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 […]
Continue ReadingMenas: Pompey’s messed up, hasn’t he? Enobarbus: Yep (2.6.98-106) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingEnobarbus and Menas, circling, sniffing (2.6.84-97) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingParty time at Pompey’s! (almost, but not quite) (2.6.73-83) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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’ […]
Continue ReadingPompey: so tell me about Cleopatra, was that mattress thing for real? (2.6.60-72) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingPompey: right, we’re agreed, let’s get on with it (2.6.52-9) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingPompey to Antony: I hear that Egypt’s LUSH (2.6.39-52) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingThat’s our offer, Pompey, take it or leave it (2.6.34-9) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingTriumvirs to Pompey: we’re making you an offer you can’t refuse (2.6.24-34) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
Continue ReadingPompey: I want to avenge my father! (also: Caesar ghosted Brutus!) (2.6.8-23) #BurningBarge #SlowShakespeare
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 […]
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