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Chap. 15. Butcher of the Roman armies; the pursuer of Pompey and the Commonwealth? See how with thy bloody hand, thou hangest in a Cord; how being yet alive thou creepest into thy monument, and how even in Death it self thou art unwilling to be divorc'd from her that was the cause of thy Death; and then judge whether dying Brutus spent his last breath and wish in vain.

No Brutus, he was not hid; neither did he escape. No more did that other General who smarted for his youthful crimes, not obscurely in his own person, but most evidently in all his posterity. Let him be the fortunate and great Cæsar, and truly Augustus, but withall let him have a Iulia Rh