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The Tragedy of
 

will use his affection where it is; he married but

his occasion here.

Men. And thus it may be. Come, sir, will140
you aboard? I have a health for you.

Eno. I shall take it, sir: we have used our
throats in Egypt.

Men. Come; let's away. Exeunt.

 

Scene Seven

[On board Pompey's Galley off Misenum]

Music plays. Enter two or three Servants, with a
banquet.

First Serv. Here they'll be, man. Some o'
their plants are ill-rooted already; the least
wind i' the world will blow them down.

Sec. Serv. Lepidus is high-coloured.4
First Serv. They have made him drink alms-
drink
.
Sec. Serv. As they pinch one another by the
disposition
, he cries out, 'No more'; reconciles8
them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.

First Serv. But it raises the greater war be-
tween him and his discretion.

Sec. Serv. Why, this it is to have a name in12
great men's fellowship; I had as lief have a reed
that will do me no service as a partisan I could
not heave
.

139 occasion: opportunity for advantage
5 alms-drink: the leavings
7, 8 As they pinch . . . disposition; cf. n.
13-15 I had as lief . . . heave; cf. n.

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