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 loofed, 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

 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.] 

 SCENE XI. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

 Enter Antony with attendants. 

Antony

 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 Caesar. 

 ALL. Fly? Not we. 

 ANTONY. I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone. I have myself resolved upon a course Which has no need of you. Be gone. My treasure’s in the harbour. Take it. O, I followed that I blush to look upon. My very hairs 

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