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1

Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 4]

Messenger

476

Caesar, I bring thee word,
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,
Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound
With keels of every kind: many hot inroads
They make in Italy; the borders maritime
Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:
No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon
Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more
Than could his war resisted.

2

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 1]

(stage directions)

614

[Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in]
warlike manner]

3

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 1]

Pompey

654

I could have given less matter
A better ear. Menas, I did not think
This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm
For such a petty war: his soldiership
Is twice the other twain: but let us rear
The higher our opinion, that our stirring
Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck
The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.

4

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 1]

Pompey

667

I know not, Menas,
How lesser enmities may give way to greater.
Were't not that we stand up against them all,
'Twere pregnant they should square between
themselves;
For they have entertained cause enough
To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
May cement their divisions and bind up
The petty difference, we yet not know.
Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands
Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.
Come, Menas.

5

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6]

(stage directions)

1208

[Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,]
with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,
MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS,
with Soldiers marching]

6

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6]

(stage directions)

1319

[Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS]

7

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6]

Domitius Enobarus

1332

There I deny my land service. But give me your
hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they
might take two thieves kissing.

8

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

First Servant

1386

To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen
to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,
which pitifully disaster the cheeks.
[A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK]
ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS,
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains]

9

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Pompey

1412

[Aside to MENAS] Say in mine ear:
what is't?

10

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Pompey

1417

[Aside to MENAS] Forbear me till anon.
This wine for Lepidus!

11

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Pompey

1432

[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?

12

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Pompey

1438

[Aside to MENAS] I think thou'rt mad.
The matter?

13

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Domitius Enobarus

1477

Here's to thee, Menas!

14

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Domitius Enobarus

1480

There's a strong fellow, Menas.

15

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 7]

Domitius Enobarus

1534

Take heed you fall not.
[Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS]
Menas, I'll not on shore.

16

Antony and Cleopatra
[III, 2]

Domitius Enobarus

1594

They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;
The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,
Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
With the green sickness.