MENAS. Who would not have his wife so? 

 ENOBARBUS. Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again. Then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar, and, as I said before, that which is the strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony will use his affection where it is. He married but his occasion here. 

 MENAS. And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? I have a health for you. 

 ENOBARBUS. I shall take it, sir. We have used our throats in Egypt. 

 MENAS. Come, let’s away. 

 [Exeunt.] 

 SCENE VII. On board Pompey’s Galley, lying near Misenum.

 Music. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet. 

Servants

 FIRST SERVANT. Here they’ll be, man. Some o’ their plants are ill-rooted already; the least wind i’ th’ world will blow them down. 

 SECOND SERVANT. Lepidus is high-coloured. 

 FIRST SERVANT. They have made him drink alms-drink. 

 SECOND SERVANT. As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out “no more”, reconciles them to his entreaty and himself to th’ drink. 

 FIRST SERVANT. But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion. 

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

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

 A sennet sounded. Enter Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Maecenas, Enobarbus, Menas with other Captains. 

Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Maecenas, Enobarbus, Menas

 

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