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The offers we have sent you.

CÆSAR
There’s the point.

ANTONY
Which do not be entreated to, but weigh
What it is worth embrac’d.

CÆSAR
And what may follow,
To try a larger fortune.

POMPEY
You have made me offer
Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must [35]
Rid all the sea of pirates. Then, to send
Measures of wheat to Rome; this ’greed upon,

To part with unhack’d edges, and bear back
Our targes undinted.

CÆSAR, ANTONY, LEPIDUS
That’s our offer.

POMPEY
Know, then,
I came before you here a man prepar’d [40]

To take this offer. But Mark Antony
Put me to some impatience: though I lose
The praise of it by telling, you must know,
When Cæsar and your brother were at blows,

Your mother came to Sicily, and did find [45]
Her welcome friendly.

ANTONY
I have heard it, Pompey,
And am well studied for a liberal thanks