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And have my learning from some true reports
That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather
Discredit my authority with yours,
And make the wars alike against my stomach, [50]

Having alike your cause? Of this, my letters
Before did satisfy you. If you’ll patch a quarrel,
As matter whole you have to make it with,
It must not be with this.

CÆSAR

You praise yourself,
By laying defects of judgment to me; but [55]
You patch’d up your excuses.

ANTONY
Not so, not so;
I know you could not lack, I am certain on’t,

Very necessity of this thought, that I,
Your partner in the cause ’gainst which he fought,
Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars [60]
Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,

I would you had her spirit in such another;
The third o’ the world is yours, which with a snaffle
You may pace easy, but not such a wife.

ENOBARBUS
Would we had all such wives, that the men
might go to wars with the women! [65]

ANTONY
So much uncurbable, her garboils, Cæsar,
Made out of her impatience, which not wanted
Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant
Did you too much disquiet: for that you must [70]

But say, I could not help it.

CÆSAR