Pompey
Quotes spoken by the character Pompey
If the great gods be just
Read the QuotePompey
If the great gods be just, they shall assist
The deeds of justest men.
Menas
Know, worthy Pompey,
That what they do delay they not deny.
Pompey
Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
The thing we sue for.
Menas
We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms,
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Caesar and Lepidus Are in the field
Read the QuoteMenas
Caesar and Lepidus
Are in the field. A mighty strength they carry.
Pompey
Where have you this? ‘Tis false.
Menas
From Silvius, sir.
Pompey
He dreams. I know they are in Rome together,
Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,
Salt Cleopatra, soften thy wanned lip!
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Come you hither to me, Master Tapster
Read the QuoteEscalus
Come you hither to me, Master Tapster. What’s your
name, Master Tapster?
Pompey
Pompey.
Escalus
What else?
Pompey
Bum, sir.
Does your Worship mean to geld and
splay all the youth of the city?
Escalus
Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing
about you,
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You’ve strange serpents there?
Read the QuoteLepidus
You’ve strange serpents there?
Antony
Ay, Lepidus.
Lepidus
Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your
mud by the operation of your sun; so is your
crocodile.
Antony
They are so.
What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?
Pompey
Sit,
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Wilt thou be lord of all the world?
Read the QuoteMenas, aside to Pompey
Wilt thou be lord of all the world?
Pompey
What sayst thou?
Menas
Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That’s twice.
Pompey
How should that be?
Menas
But entertain it,
And though thou think me poor,
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Ha, my brave emperor, Shall we dance
Read the QuoteEnobarbus, 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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