Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Act 3 - Scene 6

Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.

Mecaenas : This in the public eye?

Mecaenas : Let Rome be thus Inform'd.

Agrippa : Who, queasy with his insolence [p]Already, will their good thoughts
call from him.

Agrippa : Who does he accuse?

Agrippa : Sir, this should be answer'd.

Mecaenas : He'll never yield to that.

Octavia : Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!

Octavia : You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.

Octavia : Good my lord, [p]To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did [p]On my
free will. My lord, Mark Antony, [p]Hearing that you prepared for war,
acquainted [p]My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd [p]His pardon
for return.

Octavia : Do not say so, my lord.

Octavia : My lord, in Athens.

Octavia : Ay me, most wretched, [p]That have my heart parted betwixt two
friends [p]That do afflict each other!

Agrippa : Welcome, lady.

Mecaenas : Welcome, dear madam. [p]Each heart in Rome does love and pity
you: [p]Only the adulterous Antony, most large [p]In his abominations,
turns you off; [p]And gives his potent regiment to a trull, [p]That
noises it against us.

Octavia : Is it so, sir?

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