Enter Antony with Attendants ANTONY         Hark, the land bids me tread no more upon’t, It is ashamed to bear me. Friends, come hither. I am so lated in the world that I Have lost my way for ever. I have a ship Laden with gold. Take that, divide it, fly, And make your peace with […]

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 […]

SCARUS                                  She once being luffed, 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!   (3.10.17-23)   Luffed or loofed […]

ENOBARBUS              How appears the fight? SCARUS          On our side like the tokened pestilence, Where death is sure. Yonder ribald nag of Egypt— Whom leprosy o’ertake!—i’th’ midst o’th’ fight— When vantage like a pair of twins appeared, Both as the same, or rather ours the elder— The breese upon her, like a cow in June, Hoists […]

Canidius marcheth with his land army one way over the stage, and Taurus, 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. Th’Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral, With all their sixty, […]

Enter Antony and Enobarbus ANTONY       Set we our squadrons on yon side o’th’ hill In eye of Caesar’s battle, from which place We may the number of the ships behold, And so proceed accordingly. [Exeunt]         (3.9.1-4)   That it’s a new scene in modern editions is meaningless; it’s continuous in the folio text and the […]

Enter Caesar with his army, marching CAESAR          Taurus! TAURUS          My lord? CAESAR          Strike not by land. Keep whole. Provoke not battle Till we have done at sea. [He gives him a scroll] Do not exceed The prescript of this scroll. Our fortune lies Upon this jump. Exeunt                         (3.8.1-5)   The contrast with the previous scene […]

SOLDIER         By Hercules, I think I am i’th’ right. CANIDIUS      Soldier, thou art; but his whole action grows Not in the power on’t. So our leader’s led, And we are women’s men. SOLDIER                     You keep by land The legions and the horse whole, do you not? CANIDIUS      Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius, Publicola, and Caelius are […]

Enter a Soldier ANTONY                     How now, worthy soldier? SOLDIER         O, noble Emperor, do not fight by sea. Trust not to rotten planks. Do you misdoubt This sword and these my wounds? Let th’Egyptians And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we Have used to conquer standing on the earth, And fighting foot to foot. ANTONY                     Well, well; […]

Enter a Messenger ANTONY                     Thy business? MESSENGER  The news is true, my lord. He is descried. Caesar has taken Toryne. ANTONY         Can he be there in person? ’Tis impossible; Strange that his power should be. Canidius, Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, And our twelve thousand horse. We’ll to our ship. Away, my […]