Faculty of English

MENAS           Wilt thou be lord of all the world? POMPEY         What sayst thou? MENAS           Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That’s twice. POMPEY         How should that be? MENAS                                               But entertain it And, though thou think me poor, I am the man Will give thee all the world. POMPEY         Hast thou drunk well? MENAS           […]

POMPEY         [aside to Menas] Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of that? Away, Do as I bid you. [Aloud] Where’s this cup I called for? MENAS           [aside to Pompey] If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me, Rise from thy stool. POMPEY         [rising] I think thou’rt mad. The matter? MENAS           I have ever held my cap off to […]

LEPIDUS         What manner o’ thing is your crocodile? ANTONY         It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. LEPIDUS         What […]

LEPIDUS         You’ve strange serpents there? ANTONY         Ay, Lepidus. LEPIDUS         Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile. ANTONY         They are so. POMPEY         Sit, and some wine. A health to Lepidus! LEPIDUS         I am not so well as I should be, but I’ll ne’er out. […]

A sennet sounded. Enter Caesar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Maecenas, Enobarbus, [and] Menas, with other captains ANTONY         Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o’th’ Nile By certain scales i’th’ pyramid. They know By th’ height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells The more it promises; as […]

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 […]

Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet FIRST SERVANT         Here they’ll be anon. 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, […]

ENOBARBUS  Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. 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 […]

MENAS           We looked not for Mark Antony here. Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra? ENOBARBUS  Caesar’s sister is called Octavia. MENAS           True, sir. She was the wife of Caius Marcellus. ENOBARBUS  But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius. MENAS           Pray ye, sir? ENOBARBUS  ’Tis true. MENAS           Then is Caesar and he for ever […]

ENOBARBUS  If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kissing. MENAS           All men’s faces are true, whatsome’er their hands are. ENOBARBUS  But there is never a fair woman has a true face. MENAS           No slander; they steal hearts. ENOBARBUS  We came hither to fight with you. MENAS           For my part, I am […]