| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | |
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IULIUS | him by the hand, and led him against his will. Now Cinna | |
CÆSAR | hearing at that time, that they burnt Caesars body in the | |
| market place, notwithstanding that he feared his dreame, | |
| and had an agew on him besides: he went into the market | |
| place to honor his funeralls. When he came thither, one of | |
| meane sorte asked what his name was? He was straight | |
| called by his name. The first man told it to an other, and | |
| that other unto an other, so that it ranne straight through | |
| them all, that he was one of them that murdered Caesar: | |
The murther | (for in deede one of the traitors to Caesar, was also called | |
of Cinna. | Cinna as him selfe) wherefore taking him for Cinna the | |
| murderer, they fell upon him with such furie, that they | |
| presently dispatched him in the market place. This sturre | |
| and furie made Brutus and Cassius more afrayed, then of | |
| all that was past, and therefore within fewe dayes after, | |
| they departed out of Rome: and touching their doings | |
| afterwards, and what calamity they suffered till their deathes, | |
| we have wrytten it at large, in the life of Brutus. Caesar | |
Caesar 56 | dyed at six and fifty yeres of age: and Pompey also lived | |
yere olde at | not passing foure yeares more then he. So he reaped no | |
his death. | other frute of all his raigne and dominion, which he had | |
| so vehemently desired all his life, and pursued with such | |
| extreame daunger: but a vaine name only, and a superficiall | |
The revenge | glory, that procured him the envy and hatred of his contrie. | |
of Caesars | But his great prosperitie and good fortune that favored him | |
death. | all his life time, did continue afterwards in the revenge of | |
| his death, pursuing the murtherers both by sea and land, | |
Cassius being | till they had not left a man more to be executed, of al them | |
overthrowen | that were actors or counsellers in the conspiracy of his death. | |
at the battell | Furthermore, of all the chaunces that happen unto men | |
of Philippes, | upon the earth, that which came to Cassius above all other, | |
slue himself | is most to be wondered at. For he being overcome in | |
with the selfe | battell at the jorney of Philippes, slue him selfe with the | |
same sword | same sworde, with the which he strake Caesar. Againe, of | |
wherewith he | signes in the element, the great comet which seven nightes | |
strake Caesar. | together was seene very bright after Caesars death, the eight | |
| night after was never seene more. Also the brightnes of | |
Wonders | the sunne was darkened, the which all that yeare through | |
seene in the | rose very pale, and shined not out, whereby it gave but | |
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