You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,

1.4.4431It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate

1.4.5432One great competitor. From Alexandria

1.4.6433This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes

1.4.7434The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike

1.4.8435Than Cleopatra, nor the Queen of Ptolemy

1.4.9436More womanly than he; hardly gave audience

1.4.10437Or vouchsafed to think he had partners. You shall

1.4.11438Find there a man who is the abstract of all faults

1.4.12439That all men follow.

That all men follow. I must not think 441there are

1.4.13Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

1.4.14442His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,

1.4.15443More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary

1.4.16444Rather than purchased; what he cannot change

1.4.17445Than what he chooses.

You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not

1.4.19447Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy,

1.4.20448To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit

1.4.21449And keep the turn of tippling with a slave,

1.4.22450To reel the streets at noon and stand the buffet

1.4.23451With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him--

1.4.24452As his composure must be rare indeed

1.4.25453Whom these things cannot blemish--yet must Anthony

1.4.26454No way excuse his foils when we do bear

1.4.27455So great weight in his lightness. If he filled

1.4.28456His vacancy with his voluptuousness,

1.4.29457Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones

1.4.30458Call on him for't. But to confound such time

1.4.31459That drums him from his sport and speaks as loud

1.4.32460As his own state and ours, 'tis to be chid

1.4.33461As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge,

1.4.34462Pawn their experience to their present pleasure

1.4.35463And so rebel to judgment.

And so rebel to judgment. Here's more news.

Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,

1.4.37467Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report

1.4.38468How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea

1.4.39469And it appears he is beloved of those

1.4.40470That only have feared Caesar. To the ports

1.4.41471The discontents repair, and men's reports

1.4.42472Give him much wronged.

Give him much wronged. I should have known no less.

1.4.43474It hath been taught us from the primal state

1.4.44475That he which is was wished until he were;

1.4.45476And the ebbed man, 477ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,

1.4.46478Comes feared by being lacked. This common body,

1.4.47479Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,

1.4.48480Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying tide

1.4.49481To rot itself with motion.

1.4.50Enter Second Messenger.

Caesar, I bring thee word

1.4.52483Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,

1.4.53484Makes the sea serve them, which they ear and wound

1.4.54485With keels of every kind. Many hot inroads

1.4.55486They make in Italy; the borders maritime

1.4.56487Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt.

1.4.57488No vessel can peep forth but 'tis as soon

1.4.58489Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more

1.4.59490Than could his war resisted.

Than could his war resisted. Exit Second Messenger.

Than could his war resisted. Exit Second Messenger. Antony,

1.4.60492Leave thy lascivious vassals. When thou once

1.4.61493Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st

1.4.62494Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel

1.4.63495Did Famine follow, whom thou fought'st against,

1.4.64496Though daintily brought up, with patience more

1.4.65497Then savages could suffer. Thou didst drink

1.4.66498The stale of horses and the gilded puddle

1.4.67499Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign

1.4.68500The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.

1.4.69501Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets,

1.4.70502The barks of trees thou browsed. On the Alps,

1.4.71503It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,

1.4.72504Which some did die to look on. And all this--

1.4.73505It wounds thine honor that I speak it now--

1.4.74506Was borne so like a soldier that thy cheek

1.4.75507So much as lanked not.

So much as lanked not. 'Tis pity of him.

Let his shames quickly 510drive him to Rome.

1.4.77'Tis time we twain 511did show ourselves i'th'field;

1.4.78And to that end 512assemble we immediate counsel.

1.4.79Pompey 513thrives in our idleness.

Pompey thrives in our idleness. Tomorrow, Caesar,

1.4.80515I shall be furnished to inform you rightly

1.4.81516Both what by sea and land I can be able

1.4.82517To front this present time.

To front this present time. Till which encounter,

1.4.83It is my business too. Farewell.

It is my business too. Farewell. Farewell, my lord.

1.4.84What you shall know meantime 520of stirs abroad,

1.4.85I shall beseech you, sir, 521to let me be partaker.

Doubt not sir. I knew it for my bond.

1.4.87Exeunt [by different doors].