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| The whole counsell stucke to this opinion. So, for a notable | MARCUS |
| example of incredible misfortune, and unlooked for unto | BRUTUS |
| Pompey: Pompey the great was slayne, by the motion and | |
| counsell of this wicked Rethoritian Theodotus, as Theodotus | |
| afterwardes did him selfe boast of it. But when Iulius | |
| Caesar came afterwardes into Ægypt, the wicked men that | |
| consented to this counsell, had their payment according to | |
| their deserts: for they dyed every man of them a wicked | |
| death, saving this Theodotus, whome fortune respyted a litle | |
| while lenger, and yet in that tyme he lived a poore and miser- | |
| able life, never tarying longe in any one place. So Brutus | Theodotus |
| going uppe and downe Asia, Theodotus coulde hyde him | Chian, the |
| selfe no lenger, but was brought unto Brutus, where he | Rethoritian |
| suffered paines of death: so that he wanne more fame by | that gave |
| his deathe, then ever be did in his life. About that tyme, | counsell to |
| Brutus sent to praye Cassius to come to the citye of Sardis, | kill Pompey, |
| and so he did. Brutus understanding of his comming, went | was put to |
| to meete him with all his friendes. There, both their | death by |
| armies being armed, they called them both Emperors. | Brutus. |
| Nowe, as it commonly hapneth in great affayres betwene | |
| two persons, both of them having many friends, and so | Brutus and |
| many Captaines under them: there ranne tales and com- | Cassius doe |
| plaints betwixt them. Therefore, before they fell in hand | meete at the |
| with any other matter, they went into a litle chamber | citie of Sardis. |
| together, and bad every man avoyde, and did shut the dores | |
| to them. Then they beganne to powre out their complaints | Brutus and |
| one to the other, and grew hot and lowde, earnestly accusing | Cassius com- |
| one another, and at length fell both a weeping. Their | plaints one |
| friends that were without the chamber hearing them lowd | unto the |
| within, and angry betwene them selves, they were both | other. |
| amased, and affrayd also lest it would grow to further | |
| matter: but yet they were commaunded, that no man | |
| should come to them. Notwithstanding, one Marcus | M. Phaonius |
| Phaonius, that had bene a friend and follower of Cato | a follower of |
| while he lived, and tooke upon him to counterfeate a | Cato. |
| Philosopher, not with wisedom and discretion, but with a | |
| certaine bedlem and frantick motion: he would needes | |
| come into the chamber, though the men offered to keepe | |
| him out. But it was no boote to let Phaonius, when a | |
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