Antony and Cleopatra
Act IV, Scene 6
Alexandria. Octavius Caesar’s camp.
Shall bear the olive freely
Olea europaea
Otto Wilhelm Thomé
- Flourish. Enter Agrippa, Caesar, with Enobarbus and
- Dolabella.
Caesar
1 - 3- Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight.
- Our will is Antony be took alive;
- Make it so known.
Agrippa
4- Caesar, I shall.
- Exit.
Caesar
5 - 7- The time of universal peace is near.
- Prove this a prosp’rous day, the three-nook’d world
- Shall bear the olive freely.
- Enter Caesar’s Third Messenger.
Caesar’s Third Messenger
8 - 9- Antony
- Is come into the field.
Caesar
10 - 13- Go charge Agrippa
- Plant those that have revolted in the vant,
- That Antony may seem to spend his fury
- Upon himself.
- Exeunt all but Enobarbus.
Domitius Enobarbus
14 - 22- Alexas did revolt, and went to Jewry on
- Affairs of Antony, there did dissuade
- Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,
- And leave his master Antony; for this pains
- Caesar hath hang’d him. Canidius and the rest
- That fell away have entertainment, but
- No honorable trust. I have done ill,
- Of which I do accuse myself so sorely
- That I will joy no more.
- Enter Caesar’s First Soldier.
Caesar’s First Soldier
23 - 27- Enobarbus, Antony
- Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with
- His bounty overplus. The messenger
- Came on my guard, and at thy tent is now
- Unloading of his mules.
Domitius Enobarbus
28- I give it you.
Caesar’s First Soldier
29 - 33- Mock not, Enobarbus,
- I tell you true. Best you saf’d the bringer
- Out of the host; I must attend mine office,
- Or would have done’t myself. Your emperor
- Continues still a Jove.
- Exit.
Domitius Enobarbus
34 - 43- I am alone the villain of the earth,
- And feel I am so most. O Antony,
- Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid
- My better service, when my turpitude
- Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart.
- If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
- Shall outstrike thought, but thought will do’t, I feel.
- I fight against thee? No, I will go seek
- Some ditch wherein to die; the foul’st best fits
- My latter part of life.
- Exit.