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And shall become you well, to entreat your captain
To soft and gentle speech.

ENOBARBUS
I shall entreat him
To answer like himself: if Cæsar move him,
Let Antony look over Cæsar’s head, [5]

And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Were I the wearer of Antonius’ beard,
I would not shave’t to-day.

LEPIDUS
’Tis not a time

For private stomaching.

ENOBARBUS
Every time
Serves for the matter that is then born in’t. [10]

LEPIDUS
But small to greater matters must give way.

ENOBARBUS
Not if the small come first.

LEPIDUS
Your speech is passion:

But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes
The noble Antony.

Enter Antony and Ventidius.

ENOBARBUS
And yonder, Cæsar.

Enter Cæsar, Mæcenas, and Agrippa.