feat_summary_path: finished_summaries/shmoop/The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra/section_21_part_0.txt
feat_book_id: The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.act iii.scene x
feat_summary_id: act iii, scene x
feat_summary: {"name": "Act III, Scene x", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210116191009/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/antony-cleopatra/summary/act-iii-scene-x", "summary": "Stage directions show Taurus with Caesar's army and Canidius with Antony's army as they both cross paths. We can hear the battle off-stage, but Enobarbus comes in to deliver the horrifying news: in the middle of the battle, just when fortune could have gone one way or the other, Cleopatra's ship turned sail and ran away. Antony, seeing her flee, also turned his sails and followed her, leaving the battle to ruins and his honor to mockery. Canidius enters, announcing that this defeat was due to Antony not being remotely noble. Canidius decides to defect to Caesar's side with his troops, and Enobarbus leans toward defecting also, though he's not too happy about it.", "analysis": ""}
text: SCENE X.
                   Another part of the plain
  
          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
  
                      Alarum. Enter ENOBARBUS
  
    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.
  
                          Enter SCARUS
  
    SCARUS. Gods and goddesses,
      All the whole synod of them!
    ENOBARBUS. What's thy passion?
    SCARUS. The greater cantle of the world is lost
      With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
      Kingdoms and provinces.
    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' th' midst o' th' 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.
    ENOBARBUS. That I beheld;
      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,
      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!
  
                         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 they fled.
    SCARUS. 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
      What further comes.
    CANIDIUS. To Caesar will I render
      My legions and my horse; six kings already
      Show me the way of yielding.
    ENOBARBUS. I'll yet follow
      The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
      Sits in the wind against me.                          Exeunt
  
  ACT_3|SC_11
  
  
  
  
feat_summary_name: Act III, Scene x
target: Stage directions show Taurus with Caesar's army and Canidius with Antony's army as they both cross paths. We can hear the battle off-stage, but Enobarbus comes in to deliver the horrifying news: in the middle of the battle, just when fortune could have gone one way or the other, Cleopatra's ship turned sail and ran away. Antony, seeing her flee, also turned his sails and followed her, leaving the battle to ruins and his honor to mockery. Canidius enters, announcing that this defeat was due to Antony not being remotely noble. Canidius decides to defect to Caesar's side with his troops, and Enobarbus leans toward defecting also, though he's not too happy about it.