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| their funerals. When he saw that the people were very | MARCUS |
| glad and desirous also to heare Caesar spoken of, and his | ANTONIUS |
| praises uttered: he mingled his oration with lamentable | |
| wordes, and by amplifying of matters did greatly move | |
| their harts and affections unto pitie and compassion. In | |
| fine to conclude his oration, he unfolded before the whole | |
| assembly the bloudy garments of the dead, thrust through | |
| in many places with their swords, and called the malefactors, | |
| cruell and cursed murtherers. With these words he put the | |
| people into such a fury, that they presently toke Caesars | |
| body, and burnt it in the market place, with such tables | |
| and fourmes as they could get together. Then when the fire | |
| was kindled, they toke firebrands, and ran to the murtherers | |
| houses to set them afire, and to make them come out to fight. | |
| Brutus therfore and his accomplices, for safety of their persons | |
| were driven to fly the city. Then came all Caesars friends | Calpurnia, |
| unto Antonius, and specially his wife Calpurnia putting her | Caesars wife. |
| trust in him, she brought the moste part of her money into | |
| his house, which amounted to the summe of foure thowsand | |
| talents, and furthermore brought him al Caesars bokes and | |
| writings, in the which were his memorials of all that he had | |
| done and ordeyned. Antonius did daily mingle with them* | |
| such as he thought good, and by that meanes he created | |
| newe officers, made newe Senators, called home some that | |
| were banished, and delivered those that were prisoners, and | |
| then he sayde that all those thinges were so appoynted and | Charonites, |
| ordeyned by Caesar. Therefore the Romanes mocking them | why so |
| that were so moved, they called them Charonites: bicause | called. |
| that when they were overcome, they had no other helpe but | |
| to saye, that thus they were found in Caesars memorialls, who | M. Antonius |
| had sayled in Charons boate, and was departed. Thus Anto- | Consul. |
| nius ruled absolutely also in all other matters, bicause he was | Caius |
| Consul, and Caius one of his brethren Praetor, and Lucius | Antonius |
| the other, Tribune. Now thinges remayning in this state at | Praetor. |
| Rome, Octavius Caesar the younger, came to Rome, who was | Lucius |
| the sonne of Iulius Caesars Nece, as you have beard before, | Antonius |
| and was left his lawefull heire by will, remayning at the | Tribune: |
| tyme of the death of his great Uncle that was slayne, in | all three |
| the citie of Apollonia. This young man at his first arrivall | brethren |
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