Knowing the zeal and influence of Enobarbus, he recommends his mediation as a becoming and worthy deed, and tries to mitigate his vehemence:
Your speech is passion:
But, pray you, stir no embers up.
(II. ii. 12.)
And when the Triumvirs meet, the counsels of forbearance, which Shakespeare assigns to him and which in Plutarch are not associated with his name, are just in the right tone:
Noble friends,
That which combined us was most great, and let not
A leaner action rend us. What’s amiss
May it be gently heard: when we debate
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit