[Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,]
[p]CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others]
- Antony. He will not fight with me, Domitius.
- Domitius Enobarus. He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
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He is twenty men to one.
- Antony. To-morrow, soldier,
By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,
Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?
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- Antony. Well said; come on.
Call forth my household servants: let's to-night
Be bounteous at our meal.
[Enter three or four Servitors]
2530 Give me thy hand,
Thou hast been rightly honest;—so hast thou;—
Thou,—and thou,—and thou:—you have served me well,
And kings have been your fellows.
- Cleopatra. [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What means this?
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- Domitius Enobarus. [Aside to CLEOPATRA] 'Tis one of those odd
tricks which sorrow shoots
Out of the mind.
- Antony. And thou art honest too.
I wish I could be made so many men,
2540 And all of you clapp'd up together in
An Antony, that I might do you service
So good as you have done.
- Antony. Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:
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Scant not my cups; and make as much of me
As when mine empire was your fellow too,
And suffer'd my command.
- Cleopatra. [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What does he mean?
- Antony. Tend me to-night;
May be it is the period of your duty:
Haply you shall not see me more; or if,
A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow
You'll serve another master. I look on you
2555 As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,
I turn you not away; but, like a master
Married to your good service, stay till death:
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for't!
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- Domitius Enobarus. What mean you, sir,
To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;
And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,
Transform us not to women.
- Antony. Ho, ho, ho!
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Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!
Grace grow where those drops fall!
My hearty friends,
You take me in too dolorous a sense;
For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you
2570 To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,
I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you
Where rather I'll expect victorious life
Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,
And drown consideration.
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[Exeunt]
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