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Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:Enter SCARUS
The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
To see't mine eyes are blasted.
Gods and goddesses,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
All the whole synod of them!
What's thy passion!SCARUS
The greater cantle of the world is lostDOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
Kingdoms and provinces.
How appears the fight?SCARUS
On our side like the token'd pestilence,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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.
That I beheld:SCARUS
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not
Endure a further view.
She once being loof'd,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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.
Alack, alack!Enter CANIDIUS
Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
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!
Ay, are you thereabouts?CANIDIUS
Why, then, good night indeed.
Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.SCARUS
'Tis easy to't; and there I will attendCANIDIUS
What further comes.
To Caesar will I renderDOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
My legions and my horse: six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.
I'll yet followExeunt
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Sits in the wind against me.