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| by his great victories, to consume with time. But Cassius | MARCUS |
| being a chollericke man, and hating Caesar privatlie, more | BRUTUS |
| then he did the tyrannie openlie: he incensed Brutus against | Cassius |
| him. It is also reported, that Brutus coulde evill away with* | incenseth |
| the tyrannie, and that Cassius hated the tyranne: making | Brutus |
| many complayntes for the injuries he had done him, and | against |
| amongest others, for that he had taken away his Lyons | Caesar. |
| from him. Cassius had provided them for his sportes, when | |
| he should be Ædilis, and they were found in the citie of | Cassius Lions |
| Megara, when it was wonne by Calenus, and Caesar kept | at Megara. | |
| them. The rumor went, that these Lyons did marvelous | |
| great hurt to the Magarians. For when the citie was taken, | |
| they brake their cages where they were tied up, and turned | |
| them loose, thinking they would have done great mischiefe | |
| to the enemies, and have kept them from setting uppon them: | |
| but the Lyons contrarie to expectacion, turned upon them | |
| selves that fled unarmed, and did so cruelly tare some in | |
| peces, that it pitied their enemies to see them. And this | |
| was the cause, as some do report, that made Cassius con- | |
| spire against Caesar. But this holdeth no water. For | |
| Cassius even from his cradell could not abide any maner of | Cassius an |
| tyrans, as it appeared when he was but a boy, and went | enemie of |
| unto the same schoole that Faustus, the sonne of Sylla did. | tyrans. |
| And Faustus bragging among other boyes, highly boasted | |
| of his fathers kingdom: Cassius rose up on his feete, and | |
| gave him two good whirts on the eare. Faustus gover- | |
| nors would have put this matter in sute against Cassius: | |
| but Pompey woulde not suffer them, but caused the two | |
| boyes to be brought before him, and asked them howe the | |
| matter came to passe. Then Cassius, as it is wrytten of | |
| him, said unto the other: Goe to Faustus, speake againe | |
| and thou darest, before this noble man here, the same | |
| wordes that made me angrie with thee, that my fistes may | |
| walke once againe about thine eares. Suche was Cassius | |
| hotte stirring nature. But for Brutus, his frendes and | How Brutus |
| contrie men, both by divers procurementes, and sundrie | was incensed |
| rumors of the citie, and by many bills also, did openlie | against Caesar. |
| call and procure him to doe that he did. For, under the | |
| image of his auncester Iunius Brutus, that drave the kinges | |
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