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LEPIDUS

What colour is it of? [45]

ANTONY
Of it own colour too.

LEPIDUS
’Tis a strange serpent.

ANTONY
’Tis so, and the tears of it are wet.

CÆSAR
Will this description satisfy him?

ANTONY
With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a very epicure. [50]

POMPEY

(Aside to Menas.) Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of that? away!
Do as I bid you. − Where’s this cup I call’d for?

MENAS
(Aside to Pompey.) If for the sake of merit thou wilt hear me,
Rise from thy stool.

POMPEY
(Aside to Menas.) I think th’art mad. The matter? [55]
(Rises and walks aside.)

MENAS

I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.

POMPEY

Thou hast serv’d me with much faith: what’s else to say?
Be jolly, lords.