Octavius Caesar

Caesar
You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,
It is not Caesar’s natural vice to hate
Our great competitor. From Alexandria
This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes
The lamps of night in revel, is not more manlike
Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy
More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or
Vouchsafed to think he had partners.
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Messenger
Thy biddings have been done, and every hour,
Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report
How ’tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea,
And it appears he is beloved of those
That only have feared Caesar. To the ports
The discontents repair, and men’s reports
Give him much wronged.
Caesar
I should have known no less.
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Antony,
Leave thy lascivious wassails.  When thou once
Was beaten from Modena, where thou slew’st
Hirsius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel
Did famine follow, whom thou fought’st against,
Though daintily brought up, with patience more
Than savages could suffer. Thou didst drink
The stale of horses and the gilded puddle
Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge.
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Caesar
You have broken
The article of your oath, which you shall never
Have tongue to charge me with.
Lepidus
Soft, Caesar!
Antony
No, Lepidus, let him speak.
The honor is sacred which he talks on now,
Supposing that I lacked it.—But on, Caesar:
The article of my oath?
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Agrippa
Give me leave, Caesar.
Caesar
Speak, Agrippa.
Agrippa
Thou hast a sister by the mother’s side,
Admired Octavia. Great Mark Antony
Is now a widower.
Caesar
Say not so, Agrippa.
If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof
Were well deserved of rashness.
Antony
I am not married,
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Antony
The world and my great office will sometimes
Divide me from your bosom.
Octavia
All which time
Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers
To them for you.
Antony, to Caesar
Goodnight, sir.—My Octavia,
Read not my blemishes in the world’s report.
I have not kept my square,
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Enobarbus, to Antony
Ha, my brave emperor,
Shall we dance now the Egyptian bacchanals
And celebrate our drink?
Pompey
Let’s ha ‘t, good soldier.
Antony
Come, let’s all take hands
Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense
In soft and delicate Lethe.
Enobarbus
All take hands.
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Antony
Come, let’s all take hands
Till that the conquering wine hath steeped our sense
In soft and delicate Lethe.
Enobarbus
All take hands.
Make battery to our ears with the loud music,
The while I’ll place you; then the boy shall sing.
The holding every man shall beat as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
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Octavia
Hail, Caesar, and my lord! Hail, most dear Caesar.
Caesar
That ever I should call thee castaway!
Octavia
You have not called me so, nor have you cause.
Caesar
Why have you stol’n upon us thus? You come not
Like Caesar’s sister. The wife of Antony
Should have an army for an usher and
The neighs of horse to tell of her approach
Long ere she did appear.
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Mark Antony
This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errandsAlliteration; is it fit,
The threefold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it?
Octavius Caesar
So you thought him,
And took his voice who should be prick’d to die
In our black sentence and proscription.
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