| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | | |
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| MARCUS | for his naughty life: for they did abhor his banckets and | |
| ANTONIUS | dronken feasts he made at unseasonable times, and his | |
| extreme wastful expences upon vaine light huswives, and | |
| then in the day time he would sleepe or walke out his | |
| dronkennes, thinking to weare away the fume of the abound- | |
| Antonius | aunce of wine which he had taken over night. In his house | |
| abominable | they did nothing but feast, daunce, and maske: and him | |
| life. | selfe passed away the time in hearing of foolish playes, or in | |
| marrying these plaiers, tomblers, jeasters, and such sort of | |
| people. As for profe hereof it is reported, that at Hippias | |
| mariage, one of his jeasters, he drank wine so lustely all night, | |
| that the next morning when he came to pleade before the | |
| people assembled in counsel, who had sent for him: he | |
| Antonius | being quesie stomaked with his surfet he had taken, was | |
| laid up his | compelled to lay all* before them, and one of his friends held | |
| stomack | him his gowne in stead of a basen. He had another pleasaunt | |
| before the | player called Sergius, that was one of the chiefest men about | |
| whole | him, and a woman also called Cytheride, of the same profes- | |
| assembly. | sion, whom he loved derely: he caried her up and downe in | |
| a litter unto all the townes he went, and had as many men | |
| Antonius | waiting apon her litter, she being but a player, as were | |
| insolence. | attending upon his owne mother. It greved honest men | |
| also very much, to see that when he went into the contry, | |
| he caried with him a great number of cubbords ful of silver | |
| and gold plate, openly in the face of the world, as it had | |
| ben the pompe or shewe of some triumphe: and that | |
| eftsoones in the middest of his jorney he would set up his | |
| hales and tents hard by some greene grove or pleasaunt | |
| river, and there his Cookes should prepare him a sumptuous | |
| dinner. And furthermore, Lyons were harnesed in trases to | |
| drawe his carts: and besides also, in honest mens houses in | |
| the cities where he came, he would have common harlots, | |
| curtisans, and these tumbling gillots lodged. Now it greved | |
| men much, to see that Caesar should be out of Italy following | |
| of his enemies, to, end this great warre, with such great perill | |
| and daunger: and that others in the meane time abusing | |
| his name and authoritie, should commit such insolent and | |
| outragious parts unto their Citizens. This me thinkes was | |
| the cause that made the conspiracie against Caesar increase
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