Faculty of English

CAESAR                      I wrote to you When, rioting in Alexandria, you Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts Did gibe my missive out of audience. ANTONY         Sir, he fell upon me ere admitted, then. Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want Of what I was i’th’ morning; but next day I told him […]

ENOBARBUS  Would we had all such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women. ANTONY         So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar, Made out of her impatience—which not wanted Shrewdness of policy too—I grieving grant Did you too much disquiet, for that you must But say I could not help it.   (2.2.65-71)   Enobarbus […]

CAESAR                      You praise yourself By laying to me defects of judgement, but You patched up your excuses. ANTONY                                 Not so, not so. I know you could not lack, I am certain on’t, Very necessity of this thought, that I, Your partner in the cause ’gainst which he fought, Could not with graceful eyes attend those […]

ANTONY         You do mistake the business. My brother never Did urge me in his act. I did enquire it, And have my learning from some true reports That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather Discredit my authority with yours, And make the wars alike against my stomach, Having alike your cause? Of […]

ANTONY         My being in Egypt, Caesar, what was’t to you? CAESAR          No more than my residing here at Rome Might be to you in Egypt. Yet if you there Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt Might be my question. ANTONY                     How intend you ‘practised’? CAESAR          You may be pleased to catch at […]

ANTONY         ’Tis spoken well. Were we before our armies, and to fight, I should do thus. [Antony and Caesar embrace.] Flourish CAESAR                      Welcome to Rome. ANTONY         Thank you. CAESAR          Sit. ANTONY         Sit, sir. CAESAR          Nay then. [They sit] ANTONY         I learn you take things ill which are not so, Or being, concern you not. CAESAR          […]

ANTONY         [to Ventidius] If we compose well here, to Parthia. Hark, Ventidius. CAESAR                                  I do not know, Maecenas; ask Agrippa. LEPIDUS         [to Caesar and Antony] Noble friends, That which combined us was most great; and let not A leaner action rend us. What’s amiss, May it be gently heard. When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we […]

LEPIDUS                     ’Tis not a time For private stomaching. ENOBARBUS  Every time Serves for the matter that is then born in’t. LEPIDUS         But small to greater matters must give way. ENOBARBUS  Not if the small come first. LEPIDUS         Your speech is passion. But pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes The noble Antony. Enter [at […]

Enter Enobarbus and Lepidus LEPIDUS         Good Enobarbus, ’tis a worthy deed, And shall become you well, to entreat your captain To soft and gentle speech. ENOBARBUS              I shall entreat him To answer like himself. If Caesar move him, Let Antony look over Caesar’s head And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, Were I the […]

POMPEY                     I know not, Menas, How lesser enmities may give way to greater. Were’t not that we stand up against them all, ’Twere pregnant they should square between themselves, For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords. But how the fear of us May cement their divisions, and bind up The petty difference, […]