VARIUS. Most wifely do they act, nay justly too: SCENE II. Enter DOLABELLA pulling off his Difguife. LUCILIUS, What! DOLABELLA here? DOLABELLA. A Friend to VARIUS, Sent by ANTONIUS in moft fecret manner, Before the Soldier joins in bloody Battle. Who knows but each great Chief may grow more kind, In fight of wondring Armies may embrace, And Rome shall smile at their returning Friends? VARIUS. [Exit LUCILIUS. And can you think that BRUTUS flew great JULIUS, Τα To fuffer Tyranny in other Hands? DOLABELLA. Alas, that Tyranny is but a Word, Us'd only by us when we hate our Ruler. Have we not found (you'll pardon me, good VARIUS) VARIUS. What do I hear! Is any Grievance equal DOLABELLA. Yet these Expreffions fhew 'tis not mere ruling, Take all the Cares, and leave us all the Joys, Where is Content or Pleasure under Force? The Freedom of Man's Will not Heav'n constrains: Who Who wants it, and endures it, is a Brute. Yet put the case fome Phoenix Prince should reign, DOLABELLA. What Hardship's done by acting for Men's good? VARIUS. What good can come from arbitrary Sway? The choiceft Fare, forc'd down, will cloy the But here he comes himself to hear your Meffage : SCENE III. Enter BRUTUS. BRUTUS. [Exit VARIUS, A Meffage from ANTONIUS claims a Hearing, Whom, Whom, tho' my Enemy, I ftill efteem. DOLABELLA. His boldest Wishes aim at nothing higher, BRUTUS. And I abandon CASSIUS, and my Friends? DOLABELLA. Far be it from me to propofe fuch Baseness. Ah, DOLABELLA, little do you know The Mind of BRUTUS. When I flew your Cæsar, I would have crown'd him rather than myself, And free fhe fhall be ftill, if I prevail. May May claim whate'er a Commonwealth can give : DOLABELLA. Will you then rather fee the World in Arms, BRUTUS. May the great Gods destroy that World and me, Rome, that has toil'd for Fame fo many Ages, Of being most politely fociable; (A Virtue scarce known in the World befide, Gods! fhall all this fink into mean Submiffion? DOLABELLA. But yet Submission seems defign'd by Nature, Why elfe has she beftow'd fuch diff'rent Talents? I Some, |