To soft and gentle speech.”
Enob. “I shall entreat him
To answer like himself: if Cæsar move him,
Let Antony look over Cæsar’s head,
And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,
Were I the wearer of Antonius’ Beard,
I would not shave’t to-day.”
This passage evidently associates the Beard with manly determination, and shaving with the want of it, for subsequently Enobarbus speaks of Antony’s effeminacy in these words:—
“Our courteous Antony,
Whom ne’er the word of No woman heard speak,