Cæs.
Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:
Our will is Antony be took alive;
Make it so known.

Agr.
Cæsar, I shall. [Exit. ^note

Cæs.
The time of universal peace is near:

Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world
Shall bear the olive freely. Enter a Messenger.

Mess.
Antony ^note
Is come into the field. ^note

Cæs.
Go charge Agrippa
Plant ^note those that have revolted in the van ^note,
That Antony may seem to spend his fury
Upon himself. [Exeunt ^note all but Enobarbus.

Eno.
Alexas did revolt, and went ^note to Jewry
On ^note affairs of Antony ^note; there did persuade ^note
Great Herod to incline himself to Cæsar
And leave his master Antony: for this ^note pains
Cæsar hath hang'd him. Canidius ^note 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 ^note. Enter a Soldier of Cæsar's. ^note

Sold.
Enobarbus, Antony
Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
His bounty overplus: the messenger
Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
Unloading of his mules.

Eno.
I give it you.

Sold.
Mock ^note not, Enobarbus:

I tell you true: best you safed ^note 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 wouldst thou have paid ^note
My better service, when my turpitude
Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows ^note my heart:
If swift thought break it not, ^note a swifter ^note mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel. ^note
I fight against thee! ^note No: I will go seek
Some ditch wherein to ^note die; the foul'st best fits
My latter part of life. [Exit. ^note

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