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Before Alexandria. CÆSAR’S Camp. | |
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Flourish. Enter CÆSAR, with AGRIPPA, ENOBARBUS, and Others. | |
| Cæs. Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight: | |
| Our will is Antony be took alive; | |
| Make it so known. | 5 |
| Agr. Cæsar, I shall. [Exit. | |
| Cæs. The time of universal peace is near: | |
| Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook’d world | |
| Shall bear the olive freely. | |
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Enter a Messenger. | 10 |
| Mess. Antony | |
| Is come into the field. | |
| Cœs. Go charge Agrippa | |
| Plant those that have revolted in the van, | |
| That Antony may seem to spend his fury | 15 |
| Upon himself. [Exeunt CÆSAR and his Train. | |
| Eno. Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on | |
| Affairs of Antony; there did persuade | |
| Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar, | |
| And leave his master Antony: for this pains | 20 |
| Cæsar hath hang’d him. Canidius and the rest | |
| That fell away have entertainment, but | |
| No honourable trust. I have done ill, | |
| Of which I do accuse myself so sorely | |
| That I will joy no more. | 25 |
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Enter a Soldier of CÆSAR’S. | |
| Sold. Enobarbus, Antony | |
| Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with | |
| His bounty overplus: the messenger | |
| Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now | 30 |
| Unloading of his mules. | |
| Eno. I give it you. | |
| Sold. Mock not, Enobarbus. | |
| I tell you true: best you saf’d the bringer | |
| Out of the host; I must attend mine office | 35 |
| Or would have done ’t myself. Your emperor | |
| Continues still a Jove. [Exit. | |
| Eno. I am alone the villain of the earth, | |
| And feel I am so most. O Antony! | |
| Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid | 40 |
| My better service, when my turpitude | |
| Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart: | |
| If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean | |
| Shall outstrike thought; but thought will do ’t, I feel. | |
| I fight against thee! No: I will go seek | 45 |
| Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul’st best fits | |
| My latter part of life. [Exit. | |
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