3.7.2Enter Cleopatra and Enobarbus. I will be even with thee, doubt it not.
But why, why, why?
Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,
And say'st it is not fit. Well, is it, is it?
If not denounced against us, why should not
1865we
Be there in person? [Aside] Well, I could reply:
3.7.9If we should serve with
1867horse and mares together,
3.7.10The horse were merely lost;
1868the mares would bear
3.7.11A soldier and his horse.
A soldier and his horse. What is't you say?
Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
3.7.131871Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time,
3.7.141872What should not then be spared. He is already
3.7.151873Traduced for levity, and 'tis said in Rome
3.7.161874That Photinus, an eunuch, and your maids
Manage this war. Sink Rome, and their tongues rot
3.7.181877That speak against us! A charge we bear i'th'war,
3.7.201879Appear there for a man. Speak not against it,
I will not stay behind. Nay, I have done.
Here comes the emperor. Is it not strange, Camidius,
3.7.261886And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent. A good rebuke,
3.7.291890Which might have well becomed the best of men,
Will fight with him by sea. By sea, what else?
Why will my lord do so?
Why will my lord do so? For that he dares us to't.
So hath my lord dared him to single fight.
Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia,
3.7.351898Where Caesar fought with Pompey. But these offers,
3.7.361899Which serve not for his vantage, he shakes off,
And so should you. Your ships are not well manned.
3.7.381902Your mariners are muleteers, reapers, people
3.7.391903Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar's fleet
3.7.401904Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought;
3.7.411905Their ships are yare, yours heavy. No disgrace
Being prepared for land. By sea, by sea!
Most worthy sir, you therein throw away
3.7.451910The absolute soldiership you have by land,
3.7.461911Distract your army (which doth most consist
3.7.471912Of war-marked footmen), leave unexecuted
3.7.481913Your own renowned knowledge, quite forgo
3.7.501915Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard
From firm security. I'll fight at sea.
I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.
Our over-plus of shipping will we burn,
3.7.541920And with the rest full-manned, from th'head of Actium
3.7.551921Beat th'approaching Caesar. But if we fail,
Enter a Messenger.
We then can do't at land. 1923Thy business?
The news is true, my lord, he is descried.
Can he be there in person? 'Tis impossible;
3.7.601927Strange that his power should be. Camidius,
3.7.611928Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,
3.7.621929And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship.
1931Enter [Scarrus] a Soldier. Away, my Thetis. 1932How now, worthy soldier?
Oh, noble emperor, do not fight by sea.
3.7.651934Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt
3.7.661935This sword and these my wounds? Let th'Egyptians
3.7.681937Have used to conquer standing on the earth
And fighting foot to foot. Well, well, away.
3.7.70Exeunt Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus. By Hercules, I think I am i'th'right.
Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows
3.7.731942Not in the power on't. So our leader's led,
And we are women's men. You keep by land
3.7.75The legions and the horse
1945whole, do you not?
Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,
3.7.781948But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's
Carries beyond belief. While he was yet in Rome,
As beguiled all spies. Who's his lieutenant, hear you?
They say one Taurus.
They say one Taurus. Well I know the man.
The emperor calls Camidius.
With news the time's in labor,