Antony and Cleopatra

Act 2, Scene 4

Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA

LEPIDUS, MAECENAS, and AGRIPPA enter.

LEPIDUS

Trouble yourselves no further. Pray you, hasten

Your generals after.

LEPIDUS

Don’t spend any more time here. Go tell your generals to hurry their preparations.

AGRIPPA

Sir, Mark Antony Will e’en but kiss Octavia, and we’ll follow.

AGRIPPA

Sir, we’ll follow as soon as Mark Antony kisses Octavia good-bye.

LEPIDUS

Till I shall see you in your soldiers’ dress,

Which will become you both, farewell.

LEPIDUS

Good-bye then, until the time I see you dressed in your battle gear, which will suit you both very well.

MAECENAS

We shall,

As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount

Before you, Lepidus.

MAECENAS

According to my reckoning, we’ll get to Mt. Misena before you, Lepidus.

LEPIDUS

Your way is shorter.

My purposes do draw me much about.

You’ll win two days upon me.

LEPIDUS

You’re taking a shorter route. My plans take me a roundabout way. You’ll get there two days before me.

MAECENAS, AGRIPPA

Sir, good success.

MAECENAS, AGRIPPA

Good luck, sir.

LEPIDUS

Farewell.

LEPIDUS

Farewell.

Exeunt

They exit.