ACT IV
SCENE VI Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.


 [Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with
 DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others]

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

AGRIPPA Caesar, I shall.

 [Exit]

OCTAVIUS CAESAR 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]

Messenger Antony
 Is come into the field.

OCTAVIUS CAESAR Go charge Agrippa
 Plant those that have revolted in the van,
 That Antony may seem to spend his fury
 Upon himself.

 [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on
 Affairs of Antony; there did persuade
 Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
 And leave his master Antony: for this pains
 Caesar 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 CAESAR's]

Soldier 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.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I give it you.

Soldier 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]

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 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
 My better service, when my turpitude
 Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:
 If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
 Shall outstrike 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]




 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA


ACT IV