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As they pinch one another by the disposition, he cries out ‘No more’;
reconciles them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.

FIRST SERVANT
But it raises the greater war between him and his discretion. [10]

SECOND SERVANT
Why, this it is to have a name in great men’s fellowship: I had as lief have a
reed that will do me no service, as a partisan I could not heave.

FIRST SERVANT
To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen to move in’t, are the

holes where eyes should [15] be, which pitifully disaster the cheeks.

A sennet sounded. Enter Cæsar, Antony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa,
Mæcenas, Enobarbus, Menas, with other captains.

ANTONY
(To Cæsar.) Thus do they, sir: they take the flow o’ the Nile
By certain scales i’ the pyramid; they know,

By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth
Or foison follow. The higher Nilus swells, [20]
The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman

Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
And shortly comes to harvest.

LEPIDUS
Y’have strange serpents there?

ANTONY
Ay, Lepidus. [25]

LEPIDUS
Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun:
so is your crocodile.

ANTONY