Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, FLAVIUS. Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault, Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears 60 [Exeunt all the Commoners. See, whether their basest metal be not mov'd; You know it is the feast of Lupercal. Be hung with Cæsar's trophies. I'll about, Who else would soar above the view of men And keep us all in servile fearfulness. 70 [Exeunt. Flourish. Enter CESAR; ANTONY, for the course; CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among them a Soothsayer. CESAR. Calpurnia! Peace, ho! Cæsar speaks. [Music ceases. CÆSAR. Calpurnia! CALPURNIA. Here, my lord. CESAR. Stand you directly in Antonius' way, ANTONY. Cæsar, my lord? Antonius! CESAR. Forget not, in your speed, Antonius, ANTONY. I shall remember: When Cæsar says, "Do this," it is perform'd. 10 CÆSAR. Set on; and leave no ceremony out. [Flourish. SOOTHSAYER. Cæsar! CÆSAR. Ha! who calls? CASCA. Bid every noise be still peace yet again! CÆSAR. Who is it in the press that calls on me? CESAR. What man is that? BRUTUS. A Soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. CÆSAR. Set him before me; let me see his face. CASSIUS. Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Cæsar. 20 CÆSAR. What say'st thou to me now? speak once again. SOOTHSAYER. Beware the ides of March. CÆSAR. He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass. [Sennet. Exeunt all but BRUTUS and CASSIUS. CASSIUS. Will you go see the order of the course? BRUTUS. Not I. CASSIUS. I pray you, do. BRUTUS. I am not gamesome: I do lack some part Of that quick spirit that is in Antony. Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires; I'll leave you. 30 CASSIUS. Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: BRUTUS. Cassius, Of late with passions of some difference, Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviours ; Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, 40 CASSIUS. Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion; By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? CASSIUS. "Tis just : And it is very much lamented, Brutus, 50 That you have no such mirrors as will turn That you might see your shadow. I have heard, And groaning underneath this age's yoke, 60 BRUTUS. Into what dangers would you lead me, Cas sius, That you would have me seek into myself CASSIUS. hear: Therefore, good Brutus, be prepar'd to And since you know you cannot see yourself That of yourself which you yet know not of. To all the rout, then hold me dangerous. 70 [Flourish and shout. BRUTUS. What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Cæsar for their king. CASSIUS. Ay, do you fear it? For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, 80 .90 I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself. I was born free as Cæsar; so were you: We both have fed as well, and we can both For once, upon a raw and gusty day, 100 The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores, And swim to yonder point ?" Upon the word, And bade him follow: so indeed he did. Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body, And when the fit was on him, I did mark 110 120 |