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- $Unique_ID{SSP01472}
- $Title{Antony and Cleopatra: Act III, Scene X}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*01450.txt}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
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- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
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- ACT III
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- SCENE X: Another part of the plain.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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- {CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over
- the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS
- CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is
- heard the noise of a sea-fight.}
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- {Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS.}
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- DOMITIUS 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.
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- {Enter SCARUS.}
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- SCARUS: Gods and goddesses,
- All the whole synod of them!
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: What's thy passion!
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- SCARUS: The greater cantle of the world is lost
- With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
- Kingdoms and provinces.
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: How appears the fight?
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- SCARUS: On our side like the token'd pestilence,
- Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,-- 10
- 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.
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: That I beheld:
- Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
- Endure a further view.
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- SCARUS: She once being loof'd,
- The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,
- Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard, 20
- 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.
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: Alack, alack!
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- {Enter CANIDIUS.}
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- 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!
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: Ay, are you thereabouts?
- Why, then, good night indeed. 30
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- CANIDIUS: Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.
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- SCARUS: 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
- What further comes.
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- CANIDIUS: To Caesar will I render
- My legions and my horse: six kings already
- Show me the way of yielding.
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- DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS: I'll yet follow
- The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
- Sits in the wind against me.
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- [Exeunt.]
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