Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Act 3 - Scene 2
Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.
Agrippa : What, are the brothers parted?
Domitius Enobarus : They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;
[p]The other three are
sealing. Octavia weeps
[p]To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and
Lepidus,
[p]Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
[p]With
the green sickness.
Agrippa : 'Tis a noble Lepidus.
Domitius Enobarus : A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
Agrippa : Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
Domitius Enobarus : Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
Agrippa : What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
Domitius Enobarus : Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!
Agrippa : O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
Domitius Enobarus : Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.
Agrippa : Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
Domitius Enobarus : But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:
[p]Ho! hearts, tongues,
figures, scribes, bards,
[p]poets, cannot
[p]Think, speak, cast,
write, sing, number, ho!
[p]His love to Antony. But as for
Caesar,
[p]Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
Agrippa : Both he loves.
Domitius Enobarus : They are his shards, and he their beetle.
[p][Trumpets
within]
[p]So;
[p]This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
Agrippa : Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
Octavia : My noble brother!
Octavia : Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--
Octavia : I'll tell you in your ear.
Domitius Enobarus : [Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?
Agrippa : [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.
Domitius Enobarus : [Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,
[p]were he a
horse;
[p]So is he, being a man.
Agrippa : [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,
[p]When Antony found
Julius Caesar dead,
[p]He cried almost to roaring; and he wept
[p]When
at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
Domitius Enobarus : [Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he was
[p]troubled with a
rheum;
[p]What willingly he did confound he wail'd,
[p]Believe't, till
I wept too.
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