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Her welcome friendly.

Ant.

And am well studied for a liberal thanks,

Which I do owe you.

Pom.

I have heard it, Pompey;

Let me have your hand :

I did not think, sir, to have met you here.

Ant. The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to

you,

That call'd me, timelier than my purpose, hither;

For I have gain'd by it.

Ca.

Since I saw you last,

Well, I know not

There is a change upon you.

Pom.

What counts 1 harsh Fortune casts upon my face;

But in my bosom shall she never come,

To make my heart her vassal.

Lep.

Well met here.

Pom. I hope so, Lepidus.-Thus we are agreed:

I crave our composition may be written,

And seal'd between us.

Ca.

That's the next to do.

Pom. We'll feast each other, ere we part; and

let us

Draw lots, who shall begin.

Ant.

That will I, Pompey.

Pom. No, Antony, take the lot: but, first Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery

1 Marks.

Shall have the fame. I have heard, that Julius

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What, I pray you?

Pom. Then so much have I heard: And I have heard, Apollodorus carriedEno. No more of that: he did so. Pom. Eno. A certain queen to Cæsar in a mattress. Pom. I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier? Eno.

And well am like to do; for, I perceive,

Four feasts are toward.

Pom.

Well;

Let me shake thy hand;

I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,
When I have envied thy behavior.

Eno.

Sir,

I never loved you much; but I have praised you,
When you have well deserved ten times as much
As I have said you did.

Pom.

Enjoy thy plainness;

It nothing ill becomes thee.

Aboard my galley I invite you all :

Will you lead, lords?

Ca. Ant. Lep.

Show us the way, sir.

Pom.

Come.

[Exeunt Pompey, Casar, Antony, Lepidus,

Soldiers, and Attendants.

Menas. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this treaty.-[aside.] You and I have known,1 sir.

Eno. At sea, I think.

Menas. We have, sir.

Eno. You have done well by water.

Menas. And you by land.

Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me: though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.

Menas. Nor what I have done by water.

Eno. Yes, something you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea. Menas. And you by land.

But give

Eno. There I deny my land service. me your hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing.

Menas. All men's faces are true, whatsoe'er their hands are.

Eno. But there is never a fair woman has a true face.

Menas. No slander; they steal hearts.

Eno. We came hither to fight with you.

Menas. For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.

Eno. If he do, sure, he cannot weep it back again.

1 Been acquainted.

We looked not for

Menas. You have said, sir.

Mark Antony here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra ?

Eno. Cæsar's sister is called Octavia.

Menas. True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.

Eno. But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

Menas. Pray you, sir!

Eno. 'Tis true.

Menas. Then is Cæsar and he for ever knit together.

Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophesy so.

Menas. I think, the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage than the love of the parties.

Eno. I think so too: but you shall find, the band that seems to tie their friendship together, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.

Menas. Who would not have his wife so ?

Eno. Not he, that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again ; then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Cæsar; and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony will use his affection where it is; he married but his occasion here.

Menas. And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you.

Eno. I shall take it, sir: we have used our

throats in Egypt.

Menas. Come; let's away.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VII.

On board Pompey's galley, lying near Misenum. Music. Enter two or three SERVANTS, with a banquet.

1 Ser. Here they'll be, man: some o' their plants are ill-rooted already; the least wind i' the world will blow them down.

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2 Ser. Lepidus is high-colored.

1 Ser. They have made him drink alms-drink. 2 Ser. As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out, No more;' reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.

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1 Ser. But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion.

2 Ser. Why, this it is to men's fellowship: I had as will do me no service, as a heave.

have a name in great lief have a reed that partisan 4 I could not

1 Ser. To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in 't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.

1 Feet. 2 Another's share of liquor besides his own. 3 i. e. touch one another in a sore place.

4 Pike,

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