Page 2512 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Scene II IT

(Alexandria, Cleopatra’s palace.)

Enter Antony, Cleopatra, Enobarbus, Charmian, Iras, Alexas, with others.

ANTONY
He will not fight with me, Domitius?

ENOBARBUS
No.

ANTONY
Why should he not?

ENOBARBUS
He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,
He is twenty men to one.

ANTONY
To-morrow, soldier,
By sea and land I’ll fight: or I will live, [5]

Or bathe my dying honour in the blood
Shall make it live again. Woo’t thou fight well?

ENOBARBUS
I’ll strike, and cry ‘Take all’.

ANTONY
Well said, come on,
Call forth my household servants, let’s to-night

Enter three or four Servitors.

Be bounteous at our meal. Give me thy hand, [10]
Thou hast been rightly honest; − so hast thou, −
Thou, −and thou, −and thou: you have serv’d me well,