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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 Julius Caesar
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- {\b\fs36 5.5}
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- {\i Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and\
- Volumnius\
- }{\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.\
- {\i [He sits. Strato rests and falls asleep]\
- }{\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } Statillius showed the torchlight, but, my lord,\
- He came not back. He is or ta'en or slain.\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word:\
- It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. {\fs20 5}\
- {\i He whispers\
- }{\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } What I, my lord? No, not for all the world.\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Peace, then, no words.\
- {\b \fs24 CLITUS} I'll rather kill myself.\
- {\i He stands apart\
- }{\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Hark thee, Dardanius.\
- {\i He whispers\
- }{\b \fs24 DARDANIUS} Shall I do such a deed?\
- {\i He joins Clitus\
- }{\b \fs24 CLITUS} O Dardanius!\
- {\b \fs24 DARDANIUS} O Clitus! {\fs20 10}\
- {\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } What ill request did Brutus make to thee?\
- {\b \fs24 DARDANIUS\
- } To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.\
- {\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } Now is that noble vessel full of grief,\
- That it runs over even at his eyes.\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Come hither, good Volumnius. List a word. {\fs20 15}\
- {\b \fs24 VOLUMNIUS\
- } What says my lord?\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS} Why this, Volumnius.\
- The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me\
- Two several times by night\'b1\'b1at Sardis once,\
- And this last night, here in Philippi fields.\
- I know my hour is come.\
- {\b \fs24 VOLUMNIUS} Not so, my lord. {\fs20 20}\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.\
- Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes.\
- Our enemies have beat us to the pit,\
- {\i Low alarums\
- } It is more worthy to leap in ourselves\
- Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius, {\fs20 25}\
- Thou know'st that we two went to school together.\
- Even for that, our love of old, I prithee,\
- Hold thou my sword hilts whilst I run on it.\
- {\b \fs24 VOLUMNIUS\
- } That's not an office for a friend, my lord.\
- {\i Alarum still\
- }{\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } Fly, fly, my lord! There is no tarrying here. {\fs20 30}\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Farewell to you, and you, and you, Volumnius.\'b1\'b1\
- Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep.\
- {\i [Strato wakes]\
- } Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,\
- My heart doth joy that yet in all my life\
- I found no man but he was true to me. {\fs20 35}\
- I shall have glory by this losing day,\
- More than Octavius and Mark Antony\
- By this vile conquest shall attain unto.\
- So fare you well at once, for Brutus' tongue\
- Hath almost ended his life's history. {\fs20 40}\
- Night hangs upon mine eyes. My bones would rest,\
- That have but laboured to attain this hour.\
- {\i Alarum. Cry within: `Fly, fly, fly!'\
- }{\b \fs24 CLITUS\
- } Fly, my lord, fly!\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS} Hence; I will follow.\
- {\i Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius, and Volumnius\
- } I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.\
- Thou art a fellow of a good respect. {\fs20 45}\
- Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.\
- Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face\
- While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?\
- {\b \fs24 STRATO\
- } Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.\
- {\b \fs24 BRUTUS\
- } Farewell, good Strato.\
- {\i Strato holds the sword, while Brutus runs on it\
- } Caesar, now be still. {\fs20 50}\
- I killed not thee with half so good a will.\
- {\i He dies\
- Alarum. Retreat. Enter Antony, Octavius, Messala,\
- Lucillius, and the army\
- }{\b \fs24 OCTAVIUS} What man is that?\
- {\b \fs24 MESSALA\
- } My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?\
- {\b \fs24 STRATO\
- } Free from the bondage you are in, Messala.\
- The conquerors can but make a fire of him, {\fs20 55}\
- For Brutus only overcame himself,\
- And no man else hath honour by his death.\
- {\b \fs24 LUCILLIUS\
- } So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,\
- That thou hast proved Lucillius' saying true.\
- {\b \fs24 OCTAVIUS\
- } All that served Brutus, I will entertain them. {\fs20 60}\
- {\i (To Strato)\
- } Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?\
- {\b \fs24 STRATO\
- } Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.\
- {\b \fs24 OCTAVIUS\
- } Do so, good Messala.\
- {\b \fs24 MESSALA} How died my master, Strato?\
- {\b \fs24 STRATO\
- } I held the sword, and he did run on it.\
- {\b \fs24 MESSALA\
- } Octavius, then take him to follow thee, {\fs20 65}\
- That did the latest service to my master.\
- {\b \fs24 ANTONY\
- } This was the noblest Roman of them all.\
- All the conspirators save only he\
- Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.\
- He only in a general honest thought {\fs20 70}\
- And common good to all made one of them.\
- His life was gentle, and the elements\
- So mixed in him that nature might stand up\
- And say to all the world `This was a man'.\
- {\b \fs24 OCTAVIUS\
- } According to his virtue let us use him, {\fs20 75}\
- With all respect and rites of burial.\
- Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,\
- Most like a soldier, ordered honourably.\
- So call the field to rest, and let's away\
- To part the glories of this happy day. {\fs20 80}\
- {\i Exeunt [with Brutus' body]\
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