SCENE II.
Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
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 '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 Both he loves.DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS They are his shards, and he their beetle.AGRIPPA Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.MARK ANTONY No further, sir.OCTAVIUS CAESAR You take from me a great part of myself;MARK ANTONY Make me not offendedOCTAVIUS CAESAR I have said.MARK ANTONY You shall not find,OCTAVIUS CAESAR Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:OCTAVIA My noble brother!MARK ANTONY The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,OCTAVIA 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 [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 [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he wasOCTAVIUS CAESAR No, sweet Octavia,MARK ANTONY Come, sir, come;OCTAVIUS CAESAR Adieu; be happy!LEPIDUS Let all the number of the stars give lightOCTAVIUS CAESAR Farewell, fa rewell!MARK ANTONY Farewell! |