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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.1>Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.2>Is this a holiday? what! know you not,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.3>Being mechanical, you ought not walk</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.4>Upon a labouring day without the sign</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.5>Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.6>Why, sir, a carpenter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.7>Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.8>What dost thou with thy best apparel on?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>You, sir, what trade are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.10>Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.11>as you would say, a cobbler.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.12>But what trade art thou? answer me directly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.13>A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.14>conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.15>What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.16>Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.17>if you be out, sir, I can mend you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.18>What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.19>Why, sir, cobble you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.20>Thou art a cobbler, art thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.21>Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.22>meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.23>matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.25>recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.26>neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.27>But wherefore art not in thy shop today?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.28>Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.29>Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.31>to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.32>Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.33>What tributaries follow him to Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.34>To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.35>You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.36>O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.38>Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.40>Your infants in your arms, and there have sat</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.41>The livelong day, with patient expectation,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.42>To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.43>And when you saw his chariot but appear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.44>Have you not made an universal shout,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.45>That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.46>To hear the replication of your sounds</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>Made in her concave shores?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.48>And do you now put on your best attire?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.49>And do you now cull out a holiday?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.50>And do you now strew flowers in his way</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.51>That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.52>Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.53>Pray to the gods to intermit the plague</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.54>That needs must light on this ingratitude.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.55>Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.56>Assemble all the poor men of your sort;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.57>Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>Into the channel, till the lowest stream</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.59>Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all the Commoners</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.60>See whether their basest metal be not moved;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.61>They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.62>Go you down that way towards the Capitol;</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>This way will I</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.63>disrobe the images,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.64>If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.65>May we do so?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.66>You know it is the feast of Lupercal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.67>It is no matter; let no images</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.68>Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.69>And drive away the vulgar from the streets:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.70>So do you too, where you perceive them thick.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.71>These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.72>Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.73>Who else would soar above the view of men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.74>And keep us all in servile fearfulness.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. A public place.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Flourish. Enter CAESAR; ANTONY, for the course; CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>Calpurnia!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.2> Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.3>Calpurnia!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.4>Here, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.5>Stand you directly in Antonius' way,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.6>When he doth run his course. Antonius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Caesar, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.8>Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.9>To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.10>The barren, touched in this holy chase,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.11>Shake off their sterile curse.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.12>I shall remember:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.13>When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.14>Set on; and leave no ceremony out.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.15>Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.16>Ha! who calls?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.17>Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.18>Who is it in the press that calls on me?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.19>I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.20>Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.21>Beware the ides of March.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.22>What man is that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.23>A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.24>Set him before me; let me see his face.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.25>Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.26>What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.27>Beware the ides of March.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.28>He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.</A><br>
<p><i>Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.29>Will you go see the order of the course?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.30>Not I.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.31>I pray you, do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.32>I am not gamesome: I do lack some part</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.33>Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.35>I'll leave you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.36>Brutus, I do observe you now of late:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.37>I have not from your eyes that gentleness</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.38>And show of love as I was wont to have:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.39>You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.40>Over your friend that loves you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.41>Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.42>Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.43>I turn the trouble of my countenance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.44>Merely upon myself. Vexed I am</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.45>Of late with passions of some difference,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.46>Conceptions only proper to myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.47>Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.48>But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.49>Among which number, Cassius, be you one--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.50>Nor construe any further my neglect,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.51>Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.52>Forgets the shows of love to other men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.53>Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.54>By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.55>Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.56>Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.57>No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.58>But by reflection, by some other things.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.59>'Tis just:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.60>And it is very much lamented, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.61>That you have no such mirrors as will turn</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.62>Your hidden worthiness into your eye,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.63>That you might see your shadow. I have heard,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.64>Where many of the best respect in Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.65>Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.66>And groaning underneath this age's yoke,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.68>Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.69>That you would have me seek into myself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.70>For that which is not in me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.71>Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.72>And since you know you cannot see yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.73>So well as by reflection, I, your glass,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.74>Will modestly discover to yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.75>That of yourself which you yet know not of.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.76>And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.77>Were I a common laugher, or did use</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.78>To stale with ordinary oaths my love</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.79>To every new protester; if you know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.80>That I do fawn on men and hug them hard</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.81>And after scandal them, or if you know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.82>That I profess myself in banqueting</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.83>To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.</A><br>
<p><i>Flourish, and shout</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.84>What means this shouting? I do fear, the people</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.85>Choose Caesar for their king.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.86>Ay, do you fear it?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.87>Then must I think you would not have it so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.88>I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.89>But wherefore do you hold me here so long?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.90>What is it that you would impart to me?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>If it be aught toward the general good,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.92>Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.93>And I will look on both indifferently,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>For let the gods so speed me as I love</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.95>The name of honour more than I fear death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.96>I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.97>As well as I do know your outward favour.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>Well, honour is the subject of my story.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>I cannot tell what you and other men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.100>Think of this life; but, for my single self,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.101>I had as lief not be as live to be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.102>In awe of such a thing as I myself.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.103>I was born free as Caesar; so were you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.104>We both have fed as well, and we can both</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.105>Endure the winter's cold as well as he:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.106>For once, upon a raw and gusty day,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.107>The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.108>Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.109>Leap in with me into this angry flood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.110>And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.111>Accoutred as I was, I plunged in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.112>And bade him follow; so indeed he did.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.113>The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.114>With lusty sinews, throwing it aside</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.115>And stemming it with hearts of controversy;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.116>But ere we could arrive the point proposed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.117>Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.118>I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.119>Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.120>The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.121>Did I the tired Caesar. And this man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.122>Is now become a god, and Cassius is</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.123>A wretched creature and must bend his body,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.124>If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.125>He had a fever when he was in Spain,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.126>And when the fit was on him, I did mark</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.127>How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.128>His coward lips did from their colour fly,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.129>And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.130>Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.131>Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.132>Mark him and write his speeches in their books,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.133>Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.134>As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.135>A man of such a feeble temper should</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.136>So get the start of the majestic world</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.137>And bear the palm alone.</A><br>
<p><i>Shout. Flourish</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.138>Another general shout!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.139>I do believe that these applauses are</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.140>For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.141>Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.142>Like a Colossus, and we petty men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.143>Walk under his huge legs and peep about</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.144>To find ourselves dishonourable graves.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.145>Men at some time are masters of their fates:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.146>The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.147>But in ourselves, that we are underlings.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.148>Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.149>Why should that name be sounded more than yours?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.150>Write them together, yours is as fair a name;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.151>Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.152>Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.153>Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.154>Now, in the names of all the gods at once,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.155>Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.156>That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.157>Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.158>When went there by an age, since the great flood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.159>But it was famed with more than with one man?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.160>When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.161>That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.162>Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.163>When there is in it but one only man.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.164>O, you and I have heard our fathers say,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.165>There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.166>The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.167>As easily as a king.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.168>That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.169>What you would work me to, I have some aim:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.170>How I have thought of this and of these times,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.171>I shall recount hereafter; for this present,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.172>I would not, so with love I might entreat you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.173>Be any further moved. What you have said</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.174>I will consider; what you have to say</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.175>I will with patience hear, and find a time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.176>Both meet to hear and answer such high things.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.177>Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.178>Brutus had rather be a villager</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.179>Than to repute himself a son of Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.180>Under these hard conditions as this time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.181>Is like to lay upon us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.182>I am glad that my weak words</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.183>Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.184>The games are done and Caesar is returning.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.185>As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.186>And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.187>What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter CAESAR and his Train</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.188>I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.189>The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.190>And all the rest look like a chidden train:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.191>Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.192>Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.193>As we have seen him in the Capitol,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.194>Being cross'd in conference by some senators.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.195>Casca will tell us what the matter is.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.196>Antonius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.197>Caesar?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.198>Let me have men about me that are fat;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.199>Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.200>Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.201>He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.202>Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.203>He is a noble Roman and well given.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.204>Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.205>Yet if my name were liable to fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.206>I do not know the man I should avoid</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.207>So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.208>He is a great observer and he looks</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.209>Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.210>As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.211>Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.212>As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.213>That could be moved to smile at any thing.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.214>Such men as he be never at heart's ease</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.215>Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.216>And therefore are they very dangerous.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.217>I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.218>Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.219>Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.220>And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.</A><br>
<p><i>Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.221>You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.222>Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.223>That Caesar looks so sad.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.224>Why, you were with him, were you not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.225>I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.226>Why, there was a crown offered him: and being</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.227>offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.228>thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.229>What was the second noise for?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.230>Why, for that too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.231>They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.232>Why, for that too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.233>Was the crown offered him thrice?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.234>Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.235>time gentler than other, and at every putting-by</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.236>mine honest neighbours shouted.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.237>Who offered him the crown?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.238>Why, Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.239>Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.240>I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.241>it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.242>Antony offer him a crown;--yet 'twas not a crown</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.243>neither, 'twas one of these coronets;--and, as I told</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.244>you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.245>thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.246>offered it to him again; then he put it by again:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.247>but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.248>fingers off it. And then he offered it the third</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.249>time; he put it the third time by: and still as he</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.250>refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.251>chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.252>and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.253>Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.254>Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.255>for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.256>opening my lips and receiving the bad air.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.257>But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.258>He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.259>mouth, and was speechless.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.260>'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.261>No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.262>And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.263>I know not what you mean by that; but, I am sure,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.264>Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.265>clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.266>displeased them, as they use to do the players in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.267>the theatre, I am no true man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.268>What said he when he came unto himself?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.269>Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.270>common herd was glad he refused the crown, he</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.271>plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.272>throat to cut. An I had been a man of any</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.273>occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.274>I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.275>he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.276>If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.277>their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.278>or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.279>soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.280>there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.281>stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.282>And after that, he came, thus sad, away?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.283>Ay.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.284>Did Cicero say any thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.285>Ay, he spoke Greek.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.286>To what effect?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.287>Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.288>face again: but those that understood him smiled at</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.289>one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.290>part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.291>news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.292>off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.293>well. There was more foolery yet, if I could</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.294>remember it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.295>Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.296>No, I am promised forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.297>Will you dine with me to-morrow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.298>Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.299>worth the eating.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.300>Good: I will expect you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.301>Do so. Farewell, both.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.302>What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.303>He was quick mettle when he went to school.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.304>So is he now in execution</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.305>Of any bold or noble enterprise,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.306>However he puts on this tardy form.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.307>This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.308>Which gives men stomach to digest his words</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.309>With better appetite.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.310>And so it is. For this time I will leave you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.311>To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.312>I will come home to you; or, if you will,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.313>Come home to me, and I will wait for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.314>I will do so: till then, think of the world.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit BRUTUS</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.315>Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.316>Thy honourable metal may be wrought</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.317>From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.318>That noble minds keep ever with their likes;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.319>For who so firm that cannot be seduced?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.320>Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.321>If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.322>He should not humour me. I will this night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.323>In several hands, in at his windows throw,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.324>As if they came from several citizens,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.325>Writings all tending to the great opinion</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.326>That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.327>Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.328>And after this let Caesar seat him sure;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.329>For we will shake him, or worse days endure.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. The same. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CICERO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.2>Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.3>Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.5>I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.6>Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.7>The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.8>To be exalted with the threatening clouds:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.9>But never till to-night, never till now,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.10>Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.11>Either there is a civil strife in heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.12>Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.13>Incenses them to send destruction.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CICERO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.14>Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.15>A common slave--you know him well by sight--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.16>Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.17>Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.18>Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.19>Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.20>Against the Capitol I met a lion,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.21>Who glared upon me, and went surly by,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.22>Without annoying me: and there were drawn</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.23>Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.24>Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.26>And yesterday the bird of night did sit</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>Even at noon-day upon the market-place,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.29>Do so conjointly meet, let not men say</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.30>'These are their reasons; they are natural;'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.31>For, I believe, they are portentous things</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.32>Unto the climate that they point upon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CICERO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.33>Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.34>But men may construe things after their fashion,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.36>Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.37>He doth; for he did bid Antonius</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.38>Send word to you he would be there to-morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CICERO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.39>Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.40>Is not to walk in.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.41>Farewell, Cicero.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CICERO</i></p>
<p><i>Enter CASSIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.42>Who's there?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.43> A Roman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.44>Casca, by your voice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.45>Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.46>A very pleasing night to honest men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.47>Who ever knew the heavens menace so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.48>Those that have known the earth so full of faults.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.49>For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.50>Submitting me unto the perilous night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.51>And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.52>Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.53>And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.54>The breast of heaven, I did present myself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.55>Even in the aim and very flash of it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.56>But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.57>It is the part of men to fear and tremble,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.58>When the most mighty gods by tokens send</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.59>Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.60>You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life</A><br>