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PRINCE

I do not like the Tower, of any place.
Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?

BUCKINGHAM

He did, my gracious lord, begin that place, [70]
Which since, succeeding ages have re-edified.

PRINCE

Is it upon record, or else reported
Successively from age to age, he built it?

BUCKINGHAM

Upon record, my gracious lord.

PRINCE

But say, my lord, it were not register’d, [75]
Methinks the truth should live from age to age,
As ’twere retail’d to all posterity,
Even to the general all-ending day.

RICHARD

[Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

PRINCE

What say you, uncle? [80]

RICHARD

I say, without characters fame lives long.
[Aside] Thus, like the formal Vice, Iniquity,
I moralize two meanings in one word.

PRINCE

That Julius Caesar was a famous man:
With what his valour did enrich his wit, [85]
His wit set down to make his valour live;
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror,
For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
I’ll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham.