Ant. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy fails, We'll speak with thee at fea: at land, thou know'st How much we do o'er-count thee.

Pom.

At land, indeed,
Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house :
But, fince the cuckoo builds not for himself,
Remain in't, as thou may'st.

Lep.

Be pleas'd to tell us,

(For this is from the prefent,) how you take

The offers we have fent you.

Caf.

There's the point.

Ant. Which do not be entreated to, but weigh What it is worth embrac'd.

Caf.

To try a larger fortune.

Pom.

And what may follow,

You have made me offer

Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must

Rid all the fea of pirates; then, to fend

Measures of wheat to Rome: This 'greed upon,

To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back
Our targe undinted.

Caf. Ant. Lep. That's our offer.

Pom.

Know then,
I came before you here, a man prepar ́d
To take this offer: But Mark Antony
Put me to fome impatience :-Though I lose
The praise of it by telling, You must know,
When Cæfar and your brothers were at blows,
Your mother came to Sicily, and did find
Her welcome friendly.

Ant.

I have heard it, Pompey:

And am well studied for a liberal thanks,

Which I do owe you.

Pom.

Let me have your hand:

I did not think, fir, to have met you here.

Ant. The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you, That call'd me, timelier than my purpose, hither;

What counts harsh fortune cafts upon my face;
But in my bofom fhall the never come,

To make my heart her vassal.

Lep

Well met here.

Pom. I hope fo, Lepidus.-Thus we are agreed : I crave, our compofition may be written,

And feal'd between us.

Caf.

That's the next to do.

Pom. We'll feast each other, ere we part; and let us Draw lots, who fhall begin.

Ant.

That will I, Pompey.

Pom. No, Antony, take the lot: but, first,

Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery

Shall have the fame. I have heard, that Julius Cæfar

Grew fat with feasting there.

Ant.

You have heard much.

And fair words to them.

Pom. I have fair meanings, fir.
Ant.

Pom. Then fo much have I heard :-
And I have heard, Apollodorus carried-
Eno. No more of that :-He did fo.
Pom.
Eno. A certain queen to Cæfar in a mattress.

What, I pray you?

Pom. I know thee now; How far'ft thou, soldier ?

Eno.

And well am like to do; for, I perceive,

Four feafts are toward.

Well;

Pom.

Pom.

Let me shake thy hand;

I never hated thee: I have feen thee fight,
When I have envied thy behaviour.

I never lov'd you much; but I have prais'd you,
When you have well deserv'd ten times as much
As I have faid you did.

[Exeunt POMPEY, CESAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, Soldiers, and Attendants.

Men. Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have made this [Afide.]-You and I have known, fir.

treaty

Eno. At fea, I think.

Men. We have, fir.

Eno. You have done well by water.

Men. And you by land.

Eno. I will praise any man that will praise me: though it cannot be denied what I have done by land.

Men. Nor what I have done by water.

Eno. Yes, fomething you can deny for your own safety: you have been a great thief by sea.

Men. And you by land.

Eno. There I deny my land service. But give me your hand, Menas: If our eyes had authority, here they might take two thieves kiffing.

Men. All men's faces are true, whatfoe'er their hands

are.

Eno. But there is never a fair woman has a true face. Men. No flander; they steal hearts.

Eno.

Eno. We came hither to fight with you.

Men. For my part, I am forry it is turn'd to a drinking. Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.

Eno. If he do, fure, he cannot weep it back again.

Men. You have faid, fir. We look'd not for Mark Antony here: Pray you, is he married to Cleopatra ? Eno. Cæfar's fifter is call'd Octavia.

Men. True, fir; fhe was the wife of Caius Marcellus. Eno. But the is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

Men. Pray you, fir?

Eno. 'Tis true.

Men. Then is Cæfar, and he, for ever knit together. Eno. If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would not prophefy fo.

Men. I think, the policy of that purpose made more in the marriage, than the love of the parties.

Eno. I think fo too. But you thall find, the band that feems to tie their friendship together, will be the very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and ftill converfation.

Men. Who would not have his wife fo?

Eno. Not he, that himself is not fo; which is Mark Antony. He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the fighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Cæfar; and, as I faid before, that which is the ftrength of their amity, shall prove the immediate author of their variance. Antony will use his affection where it is; he married but his occafion here.

Men. And thus it may be. Come, fir, will you aboard? I have a health for you.

Eno. I fhall take it, fir: we have us'd our throats in Egypt.

Men. Come; let's away.

[Exeunt.

SCENE

SCENE VII.

On board Pompey's Galley, lying near Misenum.

Mufick. Enter two or three Servants, with a banquet.

1 Serv. Here they'll be, man: Some o' their plants are ill-rooted already, the least wind i' the world will blow them down.

2 Serv. Lepidus is high-colour'd.

1 Serv. They have made him drink alms-drink.

2 Serv. As they pinch one another by the difpofition, he cries out, no more; feconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.

1 Serv. But it raises the greater war between him and his difcretion.

2 Serv. 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 fervice, as a partizan I could not heave.

1 Serv. To be call'd into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be, which pitifully difafter the cheeks.

A fennet founded. Enter CÆSAR, ANTONY, POMPEY,
LEPIDUS, AGRIPPA, MECENAS, ENOBARBUS, ME-
NAS, with other Captains.

Ant. Thus do they, fir: [To CÆSAR.] They take the
flow o' the Nile

By certain fcales i' the pyramid; they know,

By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth,
Or foizon, follow: The higher Nilus fwells,
The more it promises; as it ebbs, the feedfman

Upon