The Argument.
Pompey
and Cæsar bring their Armies
so neare Rome, that the Senate except
against them. Cæsar vnduly and ambitiously commanding his forces.
Pompey more for feare of Cæsars violence to
the State, then mou'd with any affectation of his own greatnesse. Their opposite pleadings,
out of which admirable narrations are made, which yet not conducing to their ends,
warre ends them. In which at first Cæsar is
forc't to fly, whom Pompey not pursuing with
such wings as fitted a speeding Conqueror; his victory was preuented, and he vnhappily
dishonor'd. Whose ill fortune his most louing and learned wife Cornelia trauailde after,
with paines solemne and carefull enough; whom the two Lentnli and others attended,
till she miserably found him, and saw him monstrously murthered.
Both the Consuls and Cato are slaughterd
with their owne invincible hands; and Cæsar
(in spight of all his fortune) without his victory, victor.
