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| they were apprehended, but rather that they should kill | MARCUS |
| them selves with their owne hands. And when Cassius and | BRUTUS |
| certeine other clapped their handes on their swordes under | |
| their gownes to draw them: Brutus marking the counten- | |
| aunce and gesture of Laena, and considering that he did use | |
| him selfe rather like an humble and earnest suter, then like | |
| an accuser: he sayd nothing to his companion (bicause there | |
| were many amongest them that were not of the conspiracie) | |
| but with a pleasaunt countenaunce encouraged Cassius. And | Brutus with |
| immediatlie after, Laena went from Caesar, and kissed | his counte- |
| his hande: which shewed plainlie that it was for some matter | naunce encor- |
| concerning him selfe, that he had held him so long in talke. | aged his feare- |
| Nowe all the Senators being entred first into this place or | full consortes |
| chapter house where the counsell should be kept: all the | |
| other conspirators straight stoode about Caesars chaire, as if | |
| they had had some thing to have sayd unto him. And some | |
| say, that Cassius casting his eyes upon Pompeys image, made | |
| his prayer unto it, as if it had bene alive. *Trebonius on | *In Caesars |
| thother side, drewe Antonius atoside, as he came into | life it is sayd, |
| the house where the Senate sate, and helde him with a long | it was Decius |
| talke without. When Caesar was come into the house, all | Brutus Albi- |
| the Senate rose to honor him at his comming in. So when | nus, that kept |
| he was set, the conspirators flocked about him, and amongst | Antonius with |
| them they presented one *Tullius Cimber, who made humble | a talke with- |
| sute for the calling home againe of his brother that was | out. |
| banished. They all made as though they were intercessors | *In Caesars |
| for him and tooke him by the handes, and kissed his head | life he is |
| and brest. Caesar at the first, simplie refused their kindnesse | called Metel- |
| and intreaties: but afterwardes, perceiving they still pressed | lus Cimber. |
| on him, he violently thrust them from him. Then Cimber | |
| with both his hands plucked Caesars gowne over his shoulders, | The murther |
| and Casca that stoode behinde him, drew his dagger first, | of Caesar. |
| and strake Caesar upon the shoulder, but gave him no great | |
| wound. Caesar feeling him selfe hurt, tooke him straight | Casca, the |
| by the hande he held his dagger in, and cried out in Latin: | first that |
| O traitor, Casca, what doest thou? Casca on thother side | wounded |
| cried in Graeke, and called his brother to helpe him. So | him. |
| divers running on a heape together to flie uppon Caesar, he | |
| looking about him to have fledde, sawe Brutus with a sworde | |
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