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m with comfort raise. With-draw you from the storme: persist not still To loose your selfe: this royal diademe Regaine of _Caesar_. _Cl._ Soner shining light Shall leaue the daie, and darknes leaue the night: Sooner moist currents of tempestuous seas Shall waue in heauen, and the nightlie troopes Of starres shall shine within the foming waues, Then I thee, _Antonie_, Leaue in depe distres. I am with thee, be it thy worthy soule Lodge in thy brest, or from that lodging parte Crossing the ioyles lake to take hir place In place prepared for men Demy-gods. Liue, if thee please, if life be lothsome die: Dead and aliue, _Antonie_, thou shalt see Thy princesse follow thee, folow, and lament, Thy wrack, no lesse her owne then was thy weale. _Char._ What helps his wrack this euer-lasting loue? _Cl._ Help, or help not, such must, such ought I proue. _Char._ Ill done to loose your selfe, and to no ende. _Cl._ How ill thinke you to follow such a frende? _Char._ But this your loue nought mitigates his paine. _Cl._ Without this loue I should be inhumaine. _Char._ Inhumaine he, who his owne death pursues. _Cl._ Not inhumaine who miseries eschues. _Ch._ Liue for your sonnes. _Cl._ Nay for their father die. _Cha._ Hardhearted mother! _Cl._ Wife kindhearted I. _Ch._ Then will you them depriue of royall right? _Cl._ Do I depriue them? no, it's dest'nies might. _Ch._ Do you not them not depriue of heritage, That giue them vp to aduersaries handes, A man forsaken fearing to forsake, Whome such huge numbers hold enuironned? T' abandon one gainst whome the frowning world Banded with _Caesar_ makes conspiring warre. _Cl._ The lesse ought I to leaue him lest of all. _A frend in most distresse should most assist._ If that when _Antonie_ great and glorious His legions led to drinke _Euphrates_ streames, So many Kings in traine redoubting him; In triumph rais'd as high as highest heaun; Lord-like disposing as him pleased best, The wealth of _Greece_, the wealth of_Asia_: In that faire fortune had I him exchaung'd For _Caesar_, then, men would haue counted me Faithles, vnconstant, light: but now the storme, And blustring tempest driuing on his face, Readie to drowne, _Alas_! what would they saie? What would himselfe in _Plutos_ mansion saie? If I, whome alwaies more then l
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