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Enter ENOBARBUS and
LEPIDUS
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ENOBARBUS and
LEPIDUS enter.
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LEPIDUS Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed,
And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
To soft and gentle speech.
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LEPIDUS Good Enobarbus, you would be doing a very good thing if you
advised your captain to speak calmly and quietly.
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ENOBARBUS I shall entreat
him
To answer like himself. If Caesar move him,
5Let Antony look over Caesar’s head
And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Were I the wearer of Antonio’s beard,
I would not shave ’t today.
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ENOBARBUS I will advise him to speak as he usually does. If Caesar makes him
mad, let Antony stand tall and speak as loudly as Mars, the god of
war. By Jupiter, if I were Antony, I wouldn’t shave my beard today.
I’d leave it long and dare Caesar to insult me by pulling on it,
just so I could fight him.
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LEPIDUS ’Tis not a time for private stomaching.
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LEPIDUS This is not the time for dwelling on personal grievances.
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ENOBARBUS
10Every time serves for the matter that
is then born in ’t.
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ENOBARBUS It’s always appropriate to deal with matters as they arise.
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LEPIDUS But small to greater matters must give way.
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LEPIDUS But major issues must come before minor ones.
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ENOBARBUS Not if the small come first.
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ENOBARBUS Not if the minor ones come up first.
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LEPIDUS Your speech is passion. But pray you stir
No embers up. Here comes the noble Antony.
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LEPIDUS You speak out of passion, but I beg you not to stir things up.
Here comes the noble Antony.
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Enter ANTONY and
VENTIDIUS
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ANTONY and VENTIDIUS
enter.
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ENOBARBUS
15And yonder, Caesar.
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ENOBARBUS And there comes Caesar.
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Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
MECAENAS, and
AGRIPPA
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CAESAR, MAECENAS,
and AGRIPPA enter from another
door.
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ANTONY
(to
VENTIDIUS
) If we compose well here, to
Parthia.
Hark, Ventidius.
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ANTONY
(to
VENTIDIUS
) If we can come to an agreement here,
we’ll move on to Parthia. Listen, Ventidius.
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They talk aside
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They talk privately together.
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CAESAR
(to
MECAENAS
) I do not know, Maecenas. Ask
Agrippa.
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CAESAR
(to
MAECENAS
) I don’t know, Maecenas. Ask
Agrippa.
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