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¶ Bot nowe a litel while .I. wil beweile
þis Pompeus þis noble gouernoure
Of Rome whiche þat flyeþ att þis Batayle
.I. saye one of his men a fals traiture
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His hedde of fmote to wynne him fauoure
Of Iulius & him þe hede brouht
Alas Pompey of þe Orient conqueroure
That fortune vnto suche a deþe brouht
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¶ To Rome aȝeine Repaireþ Iulius
Wiþ his tryumphe laureate ful hihe
Bot on a time Brutus Cassius [folio 216b]
þat euere hadde of his hihe astate envie
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Ful priuely had maad conspiracye
Aȝeynes þis Iulius in subtilite wise
And kest þe place in whiche he scholde deye
Wiþ Bodekynnes as .I. schal ȝowe devise
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¶ This Iulius to þe Capitoile went
vpon a daie as he was wont to goone
And in þe Capitoile anone him hente
This falce Brutus on of his foule fone
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And stikked him wiþ Bodekinnes anone
Wiþ mony a wound & þus þe lete him lye
Bot neuere gronte he att no stroke bott one
Or elles att tuo bot if his story lye
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¶ So manly was þis Iulius of hert
And so wele loued estately honeste
þat þouht his dedely woundes so sore smert
His Mantil ouere his hippes cast he
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For no man schol se his priuetee
And as he lay in deynge in a trance
And wist verraily þat dede was he
Of honeste ȝit hadde he Remembrance
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