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Julius Caesar: Act 5 Scene 4
Scene IV Another part of the field.
- [Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies;
- then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others]
- BRUTUS
- Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!
- CATO
- What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
- I will proclaim my name about the field:
- I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
- A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;
- I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
- BRUTUS
- And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;
- Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!
- [Exit]
- LUCILIUS
- O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
- Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius;
- And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.
- FIRST SOLDIER
- Yield, or thou diest.
- LUCILIUS
- Only I yield to die:
- There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;
- [Offering money]
- Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.
- FIRST SOLDIER
- We must not. A noble prisoner!
- SECOND SOLDIER
- Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.
- FIRST SOLDIER
- I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.
- [Enter ANTONY]
- Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.
- ANTONY
- Where is he?
- LUCILIUS
- Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:
- I dare assure thee that no enemy
- Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:
- The gods defend him from so great a shame!
- When you do find him, or alive or dead,
- He will be found like Brutus, like himself.
- ANTONY
- This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,
- A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;
- Give him all kindness: I had rather have
- Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
- And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;
- And bring us word unto Octavius' tent
- How every thing is chanced.
- [Exeunt]
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