Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.

TITINIUS. I will be here again, even with a thought. [_Exit_]

CASSIUS. Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill; 20
My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius,
And tell me what thou not'st about the field.

[PINDARUS _ascends the hill_]

This day I breathed first: time is come round,
And where I did begin, there shall I end;
My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news? 25

PINDARUS. [_Above_] O my lord!

CASSIUS. What news?

PINDARUS. [_Above_] Titinius is enclosed 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.

[Note 20: /higher/ F1 | thither F2 F3 F4.]

[Note 22: [PINDARUS _ascends_...] Camb | Ff omit.]

[Note 28: [_Above_] Ff omit.]

[Note 32: /He's ta'en/ | Ff print as separate line.]

[Note 16: /yonder troops./ Messala and his escort coming from
Brutus.]

[Note 19: /with a thought:/ quick as thought. Cf. _The
Tempest_, IV, i, 64.]

[Note 20-21: "Cassius himself was at length compelled to fly
... into a little hill from whence they might see ... howbeit
Cassius saw nothing, for his sight was very bad."--Plutarch,
_Marcus Brutus_.]

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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

PINDARUS _descends_

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 freeman; 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 cover'd, as 'tis now,
Guide thou the sword. [PINDARUS _stabs him_] Caesar, thou art
reveng'd, 45
Even with the sword that kill'd thee. [_Dies_]

PINDARUS. So, I am free; yet would not so have been,
Durst I have done my will. O Cassius!
Far from this country Pindarus shall run, 49
Where never Roman shall take note of him. [_Exit_]

[Note 36: PINDARUS _de