Scene Two
[Rome. A Room in Cæsar's House]
Enter Agrippa at one door, Enobarbus at another.
Agr. What! are the brothers parted?
Eno. They have dispatch'd with Pompey; he is gone;
The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps
To part from Rome; Cæsar is sad; and Lepidus,4
Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled
With the green sickness.
Agr. 'Tis a noble Lepidus.
Eno. A very fine one. O! how he loves Cæsar.
Agr. Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!8
Eno. Cæsar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.
Agr. What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.
Eno. Spake you of Cæsar? How! the nonpareil!
Agr. O, Antony! O thou Arabian bird!12
Eno. Would you praise Cæsar, say, 'Cæsar,' go no further.
Agr. Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.
Eno. But he loves Cæsar best; yet he loves Antony.
Hoo! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, poets, cannot16
Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number; hoo!
His love to Antony. But as for Cæsar,
Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.
Agr. Both he loves.
3 sealing: concluding their agreements
6 green sickness: biliousness
11 nonpareil: one that has no equal
12 Arabian bird: the phoenix, figurative for 'unique specimen'
16 figures: mathematical figures of the horoscope (?)
17 cast: calculate