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| <H3>SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Why dost thou stay?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>To know my errand, madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>I would have had thee there, and here again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>O constancy, be strong upon my side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>How hard it is for women to keep counsel!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Art thou here yet?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12> Madam, what should I do?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>And so return to you, and nothing else?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>For he went sickly forth: and take good note</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Hark, boy! what noise is that?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>I hear none, madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=20>Prithee, listen well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>And the wind brings it from the Capitol.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>LUCIUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter the Soothsayer</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Soothsayer</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=25>At mine own house, good lady.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=26>What is't o'clock?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Soothsayer</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27> About the ninth hour, lady.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>Soothsayer</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>To see him pass on to the Capitol.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=31>Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>Soothsayer</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>I shall beseech him to befriend himself.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>Soothsayer</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>I'll get me to a place more void, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>PORTIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>The heart of woman is! O Brutus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Say I am merry: come to me again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And bring me word what he doth say to thee.</A><br> | |
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