Char. By your most gracious pardon, 72
I sing but after you.
Cleo. My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But come, away;
Get me ink and paper: 76
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt. Exeunt.
ACT SECOND
Scene One
[Messina. A Room in Pompey's House]
Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike manner.
Pom. If the great gods be just, they shall assist
The deeds of justest men.
Mene. Know, worthy Pompey,
That what they do delay, they not deny.
Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays 4
The thing we sue for.
Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.
Pom. I shall do well: 8
The people love me, and the sea is mine;
My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope
73 salad days: days of youthful inexperience
10 crescent: growing (like the cresent moon)
auguring: prophesying
