ACT III
SCENE X Another part of the plain.


 [CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over
 the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
 CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
 heard the noise of a sea-fight]

 [Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
 The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
 With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
 To see't mine eyes are blasted.

 [Enter SCARUS]

SCARUS Gods and goddesses,
 All the whole synod of them!

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS What's thy passion!

SCARUS The greater cantle of the world is lost
 With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
 Kingdoms and provinces.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS How appears the fight?

SCARUS On our side like the token'd pestilence,
 Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--
 Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,
 When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
 Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
 The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
 Hoists sails and flies.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS That I beheld:
 Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
 Endure a further view.

SCARUS She once being loof'd,
 The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
 Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,
 Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
 I never saw an action of such shame;
 Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
 Did violate so itself.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Alack, alack!

 [Enter CANIDIUS]

CANIDIUS Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
 And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
 Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
 O, he has given example for our flight,
 Most grossly, by his own!

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Ay, are you thereabouts?
 Why, then, good night indeed.

CANIDIUS Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.

SCARUS 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
 What further comes.

CANIDIUS To Caesar will I render
 My legions and my horse: six kings already
 Show me the way of yielding.

DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I'll yet follow
 The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
 Sits in the wind against me.

 [Exeunt]




 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA


ACT III