The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: ACT III
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III SCENE I. A plain in Syria. SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house. SCENE V. The same. Another room. SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp. SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. SCENE IX. Another part of the plain. SCENE X. Another part of the plain. SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE X. 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       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 5     Gods and goddesses,       All the whole synod of them! DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS       What's thy passion! SCARUS       The greater cantle of the world is lost       With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away 10    Kingdoms and provinces. DOMITIUS 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, 15    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. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS       That I beheld: 20    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, 25    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. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS       Alack, alack! Enter CANIDIUS CANIDIUS 30    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! DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 35    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 40    To Caesar will I render       My legions and my horse: six kings already       Show me the way of yielding. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS       I'll yet follow       The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason 45    Sits in the wind against me. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene