![]() ![]() Set honor in one eye and death i’ th’ otherĩ5 For let the gods so speed me as I love I would not, Cassius, yet I love him well.ĩ0 But wherefore do you hold me here so long? Then must I think you would not have it so. That of yourself which you yet know not of.Ĩ5 What means this shouting? I do fear the people Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear.Īnd since you know you cannot see yourself Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,ħ0 That you would have me seek into myself Have wished that noble Brutus had his eyes. I have heardĦ5 Where many of the best respect in Rome,Įxcept immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus That you have no such mirrors as will turn Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations. Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion,ĥ5 By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors.īut let not therefore my good friends be grievedĥ0 (Among which number, Cassius, be you one) Of late with passions of some difference, I have not from your eyes that gentlenessĤ0 You bear too stubborn and too strange a handīe not deceived. What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again.ģ0 Will you go see the order of the course?ģ5 Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires. Caesar is turned to hear.Ī soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March. I hear a tongue shriller than all the musicĢ0 Cry “Caesar.” Speak. When Caesar says “Do this,” it is performed. ⌝ġ0 The barren, touchèd in this holy chase, ![]() ⌜Scene 2 ⌝ Enter Caesar, Antony for the course, Calphurnia, Portia,ĭecius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, a Soothsayer Īfter them Marullus and Flavius ⌜and Commoners. Who else would soar above the view of menĨ0 And keep us all in servile fearfulness. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing So do you too, where you perceive them thick. I’ll aboutħ5 And drive away the vulgar from the streets Go you down that way towards the Capitol.ħ0 If you do find them decked with ceremonies.īe hung with Caesar’s trophies. They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. See whe’er their basest mettle be not moved. Go, go, good countrymen, and for this faultĭraw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tearsĦ5 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,Ħ0 That needs must light on this ingratitude. That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.ĥ0 That Tiber trembled underneath her banksĥ5 And do you now strew flowers in his way The livelong day, with patient expectation, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,Ĥ5 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? Make holiday to see Caesar and to rejoice in his Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?ĬOBBLER Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to Neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork.ģ0 But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger, Women’s matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a Brutus commits suicide, praised by Antony as “the noblest Roman of them all.”ĬOBBLER Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me.Ģ0 What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucyĬOBBLER Truly, sir, all that I live by is with theĢ5 awl. In the battle which follows, Cassius, misled by erroneous reports of loss, persuades a slave to kill him Brutus’s army is defeated. Brutus and Cassius escape as Antony joins forces with Octavius Caesar.Įncamped with their armies, Brutus and Cassius quarrel, then agree to march on Antony and Octavius. Antony uses a funeral oration to turn the citizens of Rome against them. At the Senate, the conspirators stab Caesar to death. A conspirator, Decius Brutus, persuades him to go to the Senate with the other conspirators and his friend, Mark Antony. On the day of the assassination, Caesar plans to stay home at the urging of his wife, Calphurnia. Cassius and others convince Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Caesar. Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences. Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar. ![]()
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