MENAS           [aside] Thy father, Pompey, would ne’re have made this treaty. [To Enobarbus] 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 […]

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’ […]

POMPEY         We’ll feast each other ere we part, and let’s Draw lots who shall begin. ANTONY                                 That will I, Pompey. POMPEY         No, Antony, take the lot. But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar Grew fat with feasting there. ANTONY                                 You have heard much. POMPEY         […]

CAESAR                      [to Pompey] Since I saw you last There is a change upon you. POMPEY                     Well, I know not What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face, But in my bosom shall she never come To make my heart her vassal. LEPIDUS                     Well met here. POMPEY         I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed. I crave […]

POMPEY                     Know, then, I came before you here a man prepared To take this offer. But Mark Antony Put me to some impatience. Though I lose The praise of it by telling, you must know, When Caesar and your brother were at blows, Your mother came to Sicily, and did find Her welcome friendly. ANTONY                     […]

POMPEY                     You have made me offer Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must Rid all the sea of pirates; then to send Measures of wheat to Rome; this ’greed upon, To part with unhacked edges, and bear back Our targes undinted. CAESAR, ANTONY and LEPIDUS      That’s our offer.        (2.6.34-9)   Pompey’s said his piece, and gets […]

ANTONY         Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails. We’ll speak with thee at sea. At land thou know’st How much we do o’ercount thee. POMPEY                                 At land indeed Thou dost o’ercount me of my father’s house, But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, Remain in’t as thou mayst. LEPIDUS                                 Be pleased to […]

POMPEY                                 To you all three, The senators alone of this great world, Chief factors for the gods: I do not know Wherefore my father should revengers want, Having a son and friends, since Julius Caesar, Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted, There saw you labouring for him. What was’t That moved pale Cassius to […]

Flourish. Enter Pompey and Menas at one door, with drum and trumpet; at another, Caesar, Lepidus, Antony, Enobarbus, Maecenas, Agrippa, with soldiers marching POMPEY         Your hostages I have, so have you mine, And we shall talk before we fight. CAESAR                                  Most meet That first we come to words, and therefore have we Our written purposes before us […]

CLEOPATRA               Lead me from hence. I faint. O, Iras, Charmian—’tis no matter. Go to the fellow, good Alexas, bid him Report the feature of Octavia: her years, Her inclination; let him not leave out The colour of her hair. Bring me word quickly. [Exit Alexas] Let him for ever go—let him not, Charmian; Though he […]