Here they'll be, man. Some o'their plants are ill-1336rooted already. The least wind i'th'world will blow them 1337down.

Lepidus is high-colored.

They have made him drink alms-drink.

As they pinch one another by the disposition, he 1341cries out "No more", reconciles them to his entreaty and 1342himself to'th'drink.

But it raises the greatest war between him and his 1344discretion.

Why, this it is to have a name in great men's fel1346lowship. I had as lief have a reed that will do me no 1347service as a partisan I could not heave.

To be called into a huge sphere and not to be seen 1349to move in't are the holes where eyes should be, which 1350pitifully disaster the cheeks.

Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o'th'Nile

2.7.141355By certain scales i'th'pyramid; they know

2.7.151356By th'height, the lowness, or the mean if dearth

2.7.161357Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells,

2.7.171358The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman

2.7.181359Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,

2.7.191360And shortly comes to harvest.

You've strange serpents there?

You've strange serpents there? Ay, Lepidus.

Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud 1364by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile.

They are so.

Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus! [They drink.]

I am not so well as I should be, 1368but I'll ne'er out.

Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in 1370till then.

Nay certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies' pyra1372mises are very goodly things. Without contradiction I 1373have heard that.

[Aside to Pompey] Pompey, a word.

[Aside to Pompey] Pompey, a word. [Aside to Menas] Say in mine ear what is't.

[Aside to Pompey] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain,

2.7.291377And hear me speak a word.

And hear me speak a word. [Aside to Menas] Forbear me till anon.

2.7.30[Aloud]1379 This wine for Lepidus.

What manner o'thing is your crocodile?

It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it 1382hath breadth; it is just so high as it is, and moves with it 1383own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and 1384the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.

What color is it of?

Of it own color too.

'Tis a strange serpent.

'Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.

[To Antony] Will this description satisfy him?

[To Caesar] With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is 1391a very epicure.

[Aside to Menas] Go hang sir, hang! Tell me of that? Away!

2.7.411393Do as I bid you! [Aloud] Where's this cup I called for?

2.7.421394Menas [Aside to Pompey]

2.7.43If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me,

2.7.441395Rise from thy stool.

Rise from thy stool. 1396Pompey [Aside to Menas]

2.7.45I think th'art mad.

I think th'art mad. The matter?

I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.

Thou hast served me with much faith. What's 1399else to say?

2.7.48[Aloud] Be jolly, lords.

These quicksands, Lepidus, 1401Keep off them, for you sink.

Wilt thou be lord of all the world?

Wilt thou be lord of all the world? What say'st thou?

Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? 1405That's twice.

How should that be?

How should that be? But entertain it,

2.7.54And though thou think me 1408poor, I am the man

2.7.55Will give thee all the world.

Will give thee all the world. Hast thou drunk well?

No, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.

2.7.571411Thou art, if thou dar'st be, the earthly Jove:

2.7.581412Whate'er the ocean pales or sky inclips

2.7.591413Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.

Is thine, if thou wilt ha't. Show me which way.

These three world-sharers, these competitors

2.7.611416Are in thy vessel. Let me cut the cable,

2.7.621417And when we are put off, fall to their throats.

2.7.631418All there is thine.

All there is thine. Ah, this thou shouldst have done

2.7.641420And not have spoke on't. In me, 'tis villainy;

2.7.651421In thee't had been good service. Thou must know

2.7.661422'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honor;

2.7.671423Mine honor, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue

2.7.681424Hath so betrayed thine act. Being done unknown,

2.7.691425I should have found it afterwards well done,

2.7.701426But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.

2.7.721427Menas[Aside]

2.7.73For this, I'll never follow 1428thy palled fortunes more.

2.7.741429Who seeks and will not take when once 'tis offered

2.7.751430Shall never find it more.

Shall never find it more. This health to Lepidus.

[To a servant] Bear him ashore.

2.7.771433I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.

Here's to thee, Menas!

Here's to thee, Menas! Enobarbus, welcome.

Fill till the cup be hid.

[Pointing to the servant carrying off Lepidus] There's a strong fellow, Menas.

[Pointing to the servant carrying off Lepidus] There's a strong fellow, Menas. Why?

A bears the third part of the world, man, seest 1440not?

The third part, then, he is drunk. Would it were 1442all,

2.7.83That it might go on wheels.

That it might go on wheels. Drink thou, increase the reels.

Come.

Come. This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.

It ripens towards it; strike the vessels, ho!

2.7.861447Here's to Caesar!

Here's to Caesar! I could well forbear't:

2.7.87It's monstrous labor 1449when I wash my brain

2.7.88And it grow fouler.

And it grow fouler. Be a child o'th'time.

Possess it, I'll make answer;

2.7.90But I had rather 1452fast from all, four days,

2.7.91Than drink so much in one.

Than drink so much in one. [To Antony] Ha, my brave emperor,

2.7.92Shall we dance now 1454the Egyptian Bacchanals,

2.7.93And celebrate our drink?

And celebrate our drink? Let's ha't, good soldier!

Come, let's all take hands,

2.7.951457Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense

2.7.961458In soft and delicate Lethe.

In soft and delicate Lethe. All take hands!

2.7.971460Make battery to our ears with the loud music.

2.7.981461The while I'll place you, then the boy shall sing.

2.7.991462The holding every man shall beat as loud

2.7.1001463As his strong sides can volley.

2.7.1031465The Song.

2.7.1051466Come thou monarch of the vine,

2.7.1061467Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!

2.7.1071468In thy vats our cares be drowned,

2.7.1081469With thy grapes our hairs be crowned.

1470Cup us till the world go round,

2.7.1101471Cup us till the world go round!

What would you more? 1473Pompey, goodnight. Good brother,

2.7.1121474Let me request you off: our graver business

2.7.1131475Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part.

2.7.1141476You see we have burnt our cheeks. Strong Enobarb

2.7.1151477Is weaker than the wine, and mine own tongue

2.7.1161478Splits what it speaks. The wild disguise hath almost

2.7.1171479Anticked us all. What needs more words? Goodnight.

2.7.1181480Good Antony, your hand.

Good Antony, your hand. I'll try you on the shore.

And shall, sir. Give's your hand.

And shall, sir. Give's your hand. Oh, Antony,

2.7.120You have my father's house. 1484But what--we are friends!

2.7.1211485Come down into the boat.

Come down into the boat. Take heed you fall not.

2.7.122Menas, I'll not on shore.

Menas, I'll not on shore. 1487No, to my cabin; these drums,

2.7.1231488These trumpets, flutes--what,

2.7.1241489Let Neptune hear, we bid a loud farewell

2.7.1251490To these great fellows. Sound and be hanged, sound out!

Hoo, says a! There's my cap!

Hoa! Noble captain, come.