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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>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>First Commoner</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.6>Why, sir, a carpenter.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.12>But what trade art thou? answer me directly.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.15>What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.18>What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.19>Why, sir, cobble you.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.20>Thou art a cobbler, art thou?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>Second Commoner</b></a>
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<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>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech16><b>FLAVIUS</b></a>
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<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>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>MARULLUS</b></a>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Caesar, my lord?</A><br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
<A NAME=1.3.61>That should be in a Roman you do want,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.62>Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.63>And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.64>To see the strange impatience of the heavens:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.65>But if you would consider the true cause</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.66>Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.67>Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.68>Why old men fool and children calculate,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.69>Why all these things change from their ordinance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.70>Their natures and preformed faculties</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.71>To monstrous quality,--why, you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.72>That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.73>To make them instruments of fear and warning</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.74>Unto some monstrous state.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.75>Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.76>Most like this dreadful night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.77>That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.78>As doth the lion in the Capitol,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.79>A man no mightier than thyself or me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.80>In personal action, yet prodigious grown</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.81>And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.82>'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.83>Let it be who it is: for Romans now</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.84>Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.85>But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.86>And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.87>Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.88>Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.89>Mean to establish Caesar as a king;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.90>And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.91>In every place, save here in Italy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.92>I know where I will wear this dagger then;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.93>Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.94>Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.95>Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.96>Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.97>Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.98>Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.99>But life, being weary of these worldly bars,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.100>Never lacks power to dismiss itself.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.101>If I know this, know all the world besides,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.102>That part of tyranny that I do bear</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.103>I can shake off at pleasure.</A><br>
<p><i>Thunder still</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.104>So can I:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.105>So every bondman in his own hand bears</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.106>The power to cancel his captivity.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.107>And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.108>Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.109>But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.110>He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.111>Those that with haste will make a mighty fire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.112>Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.113>What rubbish and what offal, when it serves</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.114>For the base matter to illuminate</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.115>So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.116>Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.117>Before a willing bondman; then I know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.118>My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.119>And dangers are to me indifferent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.120>You speak to Casca, and to such a man</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.121>That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.122>Be factious for redress of all these griefs,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.123>And I will set this foot of mine as far</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.124>As who goes farthest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.125>There's a bargain made.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.126>Now know you, Casca, I have moved already</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.127>Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.128>To undergo with me an enterprise</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.129>Of honourable-dangerous consequence;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.130>And I do know, by this, they stay for me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.131>In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.132>There is no stir or walking in the streets;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.133>And the complexion of the element</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.134>In favour's like the work we have in hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.135>Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.136>Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.137>'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.138>He is a friend.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CINNA</i></p>
<A NAME=1.3.139>Cinna, where haste you so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.140>To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.141>No, it is Casca; one incorporate</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.142>To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.143>I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.144>There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.145>Am I not stay'd for? tell me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.146>Yes, you are.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.147>O Cassius, if you could</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.148>But win the noble Brutus to our party--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.149>Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.150>And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.151>Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.152>In at his window; set this up with wax</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.153>Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.154>Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.155>Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.156>All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.157>To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.158>And so bestow these papers as you bade me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.159>That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CINNA</i></p>
<A NAME=1.3.160>Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.161>See Brutus at his house: three parts of him</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.162>Is ours already, and the man entire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.163>Upon the next encounter yields him ours.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.164>O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.165>And that which would appear offence in us,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.166>His countenance, like richest alchemy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.167>Will change to virtue and to worthiness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.168>Him and his worth and our great need of him</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.169>You have right well conceited. Let us go,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.170>For it is after midnight; and ere day</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.171>We will awake him and be sure of him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT II</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Rome. BRUTUS's orchard.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter BRUTUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.1>What, Lucius, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.2>I cannot, by the progress of the stars,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.3>Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.4>I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.5>When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.6>Call'd you, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.7>Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.8>When it is lighted, come and call me here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.9>I will, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.10>It must be by his death: and for my part,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.11>I know no personal cause to spurn at him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.12>But for the general. He would be crown'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.13>How that might change his nature, there's the question.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.14>It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.15>And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.16>And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.17>That at his will he may do danger with.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.18>The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.19>Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.20>I have not known when his affections sway'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.21>More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.22>That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.23>Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.24>But when he once attains the upmost round.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.25>He then unto the ladder turns his back,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.26>Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.27>By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.28>Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.29>Will bear no colour for the thing he is,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.30>Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.31>Would run to these and these extremities:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.32>And therefore think him as a serpent's egg</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.33>Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.34>And kill him in the shell.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.35>The taper burneth in your closet, sir.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.36>Searching the window for a flint, I found</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.37>This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.38>It did not lie there when I went to bed.</A><br>
<p><i>Gives him the letter</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.39>Get you to bed again; it is not day.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.40>Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.41>I know not, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.42>Look in the calendar, and bring me word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.43>I will, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.44>The exhalations whizzing in the air</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.45>Give so much light that I may read by them.</A><br>
<p><i>Opens the letter and reads</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.46>'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.47>Shall Rome, & c. Speak, strike, redress!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.48>Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.49>Such instigations have been often dropp'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.50>Where I have took them up.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.51>'Shall Rome, & c.' Thus must I piece it out:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.52>Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.53>My ancestors did from the streets of Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.54>The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.55>'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.56>To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.57>If the redress will follow, thou receivest</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.58>Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.59>Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.60>'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LUCIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.61>Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.62>I have not slept.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.63>Between the acting of a dreadful thing</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.64>And the first motion, all the interim is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.65>Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.66>The Genius and the mortal instruments</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.67>Are then in council; and the state of man,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.68>Like to a little kingdom, suffers then</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.69>The nature of an insurrection.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.70>Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.71>Who doth desire to see you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.72>Is he alone?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.73>No, sir, there are moe with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.74>Do you know them?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.75>No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their ears,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.76>And half their faces buried in their cloaks,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.77>That by no means I may discover them</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.78>By any mark of favour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.79>Let 'em enter.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LUCIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.80>They are the faction. O conspiracy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.81>Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.82>When evils are most free? O, then by day</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.83>Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.84>To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.85>Hide it in smiles and affability:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.86>For if thou path, thy native semblance on,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.87>Not Erebus itself were dim enough</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.88>To hide thee from prevention.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.89>I think we are too bold upon your rest:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.90>Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.91>I have been up this hour, awake all night.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.92>Know I these men that come along with you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.93>Yes, every man of them, and no man here</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.94>But honours you; and every one doth wish</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.95>You had but that opinion of yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.96>Which every noble Roman bears of you.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.97>This is Trebonius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.98> He is welcome hither.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.99>This, Decius Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.100>He is welcome too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.101>This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.102>They are all welcome.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.103>What watchful cares do interpose themselves</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.104>Betwixt your eyes and night?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.105>Shall I entreat a word?</A><br>
<p><i>BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.106>Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.107>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.108>O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.109>That fret the clouds are messengers of day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.110>You shall confess that you are both deceived.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.111>Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.112>Which is a great way growing on the south,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.113>Weighing the youthful season of the year.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.114>Some two months hence up higher toward the north</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.115>He first presents his fire; and the high east</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.116>Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.117>Give me your hands all over, one by one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.118>And let us swear our resolution.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.119>No, not an oath: if not the face of men,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.120>The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.121>If these be motives weak, break off betimes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.122>And every man hence to his idle bed;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.123>So let high-sighted tyranny range on,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.124>Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.125>As I am sure they do, bear fire enough</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.126>To kindle cowards and to steel with valour</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.127>The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.128>What need we any spur but our own cause,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.129>To prick us to redress? what other bond</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.130>Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.131>And will not palter? and what other oath</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.132>Than honesty to honesty engaged,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.133>That this shall be, or we will fall for it?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.134>Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.135>Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.136>That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.137>Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.138>The even virtue of our enterprise,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.139>Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.140>To think that or our cause or our performance</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.141>Did need an oath; when every drop of blood</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.142>That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.143>Is guilty of a several bastardy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.144>If he do break the smallest particle</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.145>Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.146>But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.147>I think he will stand very strong with us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.148>Let us not leave him out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.149>No, by no means.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>METELLUS CIMBER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.150>O, let us have him, for his silver hairs</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.151>Will purchase us a good opinion</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.152>And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.153>It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.154>Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.155>But all be buried in his gravity.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.156>O, name him not: let us not break with him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.157>For he will never follow any thing</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.158>That other men begin.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.159>Then leave him out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.160>Indeed he is not fit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.161>Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.162>Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.163>Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.164>Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.165>A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.166>If he improve them, may well stretch so far</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.167>As to annoy us all: which to prevent,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.168>Let Antony and Caesar fall together.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.169>Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.170>To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.171>Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.172>For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.173>Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.174>We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.175>And in the spirit of men there is no blood:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.176>O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.177>And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.178>Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.179>Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.180>Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.181>Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.182>And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.183>Stir up their servants to an act of rage,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.184>And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.185>Our purpose necessary and not envious:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.186>Which so appearing to the common eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.187>We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.188>And for Mark Antony, think not of him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.189>For he can do no more than Caesar's arm</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.190>When Caesar's head is off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.191>Yet I fear him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.192>For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.193>Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.194>If he love Caesar, all that he can do</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.195>Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.196>And that were much he should; for he is given</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.197>To sports, to wildness and much company.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>TREBONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.198>There is no fear in him; let him not die;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.199>For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.</A><br>
<p><i>Clock strikes</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.200>Peace! count the clock.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.201>The clock hath stricken three.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>TREBONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.202>'Tis time to part.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.203> But it is doubtful yet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.204>Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.205>For he is superstitious grown of late,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.206>Quite from the main opinion he held once</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.207>Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.208>It may be, these apparent prodigies,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.209>The unaccustom'd terror of this night,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.210>And the persuasion of his augurers,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.211>May hold him from the Capitol to-day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.212>Never fear that: if he be so resolved,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.213>I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.214>That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.215>And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.216>Lions with toils and men with flatterers;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.217>But when I tell him he hates flatterers,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.218>He says he does, being then most flattered.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.219>Let me work;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.220>For I can give his humour the true bent,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.221>And I will bring him to the Capitol.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.222>Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.223>By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.224>Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>METELLUS CIMBER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.225>Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.226>Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.227>I wonder none of you have thought of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.228>Now, good Metellus, go along by him:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.229>He loves me well, and I have given him reasons;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.230>Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.231>The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.232>And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.233>What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.234>Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.235>Let not our looks put on our purposes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.236>But bear it as our Roman actors do,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.237>With untired spirits and formal constancy:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.238>And so good morrow to you every one.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but BRUTUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.239>Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.240>Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.241>Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.242>Which busy care draws in the brains of men;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.243>Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PORTIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.244>Brutus, my lord!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.245>Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.246>It is not for your health thus to commit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.247>Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.248>Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.249>Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.250>You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.251>Musing and sighing, with your arms across,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.252>And when I ask'd you what the matter was,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.253>You stared upon me with ungentle looks;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.254>I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.255>And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.256>Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.257>But, with an angry wafture of your hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.258>Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.259>Fearing to strengthen that impatience</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.260>Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.261>Hoping it was but an effect of humour,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.262>Which sometime hath his hour with every man.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.263>It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.264>And could it work so much upon your shape</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.265>As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.266>I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.267>Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.268>I am not well in health, and that is all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.269>Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.270>He would embrace the means to come by it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.271>Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.272>Is Brutus sick? and is it physical</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.273>To walk unbraced and suck up the humours</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.274>Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.275>And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.276>To dare the vile contagion of the night</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.277>And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.278>To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.279>You have some sick offence within your mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.280>Which, by the right and virtue of my place,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.281>I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.282>I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.283>By all your vows of love and that great vow</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.284>Which did incorporate and make us one,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.285>That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.286>Why you are heavy, and what men to-night</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.287>Have had to resort to you: for here have been</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.288>Some six or seven, who did hide their faces</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.289>Even from darkness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.290>Kneel not, gentle Portia.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.291>I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.292>Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.293>Is it excepted I should know no secrets</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.294>That appertain to you? Am I yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.295>But, as it were, in sort or limitation,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.296>To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.297>And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.298>Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.299>Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.300>You are my true and honourable wife,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.301>As dear to me as are the ruddy drops</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.302>That visit my sad heart</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.303>If this were true, then should I know this secret.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.304>I grant I am a woman; but withal</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.305>A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.306>I grant I am a woman; but withal</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.307>A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.308>Think you I am no stronger than my sex,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.309>Being so father'd and so husbanded?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.310>Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.311>I have made strong proof of my constancy,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.312>Giving myself a voluntary wound</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.313>Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.314>And not my husband's secrets?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.315>O ye gods,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.316>Render me worthy of this noble wife!</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.317>Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.318>And by and by thy bosom shall partake</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.319>The secrets of my heart.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.320>All my engagements I will construe to thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.321>All the charactery of my sad brows:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.322>Leave me with haste.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit PORTIA</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.323>Lucius, who's that knocks?</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.324>He is a sick man that would speak with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.325>Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.326>Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>LIGARIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.327>Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.328>O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.329>To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>LIGARIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.330>I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.331>Any exploit worthy the name of honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.332>Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.333>Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>LIGARIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.334>By all the gods that Romans bow before,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.335>I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.336>Brave son, derived from honourable loins!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.337>Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.338>My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.339>And I will strive with things impossible;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.340>Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.341>A piece of work that will make sick men whole.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>LIGARIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.342>But are not some whole that we must make sick?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.343>That must we also. What it is, my Caius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.344>I shall unfold to thee, as we are going</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.345>To whom it must be done.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>LIGARIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.346>Set on your foot,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.347>And with a heart new-fired I follow you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.348>To do I know not what: but it sufficeth</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.349>That Brutus leads me on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.350>Follow me, then.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. CAESAR's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his night-gown</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.1>Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.2>Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.3>'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.4>My lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.5>Go bid the priests do present sacrifice</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.6>And bring me their opinions of success.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.7>I will, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter CALPURNIA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.8>What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.9>You shall not stir out of your house to-day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.10>Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.11>Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.12>The face of Caesar, they are vanished.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.13>Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.14>Yet now they fright me. There is one within,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.15>Besides the things that we have heard and seen,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.16>Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.17>A lioness hath whelped in the streets;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.18>And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.19>Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.20>In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.21>Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.22>The noise of battle hurtled in the air,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.23>Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.24>And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.25>O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.26>And I do fear them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.27>What can be avoided</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.28>Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.29>Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.30>Are to the world in general as to Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.31>When beggars die, there are no comets seen;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.32>The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.33>Cowards die many times before their deaths;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.34>The valiant never taste of death but once.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.35>Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.36>It seems to me most strange that men should fear;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.37>Seeing that death, a necessary end,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.38>Will come when it will come.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.39>What say the augurers?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.40>They would not have you to stir forth to-day.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.41>Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.42>They could not find a heart within the beast.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.43>The gods do this in shame of cowardice:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.44>Caesar should be a beast without a heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.45>If he should stay at home to-day for fear.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.46>No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.47>That Caesar is more dangerous than he:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.48>We are two lions litter'd in one day,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.49>And I the elder and more terrible:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.50>And Caesar shall go forth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.51>Alas, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.52>Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.53>Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.54>That keeps you in the house, and not your own.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.55>We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.56>And he shall say you are not well to-day:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.57>Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.58>Mark Antony shall say I am not well,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.59>And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DECIUS BRUTUS</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.60>Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.61>Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.62>I come to fetch you to the senate-house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.63>And you are come in very happy time,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.64>To bear my greeting to the senators</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.65>And tell them that I will not come to-day:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.66>Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.67>I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CALPURNIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.68>Say he is sick.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.69> Shall Caesar send a lie?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.70>Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.71>To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.72>Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.73>Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.74>Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.75>The cause is in my will: I will not come;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.76>That is enough to satisfy the senate.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.77>But for your private satisfaction,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.78>Because I love you, I will let you know:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.79>Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.80>She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.81>Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.82>Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.83>Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.84>And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.85>And evils imminent; and on her knee</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.86>Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.87>This dream is all amiss interpreted;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.88>It was a vision fair and fortunate:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.89>Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.90>In which so many smiling Romans bathed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.91>Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.92>Reviving blood, and that great men shall press</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.93>For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.94>This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.95>And this way have you well expounded it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.96>I have, when you have heard what I can say:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.97>And know it now: the senate have concluded</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.98>To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.99>If you shall send them word you will not come,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.100>Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.101>Apt to be render'd, for some one to say</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.102>'Break up the senate till another time,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.103>When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.104>If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.105>'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.106>Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.107>To our proceeding bids me tell you this;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.108>And reason to my love is liable.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.109>How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.110>I am ashamed I did yield to them.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.111>Give me my robe, for I will go.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA, TREBONIUS, and CINNA</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.112>And look where Publius is come to fetch me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>PUBLIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.113>Good morrow, Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.114>Welcome, Publius.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.115>What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.116>Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.117>Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.118>As that same ague which hath made you lean.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.119>What is 't o'clock?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.120>Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.121>I thank you for your pains and courtesy.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ANTONY</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.122>See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.123>Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.124>So to most noble Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.125>Bid them prepare within:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.126>I am to blame to be thus waited for.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.127>Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.128>I have an hour's talk in store for you;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.129>Remember that you call on me to-day:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.130>Be near me, that I may remember you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>TREBONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.131>Caesar, I will:</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.132>and so near will I be,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.133>That your best friends shall wish I had been further.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.134>Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.135>And we, like friends, will straightway go together.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.136>[Aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.137>The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A street near the Capitol.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ARTEMIDORUS, reading a paper</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ARTEMIDORUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.1>'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.2>come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.3>Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.4>loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.5>There is but one mind in all these men, and it is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.6>bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.7>look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.8>The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.9>'ARTEMIDORUS.'</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.10>Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.11>And as a suitor will I give him this.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.12>My heart laments that virtue cannot live</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.13>Out of the teeth of emulation.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.14>If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.15>If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.1>I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.2>Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.3>Why dost thou stay?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.4>To know my errand, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.5>I would have had thee there, and here again,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.6>Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.7>O constancy, be strong upon my side,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.8>Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.9>I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.10>How hard it is for women to keep counsel!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.11>Art thou here yet?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.12> Madam, what should I do?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.13>Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.14>And so return to you, and nothing else?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.15>Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.16>For he went sickly forth: and take good note</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.17>What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.18>Hark, boy! what noise is that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.19>I hear none, madam.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.20>Prithee, listen well;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.21>I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.22>And the wind brings it from the Capitol.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.23>Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the Soothsayer</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.24>Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.25>At mine own house, good lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.26>What is't o'clock?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.27> About the ninth hour, lady.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.28>Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.29>Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.30>To see him pass on to the Capitol.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.31>Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.32>That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.33>To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.34>I shall beseech him to befriend himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.35>Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.36>None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.37>Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.38>The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.39>Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.40>Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.41>I'll get me to a place more void, and there</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.42>Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>PORTIA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.43>I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.44>The heart of woman is! O Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.45>The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.46>Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.47>That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.48>Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.49>Say I am merry: come to me again,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.50>And bring me word what he doth say to thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT III</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER, TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS, PUBLIUS, and others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.1>[To the Soothsayer] The ides of March are come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Soothsayer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.2>Ay, Caesar; but not gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ARTEMIDORUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.3>Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.4>Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.5>At your best leisure, this his humble suit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ARTEMIDORUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.6>O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.7>That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.8>What touches us ourself shall be last served.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ARTEMIDORUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.9>Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.10>What, is the fellow mad?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PUBLIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.11>Sirrah, give place.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.12>What, urge you your petitions in the street?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.13>Come to the Capitol.</A><br>
<p><i>CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest following</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>POPILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.14>I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.15>What enterprise, Popilius?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>POPILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.16>Fare you well.</A><br>
<p><i>Advances to CAESAR</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.17>What said Popilius Lena?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.18>He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.19>I fear our purpose is discovered.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.20>Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.21>Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.22>Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.23>Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.24>For I will slay myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.25>Cassius, be constant:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.26>Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.27>For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.28>Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.29>He draws Mark Antony out of the way.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.30>Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.31>And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.32>He is address'd: press near and second him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.33>Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.34>Are we all ready? What is now amiss</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.35>That Caesar and his senate must redress?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>METELLUS CIMBER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.36>Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.37>Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.38>An humble heart,--</A><br>
<p><i>Kneeling</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.39> I must prevent thee, Cimber.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.40>These couchings and these lowly courtesies</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.41>Might fire the blood of ordinary men,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.42>And turn pre-ordinance and first decree</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.43>Into the law of children. Be not fond,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.44>To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.45>That will be thaw'd from the true quality</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.46>With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.47>Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.48>Thy brother by decree is banished:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.49>If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.50>I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.51>Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.52>Will he be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>METELLUS CIMBER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.53>Is there no voice more worthy than my own</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.54>To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.55>For the repealing of my banish'd brother?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.56>I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.57>Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.58>Have an immediate freedom of repeal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.59>What, Brutus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.60> Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.61>As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.62>To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.63>I could be well moved, if I were as you:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.64>If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.65>But I am constant as the northern star,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.66>Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.67>There is no fellow in the firmament.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.68>The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.69>They are all fire and every one doth shine,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.70>But there's but one in all doth hold his place:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.71>So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.72>And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.73>Yet in the number I do know but one</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.74>That unassailable holds on his rank,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.75>Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.76>Let me a little show it, even in this;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.77>That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.78>And constant do remain to keep him so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.79>O Caesar,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.80> Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.81>Great Caesar,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.82> Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.83>Speak, hands for me!</A><br>
<p><i>CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and BRUTUS stab CAESAR</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CAESAR</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.84>Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.85>Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.86>Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.87>Some to the common pulpits, and cry out</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.88>'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.89>People and senators, be not affrighted;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.90>Fly not; stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CASCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.91>Go to the pulpit, Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.92>And Cassius too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.93>Where's Publius?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>CINNA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.94>Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>METELLUS CIMBER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.95>Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.96>Should chance--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.97>Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.98>There is no harm intended to your person,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.99>Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.100>And leave us, Publius; lest that the people,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.101>Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.102>Do so: and let no man abide this deed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.103>But we the doers.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter TREBONIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.104> Where is Antony?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>TREBONIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.105>Fled to his house amazed:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.106>Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.107>As it were doomsday.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.108>Fates, we will know your pleasures:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.109>That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.110>And drawing days out, that men stand upon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.111>Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.112>Cuts off so many years of fearing death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.113>Grant that, and then is death a benefit:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.114>So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.115>His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.116>And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.117>Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.118>Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.119>And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.120>Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.121>Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.122>Shall this our lofty scene be acted over</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.123>In states unborn and accents yet unknown!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.124>How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.125>That now on Pompey's basis lies along</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.126>No worthier than the dust!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.127>So oft as that shall be,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.128>So often shall the knot of us be call'd</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.129>The men that gave their country liberty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>DECIUS BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.130>What, shall we forth?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.131>Ay, every man away:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.132>Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.133>With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.134>Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.135>Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.136>Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.137>And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.138>Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.139>Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.140>Say I love Brutus, and I honour him;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.141>Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.142>If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.143>May safely come to him, and be resolved</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.144>How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.145>Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.146>So well as Brutus living; but will follow</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.147>The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.148>Thorough the hazards of this untrod state</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.149>With all true faith. So says my master Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.150>Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.151>I never thought him worse.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.152>Tell him, so please him come unto this place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.153>He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.154>Depart untouch'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.155> I'll fetch him presently.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.156>I know that we shall have him well to friend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.157>I wish we may: but yet have I a mind</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.158>That fears him much; and my misgiving still</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.159>Falls shrewdly to the purpose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.160>But here comes Antony.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter ANTONY</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.161>Welcome, Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.162>O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.163>Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.164>Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.165>I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.166>Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.167>If I myself, there is no hour so fit</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.168>As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.169>Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.170>With the most noble blood of all this world.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.171>I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.172>Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.173>Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.174>I shall not find myself so apt to die:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.175>No place will please me so, no mean of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.176>As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.177>The choice and master spirits of this age.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.178>O Antony, beg not your death of us.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.179>Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.180>As, by our hands and this our present act,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.181>You see we do, yet see you but our hands</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.182>And this the bleeding business they have done:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.183>Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.184>And pity to the general wrong of Rome--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.185>As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.186>Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.187>To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.188>Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.189>Of brothers' temper, do receive you in</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.190>With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.191>Your voice shall be as strong as any man's</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.192>In the disposing of new dignities.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.193>Only be patient till we have appeased</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.194>The multitude, beside themselves with fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.195>And then we will deliver you the cause,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.196>Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.197>Have thus proceeded.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.198>I doubt not of your wisdom.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.199>Let each man render me his bloody hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.200>First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.201>Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.202>Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.203>Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.204>Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.205>Gentlemen all,--alas, what shall I say?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.206>My credit now stands on such slippery ground,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.207>That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.208>Either a coward or a flatterer.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.209>That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.210>If then thy spirit look upon us now,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.211>Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.212>To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.213>Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.214>Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.215>Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.216>Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.217>It would become me better than to close</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.218>In terms of friendship with thine enemies.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.219>Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.220>Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.221>Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.222>O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.223>And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.224>How like a deer, strucken by many princes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.225>Dost thou here lie!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.226>Mark Antony,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.227> Pardon me, Caius Cassius:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.228>The enemies of Caesar shall say this;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.229>Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.230>I blame you not for praising Caesar so;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.231>But what compact mean you to have with us?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.232>Will you be prick'd in number of our friends;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.233>Or shall we on, and not depend on you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.234>Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.235>Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.236>Friends am I with you all and love you all,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.237>Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.238>Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.239>Or else were this a savage spectacle:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.240>Our reasons are so full of good regard</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.241>That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.242>You should be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.243>That's all I seek:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.244>And am moreover suitor that I may</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.245>Produce his body to the market-place;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.246>And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.247>Speak in the order of his funeral.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.248>You shall, Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.249>Brutus, a word with you.</A><br>
<p><i>Aside to BRUTUS</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.250>You know not what you do: do not consent</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.251>That Antony speak in his funeral:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.252>Know you how much the people may be moved</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.253>By that which he will utter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.254>By your pardon;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.255>I will myself into the pulpit first,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.256>And show the reason of our Caesar's death:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.257>What Antony shall speak, I will protest</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.258>He speaks by leave and by permission,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.259>And that we are contented Caesar shall</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.260>Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.261>It shall advantage more than do us wrong.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.262>I know not what may fall; I like it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.263>Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.264>You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.265>But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.266>And say you do't by our permission;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.267>Else shall you not have any hand at all</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.268>About his funeral: and you shall speak</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.269>In the same pulpit whereto I am going,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.270>After my speech is ended.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.271>Be it so.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.272>I do desire no more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.273>Prepare the body then, and follow us.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but ANTONY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.274>O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.275>That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.276>Thou art the ruins of the noblest man</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.277>That ever lived in the tide of times.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.278>Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.279>Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.280>Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.281>To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.282>A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.283>Domestic fury and fierce civil strife</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.284>Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.285>Blood and destruction shall be so in use</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.286>And dreadful objects so familiar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.287>That mothers shall but smile when they behold</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.288>Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.289>All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.290>And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.291>With Ate by his side come hot from hell,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.292>Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.293>Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.294>That this foul deed shall smell above the earth</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.295>With carrion men, groaning for burial.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.296>You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.297>I do, Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.298>Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.299>He did receive his letters, and is coming;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.300>And bid me say to you by word of mouth--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.301>O Caesar!--</A><br>
<p><i>Seeing the body</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.302>Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.303>Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.304>Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.305>Began to water. Is thy master coming?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.306>He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.307>Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.308>Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.309>No Rome of safety for Octavius yet;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.310>Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.311>Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.312>Into the market-place: there shall I try</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.313>In my oration, how the people take</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.314>The cruel issue of these bloody men;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.315>According to the which, thou shalt discourse</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.316>To young Octavius of the state of things.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.317>Lend me your hand.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt with CAESAR's body</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. The Forum.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.1>We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.2>Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.3>Cassius, go you into the other street,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.4>And part the numbers.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.5>Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.6>Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.7>And public reasons shall be rendered</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.8>Of Caesar's death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.9> I will hear Brutus speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.10>I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.11>When severally we hear them rendered.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS goes into the pulpit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.12>The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.13>Be patient till the last.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.14>Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.15>cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.16>for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.17>you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.18>awake your senses, that you may the better judge.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.19>If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.20>Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.21>was no less than his. If then that friend demand</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.22>why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.23>--Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.24>Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.25>die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.26>all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.27>as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.28>valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.29>slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.30>fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.31>ambition. Who is here so base that would be a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.32>bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.33>Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.34>any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.35>vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.36>for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.37>None, Brutus, none.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.38>Then none have I offended. I have done no more to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.39>Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.40>his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.41>extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.42>enforced, for which he suffered death.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.43>Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.44>though he had no hand in his death, shall receive</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.45>the benefit of his dying, a place in the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.46>commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.47>I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.48>good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.49>when it shall please my country to need my death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.50>Live, Brutus! live, live!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.51>Bring him with triumph home unto his house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.52>Give him a statue with his ancestors.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.53>Let him be Caesar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.54> Caesar's better parts</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.55>Shall be crown'd in Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.56>We'll bring him to his house</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.57>With shouts and clamours.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.58>My countrymen,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.59>Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.60>Peace, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.61>Good countrymen, let me depart alone,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.62>And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.63>Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.64>Tending to Caesar's glories; which Mark Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.65>By our permission, is allow'd to make.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.66>I do entreat you, not a man depart,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.67>Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.68>Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.69>Let him go up into the public chair;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.70>We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.71>For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you.</A><br>
<p><i>Goes into the pulpit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.72>What does he say of Brutus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.73>He says, for Brutus' sake,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.74>He finds himself beholding to us all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.75>'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.76>This Caesar was a tyrant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.77>Nay, that's certain:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.78>We are blest that Rome is rid of him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.79>Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.80>You gentle Romans,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.81>Peace, ho! let us hear him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.82>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.83>I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.84>The evil that men do lives after them;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.85>The good is oft interred with their bones;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.86>So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.87>Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.88>If it were so, it was a grievous fault,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.89>And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.90>Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.91>For Brutus is an honourable man;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.92>So are they all, all honourable men--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.93>Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.94>He was my friend, faithful and just to me:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.95>But Brutus says he was ambitious;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.96>And Brutus is an honourable man.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.97>He hath brought many captives home to Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.98>Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.99>Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.100>When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.101>Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.102>Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.103>And Brutus is an honourable man.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.104>You all did see that on the Lupercal</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.105>I thrice presented him a kingly crown,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.106>Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.107>Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.108>And, sure, he is an honourable man.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.109>I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.110>But here I am to speak what I do know.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.111>You all did love him once, not without cause:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.112>What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.113>O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.114>And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.115>My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.116>And I must pause till it come back to me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.117>Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.118>If thou consider rightly of the matter,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.119>Caesar has had great wrong.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.120>Has he, masters?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.121>I fear there will a worse come in his place.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.122>Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.123>Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.124>If it be found so, some will dear abide it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.125>Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.126>There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.127>Now mark him, he begins again to speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.128>But yesterday the word of Caesar might</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.129>Have stood against the world; now lies he there.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.130>And none so poor to do him reverence.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.131>O masters, if I were disposed to stir</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.132>Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.133>I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.134>Who, you all know, are honourable men:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.135>I will not do them wrong; I rather choose</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.136>To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.137>Than I will wrong such honourable men.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.138>But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.139>I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.140>Let but the commons hear this testament--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.141>Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.142>And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.143>And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.144>Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.145>And, dying, mention it within their wills,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.146>Bequeathing it as a rich legacy</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.147>Unto their issue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.148>We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.149>The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.150>Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.151>It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.152>You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.153>And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.154>It will inflame you, it will make you mad:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.155>'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.156>For, if you should, O, what would come of it!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.157>Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.158>You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.159>Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.160>I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.161>I fear I wrong the honourable men</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.162>Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.163>They were traitors: honourable men!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.164>The will! the testament!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.165>They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.166>You will compel me, then, to read the will?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.167>Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.168>And let me show you him that made the will.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.169>Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>Several Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.170>Come down.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.171>Descend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.172>You shall have leave.</A><br>
<p><i>ANTONY comes down</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.173>A ring; stand round.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.174>Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.175>Room for Antony, most noble Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.176>Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>Several Citizens</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.177>Stand back; room; bear back.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.178>If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.179>You all do know this mantle: I remember</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.180>The first time ever Caesar put it on;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.181>'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.182>That day he overcame the Nervii:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.183>Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.184>See what a rent the envious Casca made:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.185>Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.186>And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.187>Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.188>As rushing out of doors, to be resolved</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.189>If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.190>For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.191>Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.192>This was the most unkindest cut of all;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.193>For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.194>Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.195>Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.196>And, in his mantle muffling up his face,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.197>Even at the base of Pompey's statua,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.198>Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.199>O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.200>Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.201>Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.202>O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.203>The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.204>Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.205>Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.206>Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.207>O piteous spectacle!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.208>O noble Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.209>O woful day!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.210>O traitors, villains!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.211>O most bloody sight!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.212>We will be revenged.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.213>Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.214>Let not a traitor live!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.215>Stay, countrymen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.216>Peace there! hear the noble Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.217>We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.218>Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.219>To such a sudden flood of mutiny.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.220>They that have done this deed are honourable:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.221>What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.222>That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.223>And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.224>I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.225>I am no orator, as Brutus is;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.226>But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.227>That love my friend; and that they know full well</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.228>That gave me public leave to speak of him:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.229>For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.230>Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.231>To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.232>I tell you that which you yourselves do know;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.233>Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.234>And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.235>And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.236>Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.237>In every wound of Caesar that should move</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.238>The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.239>We'll mutiny.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.240>We'll burn the house of Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.241>Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.242>Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.243>Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.244>Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.245>Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.246>Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.247>You have forgot the will I told you of.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.248>Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.249>Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.250>To every Roman citizen he gives,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.251>To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.252>Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.253>O royal Caesar!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.254>Hear me with patience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>All</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.255>Peace, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.256>Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.257>His private arbours and new-planted orchards,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.258>On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.259>And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.260>To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.261>Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.262>Never, never. Come, away, away!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.263>We'll burn his body in the holy place,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.264>And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.265>Take up the body.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.266>Go fetch fire.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.267>Pluck down benches.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.268>Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Citizens with the body</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.269>Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.270>Take thou what course thou wilt!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.271>How now, fellow!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.272>Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.273>Where is he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.274>He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.275>And thither will I straight to visit him:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.276>He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.277>And in this mood will give us any thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.278>I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.279>Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.280>Belike they had some notice of the people,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.281>How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter CINNA the poet</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.1>I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.2>And things unlucky charge my fantasy:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.3>I have no will to wander forth of doors,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.4>Yet something leads me forth.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Citizens</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.5>What is your name?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.6>Whither are you going?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.7>Where do you dwell?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.8>Are you a married man or a bachelor?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.9>Answer every man directly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.10>Ay, and briefly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.11>Ay, and wisely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.12>Ay, and truly, you were best.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.13>What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.14>dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.15>answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.16>truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.17>That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.18>you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.19>Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.20>As a friend or an enemy?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.21>As a friend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Second Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.22>That matter is answered directly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.23>For your dwelling,--briefly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.24>Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.25>Your name, sir, truly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.26>Truly, my name is Cinna.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>First Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.27>Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.28>I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.29>Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CINNA THE POET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.30>I am not Cinna the conspirator.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>Fourth Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.31>It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.32>name out of his heart, and turn him going.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Third Citizen</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.3.33>Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.34>to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius'</A><br>
<A NAME=3.3.35>house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT IV</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. A house in Rome.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.1>These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.2>Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.3>I do consent--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.4> Prick him down, Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.5>Upon condition Publius shall not live,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.6>Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.7>He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.8>But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.9>Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.10>How to cut off some charge in legacies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>LEPIDUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.11>What, shall I find you here?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.12>Or here, or at the Capitol.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LEPIDUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.13>This is a slight unmeritable man,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.14>Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.15>The three-fold world divided, he should stand</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.16>One of the three to share it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.17>So you thought him;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.18>And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.19>In our black sentence and proscription.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.20>Octavius, I have seen more days than you:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.21>And though we lay these honours on this man,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.22>To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.23>He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.24>To groan and sweat under the business,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.25>Either led or driven, as we point the way;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.26>And having brought our treasure where we will,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.27>Then take we down his load, and turn him off,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.28>Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.29>And graze in commons.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.30>You may do your will;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.31>But he's a tried and valiant soldier.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.32>So is my horse, Octavius; and for that</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.33>I do appoint him store of provender:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.34>It is a creature that I teach to fight,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.35>To wind, to stop, to run directly on,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.36>His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.37>And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.38>He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.39>A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.40>On abjects, orts and imitations,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.41>Which, out of use and staled by other men,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.42>Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.43>But as a property. And now, Octavius,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.44>Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.45>Are levying powers: we must straight make head:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.46>Therefore let our alliance be combined,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.47>Our best friends made, our means stretch'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.48>And let us presently go sit in council,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.49>How covert matters may be best disclosed,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.50>And open perils surest answered.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.51>Let us do so: for we are at the stake,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.52>And bay'd about with many enemies;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.53>And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.54>Millions of mischiefs.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and Soldiers; TITINIUS and PINDARUS meeting them</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.1>Stand, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.2>Give the word, ho! and stand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.3>What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.4>He is at hand; and Pindarus is come</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.5>To do you salutation from his master.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.6>He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.7>In his own change, or by ill officers,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.8>Hath given me some worthy cause to wish</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.9>Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.10>I shall be satisfied.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>PINDARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.11>I do not doubt</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.12>But that my noble master will appear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.13>Such as he is, full of regard and honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.14>He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.15>How he received you, let me be resolved.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.16>With courtesy and with respect enough;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.17>But not with such familiar instances,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.18>Nor with such free and friendly conference,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.19>As he hath used of old.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.20>Thou hast described</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.21>A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.22>When love begins to sicken and decay,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.23>It useth an enforced ceremony.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.24>There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.25>But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.26>Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.27>But when they should endure the bloody spur,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.28>They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.29>Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.30>They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.31>The greater part, the horse in general,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.32>Are come with Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.33>Hark! he is arrived.</A><br>
<p><i>Low march within</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.34>March gently on to meet him.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CASSIUS and his powers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.35>Stand, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.36>Stand, ho! Speak the word along.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.37>Stand!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.38>Stand!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Third Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.39>Stand!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.40>Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.41>Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.42>And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.43>Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.44>And when you do them--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.45>Cassius, be content.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.46>Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.47>Before the eyes of both our armies here,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.48>Which should perceive nothing but love from us,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.49>Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.50>Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.51>And I will give you audience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.52>Pindarus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.53>Bid our commanders lead their charges off</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.54>A little from this ground.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.55>Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.56>Come to our tent till we have done our conference.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.57>Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Brutus's tent.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.1>That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.2>You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.3>For taking bribes here of the Sardians;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.4>Wherein my letters, praying on his side,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.5>Because I knew the man, were slighted off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.6>You wronged yourself to write in such a case.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.7>In such a time as this it is not meet</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.8>That every nice offence should bear his comment.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.9>Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.10>Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.11>To sell and mart your offices for gold</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.12>To undeservers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.13> I an itching palm!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.14>You know that you are Brutus that speak this,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.15>Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.16>The name of Cassius honours this corruption,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.17>And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.18>Chastisement!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.19>Remember March, the ides of March remember:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.20>Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.21>What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.22>And not for justice? What, shall one of us</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.23>That struck the foremost man of all this world</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.24>But for supporting robbers, shall we now</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.25>Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.26>And sell the mighty space of our large honours</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.27>For so much trash as may be grasped thus?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.28>I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.29>Than such a Roman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.30> Brutus, bay not me;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.31>I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.32>To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.33>Older in practise, abler than yourself</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.34>To make conditions.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.35>Go to; you are not, Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.36>I am.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.37>I say you are not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.38>Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.39>Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.40>Away, slight man!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.41>Is't possible?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.42> Hear me, for I will speak.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.43>Must I give way and room to your rash choler?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.44>Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.45>O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.46>All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.47>Go show your slaves how choleric you are,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.48>And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.49>Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.50>Under your testy humour? By the gods</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.51>You shall digest the venom of your spleen,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.52>Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.53>I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.54>When you are waspish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.55>Is it come to this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.56>You say you are a better soldier:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.57>Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.58>And it shall please me well: for mine own part,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.59>I shall be glad to learn of noble men.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.60>You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.61>I said, an elder soldier, not a better:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.62>Did I say 'better'?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.63>If you did, I care not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.64>When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.65>Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.66>I durst not!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.67>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.68>What, durst not tempt him!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.69>For your life you durst not!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.70>Do not presume too much upon my love;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.71>I may do that I shall be sorry for.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.72>You have done that you should be sorry for.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.73>There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.74>For I am arm'd so strong in honesty</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.75>That they pass by me as the idle wind,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.76>Which I respect not. I did send to you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.77>For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.78>For I can raise no money by vile means:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.79>By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.80>And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.81>From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.82>By any indirection: I did send</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.83>To you for gold to pay my legions,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.84>Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.85>Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.86>When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.87>To lock such rascal counters from his friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.88>Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.89>Dash him to pieces!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.90>I denied you not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.91>You did.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.92>I did not: he was but a fool that brought</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.93>My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.94>A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.95>But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.96>I do not, till you practise them on me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.97>You love me not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.98> I do not like your faults.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.99>A friendly eye could never see such faults.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.100>A flatterer's would not, though they do appear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.101>As huge as high Olympus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.102>Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.103>Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.104>For Cassius is aweary of the world;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.105>Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.106>Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.107>Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.108>To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.109>My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.110>And here my naked breast; within, a heart</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.111>Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.112>If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.113>I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.114>Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for, I know,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.115>When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.116>Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.117>Sheathe your dagger:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.118>Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.119>Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.120>O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.121>That carries anger as the flint bears fire;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.122>Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.123>And straight is cold again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.124>Hath Cassius lived</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.125>To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.126>When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.127>When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.128>Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.129>And my heart too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.130> O Brutus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.131>What's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.132>Have not you love enough to bear with me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.133>When that rash humour which my mother gave me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.134>Makes me forgetful?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.135>Yes, Cassius; and, from henceforth,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.136>When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.137>He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>Poet</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.138>[Within] Let me go in to see the generals;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.139>There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.140>They be alone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.141>[Within] You shall not come to them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>Poet</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.142>[Within] Nothing but death shall stay me.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, and LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.143>How now! what's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>Poet</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.144>For shame, you generals! what do you mean?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.145>Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.146>For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.147>Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.148>Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.149>Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.150>I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.151>What should the wars do with these jigging fools?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.152>Companion, hence!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.153> Away, away, be gone.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Poet</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.154>Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.155>Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.156>And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.157>Immediately to us.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt LUCILIUS and TITINIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.158>Lucius, a bowl of wine!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LUCIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.159>I did not think you could have been so angry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.160>O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.161>Of your philosophy you make no use,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.162>If you give place to accidental evils.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.163>No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.164>Ha! Portia!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.165>She is dead.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.166>How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.167>O insupportable and touching loss!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.168>Upon what sickness?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.169>Impatient of my absence,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.170>And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.171>Have made themselves so strong:--for with her death</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.172>That tidings came;--with this she fell distract,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.173>And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.174>And died so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.175> Even so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.176>O ye immortal gods!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS, with wine and taper</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.177>Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.178>In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.179>My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.180>Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.181>I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.182>Come in, Titinius!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LUCIUS</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter TITINIUS, with MESSALA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.183>Welcome, good Messala.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.184>Now sit we close about this taper here,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.185>And call in question our necessities.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.186>Portia, art thou gone?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.187>No more, I pray you.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.188>Messala, I have here received letters,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.189>That young Octavius and Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.190>Come down upon us with a mighty power,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.191>Bending their expedition toward Philippi.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.192>Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.193>With what addition?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.194>That by proscription and bills of outlawry,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.195>Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.196>Have put to death an hundred senators.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.197>Therein our letters do not well agree;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.198>Mine speak of seventy senators that died</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.199>By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.200>Cicero one!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.201> Cicero is dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.202>And by that order of proscription.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.203>Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.204>No, Messala.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.205>Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.206>Nothing, Messala.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.207> That, methinks, is strange.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.208>Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.209>No, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.210>Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.211>Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.212>For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.213>Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.214>With meditating that she must die once,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.215>I have the patience to endure it now.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.216>Even so great men great losses should endure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech94><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.217>I have as much of this in art as you,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.218>But yet my nature could not bear it so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech95><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.219>Well, to our work alive. What do you think</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.220>Of marching to Philippi presently?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech96><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.221>I do not think it good.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech97><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.222>Your reason?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech98><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.223>This it is:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.224>'Tis better that the enemy seek us:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.225>So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.226>Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.227>Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech99><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.228>Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.229>The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.230>Do stand but in a forced affection;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.231>For they have grudged us contribution:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.232>The enemy, marching along by them,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.233>By them shall make a fuller number up,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.234>Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.235>From which advantage shall we cut him off,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.236>If at Philippi we do face him there,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.237>These people at our back.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech100><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.238>Hear me, good brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech101><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.239>Under your pardon. You must note beside,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.240>That we have tried the utmost of our friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.241>Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.242>The enemy increaseth every day;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.243>We, at the height, are ready to decline.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.244>There is a tide in the affairs of men,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.245>Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.246>Omitted, all the voyage of their life</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.247>Is bound in shallows and in miseries.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.248>On such a full sea are we now afloat;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.249>And we must take the current when it serves,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.250>Or lose our ventures.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech102><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.251>Then, with your will, go on;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.252>We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech103><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.253>The deep of night is crept upon our talk,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.254>And nature must obey necessity;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.255>Which we will niggard with a little rest.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.256>There is no more to say?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech104><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.257>No more. Good night:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.258>Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech105><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.259>Lucius!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LUCIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.260>My gown.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit LUCIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.261>Farewell, good Messala:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.262>Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.263>Good night, and good repose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech106><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.264>O my dear brother!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.265>This was an ill beginning of the night:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.266>Never come such division 'tween our souls!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.267>Let it not, Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech107><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.268>Every thing is well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech108><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.269>Good night, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech109><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.270>Good night, good brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech110><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<A NAME=speech111><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.271>Good night, Lord Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech112><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.272>Farewell, every one.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt all but BRUTUS</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIUS, with the gown</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.273>Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech113><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.274>Here in the tent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech114><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.275> What, thou speak'st drowsily?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.276>Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'er-watch'd.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.277>Call Claudius and some other of my men:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.278>I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech115><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.279>Varro and Claudius!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter VARRO and CLAUDIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech116><b>VARRO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.280>Calls my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech117><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.281>I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.282>It may be I shall raise you by and by</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.283>On business to my brother Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech118><b>VARRO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.284>So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech119><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.285>I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.286>It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.287>Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.288>I put it in the pocket of my gown.</A><br>
<p><i>VARRO and CLAUDIUS lie down</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech120><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.289>I was sure your lordship did not give it me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech121><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.290>Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.291>Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.292>And touch thy instrument a strain or two?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech122><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.293>Ay, my lord, an't please you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech123><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.294>It does, my boy:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.295>I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech124><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.296>It is my duty, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech125><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.297>I should not urge thy duty past thy might;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.298>I know young bloods look for a time of rest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech126><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.299>I have slept, my lord, already.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech127><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.300>It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.301>I will not hold thee long: if I do live,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.302>I will be good to thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Music, and a song</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.303>This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.304>Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.305>That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.306>I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.307>If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.308>I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.309>Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.310>Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter the Ghost of CAESAR</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.311>How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.312>I think it is the weakness of mine eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.313>That shapes this monstrous apparition.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.314>It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.315>Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.316>That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.317>Speak to me what thou art.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech128><b>GHOST</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.318>Thy evil spirit, Brutus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech129><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.319>Why comest thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech130><b>GHOST</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.320>To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech131><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.321>Well; then I shall see thee again?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech132><b>GHOST</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.322>Ay, at Philippi.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech133><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.323>Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Ghost</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.324>Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.325>Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.326>Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech134><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.327>The strings, my lord, are false.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech135><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.328>He thinks he still is at his instrument.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.329>Lucius, awake!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech136><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.330>My lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech137><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.331>Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech138><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.332>My lord, I do not know that I did cry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech139><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.333>Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech140><b>LUCIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.334>Nothing, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech141><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.335>Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!</A><br>
<p><i>To VARRO</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.336>Fellow thou, awake!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech142><b>VARRO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.337>My lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech143><b>CLAUDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.338>My lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech144><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.339>Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech145><b>VARRO</b></a>
<A NAME=speech146><b>CLAUDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.340>Did we, my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech147><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.341>Ay: saw you any thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech148><b>VARRO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.342>No, my lord, I saw nothing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech149><b>CLAUDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.343>Nor I, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech150><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.344>Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.345>Bid him set on his powers betimes before,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.346>And we will follow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech151><b>VARRO</b></a>
<A NAME=speech152><b>CLAUDIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.347>It shall be done, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT V</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.1>Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.2>You said the enemy would not come down,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.3>But keep the hills and upper regions;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.4>It proves not so: their battles are at hand;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.5>They mean to warn us at Philippi here,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.6>Answering before we do demand of them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.7>Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.8>Wherefore they do it: they could be content</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.9>To visit other places; and come down</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.10>With fearful bravery, thinking by this face</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.11>To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.12>But 'tis not so.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.13> Prepare you, generals:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.14>The enemy comes on in gallant show;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.15>Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.16>And something to be done immediately.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.17>Octavius, lead your battle softly on,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.18>Upon the left hand of the even field.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.19>Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.20>Why do you cross me in this exigent?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.21>I do not cross you; but I will do so.</A><br>
<p><i>March</i></p>
<p><i>Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army; LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.22>They stand, and would have parley.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.23>Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.24>Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.25>No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.26>Make forth; the generals would have some words.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.27>Stir not until the signal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.28>Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.29>Not that we love words better, as you do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.30>Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.31>In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.32>Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.33>Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.34>Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.35>The posture of your blows are yet unknown;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.36>But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.37>And leave them honeyless.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.38>Not stingless too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.39>O, yes, and soundless too;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.40>For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.41>And very wisely threat before you sting.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.42>Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.43>Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.44>You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.45>And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.46>Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.47>Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.48>Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.49>This tongue had not offended so to-day,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.50>If Cassius might have ruled.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.51>Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.52>The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.53>I draw a sword against conspirators;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.54>When think you that the sword goes up again?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.55>Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.56>Be well avenged; or till another Caesar</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.57>Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.58>Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.59>Unless thou bring'st them with thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.60>So I hope;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.61>I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.62>O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.63>Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.64>A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.65>Join'd with a masker and a reveller!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.66>Old Cassius still!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.67> Come, Antony, away!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.68>Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.69>If you dare fight to-day, come to the field;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.70>If not, when you have stomachs.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.71>Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.72>The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.73>Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.74>[Standing forth] My lord?</A><br>
<p><i>BRUTUS and LUCILIUS converse apart</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.75>Messala!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.76>[Standing forth] What says my general?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.77>Messala,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.78>This is my birth-day; as this very day</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.79>Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.80>Be thou my witness that against my will,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.81>As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.82>Upon one battle all our liberties.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.83>You know that I held Epicurus strong</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.84>And his opinion: now I change my mind,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.85>And partly credit things that do presage.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.86>Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.87>Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.88>Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.89>Who to Philippi here consorted us:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.90>This morning are they fled away and gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.91>And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.92>Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.93>As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.94>A canopy most fatal, under which</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.95>Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.96>Believe not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.97> I but believe it partly;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.98>For I am fresh of spirit and resolved</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.99>To meet all perils very constantly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.100>Even so, Lucilius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.101> Now, most noble Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.102>The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.103>Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.104>But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.105>Let's reason with the worst that may befall.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.106>If we do lose this battle, then is this</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.107>The very last time we shall speak together:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.108>What are you then determined to do?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.109>Even by the rule of that philosophy</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.110>By which I did blame Cato for the death</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.111>Which he did give himself, I know not how,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.112>But I do find it cowardly and vile,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.113>For fear of what might fall, so to prevent</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.114>The time of life: arming myself with patience</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.115>To stay the providence of some high powers</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.116>That govern us below.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.117>Then, if we lose this battle,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.118>You are contented to be led in triumph</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.119>Thorough the streets of Rome?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.120>No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.121>That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.122>He bears too great a mind. But this same day</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.123>Must end that work the ides of March begun;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.124>And whether we shall meet again I know not.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.125>Therefore our everlasting farewell take:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.126>For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.127>If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.128>If not, why then, this parting was well made.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.129>For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.130>If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.131>If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.132>Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.133>The end of this day's business ere it come!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.134>But it sufficeth that the day will end,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.135>And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. The same. The field of battle.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and MESSALA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.2.1>Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.2>Unto the legions on the other side.</A><br>
<p><i>Loud alarum</i></p>
<A NAME=5.2.3>Let them set on at once; for I perceive</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.4>But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.5>And sudden push gives them the overthrow.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.2.6>Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Another part of the field.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarums. Enter CASSIUS and TITINIUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.1>O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.2>Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.3>This ensign here of mine was turning back;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.4>I slew the coward, and did take it from him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.5>O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.6>Who, having some advantage on Octavius,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.7>Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.8>Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter PINDARUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>PINDARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.9>Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.10>Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.11>Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.12>This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.13>Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.14>They are, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.15> Titinius, if thou lovest me,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.16>Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.17>Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.18>And here again; that I may rest assured</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.19>Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.20>I will be here again, even with a thought.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.21>Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.22>My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.23>And tell me what thou notest about the field.</A><br>
<p><i>PINDARUS ascends the hill</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.24>This day I breathed first: time is come round,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.25>And where I did begin, there shall I end;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.26>My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>PINDARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.27>[Above] O my lord!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.28>What news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>PINDARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.29>[Above] Titinius is enclosed round about</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.30>With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.31>Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.32>Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.33>He's ta'en.</A><br>
<p><i>Shout</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.34>And, hark! they shout for joy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>CASSIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.35>Come down, behold no more.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.36>O, coward that I am, to live so long,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.37>To see my best friend ta'en before my face!</A><br>
<p><i>PINDARUS descends</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.38>Come hither, sirrah:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.39>In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.40>And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.41>That whatsoever I did bid thee do,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.42>Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.43>Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.44>That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.45>Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.46>And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.47>Guide thou the sword.</A><br>
<p><i>PINDARUS stabs him</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.48>Caesar, thou art revenged,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.49>Even with the sword that kill'd thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>PINDARUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.50>So, I am free; yet would not so have been,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.51>Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.52>Far from this country Pindarus shall run,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.53>Where never Roman shall take note of him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter TITINIUS with MESSALA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.54>It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.55>Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.56>As Cassius' legions are by Antony.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.57>These tidings will well comfort Cassius.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.58>Where did you leave him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.59>All disconsolate,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.60>With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.61>Is not that he t hat lies upon the ground?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.62>He lies not like the living. O my heart!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.63>Is not that he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.64> No, this was he, Messala,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.65>But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.66>As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.67>So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.68>The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.69>Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.70>Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.71>Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.72>O hateful error, melancholy's child,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.73>Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.74>The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.75>Thou never comest unto a happy birth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.76>But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.77>What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.78>Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.79>The noble Brutus, thrusting this report</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.80>Into his ears; I may say, thrusting it;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.81>For piercing steel and darts envenomed</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.82>Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.83>As tidings of this sight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>TITINIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.84>Hie you, Messala,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.85>And I will seek for Pindarus the while.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit MESSALA</i></p>
<A NAME=5.3.86>Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.87>Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.88>Put on my brows this wreath of victory,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.89>And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.90>Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.91>But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.92>Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.93>Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.94>And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.95>By your leave, gods:--this is a Roman's part</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.96>Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart.</A><br>
<p><i>Kills himself</i></p>
<p><i>Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO, STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.97>Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.98>Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.99>Titinius' face is upward.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>CATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.100>He is slain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.101>O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.102>Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.103>In our own proper entrails.</A><br>
<p><i>Low alarums</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>CATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.104>Brave Titinius!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.105>Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.3.106>Are yet two Romans living such as these?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.107>The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.108>It is impossible that ever Rome</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.109>Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.110>To this dead man than you shall see me pay.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.111>I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.112>Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.113>His funerals shall not be in our camp,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.114>Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.115>And come, young Cato; let us to the field.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.116>Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.117>'Tis three o'clock; and, Romans, yet ere night</A><br>
<A NAME=5.3.118>We shall try fortune in a second fight.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies; then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.1>Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.2>What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.3>I will proclaim my name about the field:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.4>I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.5>A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.6>I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.7>And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.8>Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.9>O young and noble Cato, art thou down?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.10>Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.11>And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.12>Yield, or thou diest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.13>Only I yield to die:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.14>There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;</A><br>
<p><i>Offering money</i></p>
<A NAME=5.4.15>Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.16>We must not. A noble prisoner!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.17>Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>First Soldier</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.18>I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ANTONY</i></p>
<A NAME=5.4.19>Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.20>Where is he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.21>Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.22>I dare assure thee that no enemy</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.23>Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.24>The gods defend him from so great a shame!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.25>When you do find him, or alive or dead,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.26>He will be found like Brutus, like himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.4.27>This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.28>A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.29>Give him all kindness: I had rather have</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.30>Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.31>And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.32>And bring us word unto Octavius' tent</A><br>
<A NAME=5.4.33>How every thing is chanced.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter BRUTUS, DARDANIUS, CLITUS, STRATO, and VOLUMNIUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.1>Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.2>Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.3>He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.4>Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.5>It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.</A><br>
<p><i>Whispers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.6>What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.7>Peace then! no words.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.8>I'll rather kill myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.9>Hark thee, Dardanius.</A><br>
<p><i>Whispers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DARDANIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.10>Shall I do such a deed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.11>O Dardanius!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DARDANIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.12>O Clitus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.13>What ill request did Brutus make to thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>DARDANIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.14>To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.15>Now is that noble vessel full of grief,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.16>That it runs over even at his eyes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.17>Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>VOLUMNIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.18>What says my lord?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.19> Why, this, Volumnius:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.20>The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.21>Two several times by night; at Sardis once,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.22>And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.23>I know my hour is come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>VOLUMNIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.24>Not so, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.25>Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.26>Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.27>Our enemies have beat us to the pit:</A><br>
<p><i>Low alarums</i></p>
<A NAME=5.5.28>It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.29>Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.30>Thou know'st that we two went to school together:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.31>Even for that our love of old, I prithee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.32>Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>VOLUMNIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.33>That's not an office for a friend, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Alarum still</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.34>Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying here.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.35>Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.36>Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.37>Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.38>My heart doth joy that yet in all my life</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.39>I found no man but he was true to me.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.40>I shall have glory by this losing day</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.41>More than Octavius and Mark Antony</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.42>By this vile conquest shall attain unto.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.43>So fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.44>Hath almost ended his life's history:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.45>Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.46>That have but labour'd to attain this hour.</A><br>
<p><i>Alarum. Cry within, 'Fly, fly, fly!'</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CLITUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.47>Fly, my lord, fly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.48> Hence! I will follow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt CLITUS, DARDANIUS, and VOLUMNIUS</i></p>
<A NAME=5.5.49>I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.50>Thou art a fellow of a good respect;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.51>Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.52>Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.53>While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>STRATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.54>Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>BRUTUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.55>Farewell, good Strato.</A><br>
<p><i>Runs on his sword</i></p>
<A NAME=5.5.56>Caesar, now be still:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.57>I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.</A><br>
<p><i>Dies</i></p>
<p><i>Alarum. Retreat. Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA, LUCILIUS, and the army</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.58>What man is that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.59>My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>STRATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.60>Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.61>The conquerors can but make a fire of him;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.62>For Brutus only overcame himself,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.63>And no man else hath honour by his death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>LUCILIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.64>So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.65>That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.66>All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.67>Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>STRATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.68>Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.69>Do so, good Messala.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.70>How died my master, Strato?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>STRATO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.71>I held the sword, and he did run on it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>MESSALA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.72>Octavius, then take him to follow thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.73>That did the latest service to my master.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>ANTONY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.74>This was the noblest Roman of them all:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.75>All the conspirators save only he</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.76>Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.77>He only, in a general honest thought</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.78>And common good to all, made one of them.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.79>His life was gentle, and the elements</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.80>So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.81>And say to all the world 'This was a man!'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>OCTAVIUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.5.82>According to his virtue let us use him,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.83>With all respect and rites of burial.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.84>Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.85>Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.86>So call the field to rest; and let's away,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.5.87>To part the glories of this happy day.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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