| LIVES OF THE NOBLE | | |
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| MARCUS | the great joy he felt. Then when be had taken his pleasure | |
| ANTONIUS | of the sight of them, he caused them to be set up in an | |
| open place, over the pulpit for Orations (where when he | |
| was alive, he had often spoken to the people) as if he had | |
| done the dead man hurt, and not bleamished his owne fortune, | |
| shewing him selfe (to his great shame and infamie) a cruell | |
| man, and unworthie the office and authoritie he bare. His | |
| uncle Lucius Caesar also, as they sought for him to kill | |
| him, and followed him hard, fledde unto his sister. The | |
| murtherers comming thither, forcing to breake into her | |
| chamber, she stoode at her chamber dore with her armes | |
| Lucius Caesars | abroade, crying out still: You shall not kill Lucius Caesar, | |
| life saved, by | before you first kill me, that bare your Captaine in my | |
| his sister. | wombe. By this meanes she saved her brothers life. Now | |
| the government of these Triumviri grewe odious and hate- | |
| Antonius | full to the Romanes, for divers respects: but they most | |
| riot in his | blamed Antonius, bicause he being elder then Caesar, and | |
| Triumvirate. | of more power and force then Lepidus, gave him selfe againe | |
| to his former riot and excesse, when he left to deale in the | |
| affaires of the common wealth. But setting aside the ill | |
| name be had for his insolencie, he was yet much more hated | |
| in respect of the house he dwelt in, the which was the | |
| The praise of | house of Pompey the great: a man as famous for his tem- | |
| Pompey the | peraunce, modestie, and civill life, as for his three triumphes. | |
| great. | For it grieved them to see the gates commonly shut against | |
| the Captaines, Magistrates of the citie, and also Ambassadors | |
| of straunge nations, which were sometimes thrust from the | |
| gate with violence: and that the house within was full of | |
| tomblers, anticke dauncers, juglers, players, jeasters, and | |
| dronkards, quaffing, and goseling, and that on them he | |
| spent and bestowed the most parte of his money he got | |
| by all kind of possible extorcions, briberie and policie. For | |
| they did not onely sell by the crier, the goods of those whom | |
| they had outlawed, and appointed to murther, slaunderously | |
| deceived the poore widowes and young orphanes, and also | |
| raised all kind of imposts, subsidies, and taxes: but under- | |
| standing also that the holy vestall Nunnes had certaine | |
| goods and money put in their custodie to keepe, both of | |
| mens in the citie, and those also that were abroade: they | |
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