Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

ACT IV SCENE VI	Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
	Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, withDOMITIUS 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.	5
	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.	10
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	15
	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	20
	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	25
	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.	30
	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,	35
	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	40
	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