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Antony and Cleopatra: Act IV, Scene 6

Antony and Cleopatra
Act IV, Scene 6

Alexandria. Octavius Caesar’s camp.

  1. Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar, with Enobarbus and
  2. Dolabella.

Caesar

1 - 3
  1. Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight.
  2. Our will is Antony be took alive;
  3. Make it so known.

Agrippa

4
  1.                   Caesar, I shall.
  1. Exit.

Caesar

5 - 7
  1. The time of universal peace is near.
  2. Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nook’d world
  3. Shall bear the olive freely.
  1. Enter Caesar’s Third Messenger.

Caesar’s Third Messenger

8 - 9
  1.                              Antony
  2. Is come into the field.

Caesar

10 - 13
  1.                         Go charge Agrippa
  2. Plant those that have revolted in the vant,
  3. That Antony may seem to spend his fury
  4. Upon himself.
  1. Exeunt all but Enobarbus.

Domitius Enobarbus

14 - 22
  1. Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on
  2. Affairs of Antony, there did dissuade
  3. Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
  4. And leave his master Antony; for this pains
  5. Caesar hath hang’d him. Canidius and the rest
  6. That fell away have entertainment, but
  7. No honorable trust. I have done ill,
  8. Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
  9. That I will joy no more.
  1. Enter Caesar’s First Soldier.

Caesar’s First Soldier

23 - 27
  1.                          Enobarbus, Antony
  2. Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
  3. His bounty overplus. The messenger
  4. Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
  5. Unloading of his mules.

Domitius Enobarbus

28
  1.                         I give it you.

Caesar’s First Soldier

29 - 33
  1. Mock not, Enobarbus,
  2. I tell you true. Best you saf’d the bringer
  3. Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
  4. Or would have done’t myself. Your emperor
  5. Continues still a Jove.
  1. Exit.

Domitius Enobarbus

34 - 43
  1. I am alone the villain of the earth,
  2. And feel I am so most. O Antony,
  3. Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
  4. My better service, when my turpitude
  5. Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart.
  6. If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
  7. Shall outstrike thought, but thought will do’t, I feel.
  8. I fight against thee? No, I will go seek
  9. Some ditch wherein to die; the foul’st best fits
  10. My latter part of life.
  1. Exit.
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