SCENE VI.
Cæsar's camp.
Enter Cæsar, Agrippa, with Enobarbus, and others.
Cæs.
Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
5 noteOur will is, Antony be took alive;
Make it so known.
Agr.
Cæsar, I shall.
[Exit Agrippa.
Cæs.
The time of universal peace is near:
Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
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6 noteShall bear the olive freely.
Enter a Messenger.
Mes.
Antony
Is come into the field.
Cæs.
Go, charge Agrippa
Plant those that have revolted in the vant,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Upon himself.
[Exeunt Cæsar, &c.
Eno.
Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry, on
Affairs of Antony; there did 7 notepersuade
Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar,
And leave his master Antony: for this pains,
Cæsar hath hang'd him. Canidius, and the rest
That fell away, have entertainment, but
No honourable trust. I have done ill;
Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,
That I will joy no more.
Enter a Soldier of Cæsar's.
Sold.
Enobarbus, Antony
Hath after thee sent all thy treasure8 note, with
His bounty over-plus: The messenger
Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now,
Unloading of his mules.
Eno.
I give it you.
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Sold.
Mock not, Enobarbus,
I tell you true: Best you safed the bringer
Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
Or would have done't myself. Your emperor
Continues still a Jove.
[Exit.
Eno.
I am alone the villain of the earth,
And feel I am so most. O Antony,
Thou mine of bounty, how would'st thou have paid
My better service, when my turpitude
Thou dost so crown with gold! 9 note
This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall out-strike thought; but thought will do't, I feel.
I fight against thee!—No: I will go seek
Some ditch, wherein to die; the foul'st best fits
My latter part of life.
[Exit.
Samuel Johnson [1778], The plays of William Shakspeare. In ten volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The second edition, Revised and Augmented (Printed for C. Bathurst [and] W. Strahan [etc.], London) [word count] [S10901].