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| that the greatest Eagle and ensigne was covered over with a | MARCUS |
| swarme of bees, and that there was one of the Captaines, | BRUTUS |
| whose arme sodainly fell a sweating, that it dropped oyle | Straunge |
| of roses from him, and that they oftentimes went about to | sightes before |
| drie him, but all would doe no good. And that before the | Brutus second |
| battell was fought, there were two Eagles fought betwene | battell. |
| both armies, and all the time they fought, there was a mar- | |
| velous great silence all the valley over, both the armies being | |
| one before the other, marking this fight betwene them: and | |
| that in the end, the Eagle towardes Brutus gave over, and | |
| flew away. But this is certaine, and a true tale: that when | |
| the gate of the campe was open, the first man the standerd | |
| bearer met that caried the Eagle, was an Æthiopian, whome | |
| the souldiers for ill lucke mangled with their swordes. Now, | |
| after that Brutus had brought his armie into the fielde, and | Brutus |
| had set them in battell ray, directlie against the voward of | second |
| his enemie: he pawsed a long time, before he gave the sig- | battell. |
| nall of battell. For Brutus riding up and downe to view | |
| the bands and companies: it came in his head to mistrust | |
| some of them, besides, that some came to tell him so muche | |
| as he thought. Moreover, he sawe his horsemen set forward | |
| but faintly, and did not goe lustely to geve charge: but still | |
| stayed, to see what the footemen woulde doe. Then sodainly, | |
| one of the chiefest Knightes he had in all his armie called | |
| Camulatius, and that was alway marvelously esteemed of for | |
| his valliantnes, untill that time: he came hard by Brutus a | |
| horsebacke, and roade before his face to yeeld him selfe unto | |
| his enemies. Brutus was marvelous sorie for it, wherefore | |
| partely for anger, and partely for feare of greater treason | |
| and rebellion, he sodainly caused his armie to marche, being | |
| past three of the clocke in the after noone. So in that place | |
| where he him selfe fought in person, he had the better: and | |
| brake into the left wing of his enemies, which gave him way, | |
| through the helpe of his horsemen that gave charge with his | |
| footemen, when they saw the enemies in a maze, and affrayed. | |
| Howbeit the other also on the right wing, when the Cap- | |
| taines would have had them to have marched: they were | |
| affraid to have bene compassed in behinde, bicause they were | |
| fewer in number then their enemies, and therefore did spred | |
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