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SCENE II.

Enter Fulvia.
Fulv.
Alas, my father!

Max.
Speak—What says my daughter?

Fulv.
What hast thou done?

Max.
Done, Fulvia!

Fulv.
O ye powers!
Cæsar has been attack'd—full well I know
By whom the deed was plann'd—'Tis thou, my father,
That, to revenge thee, urg'd the assassin's hand.

Max.
But say, is Cæsar dead?

Fulv.
Think of thy safety:
Already is the apartment round beset
With arms and soldiers.

Max.
Tell me if he lives,
Or lies a senseless corse.

Fulv.
Alas! I know not;
Lost in my fears I could attend to nothing.

Max.
Vain, childish terrors! I myself will go
To learn th' event.

[going, he meets Val.