POMPEY I know thee now: how far'st thou, soldier? ENOBARBUS Well; And well am like to do; for, I perceive, Four feasts are toward. POMPEY Let me shake thy hand; I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight, ENOBARBUS Sir, I never lov'd you much; but I ha' prais'd ye, POMPEY Enjoy thy plainness, It nothing ill becomes thee. Aboard my galley I invite you all : Will you lead, lords? CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS Show us the way, sir. POMPEY Come. Exeunt all but Menas and Enobarbus. MENAS, aside. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty. -You and I have known, sir. At sea, I think. ENOBARBUS MENAS We have, sir. ENOBARBUS You have done well by water. MENAS And you by land. ENOBARBUS I will praise any man that will praise me; though it cannot be denied what I have done by land. MENAS Nor what I have done by water. ENOBARBUS Yes, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea. And you by land. MENAS ENOBARBUS There I deny my land service. But give me your hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing. MENAS All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are. ENOBARBUS But there is never a fair woman has a true face. MENAS No slander; they steal hearts. ENOBARBUS We came hither to fight with you. ACT II, SCENE VI 65 MENAS For my part, I am sorry it is turn'd to a drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune. ENOBARBUS If he do, sure, he cannot weep 't back again. You 've said, sir. here pray you, is he gh it fety: MENAS We look'd not for Mark Antony married to Cleopatra ? ENOBARBUS Cæsar's sister is called Octavia. MENAS True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. ENOBARBUS But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. your they are. MENAS Then is Cæsar and he for ever knit together. ENOBARBUS If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so. MENAS I think the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties. ENOBARBUS I think so too. But you shall find, the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very Antony and Cleopatra. 9 strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. MENAS Who would not have his wife so? ENOBARBUS 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. Antony will use his affection where it is: he married but his occasion here. MENAS And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you. ENOBARBUS I shall take it, sir: we have us'd our throats in Egypt. Come, let 's away. MENAS Exeunt. SCENE VII ON BOARD POMPEY'S GALLEY, OFF MISENUM Music plays. Enter two or three SERVANTS with a banquet. FIRST SERVANT Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are illrooted already; the least wind i' th' world will blow them down. SECOND SERVANT Lepidus is high-coloured. FIRST SERVANT They have made him drink alms-drink. SECOND SERVANT As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out << No more »; reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink. FIRST SERVANT But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion. SECOND SERVANT 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 partisan I could not heave. FIRST SERVANT 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 CÆSAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains. ANTONY, to Cæsar. Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o' th' Nile |