From all, four days, than drink so much in one. Eno. Ha, my brave emperor ! Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals, And celebrate our drink? Pom. [TO ANTONY. Let's ha't, good soldier, Ant. Come, let us all take hands; Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense In soft and delicate Lethe. Eno. All take hands. Make battery to our ears with the loud musick :The while, I'll place you: Then the boy shall sing; The holding' every man shall bear, as loud As his strong sides can volley. [Musick plays. ENOBARBUS places them hand in hand. SONG. Come, thou monarch of the vine, Cup us, till the world go round! Cas. What would you more?-Pompey, good night. Good brother, Let me request you off: our graver business Frowns at this levity.-Gentle lords, let's part; You see, we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarbe Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.Good Antony, your hand. Pom. I'll try you o'the shore. Ant. And shall, sir: give's your hand. Pom. O, Antony, You have my father's house,-But what? we are friends : Come, down into the boat. Eno. Take heed you fall not.→ [Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, and Attendants. Menas, I'll not on shore. Men. No, to my cabin.— These drums !-these trumpets, flutes! what!- To these great fellows: Sound, and be hang'd, sound out. [A Flourish of Trumpets, with Drums. Eno. Ho, says 'a !-There's my cap. Men. Come. Ho!-noble captain! [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I. A Plain in Syria. Enter VENTIDIUS, as after Conquest, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead Body of PACORUS borne before him. Ven. Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now Pleas'd fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death Make me revenger.-Bear the king's son's body Pays this for Marcus Crassus. Sil. Noble Ventidius, Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm, The routed fly so thy grand captain Antony Put garlands on thy head. Ven. O Silius, Silius, I have done enough: A lower place, note well, Which he achiev'd by the minute, lost his favour, : The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, I could do more to do Antonius good, But 'twould offend him; and in his offence Sil. Thou hast, Ventidius, That without which a soldier, and his sword, Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? Ven. I'll humbly signify what in his name, 5 Pacorus was the son of Orodes, king of Parthia. That magical word of war, we have effected; We have jaded out o'the field. Sil. Where is he now? Ven. He purposeth to Athens: whither with what haste The weight we must convey with us will permit, We shall appear before him.-On, there; pass along. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Rome. An Ante-Chamber in Cæsar's House. Enter AGRIPPA, and ENOBARBUS, meeting. Agr. What, are the brothers parted? Eno. They have despatch'd with Pompey, he is gone; The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps To part from Rome : Cæsar is sad; and Lepidus, Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled With the green-sickness. Agr. 'Tis a noble Lepidus. Eno. A very fine one: O, how he loves Cæsar! Agr. Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony! Eno. Cæsar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men. Agr. What's Antony? The god of Jupiter. Eno. Spake you of Cæsar? How? the nonpareil! Agr. O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!" Eno. Would you praise Cæsar, say,-Cæsar ;-go no further. 6 The phoenix. Agr. Indeed, he ply'd them both with excellent praises. Eno. But he loves Cæsar best ;-Yet he loves Antony: Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho, his love To Antony. But as for Cæsar, Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder. Agr. Both he loves. Eno. They are his shards," and he their beetle. So, [Trumpets. This is to horse.-Adieu, noble Agrippa. Enter CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA. Ant. No further, sir. Cæs. You take from me a great part of myself; To keep it builded, be the ram, to batter Have loved without this mean, if on both parts Though you be therein curious,' the least cause 7 Wings. 8 Bond. 9 Octavia. * Scrupulous. |