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122222 [sic] you both to God. See that ambitious Cæsar; that prov'd commander in his own opinion, and in others too almost a God; see him slain in the Senate house, and by the hands of Senatours; not falling by a single Death, but secured by Three and twenty wounds; like some wild beast, weltring in his blood (and what would you more) in Pompey's own Court, and at the foot of Pompey's Statue falling a great Sacrifice to that great shade. So methinks I pitty Brutus slain for and with his Country in the Fields of Philippi; but withall I am some what satisfyed, when not long after I behold, those victorious armies like gladiatours slaughtering one another at his Sepulchre; and one of the Generalls Marcus Antonius vanquished both by Sea and land; in the Company of three Women, with that effeminate Arme of his scarce finding the Death he sought. Where art thou now thou once Lord of all the East; thou Rh