From Shakespeare Julius Caesar 5.1.79-90Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign, two mighty eagles fell, and there they perched, gorging and feeding from our soldiers hands, who to Philippi here consorted us. This morning are they fled away and gone, and in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites fly oer our heads and downward look on us as we were sickly prey, their shadows seem a canopy most fatal under which our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.

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