POMPEY. Then so much have I heard. And I have heard Apollodorus carried— 

 ENOBARBUS. No more of that. He did so. 

 POMPEY. What, I pray you? 

 ENOBARBUS. A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress. 

 POMPEY. I know thee now. How far’st thou, soldier? 

 ENOBARBUS. Well; And well am like to do, for I perceive Four feasts are toward. 

 POMPEY. Let me shake thy hand. I never hated thee. I have seen thee fight When I have envied thy behaviour. 

 ENOBARBUS. Sir, I never loved you much, but I ha’ praised ye When you have well deserved ten times as much As I have said you did. 

 POMPEY. Enjoy thy plainness; It nothing ill becomes thee. Aboard my galley I invite you all. Will you lead, lords? 

 CAESAR, ANTONY, and LEPIDUS. Show’s the way, sir. 

 POMPEY. Come. 

 [Exeunt all but Enobarbus and Menas.] 

Enobarbus

Menas

 MENAS. [Aside.] Thy father, Pompey, would ne’er have made this treaty.— You and I have known, sir. 

 ENOBARBUS. At sea, I think. 

 MENAS. We have, sir. 

 ENOBARBUS. You have done well by water. 

 MENAS. And you by land. 

 ENOBARBUS. I will praise any man that will praise me, though it cannot be denied what I have done by land. 

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