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| <H3>SCENE I. A plain in Syria.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS, and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead body of PACORUS borne before him</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Pays this for Marcus Crassus.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>SILIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>Noble Ventidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Put garlands on thy head.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>O Silius, Silius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>I have done enough; a lower place, note well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Better to leave undone, than by our deed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Caesar and Antony have ever won</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>More in their officer than person: Sossius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>For quick accumulation of renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Who does i' the wars more than his captain can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Than gain which darkens him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>I could do more to do Antonius good,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>But 'twould offend him; and in his offence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Should my performance perish.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>SILIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Thou hast, Ventidius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Without the which a soldier, and his sword,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>I'll humbly signify what in his name,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>That magical word of war, we have effected;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>We have jaded out o' the field.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>SILIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=39>Where is he now?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>VENTIDIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>The weight we must convey with's will permit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!</A><br> | |
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