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louds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done! Mistrust of my success hath done this deed. 65 [Note 51: Scene V Pope.--_Re-enter_ ..., _with_ Capell | Enter ... and ... Ff.] [Note 61: /to night/ Ff | to-night Knight.] [Note 62: /is set/ F1 | it set F2 F3 F4.] [Note 63: sun | Sunne F1 | Sonne F2 | Son F3 F4.] [Note 51: /change:/ interchange of loss and gain in the fight.] [Note 60-62: Cf. _Troilus and Cressida_, V, viii, 5-8.] [Page 157] MESSALA. Mistrust of good success hath done this deed. O hateful error, melancholy's child, Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men The things that are not? O error, soon conceiv'd, Thou never com'st unto a happy birth, 70 But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee! TITINIUS. What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus? MESSALA. Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet The noble Brutus, thrusting this report Into his ears: I may say, 'thrusting' it; 75 For piercing steel and darts envenomed Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus As tidings of this sight. TITINIUS. Hie you, Messala, And I will seek for Pindarus the while. [_Exit_ MESSALA] Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? 80 Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they Put on my brows this wreath of victory, And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts? Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing! But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow; 85 Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace, And see how I regarded Caius Cassius. By your leave, gods: this is a Roman's part: 89 Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart. [_Dies_] [Note 71: /engender'd/ | engendred Ff.] [Note 79: [_Exit_ MESSALA] | Ff omit.] [Note 67-69. Cassius is said to have been of a highly choleric or bilious temperament, and as such, predisposed to melancholy views of life.] [Note 90: "By-and-by they knew the horsemen that came towards them, and might see Titinius crowned with a garland of triumph, who came before with great speed unto Cassius. But when he perceived, by the cries and tears of his friends which tormented themselves, the misfortune that had chanced to his captain Cassius by mistaking, he drew out his sword, cursing himself a thousand ti
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