Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Act 3 - Scene 10
Another part of the plain.
Domitius Enobarus : Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
[p]The Antoniad,
the Egyptian admiral,
[p]With all their sixty, fly and turn the
rudder:
[p]To see't mine eyes are blasted.
Scarus : Gods and goddesses,
[p]All the whole synod of them!
Domitius Enobarus : What's thy passion!
Scarus : The greater cantle of the world is lost
[p]With very ignorance; we
have kiss'd away
[p]Kingdoms and provinces.
Domitius Enobarus : How appears the fight?
Scarus : On our side like the token'd pestilence,
[p]Where death is sure. Yon
ribaudred nag of Egypt,--
[p]Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o'
the fight,
[p]When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,
[p]Both as
the same, or rather ours the elder,
[p]The breese upon her, like a cow
in June,
[p]Hoists sails and flies.
Domitius Enobarus : That I beheld:
[p]Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could
not
[p]Endure a further view.
Scarus : She once being loof'd,
[p]The noble ruin of her magic,
Antony,
[p]Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting
mallard,
[p]Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:
[p]I never
saw an action of such shame;
[p]Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er
before
[p]Did violate so itself.
Domitius Enobarus : Alack, alack!
Canidius : Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,
[p]And sinks most lamentably.
Had our general
[p]Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:
[p]O,
he has given example for our flight,
[p]Most grossly, by his own!
Domitius Enobarus : Ay, are you thereabouts?
[p]Why, then, good night indeed.
Canidius : Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
Scarus : 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
[p]What further comes.
Canidius : To Caesar will I render
[p]My legions and my horse: six kings
already
[p]Show me the way of yielding.
Domitius Enobarus : I'll yet follow
[p]The wounded chance of Antony, though my
reason
[p]Sits in the wind against me.
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