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They are so.
POMPEY
Sit, − and some wine! A health to Lepidus!
LEPIDUS
I am not so well as I should be: but I’ll ne’er out. [30]
ENOBARBUS
Not till you have slept; I fear me you’ll be in till then.
LEPIDUS
Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies’ pyramises are very goodly things;
without contradiction I have heard that. [35]
MENAS
(Aside to Pompey.) Pompey, a word.
POMPEY
(Aside to Menas.) Say in mine ear, what is’t?
MENAS
(Aside to Pompey.) Forsake thy seat, I do beseech thee, captain,
And hear me speak a word.
POMPEY
(Aside to Menas.) Forbear me till anon. −
This wine for Lepidus!
LEPIDUS
What manner o’ thing is your crocodile? [40]
ANTONY
It is shap’d, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so
high as it is, and moves with it own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth
it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
