Act III, Scene x:
Another part of the Plain.

[Enter CANIDIUS, marching with his land Army one way; andTAURUS, the Lieutenant of CAESAR, with his Army, the other way.After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight.]

[Alarum. Enter ENOBARBUS.]

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

ENOBARBUS:

I'll yet follow

The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason

Sits in the wind against me.

[Exeunt.]