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Scene IIRome. An ante-chamber in Octavius Caesar’s houseEnter Agrippa at one door, Domitius Enobarbus at anotherAgrippaWhat, are the brothers parted?Domitius EnobarbusThey have dispatch’d with Pompey, he is gone; The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus, Since Pompey’s feast, as Menas says, is troubled With the green sickness.Agrippa’Tis a noble Lepidus.Domitius EnobarbusA very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!AgrippaNay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!Domitius EnobarbusCaesar? Why, he’s the Jupiter of men.AgrippaWhat’s Antony? The god of Jupiter.Domitius EnobarbusSpake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!AgrippaO Antony! O thou Arabian bird!Domitius EnobarbusWould you praise Caesar, say ‘Caesar:’ go no further.AgrippaIndeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.Domitius EnobarbusBut he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony: Ho! Hearts, Tongues, Figure, Scribes, Bards, Poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number: ho, His love to Antony. But as for Caesar, Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.AgrippaBoth he loves.Domitius EnobarbusThey are his shards, and he their beetle.Trumpets withinSo; This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.AgrippaGood fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.Enter Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony, Lepidus, and OctaviaMark AntonyNo further, sir.Octavius CaesarYou take from me a great part of myself; Use me well in ’t. Sister, prove such a wife As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony, Let not the piece of virtue, which is set Betwixt us as the cement of our love, To keep it builded, be the ram to batter The fortress of it; for better might we Have loved without this mean, if on both parts This be not cherish’d.Mark AntonyMake me not offended In your distrust.Octavius CaesarI have said.Mark AntonyYou shall not find, Though you be therein curious, the least cause For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you, And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! We will here part.Octavius CaesarFarewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well: The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.OctaviaMy noble brother!Mark AntonyThe April ’s in her eyes: it is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.OctaviaSir, look well to my husband’s house; and—Octavius CaesarWhat, Octavia?OctaviaI’ll tell you in your ear.Mark AntonyHer tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue,— The swan’s down-feather That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines.Domitius EnobarbusAside to AgrippaWill Caesar weep?AgrippaAside to Domitius EnobarbusHe has a cloud in ’s face.Domitius EnobarbusAside to AgrippaHe were the worse for that were he a horse, so is he, being a man.AgrippaAside to Domitius EnobarbusWhy, Enobarbus, When Antony found Julius Caesar dead, He cried almost to roaring; and he wept When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.Domitius EnobarbusAside to AgrippaThat year, indeed, he was troubled with a rheum; What willingly he did confound he wail’d, Believe’t, till I wept too.Octavius CaesarNo, sweet Octavia, You shall hear from me still; the time shall not Out-go my thinking on you.Mark AntonyCome, sir, come; I’ll wrestle with you in my strength of love: Look, here I have you; thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.Octavius CaesarAdieu; be happy!LepidusLet all the number of the stars give light To thy fair way!Octavius CaesarFarewell, farewell!Kisses OctaviaMark AntonyFarewell!Trumpets sound. Exeunt
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William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II
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