Act III, Scene 10

Another part of the plain.

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

[Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]

• Domitius Enobarus. 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. 2065

[Enter SCARUS]

• Scarus. Gods and goddesses,
  All the whole synod of them!

• Domitius Enobarus. What's thy passion!

• Scarus. The greater cantle of the world is lost 2070
  With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
  Kingdoms and provinces.

• Domitius Enobarus. How appears the fight?

• Scarus. On our side like the token'd pestilence,
  Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,— 2075
  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. 2080

• Domitius Enobarus. 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, 2085
  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. 2090

• Domitius Enobarus. 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: 2095
  O, he has given example for our flight,
  Most grossly, by his own!

• Domitius Enobarus. Ay, are you thereabouts?
  Why, then, good night indeed.

• Canidius. Toward Peloponnesus are they fled. 2100

• 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. 2105

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

[Exeunt]