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Antony and Cleopatra, II. vi

Pom. To you all three,

The senators alone of this great world,

Chief factors for the gods: I do not know

Wherefore my father should revengers want,

Having a son and friends; since Julius Cæsar,

Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,

There saw you labouring for him. What was 't

That mov'd pale Cassius to conspire? and what

Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,

With the arm'd rest, courtiers of beauteous freedom,

To drench the Capitol, but that they would

Have one man but a man? And that is it

Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden

The anger'd ocean foams, with which I meant

To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome

Cast on my noble father.

Cæs. Take your time.

Ant. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;

We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st

How much we do o'er-count thee.

Pom. At land, indeed,

Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house;

But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,

Remain in 't as thou mayst.

Lep. Be pleas'd to tell us—

For this is from the present—how you take

The offers we have sent you.

Cæs. There's the point.

Ant. Which do not be entreated to, but weigh

What it is worth embrac'd.

Cæs. And what may follow,

 10 factors: agents

10–14 I do not him; cf. n.

13 ghosted: haunted

24 fear: frighten

26 o'er-count: outnumber

27 o'er-count: over-reach; cf. n.

