will use his affection where it is; he married but
his occasion here.
Men. And thus it may be. Come, sir, will 140
you aboard? I have a health for you.
Eno. I shall take it, sir: we have used our
throats in Egypt.
Men. Come; let's away. Exeunt.
Scene Seven
[On board Pompey's Galley off Misenum]
Music plays. Enter two or three Servants, with a banquet.
First Serv. Here they'll be, man. Some o'
their plants are ill-rooted already; the least
wind i' the world will blow them down.
Sec. Serv. Lepidus is high-coloured. 4
First Serv. They have made him drink alms-
drink.
Sec. Serv. As they pinch one another by the
disposition, he cries out, 'No more'; reconciles 8
them to his entreaty, and himself to the drink.
First Serv. But it raises the greater war be-
tween him and his discretion.
Sec. Serv. Why, this it is to have a name in 12
great men's fellowship; I had as lief have a reed
that will do me no service as a partisan I could
not heave.
139 occasion: opportunity for advantage
5 alms-drink: the leavings
7, 8 As they pinch . . . disposition; cf. n.
13–15 I had as lief . . . heave; cf. n.
