This riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty...
作者：William Shakespeare，1564-1616，英国文艺复兴时期最伟大的剧作家、诗人、文学家；朗读：苑溪仙；播出时间：晚9点。
本集文本如下：
ACT III SCENE X Another part of the plain.
[ CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is heard the noise of a sea-fight ]
[Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:
The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,
With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:
To see't mine eyes are blasted.
[Enter SCARUS]
SCARUSGods and goddesses,5
All the whole synod of them!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSWhat's thy passion!
SCARUSThe greater cantle of the world is lost
With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away
Kingdoms and provinces.10
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSHow appears the fight?
SCARUSOn our side like the token'd pestilence,
Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--
Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,
When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,15
Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,
The breese upon her, like a cow in June,
Hoists sails and flies.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSThat I beheld:
Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not20
Endure a further view.
SCARUSShe 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:25
I never saw an action of such shame;
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before
Did violate so itself.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSAlack, alack!
[Enter CANIDIUS]
CANIDIUSOur fortune on the sea is out of breath,30
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!
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSAy, are you thereabouts?35
Why, then, good night indeed.
CANIDIUSToward Peloponnesus are they fled.
SCARUS'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend
What further comes.
CANIDIUSTo Caesar will I render40
My legions and my horse: six kings already
Show me the way of yielding.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUSI'll yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason
Sits in the wind against me.45
[Exeunt]
