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Antony and Cleopatra

Act III, Scene 10

Another part of the plain.
 
[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. Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
         T       T     T      ,      3   3     ,        ,
      Naught, naught, all | naught, I can be|hold no*| longer:
         2   ,    ,      2  ,        ,    ,
      The Anton|iad,| the Egyp|tian ad|miral,
            ,           ,      ,          ,           x
      With all | their six|ty fly,| and turn | the rudder:
            x            ,          ,
      To see it,| mine^eyes | are blast|ed.  \\
 
[Enter SCARUS]
 
SCARUS
Gods, and goddesses, all the whole synod of them!
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
What's thy passion.
 
SCARUS
            ,        ,      ,         ,          ,
      The great|er cant|le of | the world,| is lost
            ,     ,     ,       2        ,       ,
      With ve|ry ig|norance,| we have kissed | away
        ,             ,      ,
      Kingdoms,| and prov|inces.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                                   2    ,           ,
                                How^appears | the fight?
 
SCARUS
       .  T    T     T         ,        ,      ,
      On^our side, like | the tok|ened pest|ilence,
              ,          ,         ,    2     ,        ,     2->
      Where death | is sure.| Yon^rib|audred nag | of Eg||ypt,  ??
             ,          ,   ,      2      ,        2     ,
      (Whom lep|rosy*/ oretake)| in the midst | of the fight,
            ,         ,        ,         ,          ,
      When vant|age like | a pair | of twins | appeared
        ,    2        ,         ,         ,         ,
      Both as the | same, or | rather | ours the | elder;
              ,       ,           ,       ,         ,
      (The breeze | upon | her) like | a cow | in June,
         T     T     T      T
      Hoists sails, and | flies.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                                 T  T       ,
                               That I | beheld:
             ,          ,      ,         ,        2       ,
      Mine^eyes | did sick|en at | the sight,| and could not
          ,       ,         ,
      Endure | a furth|er view.
 
SCARUS
                                      ,      2      ,
                               She* once | being loofed,
           ,       x     ,        ,       ,  2
      The nob|le ruin | of her | magic,| Antony,
        ,     2       T    T    T        2   ,       ,       ->
      Claps on his | sea-wing, and |(like^a dot|ing mal||lard)
       ,      2      ,           ,            ,      ,
      leav|ing the fight | in height,| flies^aft|er her:
         ,      ,        ,             ,    ,
      I nev|er saw | an ac|tion of / such shame;
         ,   2      ,          ,        ,        ,
      Exper|ience, man|hood*, hon|or, nere | before,
           ,   2    ,       ,
      Did vi|olate so | itself.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                                  ,       ,
                               Alack,| alack.
 
[Enter CANIDIUS]
 
CANIDIUS
           ,        ,        ,        ,          ,
      Our for|tune on | the sea | is out | of breath,
            ,       ,      ,   2      ,         ,  2
      And sinks | most la|mentably.| Had our | general
        ,              ,         ,               ,    ,
      Been what | he knew | himself,| it had / gone well:
          ,          x        ,      ,           ,
      Oh his | has given | examp|le for | our flight,
             ,       ,        ,
      Most gross|ly by | his own.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Aye, are you thereabouts? Why then good night indeed.
 
CANIDIUS
         ,    ,        ,       T    T    T
      Toward Pel/opon|nesus | are they fled.
 
SCARUS
            ,      x
      'Tis ea|sy to it,  \\
            ,         ,        ,           ,        ,
      And there | I will | attend | what furth|er comes.
 
CANIDIUS
                               ,        ,       ,      2->
                           To Cae|sar will | I ren||der
          ,          2       ,     ,      ,       ,
      My leg|ions and my / horse, six | kings al|ready
        ,    2       ,         ,
      Show me the | way of | yielding.
 
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
                                         ,        ,
                                       I'll yet^|follow
            ,         ,         ,   2      ,           x
      The woun|ded chance | of Ant|ony, though | my reason
        ,             ,        ,
      Sits in | the wind | against | me.  \\
 
[Exeunt]

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