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We shall try fortune in a second fight. [110]
Exeunt.

Scene IV IT

Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucilius, and Flavius.

BRUTUS

Yet, countrymen, O yet, hold up your heads!
[Exit, followed by Messala and Flavius.]

CATO
What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?
I will proclaim my name about the field −
I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!

A foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend. [5]
I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!

Enter more soldiers and fight.

LUCILIUS
And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I!
Brutus, my country’s friend! Know me for Brutus!

Cato is killed.

O young and noble Cato, art thou down?
Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius, [10]
And mayst be honoured, being Cato’s son.

FIRST SOLDIER
Yield, or thou diest.

LUCILIUS
Only I yield to die.

[Offering money] There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight.
Kill Brutus, and be honoured in his death.