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Scene VIINear Actium. Mark Antony’s campEnter Cleopatra and Domitius EnobarbusCleopatraI will be even with thee, doubt it not.Domitius EnobarbusBut why, why, why?CleopatraThou hast forspoke my being in these wars, And say’st it is not fit.Domitius EnobarbusWell, is it, is it?CleopatraIf not denounced against us, why should not we Be there in person?Domitius EnobarbusAsideWell, I could reply: If we should serve with horse and mares together, The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear A soldier and his horse.CleopatraWhat is’t you say?Domitius EnobarbusYour presence needs must puzzle Antony; Take from his heart, take from his brain, from’s time, What should not then be spared. He is already Traduced for levity; and ’tis said in Rome That Photinus an eunuch and your maids Manage this war.CleopatraSink Rome, and their tongues rot That speak against us! A charge we bear i’ the war, And, as the president of my kingdom, will Appear there for a man. Speak not against it: I will not stay behind.Domitius EnobarbusNay, I have done. Here comes the emperor.Enter Mark Antony and CanidiusMark AntonyIs it not strange, Canidius, That from Tarentum and Brundusium He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea, And take in Toryne? You have heard on’t, sweet?CleopatraCelerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.Mark AntonyA good rebuke, Which might have well becomed the best of men, To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we Will fight with him by sea.CleopatraBy sea! what else?CanidiusWhy will my lord do so?Mark AntonyFor that he dares us to’t.Domitius EnobarbusSo hath my lord dared him to single fight.CanidiusAy, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia. Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers, Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off; And so should you.Domitius EnobarbusYour ships are not well mann’d; Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people Ingross’d by swift impress; in Caesar’s fleet Are those that often have ‘gainst Pompey fought: Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace Shall fall you for refusing him at sea, Being prepared for land.Mark AntonyBy sea, by sea.Domitius EnobarbusMost worthy sir, you therein throw away The absolute soldiership you have by land; Distract your army, which doth most consist Of war-mark’d footmen; leave unexecuted Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego The way which promises assurance; and Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard, From firm security.Mark AntonyI’ll fight at sea.CleopatraI have sixty sails, Caesar none better.Mark AntonyOur overplus of shipping will we burn; And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail, We then can do’t at land.Enter a MessengerThy business?MessengerThe news is true, my lord; he is descried; Caesar has taken Toryne.Mark AntonyCan he be there in person? ’tis impossible; Strange that power should be. Canidius, Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land, And our twelve thousand horse. We’ll to our ship: Away, my Thetis!Enter a SoldierHow now, worthy soldier?SoldierO noble emperor, do not fight by sea; Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we Have used to conquer, standing on the earth, And fighting foot to foot.Mark AntonyWell, well: away!Exeunt Mark Antony, Queen Cleopatra, and Domitius EnobarbusSoldierBy Hercules, I think I am i’ the right.CanidiusSoldier, thou art: but his whole action grows Not in the power on’t: so our leader’s led, And we are women’s men.SoldierYou keep by land The legions and the horse whole, do you not?CanidiusMarcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius, Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea: But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar’s Carries beyond belief.SoldierWhile he was yet in Rome, His power went out in such distractions as Beguiled all spies.CanidiusWho’s his lieutenant, hear you?SoldierThey say, one Taurus.CanidiusWell I know the man.Enter a MessengerMessengerThe emperor calls Canidius.CanidiusWith news the time’s with labour, and throes forth, Each minute, some.Exeunt
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