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Char. By your most gracious pardon,

I sing but after you.

Cleo. My salad days,

When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,

To say as I said then! But come, away;

Get me ink and paper:

He shall have every day a several greeting,

Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

 

Pom. If the great gods be just, they shall assist

The deeds of justest men.

Mene. Know, worthy Pompey,

That what they do delay, they not deny.

Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays

The thing we sue for.

Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves,

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers

Deny us for our good; so find we profit

By losing of our prayers.

Pom. I shall do well:

The people love me, and the sea is mine;

My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope

 73 salad days: days of youthful inexperience  10 crescent: growing (like the cresentcrescent [sic] moon)

auguring: prophesying

