Page 2262 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news? [25]

PINDARUS
(above)
O my lord!

CASSIUS
What news?

PINDARUS
Titinius is enclosèd round about
With horsemen that make to him on the spur,

Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him. [30]
Now Titinius − Now some light. O, he lights too!
He’s ta’en! (Shout) And hark! They shout for joy.

CASSIUS
Come down, behold no more.

O coward that I am to live so long,
To see my best friend ta’en before my face. [35]
Enter Pindarus.
Come hither, sirrah.

In Parthia did I take thee prisoner,
And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,
That whatsoever I did bid thee do,
Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath. [40]

Now be a free man, and with this good sword
That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom.
Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts,
And when my face is covered, as ’tis now,

Guide thou the sword. Caesar, thou art revenged, [45]
Even with the sword that killed thee.
He dies.

PINDARUS
So, I am free; yet would not so have been,

Durst I have done my will. O Cassius!