Page 2548 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

AGRIPPA

A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity: but you gods will give us
Some faults to make us men. Cæsar is touch’d.

MÆCENAS
When such a spacious mirror’s set before him,

He needs must see himself.

CÆSAR
O Antony, [35]
I have follow’d thee to this, but we do launch
Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce
Have shown to thee such a declining day,

Or look on thine: we could not stall together,
In the whole world. But yet let me lament [40]
With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,

That thou my brother, my competitor,
In top of all design; my mate in empire,
Friend and companion in the front of war,
The arm of mine own body, and the heart [45]
Where mine his thoughts did kindle; − that our stars,

Unreconciliable, should divide
Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends, −
But I will tell you at some meeter season,

The business of this man looks out of him, [50]
We’ll hear him what he says.
(Enter an Egyptian.)
Whence are you?

EGYPTIAN
A poor Egyptian yet; the queen my mistress

Confin’d in all she has, her monument,
Of thy intents desires instruction,
That she preparedly may frame herself [55]
To the way she’s forc’d to.

CÆSAR