Be it so;

I do desire no more.

Brutus. Prepare the body, then, and follow us.

[Exeunt all but Antony][89][90]

255Antony. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Thou art the ruins of the noblest man

That ever lived in the tide of times.[91]

Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!

260Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,