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MARCUS | she alwayes shewed a constant and pacient mind. The | |
BRUTUS | devise of the table was taken out of the Greeke stories, howe | |
The story of | Andromachè accompanied her husband Hector, when he went | |
Hector and | out of the citie of Troy, to goe to the warres, and how | |
Andromachè | Hector delivered her his litle sonne, and how her eyes were | |
set forth in | never of him. Porcia seeing this picture, and likening her | |
painted | selfe to be in the same case, she fell a weeping: and com- | |
tables. | ming thither oftentymes in a day to see it, she wept still. | |
| Acilius one of Brutus friendes perceiving that, rehearsed the | |
| verses Andromachè speaketh to this purpose in Homer: | |
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| Thou Hector art my father, and my mother, and my brother, | |
| And husband eke, and in all: I mind not any other. | |
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| Then Brutus smyling aunswered againe: But yet (sayd he) | |
| I can not for my part say unto Porcia, as Hector aunswered | |
| Andromachè in the same place of the Poet: | |
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| Tush, meddle thou with weying dewly out | |
| Thy mayds their task, and pricking on a clowt.*
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| For in deede, the weake constitution of her body, doth not | |
| suffer her to performe in shew, the valliant acts that we are | |
| able to doe: but for corage and constant minde, she shewed | |
| her selfe as stowt in the defence of her contry, as any of | |
| us. Bibulus, the sonne of Porcia, reporteth this story thus. | |
| Now Brutus imbarking at Elea in Luke, he sayled directly | |
| towards Athens. When he arrived there, the people of | |
| Athens received him with common joyes of rejoycing, and | |
How Brutus | honorable decrees made for him. He lay with a friend of | |
bestowed | his, with whome he went daily to heare the lectures of | |
his time at | Theomnestus Academick Philosopher, and of Cratippus the | |
Athens. | Peripatetick, and so would talke with them in Philosophie, | |
| that it seemed he left all other matters, and gave him selfe | |
| onely unto studye: howbeit secretly notwithstanding, he | |
| made preparation for warre. For he sent Herostratus into | |
| Macedon, to winne the Captaines and souldiers that were | |
Brutus | upon those marches, and he did also enterteyne all the | |
commendeth | younge gentlemen of the Romanes, whome he founde in | |
Ciceroes | Athens studying Philosophie: amongest them he found | |
sonne. | Ciceroes sonne, whome be highly praysed and commended, | |
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