| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | |
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IULIUS | enemies and ill willers say, and how could they like of his | |
CÆSAR | frendes wordes? And who could perswade them otherwise, | |
| but that they would thinke his dominion a slaverie unto | |
| them, and tirannicall in him selfe? And yet if it be so, | |
| sayd he, that you utterly mislike of this day, it is better | |
| that you goe your selfe in person, and saluting the Senate, | |
Decius Brutus | to dismisse them till an other time. Therewithall he tooke | |
brought | Caesar by the hand, and brought him out of his house. | |
Caesar into the | Caesar was not gone farre from his house, but a bondman, a | |
Senate house. | straunger, did what he could to speake with him: and when | |
| he sawe he was put backe by the great prease and multitude | |
The tokens of | of people that followed him, he went straight unto his house, | |
the conspiracy | and put him selfe into Calpurniaes handes to be kept, till | |
against Caesar. | Caesar came backe againe, telling her that he had great | |
| matters to imparte unto him. And one Artemidorus also | |
| borne in the Ile of Gnidos, a Doctor of Rethoricke in the | |
| Greeke tongue, who by meanes of his profession was verie | |
| familliar with certaine of Brutus confederates, and therefore | |
| knew the most parte of all their practises against Caesar: | |
| came and brought him a litle bill wrytten with his owne | |
| hand, of all that he ment to tell him. He marking howe | |
| Caesar received all the supplications that were offered him, | |
| and that he gave them straight to his men that were about | |
| him, pressed neerer to him, and sayed: Caesar, reade this | |
| memoriall to your selfe, and that quickely, for they be | |
| matters of great waight and touche you neerely. Caesar | |
| tooke it of him, but coulde never reade it, though he many | |
| times attempted it, for the number of people that did salute | |
| him: but holding it still in his hande, keeping it to him | |
| selfe, went on withall into the Senate house. Howbeit other | |
| are of opinion, that it was some man else that gave him that | |
| memoriall, and not Artemidorus, who did what he could all | |
| the way as he went to geve it Caesar, but he was alwayes | |
| repulsed by the people. For these things, they may seeme | |
The place | to come by chaunce: but the place where the murther was | |
where Caesar | prepared, and where the Senate were assembled, and where | |
was slaine. | also there stoode up an image of Pompey dedicated by him | |
| selfe amongest other ornamentes which he gave unto the | |
| Theater: all these were manifest proofes that it was the | |
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