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| <H3>SCENE I. A house in Rome.</h3> | |
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| <i>ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEPIDUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>I do consent--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4> Prick him down, Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEPIDUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>Upon condition Publius shall not live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>How to cut off some charge in legacies.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEPIDUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>What, shall I find you here?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>Or here, or at the Capitol.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit LEPIDUS</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>This is a slight unmeritable man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>The three-fold world divided, he should stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>One of the three to share it?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>So you thought him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>In our black sentence and proscription.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>Octavius, I have seen more days than you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And though we lay these honours on this man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>To groan and sweat under the business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Either led or driven, as we point the way;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>And having brought our treasure where we will,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>Then take we down his load, and turn him off,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And graze in commons.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>You may do your will;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>But he's a tried and valiant soldier.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>ANTONY</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>So is my horse, Octavius; and for that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>I do appoint him store of provender:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>It is a creature that I teach to fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>To wind, to stop, to run directly on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>On abjects, orts and imitations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Which, out of use and staled by other men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>But as a property. And now, Octavius,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Are levying powers: we must straight make head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Therefore let our alliance be combined,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Our best friends made, our means stretch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And let us presently go sit in council,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>How covert matters may be best disclosed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And open perils surest answered.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>Let us do so: for we are at the stake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And bay'd about with many enemies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Millions of mischiefs.</A><br> | |
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