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Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: Randall Martin
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Anthony and Cleopatra (Modern)

[3.10]
Camidius marcheth with his land army one way over the stage, and Taurus the Lieutenant of Caesar the other way. 1975After their going in is heard the noise of a sea-fight. Alarum.
Enter Enobarbus.
Enobarbus
Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.
Th'Antoniad, the Egyptian Admiral,
With all their sixty fly and turn the rudder!
1980To see't mine eyes are blasted!
Enter Scarrus.
Scarrus
Gods and goddesses,
All the whole synod of them!
Enobarbus
What's thy passion?
Scarrus
The greater cantle of the world is lost
1985With very ignorance. We have kissed away
Kingdoms and provinces.
Enobarbus
How appears the fight?
Scarrus
On our side, like the tokened pestilence,
Where death is sure. Yon ribald nag of Egypt,
1990Whom leprosy o'ertake, i'th'midst o'th'fight,
When vantage like a pair of twins appeared
Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails and flies.
1995Enobarbus
That I beheld.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
Endure a further view.
Scarrus
She once being luffed,
The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
2000Claps 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, honor, ne'er before
Did violate so itself!
2005Enobarbus
Alack, alack.
Enter Camidius.
Camidius
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.
2010Oh, he has given example for our flight
Most grossly by his own.
Enobarbus
Ay, are you thereabouts? Why then goodnight indeed.
Camidius
Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
2015Scarrus
'Tis easy to't, and there I will attend
What further comes.
Camidius
To Caesar will I render
My legions and my horse. Six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.
2020Enobarbus
I'll yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Sits in the wind against me.
Exeunt separately.