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Eno. Take heed you fall not.136

[Exeunt Pompey, Cæsar, Antony,
and Attendants.]

Menas, I'll not on shore.

Men. No, to my cabin.
These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!
Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell
To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd! sound out!140

A flourish [of trumpets] with drums.

Eno. Hoo! says a'. There's my cap.

Men. Hoa! noble captain! come. Exeunt.

 

ACT THIRD

Scene One

[A Plain in Syria]

Enter Ventidius, as it were in triumph, [with Silius
and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers;] the
dead body of Pacorus borne before him.

Ven. Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now
Pleas'd fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death
Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body
Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,4
Pays this for Marcus Crassus
.

Sil. Noble Ventidius,
Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,
The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,
Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither8
The routed fly; so thy grand captain Antony

1-5 Now, darting Parthia . . . Marcus Crassus; cf. n.

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