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| which in deede did the more increase the feare and tumult. | MARCUS |
| But when they saw they slue no man, nether did spoyle | BRUTUS |
| or make havock of any thing: then certaine of the Senators, | |
| and many of the people imboldening them selves, went to | |
| the Capitoll unto them. There a great number of men being | |
| assembled together one after another: Brutus made an | |
| oration unto them to winne the favor of the people, and to | |
| justifie that they had done. All those that were by, sayd | |
| they had done well, and cryed unto them that they should | |
| boldly come downe from the Capitoll. Whereuppon, Brutus | |
| and his companions came boldly downe into the market | |
| place. The rest followed in trowpe, but Brutus went for- | |
| most, very honorably compassed in round about with the | |
| noblest men of the citie, which brought him from the | |
| Capitoll, thorough the market place, to the pulpit for | |
| orations. When the people saw him in the pulpit, although | |
| they were a multitude of rakehells of all sortes, and had a | |
| good will to make some sturre: yet being ashamed to doe it | |
| for the reverence they bare unto Brutus, they kept silence, to | |
| heare what he would say, When Brutus began to speake, | |
| they gave him quiet audience: howbeit immediatly after, | |
| they shewed that they were not all contented with the | |
| murther. For when another called Cinna would have spoken, | |
| and began to accuse Caesar: they fell into a great uprore | |
| among them, and marvelously reviled him. Insomuch that | |
| the conspirators returned againe into the Capitol. There | |
| Brutus being affrayd to be beseeged, sent back againe the | |
| noble men that came thither with him, thinking it no reason, | |
| that they which were no partakers of the murther, should | |
| be partakers of the daunger. Then the next morning the | |
| Senate being assembled, and holden within the temple of the | |
| goddesse Tellus, to wete the earth: and Antonius, Plancus, | |
| and Cicero, having made a motion to the Senate in that | |
| assembly, that they should take an order to pardon and | |
| forget all that was past, and to stablishe friendship and | |
| peace againe: it was decreed, that they should not onely | Honors de- |
| be pardoned, but also that the Consuls should referre it to | creed for the |
| the Senate what honors should be appoynted unto them. | murtherers of |
| This being agreed upon, the Senate brake up, and Antonius | Caesar. |
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