The Tragedy Of Antony And Cleopatra

1 Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar with Enobarbus and Dolabella.
2 CAESAR.
3 Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight.
4 Our will is Antony be took alive;
5 Make it so known.
6 AGRIPPA.
7 Caesar, I shall.
8 [_Exit._]
9 CAESAR.
10 The time of universal peace is near.
11 Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nooked world
12 Shall bear the olive freely.
13 Enter a Messenger.
14 MESSENGER.
15 Antony
16 Is come into the field.
17 CAESAR.
18 Go charge Agrippa
19 Plant those that have revolted in the van
20 That Antony may seem to spend his fury
21 Upon himself.
22 [_Exeunt Caesar and his Train._]
23 ENOBARBUS.
24 Alexas did revolt and went to Jewry on
25 Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade
26 Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar
27 And leave his master Antony. For this pains
28 Caesar hath hanged him. Canidius and the rest
29 That fell away have entertainment but
30 No honourable trust. I have done ill,
31 Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
32 That I will joy no more.
33 Enter a Soldier of Caesar’s.
34 SOLDIER.
35 Enobarbus, Antony
36 Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
37 His bounty overplus. The messenger
38 Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
39 Unloading of his mules.
40 ENOBARBUS.
41 I give it you.
42 SOLDIER.
43 Mock not, Enobarbus.
44 I tell you true. Best you safed the bringer
45 Out of the host. I must attend mine office,
46 Or would have done’t myself. Your emperor
47 Continues still a Jove.
48 [_Exit._]
49 ENOBARBUS.
50 I am alone the villain of the earth,
51 And feel I am so most. O Antony,
52 Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
53 My better service, when my turpitude
54 Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart.
55 If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
56 Shall outstrike thought, but thought will do’t, I feel.
57 I fight against thee! No, I will go seek
58 Some ditch wherein to die; the foul’st best fits
59 My latter part of life.
60 [_Exit._]