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| custom of Rome, and perceiving that his wordes moved the | MARCUS |
| common people to compassion: he framed his eloquence to | BRUTUS |
| make their harts yerne the more, and taking Caesars gowne | |
| all bloudy in his hand, he layed it open to the sight of them | |
| all, shewing what a number of cuts and holes it had upon | |
| it. Therewithall the people fell presently into such a rage | |
| and mutinie, that there was no more order kept amongest | |
| the common people. For some of them cryed out, Kill the | |
| murtherers: others plucked up formes, tables, and stalles | |
| about the market place, as they had done before at the | |
| funeralls of Clodius, and having layed them all on a heape | |
| together, they set them on fire, and thereuppon did put the | |
| bodye of Caesar, and burnt it in the middest of the most | |
| holy places. And furthermore, when the fire was thoroughly | |
| kindled, some here, some there, tooke burning fire brands, | |
| and ranne with them to the murtherers houses that had killed | |
| him, to set them a fire. Howbeit the conspirators foreseeing | |
| the daunger before, had wisely provided for them selves, and | |
| fled. But there was a Poet called Cinna, who had bene no | |
| partaker of the conspiracy, but was alway one of Caesars | |
| chiefest friends: he dreamed the night before, that Caesar | The straunge |
| bad him to supper with him, and that he refusing to goe, | dreame of |
| Caesar was very importunate with him, and compelled him so | Cinna the |
| that at length he led him by the hand into a great darke | Poet. |
| place, where being marvelously affrayd, he was driven to | |
| follow him in spite of his hart. This dreame put him all | |
| night into a fever, and yet notwithstanding, the next morn- | |
| ing when he heard that they caried Caesars body to buriall, | |
| being ashamed not to accompany his funerals: he went out | The murder |
| of his house, and thrust him self into the prease of the | of Cinna the |
| common people that were in a great uprore. And bicause | Poet, being |
| some one called him by his name, Cinna: the people think- | mistaken for |
| ing he had bene that Cinna, who in an oration he made had | an other of |
| spoken very evill of Caesar, they falling upon him in their | that name. |
| rage, slue him outright in the market place. This made | |
| Brutus and his companions more affrayd, then any other | Brutus and |
| thing, next unto the chaunge of Antonius. Wherefore they | his consorts |
| got them out of Rome, and kept at the first in the citie of | doe flye from |
| Antium, hoping to returne againe to Rome, when the furie | Rome. |
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