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Act VScene IAlexandria. Octavius Caesar’s campEnter Octavius Caesar, Agrippa, Dolabella, Mecaenas, Gallus, Proculeius, and others, his council of warOctavius CaesarGo to him, Dolabella, bid him yield; Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks The pauses that he makes.DolabellaCaesar, I shall. [Exit]Enter Dercetas, with the sword of Mark AntonyOctavius CaesarWherefore is that? and what art thou that darest Appear thus to us?DercetasI am call’d Dercetas; Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke, He was my master; and I wore my life To spend upon his haters. If thou please To take me to thee, as I was to him I’ll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not, I yield thee up my life.Octavius CaesarWhat is’t thou say’st?DercetasI say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.Octavius CaesarThe breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world.DercetasHe is dead, Caesar: Not by a public minister of justice, Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand, Which writ his honour in the acts it did, Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it, Splitted the heart. This is his sword; I robb’d his wound of it; behold it stain’d With his most noble blood.Octavius CaesarLook you sad, friends? The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings To wash the eyes of kings.AgrippaAnd strange it is, That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.MecaenasHis taints and honours Waged equal with him.AgrippaA rarer spirit never Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch’d.MecaenasWhen such a spacious mirror’s set before him, He needs must see himself.Octavius CaesarO Antony! I have follow’d thee to this; but we do lance Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce Have shown to thee such a declining day, Or look on thine; we could not stall together In the whole world: but yet let me lament, With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts, That thou, my brother, my competitor In top of all design, my mate in empire, Friend and companion in the front of war, The arm of mine own body, and the heart Where mine his thoughts did kindle,—that our stars, Unreconciliable, should divide Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends— But I will tell you at some meeter season:Enter an EgyptianThe business of this man looks out of him; We’ll hear him what he says. Whence are you?EgyptianA poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress, Confined in all she has, her monument, Of thy intents desires instruction, That she preparedly may frame herself To the way she’s forced to.Octavius CaesarBid her have good heart: She soon shall know of us, by some of ours, How honourable and how kindly we Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live To be ungentle.EgyptianSo the gods preserve thee!ExitOctavius CaesarCome hither, Proculeius. Go and say, We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts The quality of her passion shall require, Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke She do defeat us; for her life in Rome Would be eternal in our triumph: go, And with your speediest bring us what she says, And how you find of her.ProculeiusCaesar, I shall.ExitOctavius CaesarGallus, go you along.Exit GallusWhere’s Dolabella, To second Proculeius?AllDolabella!Octavius CaesarLet him alone, for I remember now How he’s employ’d: he shall in time be ready. Go with me to my tent; where you shall see How hardly I was drawn into this war; How calm and gentle I proceeded still In all my writings: go with me, and see What I can show in this.Exeunt
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