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FIRST SOLDIER

We must not. A noble prisoner! [15]

SECOND SOLDIER
Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta’en.

FIRST SOLDIER
I’ll tell the news.
[Enter Antony.]

Here comes the general.
Brutus is ta’en, Brutus is ta’en, my lord!

ANTONY
Where is he?

LUCILIUS
Safe, Antony, Brutus is safe enough. [20]
I dare assure thee that no enemy
Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.

The gods defend him from so great a shame!
When you do find him, or alive or dead,
He will be found like Brutus, like himself. [25]

ANTONY
This is not Brutus, friend, but, I assure you,

A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe;
Give him all kindness. I had rather have
Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,
And see whe’er Brutus be alive or dead; [30]

And bring us word unto Octavius’ tent
How everything is chanced.
Exeunt.

Scene V IT

Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius.