CAESAR. Let his shames quickly Drive him to Rome. ’Tis time we twain Did show ourselves i’ th’ field, and to that end Assemble we immediate council. Pompey Thrives in our idleness. 

 LEPIDUS. Tomorrow, Caesar, I shall be furnished to inform you rightly Both what by sea and land I can be able To front this present time. 

 CAESAR. Till which encounter It is my business too. Farewell. 

 LEPIDUS. Farewell, my lord. What you shall know meantime Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir, To let me be partaker. 

 CAESAR. Doubt not, sir. I knew it for my bond. 

 [Exeunt.] 

 SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

 Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras and Mardian. 

Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras

Mardian

 CLEOPATRA. Charmian! 

 CHARMIAN. Madam? 

 CLEOPATRA. Ha, ha! Give me to drink mandragora. 

 CHARMIAN. Why, madam? 

 CLEOPATRA. That I might sleep out this great gap of time My Antony is away. 

 CHARMIAN. You think of him too much. 

 CLEOPATRA. O, ’tis treason! 

 CHARMIAN. Madam, I trust not so. 

 CLEOPATRA. Thou, eunuch Mardian! 

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