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LEPIDUS

Farewell, my lord; what you shall know meantime
Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,
To let me be partaker.

CÆSAR
Doubt not, sir,

I knew it for my bond.
(Exeunt.)

Scene V IT

(Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.)

Enter Cleopatra, Charmian, Iras, and Mardian.

CLEOPATRA

Charmian!

CHARMIAN
Madam?

CLEOPATRA
Ha, ha!
Give me to drink mandragora.

CHARMIAN
Why, madam?

CLEOPATRA
That I might sleep out this great gap of time [5]

My Antony is away.

CHARMIAN
You think of him too much.

CLEOPATRA