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Act 3, Scene 10

Another part of the Plain.

  1. [Enter CANIDIUS, marching with his land Army one way; and TAURUS, the Lieutenant of CAESAR, with his Army, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight.]
  2. [Alarum. Enter ENOBARBUS.]
  3. Enobarbus
  4. 1911 Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer:
  5. 1912 The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
  6. 1913 With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
  7. 1914 To see't mine eyes are blasted.
  8. [Enter SCARUS.]
  9. Scarus
  10. 1915 Gods and goddesses,
  11. 1916 All the whole synod of them!
  12. Enobarbus
  13. 1917 What's thy passion?
  14. Scarus
  15. 1918 The greater cantle of the world is lost
  16. 1919 With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
  17. 1920 Kingdoms and provinces.
  18. Enobarbus
  19. 1921 How appears the fight?
  20. Scarus
  21. 1922 On our side like the token'd pestilence,
  22. 1923 Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,—
  23. 1924 Whom leprosy o'ertake!—i' the midst o' the fight,
  24. 1925 When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
  25. 1926 Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,—
  26. 1927 The breese upon her, like a cow in June,—
  27. 1928 Hoists sails and flies.
  28. Enobarbus
  29. 1929 That I beheld:
  30. 1930 Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
  31. 1931 Endure a further view.
  32. Scarus
  33. 1932 She once being loof'd,
  34. 1933 The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
  35. 1934 Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,
  36. 1935 Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
  37. 1936 I never saw an action of such shame;
  38. 1937 Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
  39. 1938 Did violate so itself.
  40. Enobarbus
  41. 1939 Alack, alack!
  42. [Enter CANIDIUS.]
  43. Canidius
  44. 1940 Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
  45. 1941 And sinks most lamentably. Had our general
  46. 1942 Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
  47. 1943 O, he has given example for our flight
  48. 1944 Most grossly by his own!
  49. Enobarbus
  50. 1945 Ay, are you thereabouts?
  51. 1946 Why, then, good night indeed.
  52. Canidius
  53. 1947 Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
  54. Scarus
  55. 1948 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
  56. 1949 What further comes.
  57. Canidius
  58. 1950 To Caesar will I render
  59. 1951 My legions and my horse; six kings already
  60. 1952 Show me the way of yielding.
  61. Enobarbus
  62. 1953 I'll yet follow
  63. 1954 The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
  64. 1955 Sits in the wind against me.
  65. [Exeunt.]