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[Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and others.]

AGRIPPA.

Retire, we have engag’d ourselves too far:

Caesar himself has work, and our oppression

Exceeds what we expected.

[Exeunt.]

[Alarum. Enter ANTONY, and SCARUS wounded.]

SCARUS.

O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!

Had we done so at first, we had driven them home

With clouts about their heads.

ANTONY.

Thou bleed’st apace.

SCARUS.

I had a wound here that was like a T,

But now ‘tis made an H.

ANTONY.

They do retire.

SCARUS.

We’ll beat’em into bench-holes: I have yet

Room for six scotches more.

[Enter EROS.]

EROS.

They are beaten, sir; and our advantage serves

For a fair victory.

SCARUS.

Let us score their backs

And snatch ‘em up, as we take hares, behind:

‘Tis sport to maul a runner.

ANTONY.

I will reward thee

Once for thy sprightly comfort, and tenfold

For thy good valour. Come thee on.

SCARUS.

I’ll halt after.

[Exeunt.]