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Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS at anotherAGRIPPA
What, are the brothers parted?DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;AGRIPPA
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.
'Tis a noble Lepidus.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!AGRIPPA
Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.AGRIPPA
What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!AGRIPPA
O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.AGRIPPA
Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:AGRIPPA
Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, 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.
Both he loves.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
They are his shards, and he their beetle.AGRIPPA
Trumpets within
So;
This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.MARK ANTONY
Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA
No further, sir.OCTAVIUS CAESAR
You take from me a great part of myself;MARK ANTONY
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.
Make me not offendedOCTAVIUS CAESAR
In your distrust.
I have said.MARK ANTONY
You shall not find,OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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.
Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:OCTAVIA
The elements be kind to thee, and make
Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
My noble brother!MARK ANTONY
The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,OCTAVIA
And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--OCTAVIUS CAESAR
What, Octavia?OCTAVIA
I'll tell you in your ear.MARK ANTONY
Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor canDOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's
down-feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
And neither way inclines.
[Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?AGRIPPA
[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
[Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,AGRIPPA
were he a horse;
So is he, being a man.
[Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,
He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
[Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he wasOCTAVIUS CAESAR
troubled with a rheum;
What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
Believe't, till I wept too.
No, sweet Octavia,MARK ANTONY
You shall hear from me still; the time shall not
Out-go my thinking on you.
Come, sir, come;OCTAVIUS CAESAR
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.
Adieu; be happy!LEPIDUS
Let all the number of the stars give lightOCTAVIUS CAESAR
To thy fair way!
Farewell, fa rewell!MARK ANTONY
Kisses OCTAVIA
Farewell!
Trumpets sound. Exeunt
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