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Fortune surmontant Vertu.
Quand Brut vincu veit Fortune faillie,
En sang civil undoyant Pharsalie:
Ja se voulant mettre l’espée au corps,
De voix hardie escrya telz recors:
Povre vertu en seulz dictz oportune,
Pourquoy suys tu es faictz dame Fortune?[1]
Brutus noble citoyen Rommain homme tresconstant, &
vertueux, apres avoir occis Jule Caesar, & soubzstenu tant
qu’il peut la liberte publicque contre Octave Cesar, fina-
lement se voyant du tout defaict avec sa partie, à la jour-
née de Pharsaille: ne voulut vif venir en la puissance de
son ennemy, Mais se tua luy mesme, avec le regret cy
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dessus escript, deplorant que es choses humaines Fortune
ha plus de puissance & domination que vertu. Ce que
l’on voit tous les jours avenir tellement que les vertueux,
sont subjectz aulx bienfortunez.
1. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius became the leaders of the Republican cause. The Caesarean troops, led by Mark Antony and Octavian, Caesar’s heir, defeated them in 42 BC in two battles at Philippi in Macedonia. (Pharsalus in Thessaly was the site of the battle in 48 BC in which Julius Caesar had defeated Pompey in a previous round of the Civil Wars. Pharsalia is here loosely used, as in the Roman poets, to refer to both sites of similar civil conflict.) For Brutus’ suicide after the defeat, see the end of Plutarch’s Life of Brutus.
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