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MESSALA

Octavius, then take him to follow thee,
That did the latest service to my master.

ANTONY
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he [70]

Did that they did in envy of great Caesar.
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle, and the elements

So mixed in him that Nature might stand up [75]
And say to all the world ‘This was a man!’

OCTAVIUS
According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.

Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,
Most like a soldier, ordered honourably. [80]
So call the field to rest, and let’s away
To part the glories of this happy day.
Exeunt.