William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra

ACT II. 6. SCENE VI. Near Misenum. (continued)

ENOBARBUS.
I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie
their friendship together will be the very strangler of their
amity: Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.

MENAS.
Who would not have his wife so?

ENOBARBUS.
Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony. He will to
his Egyptian dish again: then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the
fire up in Caesar; and, as I said before, that which is the
strength of their amity shall prove the immediate author of their
variance. Antony will use his affection where it is: he married
but his occasion here.

MENAS.
And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard? I have a health
for you.

ENOBARBUS.
I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.

MENAS.
Come, let's away.

[Exeunt.]