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proper person - one almost expected her to ask those around
h:r to ; it down and trko tea" 14 .
Act Two be;,-in .ith oln Ice ope re's II.2, r:et in "Rome, an
open pl'ce". The ecene be^on ith Lepidus' req ;cct tli t riiobarbus
entreat his ca^trin "to so-'t and gentle speech" - the
reply v;-,s abbreviated to "I shrll entreat him/ To answer lil:e
Mi self: Here cones/ The noble Antony". (3b-4a; 13b-14a). The
onisLion of the lines between these tv;o statements renoved
another passage in which Antony's a ture is related to a
broader attitude to huravn affnirc. Lepidus in the origin; 1 !
uuggests that riuch a meeting ic not fit occasion for "';;rivate
stoma chine":
nob; • rbus: i.very tine
orves for the natter th.:t ic then born in't*
IIP; But small to greater matters mu:.t ;iv;' \vry
ypjj rbi-u,; i.ot if tiie small co:.iO riri
^.Q_:;L ao: To or speech is ",••.&....ion:
. •'.i j: 01- y you, :tir no embers u;o. Here cones
'.The noble ntony.
(9-14)
'.,;hio cut further \veai:ens the play's presentation of the debate
between decorum and inclin tix..
The ot>ior notable onission i:a t:.ic OCGIIO came in the
converr; tion of Enob;.rbus ..it . oeceiias and V Ti'opa v^hich
follows the b£ r r;e speech. Bot'a Culvert o..n