ACT FOURTH
Scene One
[A Room in Antony's House]
Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus [seated at a table].
Ant. These many then shall die; their names are prick'd.
Oct. Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
Lep. I do consent.
Oct. Prick him down, Antony.
Lep. Upon condition Publius shall not live,4
Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.
Ant. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
But, Lepidus, go you to Cæsar's house;
Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine8
How to cut off some charge in legacies.
Lep. What, shall I find you here?
Oct. Or here or at the Capitol.Exit Lepidus.
Ant. This is a slight unmeritable man,12
Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,
The three-fold world divided, he should stand
One of the three to share it?
Oct. So you thought him;
And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,16
In our black sentence and proscription.
Ant. Octavius, I have seen more days than you:
6 with . . . him: by a mark 'pricked' opposite his name, I condemn him
9 cut . . . charge: reduce some expenditures (by killing the legatees)
12 unmeritable: without merit
14 The . . . divided: if the world is to be divided into three parts
17 In the black sentence of our proscription
