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Act 3, Scene 2

Rome. An Ante-chamber in CAESAR'S house.

  1. [Enter AGRIPPA and ENOBARBUS, meeting.]
  2. Agrippa
  3. 1476 What, are the brothers parted?
  4. Enobarbus
  5. 1477 They have despatch'd with Pompey; he is gone;
  6. 1478 The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
  7. 1479 To part from Rome: Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,
  8. 1480 Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
  9. 1481 With the green sickness.
  10. Agrippa
  11. 1482 'Tis a noble Lepidus.
  12. Enobarbus
  13. 1483 A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
  14. Agrippa
  15. 1484 Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
  16. Enobarbus
  17. 1485 Caesar? Why he's the Jupiter of men.
  18. Agrippa
  19. 1486 What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
  20. Enobarbus
  21. 1487 Spake you of Caesar? How! the nonpareil!
  22. Agrippa
  23. 1488 O, Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
  24. Enobarbus
  25. 1489 Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar'—go no further.
  26. Agrippa
  27. 1490 Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
  28. Enobarbus
  29. 1491 But he loves Caesar best;—yet he loves Antony:
  30. 1492 Hoo! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot
  31. 1493 Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number—hoo!—
  32. 1494 His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,
  33. 1495 Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
  34. Agrippa
  35. 1496 Both he loves.
  36. Enobarbus
  37. 1497 They are his shards, and he their beetle.
  38. [Trumpets within.]
  39. Enobarbus
  40. 1498 So,—
  41. 1499 This is to horse.—Adieu, noble Agrippa.
  42. Agrippa
  43. 1500 Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
  44. [Enter CAESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA.]
  45. Mark Antony
  46. 1501 No further, sir.
  47. Octavius Caesar
  48. 1502 You take from me a great part of myself;
  49. 1503 Use me well in't.—Sister, prove such a wife
  50. 1504 As my thoughts make thee, and as my furthest band
  51. 1505 Shall pass on thy approof.—Most noble Antony,
  52. 1506 Let not the piece of virtue which is set
  53. 1507 Betwixt us as the cement of our love,
  54. 1508 To keep it builded, be the ram to batter
  55. 1509 The fortress of it; for better might we
  56. 1510 Have lov'd without this mean if on both parts
  57. 1511 This be not cherish'd.
  58. Mark Antony
  59. 1512 Make me not offended
  60. 1513 In your distrust.
  61. Octavius Caesar
  62. 1514 I have said.
  63. Mark Antony
  64. 1515 You shall not find,
  65. 1516 Though you be therein curious, the least cause
  66. 1517 For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,
  67. 1518 And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!
  68. 1519 We will here part.
  69. Octavius Caesar
  70. 1520 Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:
  71. 1521 The elements be kind to thee, and make
  72. 1522 Thy spirits all of comfort! Fare thee well.
  73. Octavia
  74. 1523 My noble brother!—
  75. Mark Antony
  76. 1524 The April's in her eyes: it is love's spring,
  77. 1525 And these the showers to bring it on.—Be cheerful.
  78. Octavia
  79. 1526 Sir, look well to my husband's house; and—
  80. Octavius Caesar
  81. 1527 What,
  82. 1528 Octavia?
  83. Octavia
  84. 1529 I'll tell you in your ear.
  85. Mark Antony
  86. 1530 Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can
  87. 1531 Her heart inform her tongue,—the swan's down feather,
  88. 1532 That stands upon the swell at the full of tide,
  89. 1533 And neither way inclines.
  90. [Aside to AGRIPPA.]
  91. Enobarbus
  92. 1534 Will Caesar weep?
  93. [Aside to ENOBARBUS.]
  94. Agrippa
  95. 1535 He has a cloud in's face.
  96. [Aside to AGRIPPA.]
  97. Enobarbus
  98. 1536 He were the worse for that, were he a horse;
  99. 1537 So is he, being a man.
  100. [Aside to ENOBARBUS.]
  101. Agrippa
  102. 1538 Why, Enobarbus,
  103. 1539 When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
  104. 1540 He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
  105. 1541 When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
  106. [Aside to AGRIPPA.]
  107. Enobarbus
  108. 1542 That year, indeed, he was troubled with a
  109. 1543 rheum;
  110. 1544 What willingly he did confound he wail'd:
  111. 1545 Believe't till I weep too.
  112. Octavius Caesar
  113. 1546 No, sweet Octavia,
  114. 1547 You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
  115. 1548 Out-go my thinking on you.
  116. Mark Antony
  117. 1549 Come, sir, come;
  118. 1550 I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:
  119. 1551 Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,
  120. 1552 And give you to the gods.
  121. Octavius Caesar
  122. 1553 Adieu; be happy!
  123. Lepidus
  124. 1554 Let all the number of the stars give light
  125. 1555 To thy fair way!
  126. Octavius Caesar
  127. 1556 Farewell, farewell!
  128. [Kisses OCTAVIA.]
  129. Mark Antony
  130. 1557 Farewell!
  131. [Trumpets sound within. Exeunt.]