Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Act 4 - Scene 6
Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
Agrippa : Caesar, I shall.
Messenger : Antony
[p]Is come into the field.
Domitius Enobarus : Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on
[p]Affairs of Antony; there
did persuade
[p]Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
[p]And leave
his master Antony: for this pains
[p]Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius
and the rest
[p]That fell away have entertainment, but
[p]No
honourable trust. I have done ill;
[p]Of which I do accuse myself so
sorely,
[p]That I will joy no more.
Soldier : Enobarbus, Antony
[p]Hath after thee sent all thy treasure,
with
[p]His bounty overplus: the messenger
[p]Came on my guard; and at
thy tent is now
[p]Unloading of his mules.
Domitius Enobarus : I give it you.
Soldier : Mock not, Enobarbus.
[p]I tell you true: best you safed the
bringer
[p]Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
[p]Or would
have done't myself. Your emperor
[p]Continues still a Jove.
Domitius Enobarus : I am alone the villain of the earth,
[p]And feel I am so most. O
Antony,
[p]Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
[p]My
better service, when my turpitude
[p]Thou dost so crown with gold!
This blows my heart:
[p]If swift thought break it not, a swifter
mean
[p]Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.
[p]I
fight against thee! No: I will go seek
[p]Some ditch wherein to die;
the foul'st best fits
[p]My latter part of life.
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