Before stout Brutus that proud Roman lord,
Whose bloodie hand strooke mightie Cæsar dead,
With fatall blade his owne deare bodie gor’d,
Strange apparitions, full of feare and dread
Foretold his heart blood should ere long be shead:
Dead Cæsar’s ghost spake to him in his tent,
The night before his tragicke death’s euent.
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Before proud Commodus that Roman king,
With violent poyson did the combate trie,