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Shakespeare, William

"Antony And Cleopatra"


MENAS Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would
not prophesy so.
MENAS I think the policy of that purpose made more in the
marriage than the love of the parties.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I think so too. But you shall find, the band that
seems to tie their friendship together will be the
very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a
holy, cold, and still conversation.
MENAS Who would not have his wife so?
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony.
He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the
sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as
I said before, that which is the strength of their
amity shall prove the immediate author of their
variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:
he married but his occasion here.
MENAS And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?
I have a health for you.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.


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