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[Flourish. Enter AGRIPPA, CAESAR, with DOLABELLA and ENOBARBUS.]

CAESAR.

Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:

Our will is Antony be took alive;

Make it so known.

AGRIPPA.

Caesar, I shall.

[Exit.]

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.

CAESAR.

Go charge Agrippa

Plant those that have revolted in the van,

That Antony may seem to spend his fury

Upon himself.

[Exeunt CAESAR and his Train.]

ENOBARBUS.

Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on

Affairs of Antony; there did dissuade

Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar

And leave his master Antony: for this pains

Casaer 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.

ENOBARBUS.

I give it you.

SOLDIER.

Mock not, Enobarbus.

I tell you true: best you saf’d the bringer

Out of the host; I must attend mine office,

Or would have done’t myself. Your emperor

Continues still a Jove.

[Exit.]

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.]