ACT III - SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
AGRIPPA
1 What, are the brothers parted?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
2 They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone; 3 The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps 4 To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus, 5 Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled 6 With the green sickness.
AGRIPPA
7 'Tis a noble Lepidus.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
8 A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!
AGRIPPA
9 Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
10 Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
AGRIPPA
11 What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
12 Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!
AGRIPPA
13 O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
14 Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.
AGRIPPA
15 Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
16 But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony: 17 Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, 18 poets, cannot 19 Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho! 20 His love to Antony. But as for Caesar, 21 Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
AGRIPPA
22 Both he loves.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
23 They are his shards, and he their beetle. Trumpets within 24 So; 25 This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.
AGRIPPA
26 Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.
Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA
MARK ANTONY
27 No further, sir.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
28 You take from me a great part of myself; 29 Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife 30 As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band 31 Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony, 32 Let not the piece of virtue, which is set 33 Betwixt us as the cement of our love, 34 To keep it builded, be the ram to batter 35 The fortress of it; for better might we 36 Have loved without this mean, if on both parts 37 This be not cherish'd.
MARK ANTONY
38 Make me not offended 39 In your distrust.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
40 I have said.
MARK ANTONY
41 You shall not find, 42 Though you be therein curious, the least cause 43 For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you, 44 And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends! 45 We will here part.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
46 Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well: 47 The elements be kind to thee, and make 48 Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.
OCTAVIA
49 My noble brother!
MARK ANTONY
50 The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring, 51 And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.
OCTAVIA
52 Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
53 What, Octavia?
OCTAVIA
54 I'll tell you in your ear.
MARK ANTONY
55 Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can 56 Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's 57 down-feather, 58 That stands upon the swell at full of tide, 59 And neither way inclines.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Aside to AGRIPPA 60 Will Caesar weep?
AGRIPPA
Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 61 He has a cloud in 's face.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Aside to AGRIPPA 62 He were the worse for that, 63 were he a horse; 64 So is he, being a man.
AGRIPPA
Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 65 Why, Enobarbus, 66 When Antony found Julius Caesar dead, 67 He cried almost to roaring; and he wept 68 When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Aside to AGRIPPA 69 That year, indeed, he was 70 troubled with a rheum; 71 What willingly he did confound he wail'd, 72 Believe't, till I wept too.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
73 No, sweet Octavia, 74 You shall hear from me still; the time shall not 75 Out-go my thinking on you.
MARK ANTONY
76 Come, sir, come; 77 I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love: 78 Look, here I have you; thus I let you go, 79 And give you to the gods.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
80 Adieu; be happy!
LEPIDUS
81 Let all the number of the stars give light 82 To thy fair way!