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CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army
one way over the stage, and TAURUS, the lieutenant of
CAESAR, the other way. After their going in is heard
the noise of a sea fight
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CANIDIUS and his army marches one way
across the stage while CAESAR’s lieutenant,
TAURUS, marches across the other way. After the two
armies march off stage, the noise of a battle at sea is
heard.
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Alarum. Enter
ENOBARBUS
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Trumpets sound a retreat. ENOBARBUS
enters.
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ENOBARBUS Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer.
Th’ Antoniad, the
Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder.
To see ’t mine eyes are blasted.
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ENOBARBUS We’re ruined, ruined, ruined! I can’t watch any more. The Egyptian
flagship, the Antoniad, followed by
all sixty Egyptian ships, has turned and fled. It destroyed my eyes
to look upon it.
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Enter SCARUS
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SCARUS enters.
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SCARUS Gods
and goddesses,
5All the whole synod of them!
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SCARUS Gods and goddesses—the whole congregation of them!
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ENOBARBUS What’s
thy passion?
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ENOBARBUS What’s wrong with you?
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SCARUS The greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance. We have kissed away
Kingdoms and provinces.
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SCARUS We have lost a major portion of the world through utter
foolishness. We have kissed away entire kingdoms and
provinces.
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ENOBARBUS How appears the
fight?
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ENOBARBUS How goes the battle?
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SCARUS On our side like the tokened pestilence,
10Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred 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 breeze upon her, like a cow in June,
15Hoists sails and flies.
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SCARUS Our side shows all the signs of certain defeat, which appear like
the symptomatic sores of the plague. Right in the middle of the
fight, just when the battle could have gone either way—actually we
had a slight advantage—that immoral Egyptian nag—May she die of
leprosy!—suddenly became frightened, and turned her ships around and
fled.
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ENOBARBUS That I beheld.
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight and could not
Endure a further view.
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ENOBARBUS I saw that. The sight made me so sick I couldn’t watch any more.
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