If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
Praying for both parts:

And the good Gods will mock me presently,** When I shall pray, 0, bless my lord and husquid band!**

Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud, ka
Da bless my brother! Husband with, win brother,
Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway
'Twixt these extremes at all. 998 91 dift

Ant. Gentle Octavia,

Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Best to preserve it? IfI lose mine honour,
1 lose myself better 1 were not yours, our all
Than yours so branchless. But, as yon requested,
Yourself shall go between us: The mean time, Lady,
I'll raise the préparation of a war

Shall stain your brother, Make your soonest haste;'
So your desires are yours.

Octa, Thanks

Dks to my Lord.

The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak

Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be. As if the world should cleave, and that slain men Should solder up the rifts sideamus (OR LAT

Ant. When it appears to you where this begins, Turn your displeasure that way; for our faults Can never be so equal, that your love Can equally move with them.

Provide your spysy od going; lo vunne Choose your own company and command what

Enter ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting.

Eno. How now, friend Eros?

Eros. There's strange news come, Sir.
Eno. What, man?

Eros. Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.

Eno. This is old; What is the success?

Eros. Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst Pompey, presently denied him rivality would not let him partake in the glory of the action and not resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: So the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine...

Eno. Theu, world, thou hast a pair of chaps,

no more;

And throw between them all the food thou hast, They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony? Eros. He's walking in the garden thus; and

spurns

The rush that lies before him; cries, Fool, Le

pidus!

And threats the throat of that his officer,

That murder'd Pompey.

More, Domitius;

Eno. Our great navy's rigg'd.
Eros. For Italy, and Caesar.
My lord desires you presently: my n

I might have told hereafter.

Eno. Twill be naught:

But let it be. Bring me to Antony.
Eros. Come, Sir.

news

[Exeunt.

SCENE VI.

Rome. A Room in Caesar's House.

Enter CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS.

Caes. Contemning Rome, he has done all this: t And more;

In Alexandria, here's the manner of it,
1' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,
Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold
Were publickly enthron at the feet, sat
Caesarion, whom they call my father's son;
And all the unlawful issue, that their lust.
Since then hath made between them.

Unto her
He gave the 'stablishment of Egypt; made her
Of lower Cyria, Cyprus, Lydia,
Absolute Queen.

Mec. This in the publick eye?

Caes. I' the common show-place, where they

exercise.

His sons he there proclaim'd, The Kings of Kings:
Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia,

He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd
Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia : She
In the habiliments of the goddess Isis
That day appear'd; and of before gave
As 'tis reported, so.

Mec. Let Rome be thus

Inform'd.

Agr. Who, queasy with his insolence

audience

Already, will their good thoughts call from him. Cues. The people know it; and have now re

His accusations.

ceiv'd

Agr. Whom does he accuse?

Caes. Caesar and that, having in Sicily Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him His part of the isle: then does he say, he lent me Some shipping unrestor'd lastly, he frets, That Lepidus of the triumvirate

Should be depos'd; and, being, that we detain All his revenue.

Agr. Sir, this should be answer'd.

Caes. 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone. I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel; That he his high authority abus'd,

And did deserve his change; for what I have con

quer'd,

I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,
And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I

Demand the like.

Mec. He'll never

Caes. Nor must not then .

me aid aszis died sh

Enter OCTAVIA.

Caes. Why have you stol'u upon us thus? You

Likes The

sister:

come not

wife of Antony Should an army for an usher, and The neighs of horse to

Long ere

by the way,

rees Pproach, and expectation fainted,

Should have appe

men

Longing for what it had not
Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,
O pay, the dust
Rais'd by your populous troop
troops: But you

are come

A market-maid to Rome, and have prevented
The ostent of our love, which, left unshown
Is often left unlov'd: we should have met you
and land; supplying every stage!

By sea,
With an augmented greeting.

Octa. Good my Lord,

I J

To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it
On my free-will. My Lord, Mark Antony,

Hearing that you prepar'd for war, acquainted
My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd, if I
His pardon for return.

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Caes, Which soon he granted, sah bib buA Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.

Octa. Do not say So

Caes. I have eyes posed to 19dio bRA

And his affairs come to me on the wind ba¬ma Where is he now?lary Eve HB 59M Octa. My Lord, in Athens, ro SD) Caes. No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his emCAVATOO pire

Up to a whore;
The Kings o

áre

earth for are levying cli

Bocchus, the King of

war. He hath assembled

Of Cappadocia; Phi Lybia

Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian King, Adallas:
King Malchus of Arabia

Herod of Jewry: Mithridates, Kit

Of Comagene Polemon and Amintas, 19691 The Kings of Mede, and Lycaonia, with a

More larger list of scepters.

most wretched,

Octa. Ah me, mo

perod to algism såT

bit de gro guo.I That have my heart parted betwixt two friends? That do afflict each other!"

Caes. Welcome hither not guignod Your letters did withhold our breaking forthsais of belangelevad bloode