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| they had brought Brutus prisoner: they came out of all | MARCUS |
| parts of the campe to see him, some pitying his hard fortune, | BRUTUS |
| and others saying, that it was not done like him selfe so | |
| cowardlie to be taken alive of the barbarous people, for | |
| feare of death. When they came neere together, Antonius | |
| stayed a while, bethinking him selfe how he should use | |
| Brutus. In the meane time Lucilius was brought to him, | |
| who stowtly with a bold countenaunce sayd: Antonius, I | |
| dare assure thee, that no enemie hath taken, nor shall take | |
| Marcus Brutus alive: and I beseech God keepe him from | |
| that fortune. For wheresoever he be found, alive or dead: | |
| he will be found like him selfe. And nowe for my selfe, I | |
| am come unto thee, having deceived these men of armes | |
| here, bearing them downe that I was Brutus: and doe not | |
| refuse to suffer any torment thou wilt put me to. Lucilius | |
| wordes made them all amazed that heard him. Antonius | |
| on the other side, looking upon all them that had brought | |
| him, sayd unto them: My companions, I thinke ye are sorie | |
| you have failed of your purpose, and that you thinke this | |
| man hath done you great wrong: but I doe assure you, you | |
| have taken a better bootie, then that you followed. For, in | |
| steade of an enemie, you have brought me a frend: and for | |
| my parte, if you had brought me Brutus alive, truely I can | |
| not tell what I should have done to him. For, I had rather | |
| have suche men my frendes, as this man here, then enemies. | |
| Then he embraced Lucilius, and at that time delivered him | |
| to one of his frendes in custodie, and Lucilius ever after | |
| served him faithfullie, even to his death. Nowe Brutus | Brutus flying. |
| having passed a litle river, walled in on either side with hie | |
| rockes, and shadowed with great trees, being then darke | |
| night, he went no further, but stayed at the foote of a rocke | |
| with certaine of his Captaines and frends that followed him: | |
| and looking up to the firmament that was full of starres, | |
| sighing, he rehearsed two verses, of the which Volumnius | |
| wrote the one, to this effect: | |
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| Let not the wight from whom this mischiefe went | Appian |
| (O Iove) escape without dew punishment. | meaneth this |
| | by Antonius. |
| And sayth that he had forgotten the other. Within a | |
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