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| <h3>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</H3> | |
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| <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>Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Is this a holiday? what! know you not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Being mechanical, you ought not walk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Upon a labouring day without the sign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=6>Why, sir, a carpenter.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>What dost thou with thy best apparel on?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=10>Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=13>A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=16>Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=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=19>Why, sir, cobble you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>FLAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=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=21>Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=27>But wherefore art not in thy shop today?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=29>Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>MARULLUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>What tributaries follow him to Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Your infants in your arms, and there have sat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>The livelong day, with patient expectation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>And when you saw his chariot but appear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Have you not made an universal shout,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>To hear the replication of your sounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Made in her concave shores?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And do you now put on your best attire?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>And do you now cull out a holiday?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And do you now strew flowers in his way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Pray to the gods to intermit the plague</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=55>Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Assemble all the poor men of your sort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Into the channel, till the lowest stream</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all the Commoners</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=60>See whether their basest metal be not moved;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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> | |
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| <A NAME=63>disrobe the images,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=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=65>May we do so?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>You know it is the feast of Lupercal.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>FLAVIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=67>It is no matter; let no images</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>And drive away the vulgar from the streets:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>So do you too, where you perceive them thick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Who else would soar above the view of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>And keep us all in servile fearfulness.</A><br> | |
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