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To follow with allegiance a fall’n lord,
Does conquer him that did his master conquer, [45]
And earns a place i’ the story.

Enter Thidias.

CLEOPATRA
Cæsar’s will.

THIDIAS

Hear it apart.

CLEOPATRA

None but friends: say boldly.

THIDIAS
So haply are they friends to Antony.

ENOBARBUS
He needs as many, sir, as Cæsar has,
Or needs not us. If Cæsar please, our master [50]
Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,

Whose he is, we are, and that is, Cæsar’s.

THIDIAS
So.
Thus then, thou most renown’d, Cæsar entreats,
Not to consider in what case thou stand’st

Further than he is Cæsar.

CLEOPATRA

Go on: right royal. [55]

THIDIAS
He knows that you embrac’d not Antony
As you did love, but as you fear’d him.