [TO CAESAR.] They take the flow q' the Nile By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know, By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth, Or foizon, follow: The higher Nilus swells, The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain, And shortly comes to harvest.

Lep. You have strange serpents there.
Ant. Ay, Lepidus.

Lep. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun:" so your crocodile.

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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.

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Lep. Nay, certainly, 1 have heard, the Ptolemies' pyramises are very goodly things; without contradiction, I have heard that.

Men. Pompey, a word.

Pom. Say in mine ear: What is't?

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Men. Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, Cap

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And hear me speak a word.

Pom. Forbear me till anon. -.

This wine for Lepidus.

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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 ouce out of it, it transmigrates.

Lep. What colour is it of?

Ant. Of its own colour too.
Lep. 'Tis a strange serpent.

Ant. "Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.
Caes. Will this description satisfy him?

Ant. With the health that Pompey gives himi

else he is a very epicure.

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Pom. [to MENAS aside.] Go, hang, Sir, hang;

Do as I bid you.

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Tell me of that? away Where's this cup 1 call'd for?

Men. If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me,

Rise from thy stool.

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Pom. I think, thou'rt mad. The matter?
[rises, and walks aside.
Men. I have ever held my cap off to they 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 thon 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,

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Although thou think me poor, I am the man
Will give thee all the world.

Pom. Hast thou drunk well?

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Men. No, Pompey, I have kept me from the and cup.

Thou art,
if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove:
Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, ⠀
Is thine, if thou wilt have 'tex it.

Pom. Show me which way.

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Men. These three world-sharers, these compeetitors,

Are in thy vessel: Let me cut the cable;

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Pom. Ah this thou should'st have done,

And not have spoke on't! In me, is villainy;

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