Julius Caesar Paraphrase: Act V, Scene 4
[Call to arms. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucilius, and Flavius.]
- Brutus.
- Still, countrymen! Oh still, hold up your heads!
[Exit.]
- Cato.
- What bastard does not? Who will go with me?
I will shout my name all around the field.
I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!
[Enter soldiers and fight.]
- Lucilius.
- And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I,
Brutus, my country's friend; know that I am Brutus!
[Young Cato is killed.]
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- Oh young and noble Cato, are you down?
Why, now you die as bravely as Titinius,
And you may be honored, being Cato's son.
- First Soldier.
- Surrender, or you die.
- Lucilius.
- I surrender only in order to die;
Here is much information that will make you kill me at once:
Kill Brutus, and be honored in his death.
- First Soldier.
- We must not. A noble prisoner!
[Enter Antony.]
- Second Soldier.
- Room ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is captured.
- First Soldier.
- I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.
Brutus is captured, Brutus is captured, my lord!
- Antony.
- Where is he?
- Lucilius.
- Safe, Antony, Brutus is safe enough.
I dare assure you that no enemy
Shall ever capture the noble Brutus alive;
May the gods defend him from so great a shame!
When you do find him, either 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 valuable. Keep this man safe,
Give him all kindness; I would rather have
Such men as my friends than my enemies. Go on,
And see whether Brutus is alive or dead,
And bring for us a message to Octavius' tent
Telling how everything turned out.
