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Cas. Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill; My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius, And tell me what thou not'st about the field. This day I breathed first; time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end; My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?

Pin. [Above.] O my lord!

Cas. What news?

Pin. [Above.] Titinius is enclosed round about With horsemen, that make to him on the spur; Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him: Now, Titinius! Now some light; O, he lights too: He's ta'en. And hark, they shout for joy.

Cas. Come down; behold no more. O, coward that I am, to live so long, To see my best friend ta'en before my face!

Come hither, sirrah: In Parthia did I take thee prisoner; And then I swore thee, saving of thy life, That whatsoever I did bid thee do, Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath; Now be a freeman; and with this good sword, That ran through Cæsar's bowels, search this bosom. Stand not to answer; here, take thou the hilts; And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,  21 thick: dull, imperfect 25 is compass: has completed its cycle 31 light: alight, dismount 37 Parthia: in Crassus' disastrous campaign, in 53 B. C. 38 swore thee: made thee swear saving of: in return for my sparing 41 freeman: Cassius' death will free him from slavery 42 search: probe 