744It must not be with this.

745Caes. You praise your selfe, by laying defects of iudge-

746ment to me: but you patcht vp your excuses.

747Anth. Not so, not so:

748I know you could not lacke, I am certaine on't,

749Very necessity of this thought, that I

750Your Partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,

751Could not with gracefull eyes attend those Warres

752Which fronted mine owne peace. As for my wife,

753I would you had her spirit, in such another,

754The third oth'world is yours, which with a Snaffle,

755You may pace easie, but not such a wife.

756Enobar. Would we had all such wiues, that the men

757might go to Warres with the women.

758Anth. So much vncurbable, her Garboiles (Caesar)

759Made out of her impatience: which not wanted

760Shrodenesse of policie to: I greeuing grant,

761Did you too much disquiet, for that you must,

762But say I could not helpe it.

763Caesar. I wrote to you, when rioting in Alexandria you

764Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts

765Did gibe my Misiue out of audience.

766Ant. Sir, he fell vpon me, ere admitted, then:

767Three Kings I had newly feasted, and did want

768Of what I was i'th'morning: but next day

769I told him of my selfe, which was as much

770As to haue askt him pardon. Let this Fellow

771Be nothing of our strife: if we contend

772Out of our question wipe him.

773Caesar. You haue broken the Article of your oath,

774which you shall neuer haue tongue to charge me with.

775Lep. Soft Caesar.

776Ant. No Lepidus, let him speake,

777The Honour is Sacred which he talks on now,

778Supposing that I lackt it: but on Caesar,

779The Article of my oath.

780Caesar. To lend me Armes, and aide when I requir'd

781them, the which you both denied.

782Anth. Neglected rather:

783And then when poysoned houres had bound me vp

784From mine owne knowledge, as neerely as I may,

785Ile play the penitent to you. But mine honesty,

786Shall not make poore my greatnesse, nor my power

787Worke without it. Truth is, that Fuluia,

788To haue me out of Egypt, made Warres heere,

789For which my selfe, the ignorant motiue, do

790So farre aske pardon, as befits mine Honour

791To stoope in such a case.

792Lep. 'Tis Noble spoken.

793Mece. If it might please you, to enforce no further

794The griefes betweene ye: to forget them quite,

795Were to remember: that the present neede,

796Speakes to attone you.

797Lep. Worthily spoken Mecenas.

798Enobar. Or if you borrow one anothers Loue for the

799instant, you may when you heare no more words of

800Pompey returne it againe: you shall haue time to wrangle

801in, when you haue nothing else to do.

802Anth. Thou art a Souldier, onely speake no more.

803Enob. That trueth should be silent, I had almost for-

804got.

805Anth. You wrong this presence, therefore speake no

806more.

807Enob. Go too then: your Considerate stone.

808Caesar. I do not much dislike the matter, but

809The manner of his speech: for't cannot be,

810We shall remaine in friendship, our conditions

811So diffring in their acts. Yet if I knew,

812What Hoope should hold vs staunch from edge to edge

813Ath'world: I would persue it.

814Agri. Giue me leaue Caesar.

815Caesar. Speake Agrippa.

816Agri. Thou hast a Sister by the Mothers side, admir'd

817Octauia: Great Mark Anthony is now a widdower.

818Caesar. Say not, say Agrippa; if Cleopater heard you, your

819proofe were well deserued of rashnesse.

820Anth. I am not marryed Caesar: let me heere Agrippa

821further speake.

822Agri. To hold you in perpetuall amitie,

823To make you Brothers, and to knit your hearts

824With an vn-slipping knot, take Anthony,

825Octauia to his wife: whose beauty claimes

826No worse a husband then the best of men: whose

827Vertue, and whose generall graces, speake

828That which none else can vtter. By this marriage,

829All little Ielousies which now seeme great,

830And all great feares, which now import their dangers,

831Would then be nothing. Truth's would be tales,

832Where now halfe tales be truth's: her loue to both,

833Would each to other, and all loues to both

834Draw after her. Pardon what I haue spoke,

835For 'tis a studied not a present thought,

836By duty ruminated.

837Anth. Will Caesar speake?

838Caesar. Not till he heares how Anthony is toucht,

839With what is spoke already.

840Anth. What power is in Agrippa,

841If I would say Agrippa, be it so,

842To make this good?

843Caesar. The power of Caesar,

844And his power, vnto Octauia.

845Anth. May I neuer

846(To this good purpose, that so fairely shewes)

847Dreame of impediment: let me haue thy hand

848Further this act of Grace: and from this houre,

849The heart of Brothers gouerne in our Loues,

850And sway our great Designes.

851Caesar. There's my hand:

852A Sister I bequeath you, whom no Brother

853Did euer loue so deerely. Let her liue

854To ioyne our kingdomes, and our hearts, and neuer

855Flie off our Loues againe.

856Lepi. Happily, Amen.

857Ant. I did not think to draw my Sword 'gainst Pompey,

858For he hath laid strange courtesies, and great

859Of late vpon me. I must thanke him onely,

860Least my remembrance, suffer ill report:

861At heele of that, defie him.

862Lepi. Time cals vpon's,

863Of vs must Pompey presently be sought,

864Or else he seekes out vs.

865Anth. Where lies he?

866Caesar. About the Mount-Mesena.

867Anth. What is his strength by land?

868Caesar. Great, and encreasing:

869But by Sea he is an absolute Master.

870Anth. So is the Fame,

871Would we had spoke together. Hast we for it.

872Yet ere we put our selues in Armes, dispatch we

873The businesse we haue talkt of.

874Caesar. With most gladnesse,

875And do inuite you to my Sisters view,