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ENOBARBUS

If he do, sure he cannot weep’t back again.

MENAS
Y’have said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony [105] here: pray you, is he
married to Cleopatra?

ENOBARBUS
Cæsar’s sister is called Octavia.

MENAS
True, sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.

ENOBARBUS

But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.

MENAS

Pray ye, sir? [110]

ENOBARBUS
’Tis true.

MENAS
Then is Cæsar and he for ever knit together.

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 [115] the marriage than the
love of the parties.

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. [120]