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MARCUS | flie, bicause they were greatly troubled for the losse of | |
BRUTUS | their campe, and of them there were slayne by hand, three | |
| legions. Then being very earnest to followe the chase of | |
| them that fled, they ranne in amongest them hand over | |
| head into their campe, and Brutus among them. But | |
| that which the conquerors thought not of, occasion shewed | |
| it unto them that were overcome : and that was, the left | |
| wing of their enemies left naked, and ungarded of them | |
| of the right wing, who were strayed too far of, in follow- | |
| ing of them that were overthrowen. So they gave a hot | |
| charge upon them. But notwithstanding all the force they | |
| made, they coulde not breake into the middest of their | |
| battell, where they founde men that received them, and | |
| valliantlie made head against them. Howbeit they brake | |
| and overthrewe the left wing where Cassius was, by reason | |
| of the great disorder among them, and also bicause they had | |
| no intelligence how the right wing had sped. So they | |
| chased them beating them into their campe, the which they | |
| spoyled, none of both the Chieftaines being present there. | |
| For Antonius, as it is reported, to flie the furie of the first | |
| charge, was gotten into the next marish: and no man coulde | |
| tell what became of Octavius Caesar, after he was caried out | |
Octavius | of his campe. Insomuche that there were certaine souldiers | |
Caesar falsely | that shewed their swords bloodied, and sayd that they had | |
reported to | slaine him, and did describe his face, and shewed what age | |
be slaine at | he was of. Furthermore the voward, and the middest of | |
the battell of | Brutus battell, had alreadie put all their enemies to flight | |
Philippes. | that withstoode them, with great slaughter: so that Brutus | |
| had conquered all of his side, and Cassius had lost all on the | |
Cassius | other side. For nothing undid them, but that Brutus went | |
misfortune. | not to helpe Cassius, thinking he had overcome them, as him | |
| selfe had done: and Cassius on the other side taried not | |
| for Brutus, thinking he had bene overthrowen, as him selfe | |
| was. And to prove that the victorie fell on Brutus side, | |
| Messala confirmeth it: that they wanne three Eagles, and | |
| divers other ensignes of their enemies, and their enemies | |
| wanne never a one of theirs. Now Brutus returning from | |
| the chase, after he had slaine and sacked Caesars men: he | |
| wondred muche that he coulde not see Cassius tent standing | |
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