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Egypt. CÆSAR’S Camp. | |
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Enter CÆSAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, and Others. | |
| Cæs. Let him appear that’s come from Antony. | |
| Know you him? | |
| Dol. Cæsar, ’tis his schoolmaster: | 5 |
| An argument that he is pluck’d, when hither | |
| He sends so poor a pinion of his wing, | |
| Which had superfluous kings for messengers | |
| Not many moons gone by. | |
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Enter EUPHRONIUS. | 10 |
| Cæs. Approach, and speak. | |
| Euph. Such as I am, I come from Antony: | |
| I was of late as petty to his ends | |
| As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf | |
| To his grand sea. | 15 |
| Cæs. Be ’t so. Declare thine office. | |
| Euph. Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and | |
| Requires to live in Egypt; which not granted, | |
| He lessens his requests, and to thee sues | |
| To let him breathe between the heavens and earth, | 20 |
| A private man in Athens; this for him. | |
| Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness, | |
| Submits her to thy might, and of thee craves | |
| The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs, | |
| Now hazarded to thy grace. | 25 |
| Cæs. For Antony, | |
| I have no ears to his request. The queen | |
| Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she | |
| From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend, | |
| Or take his life there; this if she perform, | 30 |
| She shall not sue unheard. So to them both. | |
| Euph. Fortune pursue thee! | |
| Cæs. Bring him through the bands. [Exit EUPHRONIUS. | |
| [To THYREUS.] To try thy eloquence, now ’tis time; dispatch. | |
| From Antony win Cleopatra; promise, | 35 |
| And in our name, what she requires; add more, | |
| From thine invention, offers. Women are not | |
| In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure | |
| The ne’er-touch’d vestal. Try thy cunning, Thyreus; | |
| Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we | 40 |
| Will answer as a law. | |
| Thyr. Cæsar, I go. | |
| Cæs. Observe how Antony becomes his flaw, | |
| And what thou think’st his very action speaks | |
| In every power that moves. | 45 |
| Thyr. Cæsar, I shall. [Exeunt. | |
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