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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Author: William Shakespeare Release Date: January 1994 [eBook #100] -[Most recently updated: November 9, 2023] +[Most recently updated: November 18, 2023] Language: English @@ -80255,45 +80255,43 @@ THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR -Contents - -ACT I -Scene I. Rome. A street. -Scene II. The same. A public place. -Scene III. The same. A street. - - -ACT II -Scene I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard. -Scene II. A room in Caesar’s palace. -Scene III. A street near the Capitol. -Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus. +Contents -ACT III -Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting. -Scene II. The same. The Forum. -Scene III. The same. A street. + ACT I + Scene I. Rome. A street + Scene II. The same. A public place + Scene III. The same. A street + ACT II + Scene I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard + Scene II. A room in Caesar’s palace + Scene III. A street near the Capitol + Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus -ACT IV -Scene I. A room in Antony’s house. -Scene II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis. -Scene III. Within the tent of Brutus. + ACT III + Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting + Scene II. The same. The Forum + Scene III. The same. A street + ACT IV + Scene I. A room in Antony’s house + Scene II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis + Scene III. Within the tent of Brutus -ACT V -Scene I. The plains of Philippi. -Scene II. The same. The field of battle. -Scene III. Another part of the field. -Scene IV. Another part of the field. -Scene V. Another part of the field. + ACT V + Scene I. The plains of Philippi + Scene II. The same. The field of battle + Scene III. Another part of the field + Scene IV. Another part of the field + Scene V. Another part of the field Dramatis Personæ + JULIUS CAESAR OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death. MARCUS ANTONIUS, ” ” ” @@ -80318,13 +80316,11 @@ Brutus and Cassius. VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to Brutus PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius - CALPHURNIA, wife to Caesar PORTIA, wife to Brutus The Ghost of Caesar - Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants. SCENE: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains of @@ -80332,11 +80328,13 @@ Philippi. + ACT I SCENE I. Rome. A street. - Enter Flavius, Marullus and a throng of Citizens. + +Enter Flavius, Marullus and a throng of Citizens. FLAVIUS. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home. @@ -80429,7 +80427,7 @@ Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. - [_Exeunt Citizens._] +[_Exeunt Citizens._] See whether their basest metal be not mov’d; They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. @@ -80451,13 +80449,13 @@ Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men, And keep us all in servile fearfulness. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE II. The same. A public place. - Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the course; - Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius and Casca; a great - crowd following, among them a Soothsayer. +Enter, in procession, with music, Caesar; Antony, for the course; +Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius and Casca; a great +crowd following, among them a Soothsayer. CAESAR. Calphurnia. @@ -80465,7 +80463,7 @@ Calphurnia. CASCA. Peace, ho! Caesar speaks. - [_Music ceases._] +[_Music ceases._] CAESAR. Calphurnia. @@ -80493,7 +80491,7 @@ When Caesar says “Do this,” it is perform’d. CAESAR. Set on; and leave no ceremony out. - [_Music._] +[_Music._] SOOTHSAYER. Caesar! @@ -80504,7 +80502,7 @@ Ha! Who calls? CASCA. Bid every noise be still; peace yet again! - [_Music ceases._] +[_Music ceases._] CAESAR. Who is it in the press that calls on me? @@ -80535,7 +80533,7 @@ Beware the Ides of March. CAESAR. He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass. - [_Sennet. Exeunt all but Brutus and Cassius._] +[_Sennet. Exeunt all but Brutus and Cassius._] CASSIUS. Will you go see the order of the course? @@ -80614,7 +80612,7 @@ And after scandal them; or if you know That I profess myself in banqueting, To all the rout, then hold me dangerous. - [_Flourish and shout._] +[_Flourish and shout._] BRUTUS. What means this shouting? I do fear the people @@ -80678,7 +80676,7 @@ A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone. - [_Shout. Flourish._] +[_Shout. Flourish._] BRUTUS. Another general shout? @@ -80734,7 +80732,7 @@ CASSIUS. I am glad that my weak words Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus. - Enter Caesar and his Train. +Enter Caesar and his Train. BRUTUS. The games are done, and Caesar is returning. @@ -80791,7 +80789,7 @@ Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar. Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf, And tell me truly what thou think’st of him. - [_Exeunt Caesar and his Train. Casca stays._] +[_Exeunt Caesar and his Train. Casca stays._] CASCA. You pull’d me by the cloak; would you speak with me? @@ -80930,7 +80928,7 @@ Good. I will expect you. CASCA. Do so; farewell both. - [_Exit Casca._] +[_Exit Casca._] BRUTUS. What a blunt fellow is this grown to be! @@ -80953,7 +80951,7 @@ Come home to me, and I will wait for you. CASSIUS. I will do so: till then, think of the world. - [_Exit Brutus._] +[_Exit Brutus._] Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see, Thy honourable metal may be wrought @@ -80971,12 +80969,12 @@ Caesar’s ambition shall be glanced at. And after this, let Caesar seat him sure, For we will shake him, or worse days endure. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] SCENE III. The same. A street. - Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, Casca with his - sword drawn, and Cicero. +Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, Casca with his sword +drawn, and Cicero. CICERO. Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home? @@ -81035,9 +81033,9 @@ Is not to walk in. CASCA. Farewell, Cicero. - [_Exit Cicero._] +[_Exit Cicero._] - Enter Cassius. +Enter Cassius. CASSIUS. Who’s there? @@ -81127,7 +81125,7 @@ If I know this, know all the world besides, That part of tyranny that I do bear I can shake off at pleasure. - [_Thunder still._] +[_Thunder still._] CASCA. So can I: @@ -81169,7 +81167,7 @@ And the complexion of the element In favour’s like the work we have in hand, Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. - Enter Cinna. +Enter Cinna. CASCA. Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. @@ -81213,7 +81211,7 @@ And so bestow these papers as you bade me. CASSIUS. That done, repair to Pompey’s theatre. - [_Exit Cinna._] +[_Exit Cinna._] Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day, See Brutus at his house: three parts of him @@ -81232,7 +81230,8 @@ You have right well conceited. Let us go, For it is after midnight; and ere day, We will awake him, and be sure of him. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] + @@ -81240,7 +81239,8 @@ ACT II SCENE I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard. - Enter Brutus. + +Enter Brutus. BRUTUS. What, Lucius, ho! @@ -81249,7 +81249,7 @@ Give guess how near to day.—Lucius, I say! I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. When, Lucius, when? Awake, I say! What, Lucius! - Enter Lucius. +Enter Lucius. LUCIUS. Call’d you, my lord? @@ -81261,7 +81261,7 @@ When it is lighted, come and call me here. LUCIUS. I will, my lord. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] BRUTUS. It must be by his death: and for my part, @@ -81290,7 +81290,7 @@ And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which hatch’d, would, as his kind grow mischievous; And kill him in the shell. - Enter Lucius. +Enter Lucius. LUCIUS. The taper burneth in your closet, sir. @@ -81298,7 +81298,7 @@ Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus seal’d up, and I am sure It did not lie there when I went to bed. - [_Gives him the letter._] +[_Gives him the letter._] BRUTUS. Get you to bed again; it is not day. @@ -81313,13 +81313,13 @@ Look in the calendar, and bring me word. LUCIUS. I will, sir. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] BRUTUS. The exhalations, whizzing in the air Give so much light that I may read by them. - [_Opens the letter and reads._] +[_Opens the letter and reads._] _Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake and see thyself. Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!_ @@ -81335,17 +81335,17 @@ To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise, If the redress will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus. - Enter Lucius. +Enter Lucius. LUCIUS. Sir, March is wasted fifteen days. - [_Knock within._] +[_Knock within._] BRUTUS. ’Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks. - [_Exit Lucius._] +[_Exit Lucius._] Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, I have not slept. @@ -81357,7 +81357,7 @@ Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection. - Enter Lucius. +Enter Lucius. LUCIUS. Sir, ’tis your brother Cassius at the door, @@ -81381,7 +81381,7 @@ By any mark of favour. BRUTUS. Let ’em enter. - [_Exit Lucius._] +[_Exit Lucius._] They are the faction. O conspiracy, Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, @@ -81393,7 +81393,7 @@ For if thou path, thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention. - Enter Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber and Trebonius. +Enter Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber and Trebonius. CASSIUS. I think we are too bold upon your rest: @@ -81430,7 +81430,7 @@ Betwixt your eyes and night? CASSIUS. Shall I entreat a word? - [_They whisper._] +[_They whisper._] DECIUS. Here lies the east: doth not the day break here? @@ -81500,7 +81500,7 @@ METELLUS. O, let us have him, for his silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds. -It shall be said, his judgment rul’d our hands; +It shall be said, his judgement rul’d our hands; Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, But all be buried in his gravity. @@ -81566,7 +81566,7 @@ TREBONIUS. There is no fear in him; let him not die; For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. - [_Clock strikes._] +[_Clock strikes._] BRUTUS. Peace! count the clock. @@ -81631,7 +81631,7 @@ But bear it as our Roman actors do, With untired spirits and formal constancy. And so, good morrow to you everyone. - [_Exeunt all but Brutus._] +[_Exeunt all but Brutus._] Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: @@ -81639,7 +81639,7 @@ Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. - Enter Portia. +Enter Portia. PORTIA. Brutus, my lord. @@ -81738,7 +81738,7 @@ BRUTUS. O ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife! - [_Knock._] +[_Knock._] Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in awhile; And by and by thy bosom shall partake @@ -81747,9 +81747,9 @@ All my engagements I will construe to thee, All the charactery of my sad brows. Leave me with haste. - [_Exit Portia._] +[_Exit Portia._] - Enter Lucius with Ligarius. +Enter Lucius with Ligarius. Lucius, who’s that knocks? @@ -81801,23 +81801,23 @@ And with a heart new-fir’d I follow you, To do I know not what; but it sufficeth That Brutus leads me on. - [_Thunder._] +[_Thunder._] BRUTUS. Follow me then. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE II. A room in Caesar’s palace. - Thunder and lightning. Enter Caesar, in his nightgown. +Thunder and lightning. Enter Caesar, in his nightgown. CAESAR. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight: Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out, “Help, ho! They murder Caesar!” Who’s within? - Enter a Servant. +Enter a Servant. SERVANT. My lord? @@ -81829,9 +81829,9 @@ And bring me their opinions of success. SERVANT. I will, my lord. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] - Enter Calphurnia. +Enter Calphurnia. CALPHURNIA. What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth? @@ -81876,7 +81876,7 @@ It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. - Enter Servant. +Enter Servant. What say the augurers? @@ -81908,7 +81908,7 @@ CAESAR. Mark Antony shall say I am not well, And for thy humour, I will stay at home. - Enter Decius. +Enter Decius. Here’s Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so. @@ -81983,7 +81983,7 @@ How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia! I am ashamed I did yield to them. Give me my robe, for I will go. - Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, Cinna and Publius. +Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, Cinna and Publius. And look where Publius is come to fetch me. @@ -82004,7 +82004,7 @@ Caesar, ’tis strucken eight. CAESAR. I thank you for your pains and courtesy. - Enter Antony. +Enter Antony. See! Antony, that revels long a-nights, Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony. @@ -82032,11 +82032,11 @@ BRUTUS. [_Aside._] That every like is not the same, O Caesar, The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE III. A street near the Capitol. - Enter Artemidorus, reading a paper. +Enter Artemidorus, reading a paper. ARTEMIDORUS. _“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; @@ -82045,19 +82045,17 @@ Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast wrong’d Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou be’st not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee! -Thy lover, Artemidorus.”_ -Here will I stand till Caesar pass along, -And as a suitor will I give him this. -My heart laments that virtue cannot live -Out of the teeth of emulation. -If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; -If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive. +Thy lover, Artemidorus.”_ Here will I stand till Caesar pass along, And +as a suitor will I give him this. My heart laments that virtue cannot +live Out of the teeth of emulation. If thou read this, O Caesar, thou +mayest live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive. - [_Exit._] + +[_Exit._] SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus. - Enter Portia and Lucius. +Enter Portia and Lucius. PORTIA. I pr’ythee, boy, run to the Senate-house; @@ -82098,7 +82096,7 @@ And the wind brings it from the Capitol. LUCIUS. Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. - Enter the Soothsayer. +Enter the Soothsayer. PORTIA. Come hither, fellow: @@ -82140,7 +82138,7 @@ Will crowd a feeble man almost to death: I’ll get me to a place more void, and there Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] PORTIA. I must go in. @@ -82153,7 +82151,8 @@ Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord; Say I am merry; come to me again, And bring me word what he doth say to thee. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] + @@ -82161,10 +82160,10 @@ ACT III SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting. - A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol. Flourish. - Enter Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, - Cinna, Antony, Lepidus, Artemidorus, Publius, Popilius and the - Soothsayer. + +A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol. Flourish. Enter +Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, +Antony, Lepidus, Artemidorus, Publius, Popilius and the Soothsayer. CAESAR. The Ides of March are come. @@ -82210,7 +82209,7 @@ What enterprise, Popilius? POPILIUS. Fare you well. - [_Advances to Caesar._] +[_Advances to Caesar._] BRUTUS. What said Popilius Lena? @@ -82237,8 +82236,8 @@ CASSIUS. Trebonius knows his time, for look you, Brutus, He draws Mark Antony out of the way. - [_Exeunt Antony and Trebonius. Caesar and the Senators take their - seats._] +[_Exeunt Antony and Trebonius. Caesar and the Senators take their +seats._] DECIUS. Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go, @@ -82259,7 +82258,7 @@ Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar, Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat An humble heart. - [_Kneeling._] +[_Kneeling._] CAESAR. I must prevent thee, Cimber. @@ -82328,14 +82327,14 @@ Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? CASCA. Speak, hands, for me! - [_Casca stabs Caesar in the neck. Caesar catches hold of his arm. He - is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus - Brutus._] +[_Casca stabs Caesar in the neck. Caesar catches hold of his arm. He is +then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus +Brutus._] CAESAR. _Et tu, Brute?_—Then fall, Caesar! - [_Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion._] +[_Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion._] CINNA. Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! @@ -82378,7 +82377,7 @@ BRUTUS. Do so; and let no man abide this deed But we the doers. - Enter Trebonius. +Enter Trebonius. CASSIUS. Where’s Antony? @@ -82430,7 +82429,7 @@ Ay, every man away. Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. - Enter a Servant. +Enter a Servant. BRUTUS. Soft, who comes here? A friend of Antony’s. @@ -82462,7 +82461,7 @@ Depart untouch’d. SERVANT. I’ll fetch him presently. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] BRUTUS. I know that we shall have him well to friend. @@ -82472,7 +82471,7 @@ I wish we may: but yet have I a mind That fears him much; and my misgiving still Falls shrewdly to the purpose. - Enter Antony. +Enter Antony. BRUTUS. But here comes Antony. Welcome, Mark Antony. @@ -82625,7 +82624,7 @@ I do desire no more. BRUTUS. Prepare the body, then, and follow us. - [_Exeunt all but Antony._] +[_Exeunt all but Antony._] ANTONY. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, @@ -82651,7 +82650,7 @@ Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial. - Enter a Servant. +Enter a Servant. You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not? @@ -82688,12 +82687,12 @@ According to the which thou shalt discourse To young Octavius of the state of things. Lend me your hand. - [_Exeunt with Caesar’s body._] +[_Exeunt with Caesar’s body._] SCENE II. The same. The Forum. - Enter Brutus and goes into the pulpit, and Cassius, with a throng of - Citizens. +Enter Brutus and goes into the pulpit, and Cassius, with a throng of +Citizens. CITIZENS. We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied. @@ -82714,8 +82713,8 @@ SECOND CITIZEN. I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons, When severally we hear them rendered. - [_Exit Cassius, with some of the Citizens. Brutus goes into the - rostrum._] +[_Exit Cassius, with some of the Citizens. Brutus goes into the +rostrum._] THIRD CITIZEN. The noble Brutus is ascended: silence! @@ -82749,7 +82748,7 @@ do to Brutus. The question of his death is enroll’d in the Capitol, his glory not extenuated, wherein he was worthy; nor his offences enforc’d, for which he suffered death. - Enter Antony and others, with Caesar’s body. +Enter Antony and others, with Caesar’s body. Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the @@ -82794,7 +82793,7 @@ By our permission, is allow’d to make. I do entreat you, not a man depart, Save I alone, till Antony have spoke. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] FIRST CITIZEN. Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony. @@ -82806,7 +82805,7 @@ We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up. ANTONY. For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you. - [_Goes up._] +[_Goes up._] FOURTH CITIZEN. What does he say of Brutus? @@ -82866,7 +82865,7 @@ I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? -O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, +O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me. @@ -82966,7 +82965,7 @@ Come down. SECOND CITIZEN. Descend. - [_He comes down._] +[_He comes down._] THIRD CITIZEN. You shall have leave. @@ -83134,13 +83133,13 @@ Pluck down benches. FOURTH CITIZEN. Pluck down forms, windows, anything. - [_Exeunt Citizens, with the body._] +[_Exeunt Citizens, with the body._] ANTONY. Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, Take thou what course thou wilt! - Enter a Servant. +Enter a Servant. How now, fellow? @@ -83166,11 +83165,11 @@ ANTONY. Belike they had some notice of the people, How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE III. The same. A street. - Enter Cinna, the poet, and after him the citizens. +Enter Cinna, the poet, and after him the citizens. CINNA. I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar, @@ -83256,7 +83255,8 @@ Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To Brutus’, to Cassius’; burn all. Some to Decius’ house, and some to Casca’s, some to Ligarius’. Away, go! - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] + @@ -83264,7 +83264,8 @@ ACT IV SCENE I. Rome. A room in Antony’s house. - Enter Antony, Octavius and Lepidus, seated at a table. + +Enter Antony, Octavius and Lepidus, seated at a table. ANTONY. These many then shall die; their names are prick’d. @@ -83294,7 +83295,7 @@ What, shall I find you here? OCTAVIUS. Or here, or at the Capitol. - [_Exit Lepidus._] +[_Exit Lepidus._] ANTONY. This is a slight unmeritable man, @@ -83350,12 +83351,12 @@ And bay’d about with many enemies; And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefs. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis. - Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Titinius and Soldiers; Pindarus meeting - them; Lucius at some distance. +Drum. Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Titinius and Soldiers; Pindarus meeting +them; Lucius at some distance. BRUTUS. Stand, ho! @@ -83370,7 +83371,7 @@ LUCILIUS. He is at hand, and Pindarus is come To do you salutation from his master. - [_Pindarus gives a letter to Brutus._] +[_Pindarus gives a letter to Brutus._] BRUTUS. He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus, @@ -83403,7 +83404,7 @@ There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; - [_Low march within._] +[_Low march within._] But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades @@ -83414,7 +83415,7 @@ They meant this night in Sardis to be quarter’d; The greater part, the horse in general, Are come with Cassius. - Enter Cassius and Soldiers. +Enter Cassius and Soldiers. BRUTUS. Hark! he is arriv’d. @@ -83465,11 +83466,11 @@ Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man Come to our tent till we have done our conference. Lucius and Titinius, guard our door. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE III. Within the tent of Brutus. - Enter Brutus and Cassius. +Enter Brutus and Cassius. CASSIUS. That you have wrong’d me doth appear in this: @@ -83704,7 +83705,7 @@ Yes, Cassius; and from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He’ll think your mother chides, and leave you so. - Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius, Titinius and Lucius. +Enter Poet, followed by Lucilius, Titinius and Lucius. POET. [_Within._] Let me go in to see the generals, @@ -83742,7 +83743,7 @@ Companion, hence! CASSIUS. Away, away, be gone! - [_Exit Poet._] +[_Exit Poet._] BRUTUS. Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders @@ -83752,12 +83753,12 @@ CASSIUS. And come yourselves and bring Messala with you Immediately to us. - [_Exeunt Lucilius and Titinius._] +[_Exeunt Lucilius and Titinius._] BRUTUS. Lucius, a bowl of wine. - [_Exit Lucius._] +[_Exit Lucius._] CASSIUS. I did not think you could have been so angry. @@ -83799,24 +83800,24 @@ Even so. CASSIUS. O ye immortal gods! - Enter Lucius, with wine and a taper. +Enter Lucius, with wine and a taper. BRUTUS. Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine. In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. - [_Drinks._] +[_Drinks._] CASSIUS. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup. I cannot drink too much of Brutus’ love. - [_Drinks._] +[_Drinks._] - [_Exit Lucius._] +[_Exit Lucius._] - Enter Titinius and Messala. +Enter Titinius and Messala. BRUTUS. Come in, Titinius! @@ -83955,12 +83956,12 @@ CASSIUS. No more. Good night: Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence. - Enter Lucius. +Enter Lucius. BRUTUS. Lucius! My gown. - [_Exit Lucius._] +[_Exit Lucius._] Farewell now, good Messala. Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius, @@ -83972,7 +83973,7 @@ This was an ill beginning of the night. Never come such division ’tween our souls! Let it not, Brutus. - Enter Lucius with the gown. +Enter Lucius with the gown. BRUTUS. Everything is well. @@ -83989,7 +83990,7 @@ Good night, Lord Brutus. BRUTUS. Farewell, everyone. - [_Exeunt Cassius, Titinius and Messala._] +[_Exeunt Cassius, Titinius and Messala._] Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument? @@ -84005,7 +84006,7 @@ I’ll have them sleep on cushions in my tent. LUCIUS. Varro and Claudius! - Enter Varro and Claudius. +Enter Varro and Claudius. VARRO. Calls my lord? @@ -84024,7 +84025,7 @@ It may be I shall otherwise bethink me. Look, Lucius, here’s the book I sought for so; I put it in the pocket of my gown. - [_Servants lie down._] +[_Servants lie down._] LUCIUS. I was sure your lordship did not give it me. @@ -84056,7 +84057,7 @@ It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again; I will not hold thee long. If I do live, I will be good to thee. - [_Lucius plays and sings till he falls asleep._] +[_Lucius plays and sings till he falls asleep._] This is a sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber, Layest thou thy leaden mace upon my boy, @@ -84067,7 +84068,7 @@ I’ll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night. Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn’d down Where I left reading? Here it is, I think. - Enter the Ghost of Caesar. +Enter the Ghost of Caesar. How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes @@ -84095,7 +84096,7 @@ Ay, at Philippi. BRUTUS. Why, I will see thee at Philippi then. - [_Ghost vanishes._] +[_Ghost vanishes._] Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest. Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee. @@ -84156,7 +84157,8 @@ And we will follow. VARRO. CLAUDIUS. It shall be done, my lord. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] + @@ -84164,7 +84166,8 @@ ACT V SCENE I. The plains of Philippi. - Enter Octavius, Antony and their Army. + +Enter Octavius, Antony and their Army. OCTAVIUS. Now, Antony, our hopes are answered. @@ -84182,7 +84185,7 @@ With fearful bravery, thinking by this face To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage; But ’tis not so. - Enter a Messenger. +Enter a Messenger. MESSENGER. Prepare you, generals. @@ -84203,7 +84206,7 @@ Why do you cross me in this exigent? OCTAVIUS. I do not cross you; but I will do so. - [_March._] +[_March._] Drum. Enter Brutus, Cassius and their Army; Lucilius, Titinius, Messala and others. @@ -84299,7 +84302,7 @@ Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth. If you dare fight today, come to the field; If not, when you have stomachs. - [_Exeunt Octavius, Antony and their Army._] +[_Exeunt Octavius, Antony and their Army._] CASSIUS. Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! @@ -84311,7 +84314,7 @@ Ho, Lucilius! Hark, a word with you. LUCILIUS. My lord? - [_Brutus and Lucilius talk apart._] +[_Brutus and Lucilius talk apart._] CASSIUS. Messala. @@ -84398,28 +84401,28 @@ The end of this day’s business ere it come! But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known. Come, ho! away! - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE II. The same. The field of battle. - Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala. +Alarum. Enter Brutus and Messala. BRUTUS. Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills Unto the legions on the other side. - [_Loud alarum._] +[_Loud alarum._] Let them set on at once; for I perceive But cold demeanor in Octavius’ wing, And sudden push gives them the overthrow. Ride, ride, Messala; let them all come down. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE III. Another part of the field. - Alarum. Enter Cassius and Titinius. +Alarum. Enter Cassius and Titinius. CASSIUS. O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly! @@ -84433,7 +84436,7 @@ Who, having some advantage on Octavius, Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil, Whilst we by Antony are all enclos’d. - Enter Pindarus. +Enter Pindarus. PINDARUS. Fly further off, my lord, fly further off; @@ -84457,14 +84460,14 @@ Whether yond troops are friend or enemy. TITINIUS. I will be here again, even with a thought. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] CASSIUS. Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill, My sight was ever thick. Regard Titinius, And tell me what thou notest about the field. - [_Pindarus goes up._] +[_Pindarus goes up._] This day I breathed first. Time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end. @@ -84483,7 +84486,7 @@ Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him. Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too. He’s ta’en! - [_Shout._] +[_Shout._] And, hark! they shout for joy. @@ -84492,7 +84495,7 @@ Come down; behold no more. O, coward that I am, to live so long, To see my best friend ta’en before my face! - [_Pindarus descends._] +[_Pindarus descends._] Come hither, sirrah. In Parthia did I take thee prisoner; @@ -84506,7 +84509,7 @@ And when my face is cover’d, as ’tis now, Guide thou the sword.—Caesar, thou art reveng’d, Even with the sword that kill’d thee. - [_Dies._] +[_Dies._] PINDARUS. So, I am free, yet would not so have been, @@ -84514,9 +84517,9 @@ Durst I have done my will. O Cassius! Far from this country Pindarus shall run, Where never Roman shall take note of him. - [_Exit._] +[_Exit._] - Enter Titinius with Messala. +Enter Titinius with Messala. MESSALA. It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius @@ -84574,7 +84577,7 @@ TITINIUS. Hie you, Messala, And I will seek for Pindarus the while. - [_Exit Messala._] +[_Exit Messala._] Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they @@ -84588,10 +84591,10 @@ And see how I regarded Caius Cassius. By your leave, gods. This is a Roman’s part. Come, Cassius’ sword, and find Titinius’ heart. - [_Dies._] +[_Dies._] - Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Strato, Volumnius and - Lucilius. +Alarum. Enter Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Strato, Volumnius and +Lucilius. BRUTUS. Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie? @@ -84610,7 +84613,7 @@ O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet! Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords In our own proper entrails. - [_Low alarums._] +[_Low alarums._] CATO. Brave Titinius! @@ -84631,12 +84634,12 @@ Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on. ’Tis three o’clock; and Romans, yet ere night We shall try fortune in a second fight. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE IV. Another part of the field. - Alarum. Enter fighting soldiers of both armies; then Brutus, Messala, - young Cato, Lucilius, Flavius and others. +Alarum. Enter fighting soldiers of both armies; then Brutus, Messala, +young Cato, Lucilius, Flavius and others. BRUTUS. Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads! @@ -84648,13 +84651,13 @@ I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! A foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend. I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! - [_Charges the enemy._] +[_Charges the enemy._] LUCILIUS. And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I; Brutus, my country’s friend; know me for Brutus! - [_Exit, charging the enemy. Cato is overpowered, and falls._] +[_Exit, charging the enemy. Cato is overpowered, and falls._] LUCILIUS. O young and noble Cato, art thou down? @@ -84668,7 +84671,7 @@ LUCILIUS. Only I yield to die: There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight; - [_Offering money_] +[_Offering money_] Kill Brutus, and be honour’d in his death. @@ -84681,7 +84684,7 @@ Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta’en. FIRST SOLDIER. I’ll tell the news. Here comes the General. - Enter Antony. +Enter Antony. Brutus is ta’en, Brutus is ta’en, my lord. @@ -84705,11 +84708,11 @@ And see whether Brutus be alive or dead; And bring us word unto Octavius’ tent How everything is chanc’d. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] SCENE V. Another part of the field. - Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato and Volumnius. +Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato and Volumnius. BRUTUS. Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock. @@ -84722,7 +84725,7 @@ BRUTUS. Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word; It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. - [_Whispering._] +[_Whispering._] CLITUS. What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world. @@ -84736,7 +84739,7 @@ I’ll rather kill myself. BRUTUS. Hark thee, Dardanius. - [_Whispers him._] +[_Whispers him._] DARDANIUS. Shall I do such a deed? @@ -84778,7 +84781,7 @@ Nay I am sure it is, Volumnius. Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes; Our enemies have beat us to the pit. - [_Low alarums._] +[_Low alarums._] It is more worthy to leap in ourselves Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius, @@ -84789,7 +84792,7 @@ Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it. VOLUMNIUS. That’s not an office for a friend, my lord. - [_Alarums still._] +[_Alarums still._] CLITUS. Fly, fly, my lord! there is no tarrying here. @@ -84808,7 +84811,7 @@ Hath almost ended his life’s history. Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, That have but labour’d to attain this hour. - [_Alarums. Cry within, “Fly, fly, fly!”._] +[_Alarums. Cry within, “Fly, fly, fly!”._] CLITUS. Fly, my lord, fly! @@ -84816,7 +84819,7 @@ Fly, my lord, fly! BRUTUS. Hence! I will follow. - [_Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius and Volumnius._] +[_Exeunt Clitus, Dardanius and Volumnius._] I pr’ythee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord. Thou art a fellow of a good respect; @@ -84831,10 +84834,10 @@ BRUTUS. Farewell, good Strato.—Caesar, now be still: I kill’d not thee with half so good a will. - [_He runs on his sword, and dies._] +[_He runs on his sword, and dies._] - Alarum. Retreat. Enter Antony, Octavius, Messala, Lucilius and the - Army. +Alarum. Retreat. Enter Antony, Octavius, Messala, Lucilius and the +Army. OCTAVIUS. What man is that? @@ -84890,7 +84893,7 @@ Most like a soldier, order’d honourably. So call the field to rest, and let’s away, To part the glories of this happy day. - [_Exeunt._] +[_Exeunt._] diff --git a/100-h/100-h.htm b/100-h/100-h.htm index f2145ab..11b5b9a 100644 --- a/100-h/100-h.htm +++ b/100-h/100-h.htm @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ country where you are located before using this eBook. <div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare</div> <div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: William Shakespeare</div> <div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: January 1994 [eBook #100]<br /> -[Most recently updated: November 9, 2023]</div> +[Most recently updated: November 18, 2023]</div> <div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</div> <div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ***</div> @@ -109043,120 +109043,167 @@ If England to itself do rest but true. <hr /> -<h4>Contents</h4> -<p> -ACT I<br/> -<a href="#sceneI_171">Scene I.</a> -Rome. A street.<br/> -<a href="#sceneI_172">Scene II.</a> -The same. A public place.<br/> -<a href="#sceneI_173">Scene III.</a> -The same. A street.<br/> -<br/> +</div><!--end chapter--> -ACT II<br/> -<a href="#sceneII_171">Scene I.</a> -Rome. Brutus’ orchard.<br/> -<a href="#sceneII_172">Scene II.</a> -A room in Caesar’s palace.<br/> -<a href="#sceneII_173">Scene III.</a> -A street near the Capitol.<br/> -<a href="#sceneII_174">Scene IV.</a> -Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus.<br/> -<br/> +<div class="chapter"> -ACT III<br/> -<a href="#sceneIII_171">Scene I.</a> -Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting.<br/> -<a href="#sceneIII_172">Scene II.</a> -The same. The Forum.<br/> -<a href="#sceneIII_173">Scene III.</a> -The same. A street.<br/> -<br/> +<h2>Contents</h2> -ACT IV<br/> -<a href="#sceneIV_171">Scene I.</a> -A room in Antony’s house.<br/> -<a href="#sceneIV_172">Scene II.</a> -Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis.<br/> -<a href="#sceneIV_173">Scene III.</a> -Within the tent of Brutus.<br/> -<br/> +<table summary="" style=""> -ACT V<br/> -<a href="#sceneV_171">Scene I.</a> -The plains of Philippi.<br/> -<a href="#sceneV_172">Scene II.</a> -The same. The field of battle.<br/> -<a href="#sceneV_173">Scene III.</a> -Another part of the field.<br/> -<a href="#sceneV_174">Scene IV.</a> -Another part of the field.<br/> -<a href="#sceneV_175">Scene V.</a> -Another part of the field.<br/> +<tr> +<td> ACT I</td> +</tr> -<br/> -<br/> -</p> +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneI_17.1">Scene I. Rome. A street</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneI_17.2">Scene II. The same. A public place</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneI_17.3">Scene III. The same. A street</a><br/><br/></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> ACT II</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneII_17.1">Scene I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneII_17.2">Scene II. A room in Caesar’s palace</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneII_17.3">Scene III. A street near the Capitol</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneII_17.4">Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus</a><br/><br/></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> ACT III</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIII_17.1">Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIII_17.2">Scene II. The same. The Forum</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIII_17.3">Scene III. The same. A street</a><br/><br/></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> ACT IV</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIV_17.1">Scene I. A room in Antony’s house</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIV_17.2">Scene II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneIV_17.3">Scene III. Within the tent of Brutus</a><br/><br/></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> ACT V</td> +</tr> -<h4> Dramatis Personæ </h4> +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneV_17.1">Scene I. The plains of Philippi</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneV_17.2">Scene II. The same. The field of battle</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneV_17.3">Scene III. Another part of the field</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneV_17.4">Scene IV. Another part of the field</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td> <a href="#sceneV_17.5">Scene V. Another part of the field</a></td> +</tr> -<p>JULIUS CAESAR<br/> +</table> + +<h2> Dramatis Personæ </h2> + +<p class="drama"> +JULIUS CAESAR<br/> OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death.<br/> -MARCUS ANTONIUS, ” ” ”<br/> -M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, ” ” ”<br/> +MARCUS ANTONIUS, ” ” ”<br/> +M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, ” ” ”<br/> CICERO, PUBLIUS, POPILIUS LENA, Senators.<br/> MARCUS BRUTUS, Conspirator against Caesar.<br/> -CASSIUS, ” ” ”<br/> -CASCA, ” ” ”<br/> -TREBONIUS, ” ” ”<br/> -LIGARIUS,” ” ”<br/> -DECIUS BRUTUS, ” ” ”<br/> -METELLUS CIMBER, ” ” ”<br/> -CINNA, ” ” ”<br/> +CASSIUS, ” ” ”<br/> +CASCA, ” ” ”<br/> +TREBONIUS, ” ” ”<br/> +LIGARIUS,” ” ”<br/> +DECIUS BRUTUS, ” ” ”<br/> +METELLUS CIMBER, ” ” ”<br/> +CINNA, ” ” ”<br/> FLAVIUS, tribune<br/> MARULLUS, tribune<br/> ARTEMIDORUS, a Sophist of Cnidos.<br/> A Soothsayer<br/> CINNA, a poet.<br/> Another Poet.<br/> -LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends -to Brutus and Cassius.<br/> -VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to -Brutus<br/> -PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius<br/> +LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends to Brutus and +Cassius.<br/> +VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to Brutus<br/> +PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius </p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> CALPHURNIA, wife to Caesar<br/> PORTIA, wife to Brutus </p> -<p> -The Ghost of Caesar<br/> +<p class="drama"> +The Ghost of Caesar </p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants. </p> -<h4><b>SCENE: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains -of Philippi.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains of +Philippi.</b></h3> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="sceneI_171" id="sceneI_171"></a><b>ACT I</b></h3> +<h2><a name="sceneI_17.1"></a><b>ACT I</b></h2> -<h4><b>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Flavius, Marullus</span> and -a throng of <span class="charname">Citizens</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Flavius, Marullus</span> and a throng of <span +class="charname">Citizens</span>. +</p> -<p>FLAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FLAVIUS.<br/> Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.<br/> Is this a holiday? What, know you not,<br/> Being mechanical, you ought not walk<br/> @@ -109164,77 +109211,90 @@ Upon a labouring day without the sign<br/> Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou? </p> -<p>CARPENTER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CARPENTER.<br/> Why, sir, a carpenter. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?<br/> What dost thou with thy best apparel on?<br/> You, sir, what trade are you? </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> But what trade art thou? Answer me directly. </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade? </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me; yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> -What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow! +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> +What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow! </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> Why, sir, cobble you. </p> -<p>FLAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FLAVIUS.<br/> Thou art a cobbler, art thou? </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> -Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I meddle with no -tradesman’s matters, nor women’s matters, but withal I am -indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger, I recover -them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat’s leather have gone upon my -handiwork. +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> +Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I meddle with no tradesman’s +matters, nor women’s matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old +shoes: when they are in great danger, I recover them. As proper men as ever +trod upon neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork. </p> -<p>FLAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FLAVIUS.<br/> But wherefore art not in thy shop today?<br/> Why dost thou lead these men about the streets? </p> -<p>COBBLER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +COBBLER.<br/> Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar, and to rejoice in his triumph. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?<br/> What tributaries follow him to Rome,<br/> To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?<br/> You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!<br/> O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,<br/> Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft<br/> -Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements,<br/> +Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements,<br/> To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,<br/> Your infants in your arms, and there have sat<br/> The livelong day with patient expectation,<br/> @@ -109247,14 +109307,15 @@ Made in her concave shores?<br/> And do you now put on your best attire?<br/> And do you now cull out a holiday?<br/> And do you now strew flowers in his way,<br/> -That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood?<br/> +That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood?<br/> Be gone!<br/> Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,<br/> Pray to the gods to intermit the plague<br/> That needs must light on this ingratitude. </p> -<p>FLAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FLAVIUS.<br/> Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault<br/> Assemble all the poor men of your sort,<br/> Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears<br/> @@ -109262,160 +109323,203 @@ Into the channel, till the lowest stream<br/> Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Citizens</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Citizens</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>See whether their basest metal be not mov’d;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +See whether their basest metal be not mov’d;<br/> They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.<br/> Go you down that way towards the Capitol;<br/> This way will I. Disrobe the images,<br/> -If you do find them deck’d with ceremonies. +If you do find them deck’d with ceremonies. </p> -<p>MARULLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MARULLUS.<br/> May we do so?<br/> You know it is the feast of Lupercal. </p> -<p>FLAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FLAVIUS.<br/> It is no matter; let no images<br/> -Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about<br/> +Be hung with Caesar’s trophies. I’ll about<br/> And drive away the vulgar from the streets;<br/> So do you too, where you perceive them thick.<br/> -These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing<br/> +These growing feathers pluck’d from Caesar’s wing<br/> Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,<br/> Who else would soar above the view of men,<br/> And keep us all in servile fearfulness. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneI_172" id="sceneI_172"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. A public place.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneI_17.2"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. A public place.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter, in procession, with music, <span class="charname">Caesar; -Antony,</span> for the course; <span class="charname">Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, -Cicero, Brutus, Cassius</span> and <span class="charname">Casca;</span> a great -crowd following, among them a <span class="charname">Soothsayer</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter, in procession, with music, <span class="charname">Caesar; Antony,</span> +for the course; <span class="charname">Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, +Brutus, Cassius</span> and <span class="charname">Casca;</span> a great crowd +following, among them a <span class="charname">Soothsayer</span>. +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Calphurnia. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Peace, ho! Caesar speaks. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Music ceases.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Music ceases.</i>] +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Calphurnia. </p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> Here, my lord. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -Stand you directly in Antonius’ way,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +Stand you directly in Antonius’ way,<br/> When he doth run his course. Antonius. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Caesar, my lord? </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Forget not in your speed, Antonius,<br/> To touch Calphurnia; for our elders say,<br/> The barren, touched in this holy chase,<br/> Shake off their sterile curse. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> I shall remember.<br/> -When Caesar says “Do this,” it is perform’d. +When Caesar says “Do this,” it is perform’d. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Set on; and leave no ceremony out. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Music.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Music.</i>] +</p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> Caesar! </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Ha! Who calls? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Bid every noise be still; peace yet again! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Music ceases.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Music ceases.</i>] +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Who is it in the press that calls on me?<br/> I hear a tongue shriller than all the music,<br/> -Cry “Caesar”! Speak. Caesar is turn’d to hear. +Cry “Caesar”! Speak. Caesar is turn’d to hear. </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> Beware the Ides of March. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> What man is that? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Set him before me; let me see his face. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -What say’st thou to me now? Speak once again. +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +What say’st thou to me now? Speak once again. </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> Beware the Ides of March. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Sennet. Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Brutus</span> -and <span class="charname">Cassius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Sennet. Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and <span +class="charname">Cassius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Will you go see the order of the course? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Not I. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I pray you, do. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I am not gamesome: I do lack some part<br/> Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.<br/> Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;<br/> -I’ll leave you. +I’ll leave you. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Brutus, I do observe you now of late:<br/> I have not from your eyes that gentleness<br/> And show of love as I was wont to have.<br/> @@ -109423,9 +109527,10 @@ You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand<br/> Over your friend that loves you. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Cassius,<br/> -Be not deceived: if I have veil’d my look,<br/> +Be not deceived: if I have veil’d my look,<br/> I turn the trouble of my countenance<br/> Merely upon myself. Vexed I am<br/> Of late with passions of some difference,<br/> @@ -109438,37 +109543,42 @@ Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,<br/> Forgets the shows of love to other men. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;<br/> By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried<br/> Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.<br/> Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself<br/> But by reflection, by some other thing. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -’Tis just:<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +’Tis just:<br/> And it is very much lamented, Brutus,<br/> That you have no such mirrors as will turn<br/> Your hidden worthiness into your eye,<br/> That you might see your shadow. I have heard<br/> Where many of the best respect in Rome,<br/> (Except immortal Caesar) speaking of Brutus,<br/> -And groaning underneath this age’s yoke,<br/> -Have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes. +And groaning underneath this age’s yoke,<br/> +Have wish’d that noble Brutus had his eyes. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,<br/> That you would have me seek into myself<br/> For that which is not in me? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear;<br/> And since you know you cannot see yourself<br/> So well as by reflection, I, your glass,<br/> @@ -109484,30 +109594,36 @@ That I profess myself in banqueting,<br/> To all the rout, then hold me dangerous. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Flourish and shout.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Flourish and shout.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What means this shouting? I do fear the people<br/> Choose Caesar for their king. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Ay, do you fear it?<br/> Then must I think you would not have it so. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well,<br/> But wherefore do you hold me here so long?<br/> What is it that you would impart to me?<br/> If it be aught toward the general good,<br/> -Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other,<br/> +Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other,<br/> And I will look on both indifferently;<br/> For let the gods so speed me as I love<br/> The name of honour more than I fear death. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,<br/> As well as I do know your outward favour.<br/> Well, honour is the subject of my story.<br/> @@ -109517,19 +109633,19 @@ I had as lief not be as live to be<br/> In awe of such a thing as I myself.<br/> I was born free as Caesar; so were you;<br/> We both have fed as well, and we can both<br/> -Endure the winter’s cold as well as he:<br/> +Endure the winter’s cold as well as he:<br/> For once, upon a raw and gusty day,<br/> The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,<br/> -Caesar said to me, “Dar’st thou, Cassius, now<br/> +Caesar said to me, “Dar’st thou, Cassius, now<br/> Leap in with me into this angry flood,<br/> -And swim to yonder point?” Upon the word,<br/> +And swim to yonder point?” Upon the word,<br/> Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,<br/> And bade him follow: so indeed he did.<br/> -The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it<br/> +The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it<br/> With lusty sinews, throwing it aside<br/> And stemming it with hearts of controversy.<br/> -But ere we could arrive the point propos’d,<br/> -Caesar cried, “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”<br/> +But ere we could arrive the point propos’d,<br/> +Caesar cried, “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!”<br/> I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,<br/> Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder<br/> The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber<br/> @@ -109539,28 +109655,32 @@ A wretched creature, and must bend his body,<br/> If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.<br/> He had a fever when he was in Spain,<br/> And when the fit was on him I did mark<br/> -How he did shake: ’tis true, this god did shake:<br/> +How he did shake: ’tis true, this god did shake:<br/> His coward lips did from their colour fly,<br/> And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world<br/> Did lose his lustre. I did hear him groan:<br/> Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans<br/> Mark him, and write his speeches in their books,<br/> -Alas, it cried, “Give me some drink, Titinius,”<br/> +Alas, it cried, “Give me some drink, Titinius,”<br/> As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me,<br/> A man of such a feeble temper should<br/> So get the start of the majestic world,<br/> And bear the palm alone. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Shout. Flourish.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Shout. Flourish.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Another general shout?<br/> I do believe that these applauses are<br/> -For some new honours that are heap’d on Caesar. +For some new honours that are heap’d on Caesar. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world<br/> Like a Colossus, and we petty men<br/> Walk under his huge legs, and peep about<br/> @@ -109568,35 +109688,36 @@ To find ourselves dishonourable graves.<br/> Men at some time are masters of their fates:<br/> The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,<br/> But in ourselves, that we are underlings.<br/> -“Brutus” and “Caesar”: what should be in that “Caesar”?<br/> +“Brutus” and “Caesar”: what should be in that “Caesar”?<br/> Why should that name be sounded more than yours?<br/> Write them together, yours is as fair a name;<br/> Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;<br/> -Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with ’em,<br/> -“Brutus” will start a spirit as soon as “Caesar.”<br/> +Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with ’em,<br/> +“Brutus” will start a spirit as soon as “Caesar.”<br/> Now in the names of all the gods at once,<br/> Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,<br/> -That he is grown so great? Age, thou art sham’d!<br/> +That he is grown so great? Age, thou art sham’d!<br/> Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!<br/> When went there by an age since the great flood,<br/> -But it was fam’d with more than with one man?<br/> -When could they say, till now, that talk’d of Rome,<br/> -That her wide walls encompass’d but one man?<br/> +But it was fam’d with more than with one man?<br/> +When could they say, till now, that talk’d of Rome,<br/> +That her wide walls encompass’d but one man?<br/> Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough,<br/> When there is in it but one only man.<br/> O, you and I have heard our fathers say,<br/> -There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d<br/> -Th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Rome,<br/> +There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d<br/> +Th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Rome,<br/> As easily as a king! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;<br/> What you would work me to, I have some aim:<br/> How I have thought of this, and of these times,<br/> I shall recount hereafter. For this present,<br/> I would not, so with love I might entreat you,<br/> -Be any further mov’d. What you have said,<br/> +Be any further mov’d. What you have said,<br/> I will consider; what you have to say<br/> I will with patience hear; and find a time<br/> Both meet to hear and answer such high things.<br/> @@ -109607,58 +109728,70 @@ Under these hard conditions as this time<br/> Is like to lay upon us. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I am glad that my weak words<br/> Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Caesar</span> and his Train.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Caesar</span> and his Train. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> The games are done, and Caesar is returning. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve,<br/> And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you<br/> What hath proceeded worthy note today. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,<br/> -The angry spot doth glow on Caesar’s brow,<br/> +The angry spot doth glow on Caesar’s brow,<br/> And all the rest look like a chidden train:<br/> -Calphurnia’s cheek is pale; and Cicero<br/> +Calphurnia’s cheek is pale; and Cicero<br/> Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes<br/> As we have seen him in the Capitol,<br/> -Being cross’d in conference by some senators. +Being cross’d in conference by some senators. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Casca will tell us what the matter is. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Antonius. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Caesar? </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Let me have men about me that are fat,<br/> Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights:<br/> Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;<br/> He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +Fear him not, Caesar; he’s not dangerous;<br/> He is a noble Roman and well given. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:<br/> Yet if my name were liable to fear,<br/> I do not know the man I should avoid<br/> @@ -109667,194 +109800,233 @@ He is a great observer, and he looks<br/> Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays,<br/> As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music.<br/> Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort<br/> -As if he mock’d himself and scorn’d his spirit<br/> -That could be mov’d to smile at anything.<br/> -Such men as he be never at heart’s ease<br/> +As if he mock’d himself and scorn’d his spirit<br/> +That could be mov’d to smile at anything.<br/> +Such men as he be never at heart’s ease<br/> Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,<br/> And therefore are they very dangerous.<br/> -I rather tell thee what is to be fear’d<br/> +I rather tell thee what is to be fear’d<br/> Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.<br/> Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,<br/> -And tell me truly what thou think’st of him. +And tell me truly what thou think’st of him. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Caesar</span> and his Train. -<span class="charname">Casca</span> stays.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Caesar</span> and his Train. <span +class="charname">Casca</span> stays.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -You pull’d me by the cloak; would you speak with me? +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +You pull’d me by the cloak; would you speak with me? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Ay, Casca, tell us what hath chanc’d today,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Ay, Casca, tell us what hath chanc’d today,<br/> That Caesar looks so sad. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Why, you were with him, were you not? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -I should not then ask Casca what had chanc’d. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +I should not then ask Casca what had chanc’d. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -Why, there was a crown offer’d him; and being offer’d him, he put -it by with the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting. +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +Why, there was a crown offer’d him; and being offer’d him, he put it by with +the back of his hand, thus; and then the people fell a-shouting. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What was the second noise for? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Why, for that too. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Why, for that too. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Was the crown offer’d him thrice? +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Was the crown offer’d him thrice? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -Ay, marry, was’t, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than other; -and at every putting-by mine honest neighbours shouted. +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +Ay, marry, was’t, and he put it by thrice, every time gentler than other; and +at every putting-by mine honest neighbours shouted. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Who offer’d him the crown? +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Who offer’d him the crown? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Why, Antony. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -I can as well be hang’d, as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I -did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; yet ’twas not a -crown neither, ’twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put it -by once: but, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he -offered it to him again: then he put it by again: but, to my thinking, he was -very loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time; he -put it the third time by; and still, as he refus’d it, the rabblement -hooted, and clapp’d their chopt hands, and threw up their sweaty -night-caps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar -refus’d the crown, that it had, almost, choked Caesar, for he swooned, -and fell down at it. And for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of -opening my lips and receiving the bad air. +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +I can as well be hang’d, as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I did +not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; yet ’twas not a crown +neither, ’twas one of these coronets; and, as I told you, he put it by once: +but, for all that, to my thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he offered +it to him again: then he put it by again: but, to my thinking, he was very +loath to lay his fingers off it. And then he offered it the third time; he put +it the third time by; and still, as he refus’d it, the rabblement hooted, and +clapp’d their chopt hands, and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and uttered +such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refus’d the crown, that it had, +almost, choked Caesar, for he swooned, and fell down at it. And for mine own +part, I durst not laugh, for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> But, soft! I pray you. What, did Caesar swoon? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -He fell down in the market-place, and foam’d at mouth, and was -speechless.</p> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +He fell down in the market-place, and foam’d at mouth, and was speechless. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -’Tis very like: he hath the falling-sickness. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +’Tis very like: he hath the falling-sickness. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> No, Caesar hath it not; but you, and I,<br/> And honest Casca, we have the falling-sickness. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> I know not what you mean by that; but I am sure Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and -displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man. +displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true +man. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What said he when he came unto himself? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he -refused the crown, he pluck’d me ope his doublet, and offer’d them -his throat to cut. And I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have -taken him at a word, I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so he -fell. When he came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said anything -amiss, he desir’d their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or -four wenches where I stood cried, “Alas, good soul!” and forgave -him with all their hearts. But there’s no heed to be taken of them: if -Caesar had stabb’d their mothers, they would have done no less. +refused the crown, he pluck’d me ope his doublet, and offer’d them his throat +to cut. And I had been a man of any occupation, if I would not have taken him +at a word, I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so he fell. When he +came to himself again, he said, if he had done or said anything amiss, he +desir’d their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches +where I stood cried, “Alas, good soul!” and forgave him with all their hearts. +But there’s no heed to be taken of them: if Caesar had stabb’d their mothers, +they would have done no less. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> And, after that, he came thus sad away? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Ay. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Did Cicero say anything? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Ay, he spoke Greek. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> To what effect? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -Nay, and I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ the face -again. But those that understood him smil’d at one another and shook their -heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news -too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs off Caesar’s images, are -put to silence. Fare you well. There was more foolery yet, if I could remember -it. +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +Nay, and I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ the face again. But those that +understood him smil’d at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own +part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news too: Marullus and Flavius, +for pulling scarfs off Caesar’s images, are put to silence. Fare you well. +There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Will you sup with me tonight, Casca? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -No, I am promis’d forth. +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +No, I am promis’d forth. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Will you dine with me tomorrow? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Good. I will expect you. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Do so; farewell both. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Casca</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Casca</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!<br/> He was quick mettle when he went to school. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> So is he now in execution<br/> Of any bold or noble enterprise,<br/> However he puts on this tardy form.<br/> @@ -109863,24 +110035,29 @@ Which gives men stomach to digest his words<br/> With better appetite. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> And so it is. For this time I will leave you:<br/> Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me,<br/> I will come home to you; or, if you will,<br/> Come home to me, and I will wait for you. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I will do so: till then, think of the world. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see,<br/> Thy honourable metal may be wrought<br/> -From that it is dispos’d: therefore ’tis meet<br/> +From that it is dispos’d: therefore ’tis meet<br/> That noble minds keep ever with their likes;<br/> -For who so firm that cannot be seduc’d?<br/> +For who so firm that cannot be seduc’d?<br/> Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus.<br/> If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius,<br/> He should not humour me. I will this night,<br/> @@ -109888,30 +110065,36 @@ In several hands, in at his windows throw,<br/> As if they came from several citizens,<br/> Writings, all tending to the great opinion<br/> That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely<br/> -Caesar’s ambition shall be glanced at.<br/> +Caesar’s ambition shall be glanced at.<br/> And after this, let Caesar seat him sure,<br/> For we will shake him, or worse days endure. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneI_173" id="sceneI_173"></a><b>SCENE III. The same. A street.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneI_17.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same. A street.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, -<span class="charname">Casca</span> with his sword drawn, and -<span class="charname">Cicero</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, <span +class="charname">Casca</span> with his sword drawn, and <span +class="charname">Cicero</span>. +</p> -<p>CICERO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CICERO.<br/> Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?<br/> Why are you breathless, and why stare you so? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth<br/> Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,<br/> I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds<br/> -Have riv’d the knotty oaks; and I have seen<br/> -Th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,<br/> +Have riv’d the knotty oaks; and I have seen<br/> +Th’ ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,<br/> To be exalted with the threatening clouds:<br/> But never till tonight, never till now,<br/> Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.<br/> @@ -109920,16 +110103,18 @@ Or else the world too saucy with the gods,<br/> Incenses them to send destruction. </p> -<p>CICERO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CICERO.<br/> Why, saw you anything more wonderful? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -A common slave, you’d know him well by sight,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +A common slave, you’d know him well by sight,<br/> Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn<br/> -Like twenty torches join’d, and yet his hand,<br/> -Not sensible of fire remain’d unscorch’d.<br/> -Besides, I ha’ not since put up my sword,<br/> +Like twenty torches join’d, and yet his hand,<br/> +Not sensible of fire remain’d unscorch’d.<br/> +Besides, I ha’ not since put up my sword,<br/> Against the Capitol I met a lion,<br/> Who glared upon me, and went surly by,<br/> Without annoying me. And there were drawn<br/> @@ -109940,79 +110125,96 @@ And yesterday the bird of night did sit,<br/> Even at noonday upon the marketplace,<br/> Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies<br/> Do so conjointly meet, let not men say,<br/> -“These are their reasons; they are natural”;<br/> +“These are their reasons; they are natural”;<br/> For I believe, they are portentous things<br/> Unto the climate that they point upon. </p> -<p>CICERO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CICERO.<br/> Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time.<br/> But men may construe things after their fashion,<br/> Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.<br/> Comes Caesar to the Capitol tomorrow? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> He doth, for he did bid Antonius<br/> Send word to you he would be there tomorrow. </p> -<p>CICERO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CICERO.<br/> Goodnight then, Casca: this disturbed sky<br/> Is not to walk in. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Farewell, Cicero. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cicero</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cicero</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span>. +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Who’s there? +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Who’s there? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> A Roman. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Casca, by your voice. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> A very pleasing night to honest men. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Who ever knew the heavens menace so? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Those that have known the earth so full of faults.<br/> -For my part, I have walk’d about the streets,<br/> +For my part, I have walk’d about the streets,<br/> Submitting me unto the perilous night;<br/> And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,<br/> -Have bar’d my bosom to the thunder-stone;<br/> -And when the cross blue lightning seem’d to open<br/> +Have bar’d my bosom to the thunder-stone;<br/> +And when the cross blue lightning seem’d to open<br/> The breast of heaven, I did present myself<br/> Even in the aim and very flash of it. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> But wherefore did you so much tempt the Heavens?<br/> It is the part of men to fear and tremble,<br/> When the most mighty gods by tokens send<br/> Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> You are dull, Casca; and those sparks of life<br/> That should be in a Roman you do want,<br/> Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze,<br/> @@ -110025,7 +110227,7 @@ Why old men, fools, and children calculate,<br/> Why all these things change from their ordinance,<br/> Their natures, and pre-formed faculties,<br/> To monstrous quality; why, you shall find<br/> -That Heaven hath infus’d them with these spirits,<br/> +That Heaven hath infus’d them with these spirits,<br/> To make them instruments of fear and warning<br/> Unto some monstrous state.<br/> Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man<br/> @@ -110037,26 +110239,30 @@ In personal action; yet prodigious grown,<br/> And fearful, as these strange eruptions are. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -’Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius? +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +’Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Let it be who it is: for Romans now<br/> Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;<br/> -But, woe the while! our fathers’ minds are dead,<br/> -And we are govern’d with our mothers’ spirits;<br/> +But, woe the while! our fathers’ minds are dead,<br/> +And we are govern’d with our mothers’ spirits;<br/> Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow<br/> Mean to establish Caesar as a king;<br/> And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,<br/> In every place, save here in Italy. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I know where I will wear this dagger then;<br/> Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:<br/> Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;<br/> @@ -110071,15 +110277,19 @@ That part of tyranny that I do bear<br/> I can shake off at pleasure. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Thunder still.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Thunder still.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> So can I:<br/> So every bondman in his own hand bears<br/> The power to cancel his captivity. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?<br/> Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,<br/> But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:<br/> @@ -110091,11 +110301,12 @@ For the base matter to illuminate<br/> So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,<br/> Where hast thou led me? I, perhaps, speak this<br/> Before a willing bondman: then I know<br/> -My answer must be made; but I am arm’d,<br/> +My answer must be made; but I am arm’d,<br/> And dangers are to me indifferent. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> You speak to Casca, and to such a man<br/> That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:<br/> Be factious for redress of all these griefs,<br/> @@ -110103,147 +110314,178 @@ And I will set this foot of mine as far<br/> As who goes farthest. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -There’s a bargain made.<br/> -Now know you, Casca, I have mov’d already<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +There’s a bargain made.<br/> +Now know you, Casca, I have mov’d already<br/> Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans<br/> To undergo with me an enterprise<br/> Of honourable-dangerous consequence;<br/> And I do know by this, they stay for me<br/> -In Pompey’s Porch: for now, this fearful night,<br/> +In Pompey’s Porch: for now, this fearful night,<br/> There is no stir or walking in the streets;<br/> And the complexion of the element<br/> -In favour’s like the work we have in hand,<br/> +In favour’s like the work we have in hand,<br/> Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Cinna</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Cinna</span>. +</p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -’Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +’Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;<br/> He is a friend. Cinna, where haste you so? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> -To find out you. Who’s that? Metellus Cimber? +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> +To find out you. Who’s that? Metellus Cimber? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> No, it is Casca, one incorporate<br/> -To our attempts. Am I not stay’d for, Cinna? +To our attempts. Am I not stay’d for, Cinna? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> -I am glad on’t. What a fearful night is this!<br/> -There’s two or three of us have seen strange sights. +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> +I am glad on’t. What a fearful night is this!<br/> +There’s two or three of us have seen strange sights. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Am I not stay’d for? tell me. +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Am I not stay’d for? tell me. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Yes, you are. O Cassius, if you could<br/> -But win the noble Brutus to our party— +But win the noble Brutus to our party— </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Be you content. Good Cinna, take this paper,<br/> -And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair,<br/> +And look you lay it in the praetor’s chair,<br/> Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this<br/> In at his window; set this up with wax<br/> -Upon old Brutus’ statue: all this done,<br/> -Repair to Pompey’s Porch, where you shall find us.<br/> +Upon old Brutus’ statue: all this done,<br/> +Repair to Pompey’s Porch, where you shall find us.<br/> Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> -All but Metellus Cimber, and he’s gone<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> +All but Metellus Cimber, and he’s gone<br/> To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,<br/> And so bestow these papers as you bade me. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -That done, repair to Pompey’s theatre. +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +That done, repair to Pompey’s theatre. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cinna</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cinna</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Come, Casca, you and I will yet, ere day,<br/> See Brutus at his house: three parts of him<br/> Is ours already, and the man entire<br/> Upon the next encounter, yields him ours. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts!<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +O, he sits high in all the people’s hearts!<br/> And that which would appear offence in us,<br/> His countenance, like richest alchemy,<br/> Will change to virtue and to worthiness. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Him, and his worth, and our great need of him,<br/> You have right well conceited. Let us go,<br/> For it is after midnight; and ere day,<br/> We will awake him, and be sure of him. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="sceneII_171" id="sceneII_171"></a><b>ACT II</b></h3> +<h2><a name="sceneII_17.1"></a><b>ACT II</b></h2> -<h4><b>SCENE I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What, Lucius, ho!<br/> I cannot, by the progress of the stars,<br/> -Give guess how near to day.—Lucius, I say!<br/> +Give guess how near to day.—Lucius, I say!<br/> I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.<br/> When, Lucius, when? Awake, I say! What, Lucius! </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> -Call’d you, my lord? +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> +Call’d you, my lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:<br/> When it is lighted, come and call me here. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I will, my lord. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> It must be by his death: and for my part,<br/> I know no personal cause to spurn at him,<br/> -But for the general. He would be crown’d:<br/> -How that might change his nature, there’s the question.<br/> +But for the general. He would be crown’d:<br/> +How that might change his nature, there’s the question.<br/> It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,<br/> -And that craves wary walking. Crown him?—that;<br/> +And that craves wary walking. Crown him?—that;<br/> And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,<br/> That at his will he may do danger with.<br/> -Th’ abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins<br/> +Th’ abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins<br/> Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar,<br/> -I have not known when his affections sway’d<br/> -More than his reason. But ’tis a common proof,<br/> -That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,<br/> +I have not known when his affections sway’d<br/> +More than his reason. But ’tis a common proof,<br/> +That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,<br/> Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;<br/> But when he once attains the upmost round,<br/> He then unto the ladder turns his back,<br/> @@ -110253,79 +110495,102 @@ Then lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel<br/> Will bear no colour for the thing he is,<br/> Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,<br/> Would run to these and these extremities:<br/> -And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg<br/> -Which hatch’d, would, as his kind grow mischievous;<br/> +And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg<br/> +Which hatch’d, would, as his kind grow mischievous;<br/> And kill him in the shell. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> The taper burneth in your closet, sir.<br/> Searching the window for a flint, I found<br/> -This paper, thus seal’d up, and I am sure<br/> +This paper, thus seal’d up, and I am sure<br/> It did not lie there when I went to bed. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Gives him the letter.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Gives him the letter.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Get you to bed again; it is not day.<br/> Is not tomorrow, boy, the Ides of March? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I know not, sir. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Look in the calendar, and bring me word. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I will, sir. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> The exhalations, whizzing in the air<br/> Give so much light that I may read by them. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Opens the letter and reads.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Opens the letter and reads.</i>] +</p> -<p> -<i>Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake and see thyself.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +<i>Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake and see thyself.<br/> Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!</i><br/> -“Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake!”<br/> -Such instigations have been often dropp’d<br/> +“Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake!”<br/> +Such instigations have been often dropp’d<br/> Where I have took them up.<br/> -“Shall Rome, &c.” Thus must I piece it out:<br/> -Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe? What, Rome?<br/> +“Shall Rome, &c.” Thus must I piece it out:<br/> +Shall Rome stand under one man’s awe? What, Rome?<br/> My ancestors did from the streets of Rome<br/> -The Tarquin drive, when he was call’d a king.<br/> -“Speak, strike, redress!” Am I entreated<br/> +The Tarquin drive, when he was call’d a king.<br/> +“Speak, strike, redress!” Am I entreated<br/> To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise,<br/> If the redress will follow, thou receivest<br/> Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Sir, March is wasted fifteen days. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Knock within.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Knock within.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -’Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +’Tis good. Go to the gate, somebody knocks. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,<br/> I have not slept.<br/> Between the acting of a dreadful thing<br/> And the first motion, all the interim is<br/> @@ -110336,41 +110601,51 @@ Like to a little kingdom, suffers then<br/> The nature of an insurrection. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> -Sir, ’tis your brother Cassius at the door,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> +Sir, ’tis your brother Cassius at the door,<br/> Who doth desire to see you. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Is he alone? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> No, sir, there are moe with him. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Do you know them? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> -No, sir, their hats are pluck’d about their ears,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> +No, sir, their hats are pluck’d about their ears,<br/> And half their faces buried in their cloaks,<br/> That by no means I may discover them<br/> By any mark of favour. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Let ’em enter. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Let ’em enter. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> They are the faction. O conspiracy,<br/> -Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,<br/> +Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,<br/> When evils are most free? O, then, by day<br/> Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough<br/> To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;<br/> @@ -110380,20 +110655,25 @@ Not Erebus itself were dim enough<br/> To hide thee from prevention. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, -Metellus Cimber</span> and <span class="charname">Trebonius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus +Cimber</span> and <span class="charname">Trebonius</span>. +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I think we are too bold upon your rest:<br/> Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I have been up this hour, awake all night.<br/> Know I these men that come along with you? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Yes, every man of them; and no man here<br/> But honours you; and everyone doth wish<br/> You had but that opinion of yourself<br/> @@ -110401,49 +110681,61 @@ Which every noble Roman bears of you.<br/> This is Trebonius. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> He is welcome hither. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> This Decius Brutus. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> He is welcome too. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> They are all welcome.<br/> What watchful cares do interpose themselves<br/> Betwixt your eyes and night? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Shall I entreat a word? </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>They whisper.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>They whisper.</i>] +</p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> Here lies the east: doth not the day break here? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> No. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon grey lines<br/> That fret the clouds are messengers of day. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> -You shall confess that you are both deceiv’d.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> +You shall confess that you are both deceiv’d.<br/> Here, as I point my sword, the Sun arises;<br/> Which is a great way growing on the South,<br/> Weighing the youthful season of the year.<br/> @@ -110452,17 +110744,20 @@ He first presents his fire; and the high East<br/> Stands, as the Capitol, directly here. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Give me your hands all over, one by one. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> And let us swear our resolution. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No, not an oath. If not the face of men,<br/> -The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse—<br/> +The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse—<br/> If these be motives weak, break off betimes,<br/> And every man hence to his idle bed.<br/> So let high-sighted tyranny range on,<br/> @@ -110474,65 +110769,74 @@ What need we any spur but our own cause<br/> To prick us to redress? what other bond<br/> Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,<br/> And will not palter? and what other oath<br/> -Than honesty to honesty engag’d,<br/> +Than honesty to honesty engag’d,<br/> That this shall be, or we will fall for it?<br/> Swear priests and cowards, and men cautelous,<br/> Old feeble carrions, and such suffering souls<br/> That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear<br/> Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain<br/> The even virtue of our enterprise,<br/> -Nor th’ insuppressive mettle of our spirits,<br/> +Nor th’ insuppressive mettle of our spirits,<br/> To think that or our cause or our performance<br/> Did need an oath; when every drop of blood<br/> That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,<br/> Is guilty of a several bastardy,<br/> If he do break the smallest particle<br/> -Of any promise that hath pass’d from him. +Of any promise that hath pass’d from him. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> But what of Cicero? Shall we sound him?<br/> I think he will stand very strong with us. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Let us not leave him out. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> No, by no means. </p> -<p>METELLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +METELLUS.<br/> O, let us have him, for his silver hairs<br/> Will purchase us a good opinion,<br/> -And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds.<br/> -It shall be said, his judgment rul’d our hands;<br/> +And buy men’s voices to commend our deeds.<br/> +It shall be said, his judgement rul’d our hands;<br/> Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,<br/> But all be buried in his gravity. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O, name him not; let us not break with him;<br/> For he will never follow anything<br/> That other men begin. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Then leave him out. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Indeed, he is not fit. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> -Shall no man else be touch’d but only Caesar? +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> +Shall no man else be touch’d but only Caesar? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Decius, well urg’d. I think it is not meet,<br/> -Mark Antony, so well belov’d of Caesar,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Decius, well urg’d. I think it is not meet,<br/> +Mark Antony, so well belov’d of Caesar,<br/> Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him<br/> A shrewd contriver; and you know, his means,<br/> If he improve them, may well stretch so far<br/> @@ -110540,7 +110844,8 @@ As to annoy us all; which to prevent,<br/> Let Antony and Caesar fall together. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,<br/> To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs,<br/> Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards;<br/> @@ -110548,29 +110853,31 @@ For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.<br/> Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.<br/> We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar,<br/> And in the spirit of men there is no blood.<br/> -O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit,<br/> +O, that we then could come by Caesar’s spirit,<br/> And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,<br/> Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,<br/> -Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;<br/> -Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,<br/> +Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;<br/> +Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,<br/> Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.<br/> And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,<br/> Stir up their servants to an act of rage,<br/> -And after seem to chide ’em. This shall mark<br/> +And after seem to chide ’em. This shall mark<br/> Our purpose necessary, and not envious;<br/> Which so appearing to the common eyes,<br/> -We shall be call’d purgers, not murderers.<br/> +We shall be call’d purgers, not murderers.<br/> And for Mark Antony, think not of him;<br/> -For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm<br/> -When Caesar’s head is off. +For he can do no more than Caesar’s arm<br/> +When Caesar’s head is off. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Yet I fear him;<br/> -For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar— +For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar— </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:<br/> If he love Caesar, all that he can do<br/> Is to himself; take thought and die for Caesar.<br/> @@ -110578,41 +110885,49 @@ And that were much he should; for he is given<br/> To sports, to wildness, and much company. </p> -<p>TREBONIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TREBONIUS.<br/> There is no fear in him; let him not die;<br/> For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Clock strikes.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Clock strikes.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Peace! count the clock. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> The clock hath stricken three. </p> -<p>TREBONIUS.<br/> -’Tis time to part. +<p class="drama"> +TREBONIUS.<br/> +’Tis time to part. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> But it is doubtful yet<br/> Whether Caesar will come forth today or no;<br/> For he is superstitious grown of late,<br/> Quite from the main opinion he held once<br/> Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.<br/> It may be these apparent prodigies,<br/> -The unaccustom’d terror of this night,<br/> +The unaccustom’d terror of this night,<br/> And the persuasion of his augurers,<br/> May hold him from the Capitol today. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> Never fear that: if he be so resolved,<br/> -I can o’ersway him, for he loves to hear<br/> -That unicorns may be betray’d with trees,<br/> +I can o’ersway him, for he loves to hear<br/> +That unicorns may be betray’d with trees,<br/> And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,<br/> Lions with toils, and men with flatterers.<br/> But when I tell him he hates flatterers,<br/> @@ -110622,37 +110937,44 @@ For I can give his humour the true bent,<br/> And I will bring him to the Capitol. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Be that the uttermost; and fail not then. </p> -<p>METELLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +METELLUS.<br/> Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,<br/> Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey;<br/> I wonder none of you have thought of him. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Now, good Metellus, go along by him:<br/> He loves me well, and I have given him reason;<br/> -Send him but hither, and I’ll fashion him. +Send him but hither, and I’ll fashion him. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -The morning comes upon’s. We’ll leave you, Brutus.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +The morning comes upon’s. We’ll leave you, Brutus.<br/> And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember<br/> What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;<br/> Let not our looks put on our purposes,<br/> But bear it as our Roman actors do,<br/> @@ -110660,64 +110982,76 @@ With untired spirits and formal constancy.<br/> And so, good morrow to you everyone. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;<br/> Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:<br/> Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,<br/> Which busy care draws in the brains of men;<br/> -Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. +Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Portia</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Portia</span>. +</p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Brutus, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Portia, what mean you? Wherefore rise you now?<br/> It is not for your health thus to commit<br/> Your weak condition to the raw cold morning. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> -Nor for yours neither. Y’ have ungently, Brutus,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> +Nor for yours neither. Y’ have ungently, Brutus,<br/> Stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper,<br/> -You suddenly arose, and walk’d about,<br/> +You suddenly arose, and walk’d about,<br/> Musing and sighing, with your arms across;<br/> -And when I ask’d you what the matter was,<br/> -You star’d upon me with ungentle looks.<br/> -I urg’d you further; then you scratch’d your head,<br/> -And too impatiently stamp’d with your foot;<br/> -Yet I insisted, yet you answer’d not,<br/> +And when I ask’d you what the matter was,<br/> +You star’d upon me with ungentle looks.<br/> +I urg’d you further; then you scratch’d your head,<br/> +And too impatiently stamp’d with your foot;<br/> +Yet I insisted, yet you answer’d not,<br/> But with an angry wafture of your hand<br/> Gave sign for me to leave you. So I did,<br/> Fearing to strengthen that impatience<br/> -Which seem’d too much enkindled; and withal<br/> +Which seem’d too much enkindled; and withal<br/> Hoping it was but an effect of humour,<br/> Which sometime hath his hour with every man.<br/> It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep;<br/> And could it work so much upon your shape<br/> -As it hath much prevail’d on your condition,<br/> +As it hath much prevail’d on your condition,<br/> I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,<br/> Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I am not well in health, and that is all. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,<br/> He would embrace the means to come by it. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Is Brutus sick, and is it physical<br/> To walk unbraced and suck up the humours<br/> Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,<br/> @@ -110738,11 +111072,13 @@ Some six or seven, who did hide their faces<br/> Even from darkness. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Kneel not, gentle Portia. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.<br/> Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,<br/> Is it excepted I should know no secrets<br/> @@ -110751,38 +111087,44 @@ But, as it were, in sort or limitation,<br/> To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,<br/> And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs<br/> Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,<br/> -Portia is Brutus’ harlot, not his wife. +Portia is Brutus’ harlot, not his wife. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> You are my true and honourable wife,<br/> As dear to me as are the ruddy drops<br/> That visit my sad heart. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> If this were true, then should I know this secret.<br/> I grant I am a woman; but withal<br/> A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife;<br/> I grant I am a woman; but withal<br/> -A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter.<br/> +A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter.<br/> Think you I am no stronger than my sex,<br/> -Being so father’d and so husbanded?<br/> -Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose ’em.<br/> +Being so father’d and so husbanded?<br/> +Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose ’em.<br/> I have made strong proof of my constancy,<br/> Giving myself a voluntary wound<br/> Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience<br/> -And not my husband’s secrets? +And not my husband’s secrets? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O ye gods,<br/> Render me worthy of this noble wife! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Knock.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Knock.</i>] +</p> -<p>Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in awhile;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Hark, hark, one knocks. Portia, go in awhile;<br/> And by and by thy bosom shall partake<br/> The secrets of my heart.<br/> All my engagements I will construe to thee,<br/> @@ -110790,128 +111132,165 @@ All the charactery of my sad brows.<br/> Leave me with haste. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Portia</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Portia</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span> with -<span class="charname">Ligarius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span> with <span +class="charname">Ligarius</span>. +</p> -<p>Lucius, who’s that knocks?</p> +<p class="drama"> +Lucius, who’s that knocks? +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Here is a sick man that would speak with you. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.<br/> Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius, how? </p> -<p>LIGARIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LIGARIUS.<br/> Vouchsafe good-morrow from a feeble tongue. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,<br/> To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick! </p> -<p>LIGARIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LIGARIUS.<br/> I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand<br/> Any exploit worthy the name of honour. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,<br/> Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. </p> -<p>LIGARIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LIGARIUS.<br/> By all the gods that Romans bow before,<br/> I here discard my sickness. Soul of Rome!<br/> Brave son, derived from honourable loins!<br/> -Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur’d up<br/> +Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjur’d up<br/> My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,<br/> And I will strive with things impossible,<br/> -Yea, get the better of them. What’s to do? +Yea, get the better of them. What’s to do? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> A piece of work that will make sick men whole. </p> -<p>LIGARIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LIGARIUS.<br/> But are not some whole that we must make sick? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> That must we also. What it is, my Caius,<br/> I shall unfold to thee, as we are going,<br/> To whom it must be done. </p> -<p>LIGARIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LIGARIUS.<br/> Set on your foot,<br/> -And with a heart new-fir’d I follow you,<br/> +And with a heart new-fir’d I follow you,<br/> To do I know not what; but it sufficeth<br/> That Brutus leads me on. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Thunder.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Thunder.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Follow me then. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneII_172" id="sceneII_172"></a><b>SCENE II. A room in Caesar’s palace.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneII_17.2"></a><b>SCENE II. A room in Caesar’s palace.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Thunder and lightning. Enter <span class="charname">Caesar,</span> -in his nightgown.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Thunder and lightning. Enter <span class="charname">Caesar,</span> in his +nightgown. +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace tonight:<br/> Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out,<br/> -“Help, ho! They murder Caesar!” Who’s within? +“Help, ho! They murder Caesar!” Who’s within? </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>. +</p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> My lord? </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Go bid the priests do present sacrifice,<br/> And bring me their opinions of success. </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> I will, my lord. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Calphurnia</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Calphurnia</span>. +</p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?<br/> You shall not stir out of your house today. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -Caesar shall forth. The things that threaten’d me<br/> -Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +Caesar shall forth. The things that threaten’d me<br/> +Ne’er look’d but on my back; when they shall see<br/> The face of Caesar, they are vanished. </p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,<br/> Yet now they fright me. There is one within,<br/> Besides the things that we have heard and seen,<br/> Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.<br/> A lioness hath whelped in the streets,<br/> -And graves have yawn’d, and yielded up their dead;<br/> +And graves have yawn’d, and yielded up their dead;<br/> Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds<br/> In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,<br/> Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;<br/> @@ -110922,19 +111301,22 @@ O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,<br/> And I do fear them! </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> What can be avoided<br/> -Whose end is purpos’d by the mighty gods?<br/> +Whose end is purpos’d by the mighty gods?<br/> Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions<br/> Are to the world in general as to Caesar. </p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> When beggars die, there are no comets seen;<br/> The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Cowards die many times before their deaths;<br/> The valiant never taste of death but once.<br/> Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,<br/> @@ -110943,52 +111325,66 @@ Seeing that death, a necessary end,<br/> Will come when it will come. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Servant</span>. +</p> -<p>What say the augurers?</p> +<p class="drama"> +What say the augurers? +</p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> They would not have you to stir forth today.<br/> Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,<br/> They could not find a heart within the beast. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> The gods do this in shame of cowardice:<br/> Caesar should be a beast without a heart<br/> If he should stay at home today for fear.<br/> No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well<br/> That Caesar is more dangerous than he.<br/> -We are two lions litter’d in one day,<br/> +We are two lions litter’d in one day,<br/> And I the elder and more terrible,<br/> And Caesar shall go forth. </p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> Alas, my lord,<br/> -Your wisdom is consum’d in confidence.<br/> +Your wisdom is consum’d in confidence.<br/> Do not go forth today: call it my fear<br/> That keeps you in the house, and not your own.<br/> -We’ll send Mark Antony to the Senate-house,<br/> +We’ll send Mark Antony to the Senate-house,<br/> And he shall say you are not well today.<br/> Let me upon my knee prevail in this. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Mark Antony shall say I am not well,<br/> And for thy humour, I will stay at home. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Decius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Decius</span>. +</p> -<p>Here’s Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.</p> +<p class="drama"> +Here’s Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so. +</p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar.<br/> I come to fetch you to the Senate-house. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> And you are come in very happy time<br/> To bear my greeting to the Senators,<br/> And tell them that I will not come today.<br/> @@ -110996,23 +111392,27 @@ Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser:<br/> I will not come today. Tell them so, Decius. </p> -<p>CALPHURNIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CALPHURNIA.<br/> Say he is sick. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Shall Caesar send a lie?<br/> -Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,<br/> +Have I in conquest stretch’d mine arm so far,<br/> To be afeard to tell grey-beards the truth?<br/> Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,<br/> -Lest I be laugh’d at when I tell them so. +Lest I be laugh’d at when I tell them so. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> The cause is in my will; I will not come.<br/> That is enough to satisfy the Senate.<br/> But for your private satisfaction,<br/> @@ -111024,239 +111424,288 @@ Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans<br/> Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.<br/> And these does she apply for warnings and portents<br/> And evils imminent; and on her knee<br/> -Hath begg’d that I will stay at home today. +Hath begg’d that I will stay at home today. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> This dream is all amiss interpreted:<br/> It was a vision fair and fortunate.<br/> Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,<br/> -In which so many smiling Romans bath’d,<br/> +In which so many smiling Romans bath’d,<br/> Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck<br/> Reviving blood, and that great men shall press<br/> For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.<br/> -This by Calphurnia’s dream is signified. +This by Calphurnia’s dream is signified. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> And this way have you well expounded it. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> I have, when you have heard what I can say;<br/> And know it now. The Senate have concluded<br/> To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.<br/> If you shall send them word you will not come,<br/> Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock<br/> -Apt to be render’d, for someone to say,<br/> -“Break up the Senate till another time,<br/> -When Caesar’s wife shall meet with better dreams.”<br/> +Apt to be render’d, for someone to say,<br/> +“Break up the Senate till another time,<br/> +When Caesar’s wife shall meet with better dreams.”<br/> If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper<br/> -“Lo, Caesar is afraid”?<br/> +“Lo, Caesar is afraid”?<br/> Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love<br/> To your proceeding bids me tell you this,<br/> And reason to my love is liable. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia!<br/> I am ashamed I did yield to them.<br/> Give me my robe, for I will go. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, -Casca, Trebonius, Cinna</span> and <span class="charname">Publius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, +Cinna</span> and <span class="charname">Publius</span>. +</p> -<p>And look where Publius is come to fetch me.</p> +<p class="drama"> +And look where Publius is come to fetch me. +</p> -<p>PUBLIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PUBLIUS.<br/> Good morrow, Caesar. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Welcome, Publius.<br/> -What, Brutus, are you stirr’d so early too?<br/> +What, Brutus, are you stirr’d so early too?<br/> Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,<br/> -Caesar was ne’er so much your enemy<br/> +Caesar was ne’er so much your enemy<br/> As that same ague which hath made you lean.<br/> -What is’t o’clock? +What is’t o’clock? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Caesar, ’tis strucken eight. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Caesar, ’tis strucken eight. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> I thank you for your pains and courtesy. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>. +</p> -<p>See! Antony, that revels long a-nights,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +See! Antony, that revels long a-nights,<br/> Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> So to most noble Caesar. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Bid them prepare within.<br/> I am to blame to be thus waited for.<br/> Now, Cinna; now, Metellus; what, Trebonius!<br/> -I have an hour’s talk in store for you:<br/> +I have an hour’s talk in store for you:<br/> Remember that you call on me today;<br/> Be near me, that I may remember you. </p> -<p>TREBONIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TREBONIUS.<br/> Caesar, I will. [<i>Aside.</i>] and so near will I be,<br/> That your best friends shall wish I had been further. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;<br/> And we, like friends, will straightway go together. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> [<i>Aside.</i>] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,<br/> The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneII_173" id="sceneII_173"></a><b>SCENE III. A street near the Capitol.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneII_17.3"></a><b>SCENE III. A street near the +Capitol.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Artemidorus,</span> -reading a paper.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Artemidorus,</span> reading a paper. +</p> -<p>ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> -<i>“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come -not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark -well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast -wrong’d Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all these men, -and it is bent against Caesar. If thou be’st not immortal, look -about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods -defend thee!<br/> -Thy lover, Artemidorus.”</i><br/> -Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,<br/> -And as a suitor will I give him this.<br/> -My heart laments that virtue cannot live<br/> -Out of the teeth of emulation.<br/> -If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live;<br/> -If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> +<i>“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have +an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus +loves thee not; thou hast wrong’d Caius Ligarius. There is but one mind in all +these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou be’st not immortal, look +about you: security gives way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee!<br /> +Thy lover, Artemidorus.”</i><br /> Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,<br +/> And as a suitor will I give him this.<br /> My heart laments that virtue +cannot live<br /> Out of the teeth of emulation.<br /> If thou read this, O +Caesar, thou mayest live;<br /> If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.<br +/> </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneII_174" id="sceneII_174"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneII_17.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the same street, +before the house of Brutus.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Portia</span> and -<span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Portia</span> and <span +class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> -I pr’ythee, boy, run to the Senate-house;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> +I pr’ythee, boy, run to the Senate-house;<br/> Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone.<br/> Why dost thou stay? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> To know my errand, madam. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> I would have had thee there and here again,<br/> Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.<br/> [<i>Aside.</i>] O constancy, be strong upon my side,<br/> -Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue!<br/> -I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.<br/> +Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue!<br/> +I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might.<br/> How hard it is for women to keep counsel!<br/> Art thou here yet? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Madam, what should I do?<br/> Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?<br/> And so return to you, and nothing else? </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,<br/> For he went sickly forth: and take good note<br/> What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.<br/> Hark, boy, what noise is that? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I hear none, madam. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> -Pr’ythee, listen well.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> +Pr’ythee, listen well.<br/> I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,<br/> And the wind brings it from the Capitol. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">the Soothsayer</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">the Soothsayer</span>. +</p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Come hither, fellow:<br/> Which way hast thou been? </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> At mine own house, good lady. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> -What is’t o’clock? +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> +What is’t o’clock? </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> About the ninth hour, lady. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol? </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> Madam, not yet. I go to take my stand,<br/> To see him pass on to the Capitol. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not? </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> That I have, lady, if it will please Caesar<br/> To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,<br/> I shall beseech him to befriend himself. </p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> -Why, know’st thou any harm’s intended towards him? +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> +Why, know’st thou any harm’s intended towards him? </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.<br/> Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow.<br/> The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,<br/> Of Senators, of Praetors, common suitors,<br/> Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:<br/> -I’ll get me to a place more void, and there<br/> +I’ll get me to a place more void, and there<br/> Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>PORTIA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PORTIA.<br/> I must go in.<br/> [<i>Aside.</i>] Ay me, how weak a thing<br/> The heart of woman is! O Brutus,<br/> @@ -111268,150 +111717,187 @@ Say I am merry; come to me again,<br/> And bring me word what he doth say to thee. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_171" id="sceneIII_171"></a><b>ACT III</b></h3> +<h2><a name="sceneIII_17.1"></a><b>ACT III</b></h2> -<h4><b>SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol. -Flourish. Enter <span class="charname">Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, -Metellus, Trebonius, Cinna, Antony, Lepidus, Artemidorus, Publius, Popilius</span> -and the <span class="charname">Soothsayer</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +A crowd of people in the street leading to the Capitol. Flourish. Enter <span +class="charname">Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Trebonius, +Cinna, Antony, Lepidus, Artemidorus, Publius, Popilius</span> and the <span +class="charname">Soothsayer</span>. +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> The Ides of March are come. </p> -<p>SOOTHSAYER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SOOTHSAYER.<br/> Ay, Caesar; but not gone. </p> -<p>ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> Hail, Caesar! Read this schedule. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> -Trebonius doth desire you to o’er-read,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> +Trebonius doth desire you to o’er-read,<br/> At your best leisure, this his humble suit. </p> -<p>ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> -O Caesar, read mine first; for mine’s a suit<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> +O Caesar, read mine first; for mine’s a suit<br/> That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -What touches us ourself shall be last serv’d. +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +What touches us ourself shall be last serv’d. </p> -<p>ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ARTEMIDORUS.<br/> Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> What, is the fellow mad? </p> -<p>PUBLIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PUBLIUS.<br/> Sirrah, give place. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> What, urge you your petitions in the street?<br/> Come to the Capitol. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"><span class="charname">Caesar</span> enters the Capitol, the -rest following. All the Senators rise.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +<span class="charname">Caesar</span> enters the Capitol, the rest following. +All the Senators rise. +</p> -<p>POPILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +POPILIUS.<br/> I wish your enterprise today may thrive. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> What enterprise, Popilius? </p> -<p>POPILIUS.<br/> -Fare you well.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +POPILIUS.<br/> +Fare you well. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Advances to <span class="charname">Caesar</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Advances to <span class="charname">Caesar</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What said Popilius Lena? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -He wish’d today our enterprise might thrive.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +He wish’d today our enterprise might thrive.<br/> I fear our purpose is discovered. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Look how he makes to Caesar: mark him. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.<br/> Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,<br/> Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,<br/> For I will slay myself. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Cassius, be constant:<br/> Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;<br/> For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Trebonius knows his time, for look you, Brutus,<br/> He draws Mark Antony out of the way. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Antony</span> and -<span class="charname">Trebonius. Caesar</span> and the Senators take their -seats.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Antony</span> and <span +class="charname">Trebonius. Caesar</span> and the Senators take their +seats.</i>] +</p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,<br/> And presently prefer his suit to Caesar. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -He is address’d; press near and second him. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +He is address’d; press near and second him. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Casca, you are the first that rears your hand. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Are we all ready? What is now amiss<br/> That Caesar and his Senate must redress? </p> -<p>METELLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +METELLUS.<br/> Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,<br/> Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat<br/> An humble heart. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Kneeling.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Kneeling.</i>] +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> I must prevent thee, Cimber.<br/> These couchings and these lowly courtesies<br/> Might fire the blood of ordinary men,<br/> And turn pre-ordinance and first decree<br/> Into the law of children. Be not fond,<br/> To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood<br/> -That will be thaw’d from the true quality<br/> +That will be thaw’d from the true quality<br/> With that which melteth fools; I mean sweet words,<br/> Low-crooked curtsies, and base spaniel fawning.<br/> Thy brother by decree is banished:<br/> @@ -111421,209 +111907,252 @@ Know, Caesar dost not wrong, nor without cause<br/> Will he be satisfied. </p> -<p>METELLUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +METELLUS.<br/> Is there no voice more worthy than my own,<br/> -To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear<br/> -For the repealing of my banish’d brother? +To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear<br/> +For the repealing of my banish’d brother? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;<br/> Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may<br/> Have an immediate freedom of repeal. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> What, Brutus? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:<br/> As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,<br/> To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -I could be well mov’d, if I were as you;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +I could be well mov’d, if I were as you;<br/> If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:<br/> But I am constant as the northern star,<br/> -Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality<br/> +Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality<br/> There is no fellow in the firmament.<br/> -The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks,<br/> +The skies are painted with unnumber’d sparks,<br/> They are all fire, and every one doth shine;<br/> -But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.<br/> -So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,<br/> +But there’s but one in all doth hold his place.<br/> +So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,<br/> And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;<br/> Yet in the number I do know but one<br/> That unassailable holds on his rank,<br/> -Unshak’d of motion: and that I am he,<br/> +Unshak’d of motion: and that I am he,<br/> Let me a little show it, even in this,<br/> -That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,<br/> +That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,<br/> And constant do remain to keep him so. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> -O Caesar,— +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> +O Caesar,— </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus? </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> -Great Caesar,— +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> +Great Caesar,— </p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Speak, hands, for me! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Casca</span> stabs -<span class="charname">Caesar</span> in the neck. <span class="charname">Caesar</span> -catches hold of his arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last -by <span class="charname">Marcus Brutus</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Casca</span> stabs <span +class="charname">Caesar</span> in the neck. <span +class="charname">Caesar</span> catches hold of his arm. He is then stabbed by +several other Conspirators, and at last by <span class="charname">Marcus +Brutus</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>CAESAR.<br/> -<i>Et tu, Brute?</i>—Then fall, Caesar! +<p class="drama"> +CAESAR.<br/> +<i>Et tu, Brute?</i>—Then fall, Caesar! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Dies. The Senators and People retire in confusion.</i>] +</p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!<br/> Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Some to the common pulpits and cry out,<br/> -“Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!” +“Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!” </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> People and Senators, be not affrighted.<br/> -Fly not; stand still; ambition’s debt is paid. +Fly not; stand still; ambition’s debt is paid. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Go to the pulpit, Brutus. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> And Cassius too. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Where’s Publius? +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Where’s Publius? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Here, quite confounded with this mutiny. </p> -<p>METELLUS.<br/> -Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar’s<br/> -Should chance— +<p class="drama"> +METELLUS.<br/> +Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar’s<br/> +Should chance— </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer!<br/> There is no harm intended to your person,<br/> Nor to no Roman else. So tell them, Publius. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> And leave us, Publius; lest that the people<br/> Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Do so; and let no man abide this deed<br/> But we the doers. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Trebonius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Trebonius</span>. +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Where’s Antony? +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Where’s Antony? </p> -<p>TREBONIUS.<br/> -Fled to his house amaz’d.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TREBONIUS.<br/> +Fled to his house amaz’d.<br/> Men, wives, and children stare, cry out, and run,<br/> As it were doomsday. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Fates, we will know your pleasures.<br/> -That we shall die, we know; ’tis but the time<br/> +That we shall die, we know; ’tis but the time<br/> And drawing days out, that men stand upon. </p> -<p>CASCA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASCA.<br/> Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life<br/> Cuts off so many years of fearing death. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Grant that, and then is death a benefit:<br/> -So are we Caesar’s friends, that have abridg’d<br/> +So are we Caesar’s friends, that have abridg’d<br/> His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,<br/> -And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood<br/> +And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood<br/> Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:<br/> Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,<br/> -And waving our red weapons o’er our heads,<br/> -Let’s all cry, “Peace, freedom, and liberty!” +And waving our red weapons o’er our heads,<br/> +Let’s all cry, “Peace, freedom, and liberty!” </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Stoop then, and wash. How many ages hence<br/> Shall this our lofty scene be acted over<br/> In States unborn, and accents yet unknown! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,<br/> -That now on Pompey’s basis lies along,<br/> +That now on Pompey’s basis lies along,<br/> No worthier than the dust! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> So oft as that shall be,<br/> -So often shall the knot of us be call’d<br/> +So often shall the knot of us be call’d<br/> The men that gave their country liberty. </p> -<p>DECIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DECIUS.<br/> What, shall we forth? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Ay, every man away.<br/> Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels<br/> With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Soft, who comes here? A friend of Antony’s. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Soft, who comes here? A friend of Antony’s. </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel;<br/> Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;<br/> And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:<br/> Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;<br/> Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving;<br/> Say I love Brutus and I honour him;<br/> -Say I fear’d Caesar, honour’d him, and lov’d him.<br/> +Say I fear’d Caesar, honour’d him, and lov’d him.<br/> If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony<br/> -May safely come to him, and be resolv’d<br/> -How Caesar hath deserv’d to lie in death,<br/> +May safely come to him, and be resolv’d<br/> +How Caesar hath deserv’d to lie in death,<br/> Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead<br/> So well as Brutus living; but will follow<br/> The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus<br/> @@ -111631,44 +112160,54 @@ Thorough the hazards of this untrod state,<br/> With all true faith. So says my master Antony. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;<br/> I never thought him worse.<br/> Tell him, so please him come unto this place,<br/> He shall be satisfied and, by my honour,<br/> -Depart untouch’d. +Depart untouch’d. </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> -I’ll fetch him presently. +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> +I’ll fetch him presently. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I know that we shall have him well to friend. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I wish we may: but yet have I a mind<br/> That fears him much; and my misgiving still<br/> Falls shrewdly to the purpose. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> But here comes Antony. Welcome, Mark Antony. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low?<br/> Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,<br/> Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.<br/> I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,<br/> Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:<br/> If I myself, there is no hour so fit<br/> -As Caesar’s death’s hour; nor no instrument<br/> +As Caesar’s death’s hour; nor no instrument<br/> Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich<br/> With the most noble blood of all this world.<br/> I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,<br/> @@ -111680,36 +112219,40 @@ As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,<br/> The choice and master spirits of this age. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O Antony, beg not your death of us.<br/> Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,<br/> As by our hands and this our present act<br/> You see we do; yet see you but our hands<br/> And this the bleeding business they have done.<br/> Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;<br/> -And pity to the general wrong of Rome—<br/> -As fire drives out fire, so pity pity—<br/> +And pity to the general wrong of Rome—<br/> +As fire drives out fire, so pity pity—<br/> Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,<br/> To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony;<br/> Our arms in strength of malice, and our hearts<br/> -Of brothers’ temper, do receive you in<br/> +Of brothers’ temper, do receive you in<br/> With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Your voice shall be as strong as any man’s<br/> In the disposing of new dignities. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Only be patient till we have appeas’d<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Only be patient till we have appeas’d<br/> The multitude, beside themselves with fear,<br/> And then we will deliver you the cause<br/> Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,<br/> Have thus proceeded. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> I doubt not of your wisdom.<br/> Let each man render me his bloody hand.<br/> First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;<br/> @@ -111717,11 +112260,11 @@ Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand.<br/> Now, Decius Brutus, yours; now yours, Metellus;<br/> Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;<br/> Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.<br/> -Gentlemen all—alas, what shall I say?<br/> +Gentlemen all—alas, what shall I say?<br/> My credit now stands on such slippery ground,<br/> That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,<br/> Either a coward or a flatterer.<br/> -That I did love thee, Caesar, O, ’tis true:<br/> +That I did love thee, Caesar, O, ’tis true:<br/> If then thy spirit look upon us now,<br/> Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,<br/> To see thy Antony making his peace,<br/> @@ -111731,71 +112274,80 @@ Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,<br/> Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,<br/> It would become me better than to close<br/> In terms of friendship with thine enemies.<br/> -Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay’d, brave hart;<br/> +Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay’d, brave hart;<br/> Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,<br/> -Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.<br/> +Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe.<br/> O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;<br/> And this indeed, O world, the heart of thee.<br/> How like a deer strucken by many princes,<br/> Dost thou here lie! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Mark Antony,— +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Mark Antony,— </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Pardon me, Caius Cassius:<br/> The enemies of Caesar shall say this;<br/> Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I blame you not for praising Caesar so;<br/> But what compact mean you to have with us?<br/> -Will you be prick’d in number of our friends,<br/> +Will you be prick’d in number of our friends,<br/> Or shall we on, and not depend on you? </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Therefore I took your hands; but was indeed<br/> -Sway’d from the point, by looking down on Caesar.<br/> +Sway’d from the point, by looking down on Caesar.<br/> Friends am I with you all, and love you all,<br/> Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons<br/> Why, and wherein, Caesar was dangerous. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Or else were this a savage spectacle.<br/> Our reasons are so full of good regard<br/> That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,<br/> You should be satisfied. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -That’s all I seek,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +That’s all I seek,<br/> And am moreover suitor that I may<br/> Produce his body to the market-place;<br/> And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,<br/> Speak in the order of his funeral. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> You shall, Mark Antony. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Brutus, a word with you.<br/> [<i>Aside to Brutus.</i>] You know not what you do. Do not consent<br/> That Antony speak in his funeral.<br/> -Know you how much the people may be mov’d<br/> +Know you how much the people may be mov’d<br/> By that which he will utter? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> [<i>Aside to Cassius.</i>] By your pardon:<br/> I will myself into the pulpit first,<br/> -And show the reason of our Caesar’s death.<br/> +And show the reason of our Caesar’s death.<br/> What Antony shall speak, I will protest<br/> He speaks by leave and by permission;<br/> And that we are contented Caesar shall<br/> @@ -111803,33 +112355,40 @@ Have all true rights and lawful ceremonies.<br/> It shall advantage more than do us wrong. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> [<i>Aside to Brutus.</i>] I know not what may fall; I like it not. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar’s body.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar’s body.<br/> You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,<br/> But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,<br/> -And say you do’t by our permission;<br/> +And say you do’t by our permission;<br/> Else shall you not have any hand at all<br/> About his funeral. And you shall speak<br/> In the same pulpit whereto I am going,<br/> After my speech is ended. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Be it so;<br/> I do desire no more. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Prepare the body, then, and follow us. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Antony</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Antony</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,<br/> That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.<br/> Thou art the ruins of the noblest man<br/> @@ -111845,46 +112404,56 @@ Blood and destruction shall be so in use,<br/> And dreadful objects so familiar,<br/> That mothers shall but smile when they behold<br/> Their infants quartered with the hands of war;<br/> -All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds:<br/> -And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,<br/> +All pity chok’d with custom of fell deeds:<br/> +And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,<br/> With Ate by his side come hot from Hell,<br/> -Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice<br/> +Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice<br/> Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war,<br/> That this foul deed shall smell above the earth<br/> With carrion men, groaning for burial. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>. +</p> -<p>You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?</p> +<p class="drama"> +You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not? +</p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> I do, Mark Antony. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Caesar did write for him to come to Rome. </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> He did receive his letters, and is coming,<br/> -And bid me say to you by word of mouth,—<br/> +And bid me say to you by word of mouth,—<br/> [<i>Seeing the body.</i>] O Caesar! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.<br/> Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,<br/> Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,<br/> Began to water. Is thy master coming? </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> He lies tonight within seven leagues of Rome. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanc’d.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanc’d.<br/> Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,<br/> No Rome of safety for Octavius yet.<br/> Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet stay awhile;<br/> @@ -111897,80 +112466,94 @@ To young Octavius of the state of things.<br/> Lend me your hand. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt with <span class="charname">Caesar’s</span> -body.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt with <span class="charname">Caesar’s</span> body.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneIII_172" id="sceneIII_172"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. The Forum.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneIII_17.2"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. The Forum.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and goes into -the pulpit, and <span class="charname">Cassius</span>, with a throng of <span -class="charname">Citizens</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and goes into the pulpit, and <span +class="charname">Cassius</span>, with a throng of <span +class="charname">Citizens</span>. +</p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.<br/> Cassius, go you into the other street<br/> And part the numbers.<br/> -Those that will hear me speak, let ’em stay here;<br/> +Those that will hear me speak, let ’em stay here;<br/> Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;<br/> And public reasons shall be rendered<br/> -Of Caesar’s death. +Of Caesar’s death. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> I will hear Brutus speak. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,<br/> When severally we hear them rendered. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cassius,</span> with some of the -<span class="charname">Citizens. Brutus</span> goes into the rostrum.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Cassius,</span> with some of the <span +class="charname">Citizens. Brutus</span> goes into the rostrum.</i>] +</p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> The noble Brutus is ascended: silence! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Be patient till the last.<br/> Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the -better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of -Caesar’s, to him I say that Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than -his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my -answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you -rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to -live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I -rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I -slew him. There is tears, for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his -valour; and death, for his ambition. Who is here so base, that would be a -bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that -would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so -vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I -pause for a reply. -</p> - -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar’s, to +him I say that Brutus’ love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend +demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved +Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and +die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar +loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was +valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears, +for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death, for his +ambition. Who is here so base, that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him +have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; +for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? +If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply. +</p> + +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> None, Brutus, none. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to -Brutus. The question of his death is enroll’d in the Capitol, his glory -not extenuated, wherein he was worthy; nor his offences enforc’d, for -which he suffered death. +Brutus. The question of his death is enroll’d in the Capitol, his glory not +extenuated, wherein he was worthy; nor his offences enforc’d, for which he +suffered death. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span> and others, with -<span class="charname">Caesar’s</span> body.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span> and others, with <span +class="charname">Caesar’s</span> body. +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony, who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this I depart, that, as I slew my best lover for @@ -111978,105 +112561,131 @@ the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Live, Brutus! live, live! </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Bring him with triumph home unto his house. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Give him a statue with his ancestors. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Let him be Caesar. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -Caesar’s better parts<br/> -Shall be crown’d in Brutus. +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +Caesar’s better parts<br/> +Shall be crown’d in Brutus. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> -We’ll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours. +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +We’ll bring him to his house with shouts and clamours. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -My countrymen,— +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +My countrymen,— </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Peace! Silence! Brutus speaks. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Peace, ho! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Good countrymen, let me depart alone,<br/> And, for my sake, stay here with Antony.<br/> -Do grace to Caesar’s corpse, and grace his speech<br/> -Tending to Caesar’s glories, which Mark Antony,<br/> -By our permission, is allow’d to make.<br/> +Do grace to Caesar’s corpse, and grace his speech<br/> +Tending to Caesar’s glories, which Mark Antony,<br/> +By our permission, is allow’d to make.<br/> I do entreat you, not a man depart,<br/> Save I alone, till Antony have spoke. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Let him go up into the public chair.<br/> -We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up. +We’ll hear him. Noble Antony, go up. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you. +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +For Brutus’ sake, I am beholding to you. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Goes up.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Goes up.</i>] +</p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> What does he say of Brutus? </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> -He says, for Brutus’ sake<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +He says, for Brutus’ sake<br/> He finds himself beholding to us all. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -’Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here! +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +’Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here! </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> This Caesar was a tyrant. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> -Nay, that’s certain.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +Nay, that’s certain.<br/> We are blest that Rome is rid of him. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Peace! let us hear what Antony can say. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -You gentle Romans,— +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +You gentle Romans,— </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Peace, ho! let us hear him. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;<br/> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.<br/> The evil that men do lives after them,<br/> @@ -112084,11 +112693,11 @@ The good is oft interred with their bones;<br/> So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus<br/> Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.<br/> If it were so, it was a grievous fault,<br/> -And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.<br/> +And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.<br/> Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,<br/> For Brutus is an honourable man,<br/> So are they all, all honourable men,<br/> -Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.<br/> +Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.<br/> He was my friend, faithful and just to me;<br/> But Brutus says he was ambitious,<br/> And Brutus is an honourable man.<br/> @@ -112108,63 +112717,72 @@ I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,<br/> But here I am to speak what I do know.<br/> You all did love him once, not without cause;<br/> What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?<br/> -O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,<br/> +O judgement, thou art fled to brutish beasts,<br/> And men have lost their reason. Bear with me.<br/> My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,<br/> And I must pause till it come back to me. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Methinks there is much reason in his sayings. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> If thou consider rightly of the matter,<br/> Caesar has had great wrong. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Has he, masters?<br/> I fear there will a worse come in his place. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -Mark’d ye his words? He would not take the crown;<br/> -Therefore ’tis certain he was not ambitious. +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +Mark’d ye his words? He would not take the crown;<br/> +Therefore ’tis certain he was not ambitious. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> If it be found so, some will dear abide it. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> -There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony. +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> Now mark him; he begins again to speak. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> But yesterday the word of Caesar might<br/> Have stood against the world; now lies he there,<br/> And none so poor to do him reverence.<br/> -O masters! If I were dispos’d to stir<br/> +O masters! If I were dispos’d to stir<br/> Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,<br/> I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong,<br/> Who, you all know, are honourable men.<br/> I will not do them wrong; I rather choose<br/> To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,<br/> Than I will wrong such honourable men.<br/> -But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar,<br/> -I found it in his closet; ’tis his will:<br/> +But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar,<br/> +I found it in his closet; ’tis his will:<br/> Let but the commons hear this testament,<br/> Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,<br/> -And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds,<br/> +And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds,<br/> And dip their napkins in his sacred blood;<br/> Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,<br/> And, dying, mention it within their wills,<br/> @@ -112172,168 +112790,198 @@ Bequeathing it as a rich legacy<br/> Unto their issue. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -We’ll hear the will. Read it, Mark Antony. +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +We’ll hear the will. Read it, Mark Antony. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> -The will, the will! We will hear Caesar’s will. +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> +The will, the will! We will hear Caesar’s will. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it.<br/> It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.<br/> You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;<br/> And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,<br/> It will inflame you, it will make you mad.<br/> -’Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;<br/> +’Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;<br/> For if you should, O, what would come of it? </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -Read the will! We’ll hear it, Antony;<br/> -You shall read us the will, Caesar’s will! +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +Read the will! We’ll hear it, Antony;<br/> +You shall read us the will, Caesar’s will! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile?<br/> -I have o’ershot myself to tell you of it.<br/> +I have o’ershot myself to tell you of it.<br/> I fear I wrong the honourable men<br/> -Whose daggers have stabb’d Caesar; I do fear it. +Whose daggers have stabb’d Caesar; I do fear it. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> They were traitors. Honourable men! </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> The will! The testament! </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> They were villains, murderers. The will! Read the will! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> You will compel me then to read the will?<br/> Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,<br/> And let me show you him that made the will.<br/> Shall I descend? and will you give me leave? </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Come down. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Descend. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>He comes down.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>He comes down.</i>] +</p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> You shall have leave. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> A ring! Stand round. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Stand from the hearse, stand from the body. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Room for Antony, most noble Antony! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Stand back; room! bear back. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.<br/> You all do know this mantle. I remember<br/> The first time ever Caesar put it on;<br/> -’Twas on a Summer’s evening, in his tent,<br/> +’Twas on a Summer’s evening, in his tent,<br/> That day he overcame the Nervii.<br/> -Look, in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through:<br/> +Look, in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through:<br/> See what a rent the envious Casca made:<br/> -Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d;<br/> -And as he pluck’d his cursed steel away,<br/> -Mark how the blood of Caesar follow’d it,<br/> -As rushing out of doors, to be resolv’d<br/> -If Brutus so unkindly knock’d, or no;<br/> -For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel.<br/> -Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov’d him.<br/> +Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d;<br/> +And as he pluck’d his cursed steel away,<br/> +Mark how the blood of Caesar follow’d it,<br/> +As rushing out of doors, to be resolv’d<br/> +If Brutus so unkindly knock’d, or no;<br/> +For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel.<br/> +Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov’d him.<br/> This was the most unkindest cut of all;<br/> For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,<br/> -Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,<br/> -Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;<br/> +Ingratitude, more strong than traitors’ arms,<br/> +Quite vanquish’d him: then burst his mighty heart;<br/> And in his mantle muffling up his face,<br/> -Even at the base of Pompey’s statue<br/> +Even at the base of Pompey’s statue<br/> Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.<br/> O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!<br/> Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,<br/> -Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.<br/> +Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.<br/> O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel<br/> The dint of pity. These are gracious drops.<br/> Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold<br/> -Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here,<br/> -Here is himself, marr’d, as you see, with traitors. +Our Caesar’s vesture wounded? Look you here,<br/> +Here is himself, marr’d, as you see, with traitors. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> O piteous spectacle! </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> O noble Caesar! </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> O woeful day! </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> O traitors, villains! </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> O most bloody sight! </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> We will be revenged. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> -Revenge,—about,—seek,—burn,—fire,—kill,—slay,—let -not a traitor live! +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> +Revenge,—about,—seek,—burn,—fire,—kill,—slay,—let not a traitor live! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Stay, countrymen. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Peace there! Hear the noble Antony. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> -We’ll hear him, we’ll follow him, we’ll die with him. +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +We’ll hear him, we’ll follow him, we’ll die with him. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up<br/> To such a sudden flood of mutiny.<br/> They that have done this deed are honourable.<br/> What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,<br/> -That made them do it. They’re wise and honourable,<br/> +That made them do it. They’re wise and honourable,<br/> And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.<br/> I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.<br/> I am no orator, as Brutus is;<br/> @@ -112342,9 +112990,9 @@ That love my friend; and that they know full well<br/> That gave me public leave to speak of him.<br/> For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,<br/> Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,<br/> -To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on.<br/> +To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on.<br/> I tell you that which you yourselves do know,<br/> -Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,<br/> +Show you sweet Caesar’s wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,<br/> And bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus,<br/> And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony<br/> Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue<br/> @@ -112352,60 +113000,73 @@ In every wound of Caesar, that should move<br/> The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> -We’ll mutiny. +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> +We’ll mutiny. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> -We’ll burn the house of Brutus. +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +We’ll burn the house of Brutus. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Away, then! come, seek the conspirators. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Peace, ho! Hear Antony; most noble Antony. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Why, friends, you go to do you know not what.<br/> Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?<br/> Alas, you know not; I must tell you then.<br/> You have forgot the will I told you of. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> -Most true; the will!—let’s stay, and hear the will. +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> +Most true; the will!—let’s stay, and hear the will. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -Here is the will, and under Caesar’s seal.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +Here is the will, and under Caesar’s seal.<br/> To every Roman citizen he gives,<br/> To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> -Most noble Caesar! We’ll revenge his death. +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +Most noble Caesar! We’ll revenge his death. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> O, royal Caesar! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Hear me with patience. </p> -<p>CITIZENS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CITIZENS.<br/> Peace, ho! </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,<br/> His private arbors, and new-planted orchards,<br/> On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,<br/> @@ -112414,249 +113075,310 @@ To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.<br/> Here was a Caesar! when comes such another? </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Never, never. Come, away, away!<br/> -We’ll burn his body in the holy place,<br/> -And with the brands fire the traitors’ houses.<br/> +We’ll burn his body in the holy place,<br/> +And with the brands fire the traitors’ houses.<br/> Take up the body. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Go, fetch fire. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Pluck down benches. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> Pluck down forms, windows, anything. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Citizens,</span> with -the body.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Citizens,</span> with the body.</i>] +</p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,<br/> Take thou what course thou wilt! </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter a <span class="charname">Servant</span>. +</p> -<p>How now, fellow?</p> +<p class="drama"> +How now, fellow? +</p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Where is he? </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> -He and Lepidus are at Caesar’s house. +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> +He and Lepidus are at Caesar’s house. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> And thither will I straight to visit him.<br/> He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,<br/> And in this mood will give us anything. </p> -<p>SERVANT.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SERVANT.<br/> I heard him say Brutus and Cassius<br/> Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Belike they had some notice of the people,<br/> How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneIII_173" id="sceneIII_173"></a><b>SCENE III. The same. A street.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneIII_17.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same. A street.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Cinna,</span> the poet, and -after him the citizens.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Cinna,</span> the poet, and after him the +citizens. +</p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar,<br/> And things unluckily charge my fantasy.<br/> I have no will to wander forth of doors,<br/> Yet something leads me forth. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> What is your name? </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Whither are you going? </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Where do you dwell? </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> Are you a married man or a bachelor? </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> Answer every man directly. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> Ay, and briefly. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> Ay, and wisely. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Ay, and truly, you were best. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and truly. Wisely I say I am a bachelor. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> -That’s as much as to say they are fools that marry; you’ll bear me -a bang for that, I fear. Proceed, directly. +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +That’s as much as to say they are fools that marry; you’ll bear me a bang for +that, I fear. Proceed, directly. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> -Directly, I am going to Caesar’s funeral. +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> +Directly, I am going to Caesar’s funeral. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> As a friend, or an enemy? </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> As a friend. </p> -<p>SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND CITIZEN.<br/> That matter is answered directly. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> For your dwelling, briefly. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> Your name, sir, truly. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> Truly, my name is Cinna. </p> -<p>FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> -Tear him to pieces! He’s a conspirator. +<p class="drama"> +FIRST CITIZEN.<br/> +Tear him to pieces! He’s a conspirator. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses. </p> -<p>CINNA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CINNA.<br/> I am not Cinna the conspirator. </p> -<p>FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> -It is no matter, his name’s Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, -and turn him going. +<p class="drama"> +FOURTH CITIZEN.<br/> +It is no matter, his name’s Cinna; pluck but his name out of his heart, and +turn him going. </p> -<p>THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> -Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To Brutus’, to -Cassius’; burn all. Some to Decius’ house, and some to -Casca’s, some to Ligarius’. Away, go! +<p class="drama"> +THIRD CITIZEN.<br/> +Tear him, tear him! Come; brands, ho! firebrands. To Brutus’, to Cassius’; burn +all. Some to Decius’ house, and some to Casca’s, some to Ligarius’. Away, go! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="sceneIV_171" id="sceneIV_171"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h3> +<h2><a name="sceneIV_17.1"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h2> -<h4><b>SCENE I. Rome. A room in Antony’s house.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE I. Rome. A room in Antony’s house.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antony, Octavius</span> and -<span class="charname">Lepidus,</span> seated at a table.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Antony, Octavius</span> and <span +class="charname">Lepidus,</span> seated at a table. +</p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> -These many then shall die; their names are prick’d. +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> +These many then shall die; their names are prick’d. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus? </p> -<p>LEPIDUS.<br/> -I do consent,— +<p class="drama"> +LEPIDUS.<br/> +I do consent,— </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Prick him down, Antony. </p> -<p>LEPIDUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LEPIDUS.<br/> Upon condition Publius shall not live,<br/> -Who is your sister’s son, Mark Antony. +Who is your sister’s son, Mark Antony. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.<br/> -But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house;<br/> +But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house;<br/> Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine<br/> How to cut off some charge in legacies. </p> -<p>LEPIDUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LEPIDUS.<br/> What, shall I find you here? </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Or here, or at the Capitol. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lepidus</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lepidus</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> This is a slight unmeritable man,<br/> Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit,<br/> The three-fold world divided, he should stand<br/> One of the three to share it? </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> So you thought him,<br/> -And took his voice who should be prick’d to die<br/> +And took his voice who should be prick’d to die<br/> In our black sentence and proscription. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Octavius, I have seen more days than you;<br/> And though we lay these honours on this man,<br/> -To ease ourselves of divers sland’rous loads,<br/> +To ease ourselves of divers sland’rous loads,<br/> He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,<br/> To groan and sweat under the business,<br/> Either led or driven, as we point the way;<br/> @@ -112666,69 +113388,84 @@ Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,<br/> And graze in commons. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> You may do your will;<br/> -But he’s a tried and valiant soldier. +But he’s a tried and valiant soldier. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> So is my horse, Octavius; and for that<br/> I do appoint him store of provender.<br/> It is a creature that I teach to fight,<br/> To wind, to stop, to run directly on,<br/> -His corporal motion govern’d by my spirit.<br/> +His corporal motion govern’d by my spirit.<br/> And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so:<br/> -He must be taught, and train’d, and bid go forth:<br/> +He must be taught, and train’d, and bid go forth:<br/> A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds<br/> On objects, arts, and imitations,<br/> -Which, out of use and stal’d by other men,<br/> +Which, out of use and stal’d by other men,<br/> Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him<br/> But as a property. And now, Octavius,<br/> Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius<br/> Are levying powers; we must straight make head.<br/> -Therefore let our alliance be combin’d,<br/> -Our best friends made, our means stretch’d;<br/> +Therefore let our alliance be combin’d,<br/> +Our best friends made, our means stretch’d;<br/> And let us presently go sit in council,<br/> -How covert matters may be best disclos’d,<br/> +How covert matters may be best disclos’d,<br/> And open perils surest answered. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Let us do so: for we are at the stake,<br/> -And bay’d about with many enemies;<br/> +And bay’d about with many enemies;<br/> And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,<br/> Millions of mischiefs. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneIV_172" id="sceneIV_172"></a><b>SCENE II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneIV_17.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp +near Sardis.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Drum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Lucilius, -Titinius</span> and <span class="charname">Soldiers; Pindarus</span> meeting them; -<span class="charname">Lucius</span> at some distance.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Drum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Lucilius, Titinius</span> and <span +class="charname">Soldiers; Pindarus</span> meeting them; <span +class="charname">Lucius</span> at some distance. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Stand, ho! </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> Give the word, ho! and stand. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near? </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> He is at hand, and Pindarus is come<br/> To do you salutation from his master. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> gives a letter to -<span class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> gives a letter to <span +class="charname">Brutus</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,<br/> In his own change, or by ill officers,<br/> Hath given me some worthy cause to wish<br/> @@ -112736,91 +113473,110 @@ Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,<br/> I shall be satisfied. </p> -<p>PINDARUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PINDARUS.<br/> I do not doubt<br/> But that my noble master will appear<br/> Such as he is, full of regard and honour. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;<br/> -How he received you, let me be resolv’d. +How he received you, let me be resolv’d. </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> With courtesy and with respect enough,<br/> But not with such familiar instances,<br/> Nor with such free and friendly conference,<br/> -As he hath us’d of old. +As he hath us’d of old. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Thou hast describ’d<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Thou hast describ’d<br/> A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius,<br/> When love begins to sicken and decay<br/> It useth an enforced ceremony.<br/> There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;<br/> But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,<br/> -Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;<br/> +Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Low march within.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Low march within.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> But when they should endure the bloody spur,<br/> They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades<br/> Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> -They meant this night in Sardis to be quarter’d;<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> +They meant this night in Sardis to be quarter’d;<br/> The greater part, the horse in general,<br/> Are come with Cassius. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span> and -<span class="charname">Soldiers</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span> and <span +class="charname">Soldiers</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Hark! he is arriv’d.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Hark! he is arriv’d.<br/> March gently on to meet him. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Stand, ho! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Stand, ho! Speak the word along. </p> -<p>FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> Stand! </p> -<p>SECOND SOLDIER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +SECOND SOLDIER.<br/> Stand! </p> -<p>THIRD SOLDIER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +THIRD SOLDIER.<br/> Stand! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Most noble brother, you have done me wrong. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Judge me, you gods; wrong I mine enemies?<br/> And if not so, how should I wrong a brother? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;<br/> -And when you do them— +And when you do them— </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Cassius, be content.<br/> Speak your griefs softly, I do know you well.<br/> Before the eyes of both our armies here,<br/> @@ -112830,68 +113586,83 @@ Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,<br/> And I will give you audience. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Pindarus,<br/> Bid our commanders lead their charges off<br/> A little from this ground. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man<br/> Come to our tent till we have done our conference.<br/> Lucius and Titinius, guard our door. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneIV_173" id="sceneIV_173"></a><b>SCENE III. Within the tent of Brutus.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneIV_17.3"></a><b>SCENE III. Within the tent of +Brutus.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and -<span class="charname">Cassius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and <span +class="charname">Cassius</span>. +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -That you have wrong’d me doth appear in this:<br/> -You have condemn’d and noted Lucius Pella<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +That you have wrong’d me doth appear in this:<br/> +You have condemn’d and noted Lucius Pella<br/> For taking bribes here of the Sardians;<br/> Wherein my letters, praying on his side<br/> Because I knew the man, were slighted off. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -You wrong’d yourself to write in such a case. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +You wrong’d yourself to write in such a case. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> In such a time as this it is not meet<br/> That every nice offence should bear his comment. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself<br/> -Are much condemn’d to have an itching palm,<br/> +Are much condemn’d to have an itching palm,<br/> To sell and mart your offices for gold<br/> To undeservers. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I an itching palm!<br/> You know that you are Brutus that speak this,<br/> Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> The name of Cassius honours this corruption,<br/> And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Chastisement! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Remember March, the Ides of March remember:<br/> -Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?<br/> -What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,<br/> +Did not great Julius bleed for justice’ sake?<br/> +What villain touch’d his body, that did stab,<br/> And not for justice? What! Shall one of us,<br/> That struck the foremost man of all this world<br/> But for supporting robbers, shall we now<br/> @@ -112902,50 +113673,60 @@ I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,<br/> Than such a Roman. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Brutus, bait not me,<br/> -I’ll not endure it. You forget yourself,<br/> +I’ll not endure it. You forget yourself,<br/> To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I,<br/> Older in practice, abler than yourself<br/> To make conditions. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Go to; you are not, Cassius. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I am. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I say you are not. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;<br/> Have mind upon your health, tempt me no farther. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Away, slight man! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Is’t possible? +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Is’t possible? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Hear me, for I will speak.<br/> Must I give way and room to your rash choler?<br/> Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> O ye gods, ye gods! Must I endure all this? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> All this? ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;<br/> Go show your slaves how choleric you are,<br/> And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?<br/> @@ -112953,64 +113734,76 @@ Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch<br/> Under your testy humour? By the gods,<br/> You shall digest the venom of your spleen,<br/> Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,<br/> -I’ll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,<br/> +I’ll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,<br/> When you are waspish. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Is it come to this? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> You say you are a better soldier:<br/> Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,<br/> And it shall please me well. For mine own part,<br/> I shall be glad to learn of noble men. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus.<br/> I said, an elder soldier, not a better:<br/> Did I say better? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> If you did, I care not. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -When Caesar liv’d, he durst not thus have mov’d me. +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +When Caesar liv’d, he durst not thus have mov’d me. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I durst not? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> What? durst not tempt him? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> For your life you durst not. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Do not presume too much upon my love.<br/> I may do that I shall be sorry for. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> You have done that you should be sorry for.<br/> There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,<br/> -For I am arm’d so strong in honesty,<br/> +For I am arm’d so strong in honesty,<br/> That they pass by me as the idle wind,<br/> Which I respect not. I did send to you<br/> For certain sums of gold, which you denied me;<br/> @@ -113021,68 +113814,78 @@ From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash<br/> By any indirection. I did send<br/> To you for gold to pay my legions,<br/> Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?<br/> -Should I have answer’d Caius Cassius so?<br/> +Should I have answer’d Caius Cassius so?<br/> When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,<br/> To lock such rascal counters from his friends,<br/> Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts,<br/> Dash him to pieces! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I denied you not. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> You did. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I did not. He was but a fool<br/> -That brought my answer back. Brutus hath riv’d my heart.<br/> -A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities;<br/> +That brought my answer back. Brutus hath riv’d my heart.<br/> +A friend should bear his friend’s infirmities;<br/> But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I do not, till you practise them on me. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> You love me not. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I do not like your faults. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> A friendly eye could never see such faults. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -A flatterer’s would not, though they do appear<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +A flatterer’s would not, though they do appear<br/> As huge as high Olympus. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,<br/> Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,<br/> For Cassius is a-weary of the world:<br/> -Hated by one he loves; brav’d by his brother;<br/> -Check’d like a bondman; all his faults observ’d,<br/> -Set in a note-book, learn’d and conn’d by rote,<br/> +Hated by one he loves; brav’d by his brother;<br/> +Check’d like a bondman; all his faults observ’d,<br/> +Set in a note-book, learn’d and conn’d by rote,<br/> To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep<br/> My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,<br/> And here my naked breast; within, a heart<br/> -Dearer than Plutus’ mine, richer than gold:<br/> -If that thou be’st a Roman, take it forth.<br/> +Dearer than Plutus’ mine, richer than gold:<br/> +If that thou be’st a Roman, take it forth.<br/> I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:<br/> Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know,<br/> When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better<br/> Than ever thou lovedst Cassius. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Sheathe your dagger.<br/> Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;<br/> Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.<br/> @@ -113092,201 +113895,255 @@ Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,<br/> And straight is cold again. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Hath Cassius liv’d<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Hath Cassius liv’d<br/> To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,<br/> -When grief and blood ill-temper’d vexeth him? +When grief and blood ill-temper’d vexeth him? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -When I spoke that, I was ill-temper’d too. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +When I spoke that, I was ill-temper’d too. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Do you confess so much? Give me your hand. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> And my heart too. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> O Brutus! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -What’s the matter? +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +What’s the matter? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Have not you love enough to bear with me,<br/> When that rash humour which my mother gave me<br/> Makes me forgetful? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Yes, Cassius; and from henceforth,<br/> When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,<br/> -He’ll think your mother chides, and leave you so. +He’ll think your mother chides, and leave you so. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Poet,</span> followed by -<span class="charname">Lucilius, Titinius</span> and -<span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Poet,</span> followed by <span +class="charname">Lucilius, Titinius</span> and <span +class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>POET.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +POET.<br/> [<i>Within.</i>] Let me go in to see the generals,<br/> -There is some grudge between ’em; ’tis not meet<br/> +There is some grudge between ’em; ’tis not meet<br/> They be alone. </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> [<i>Within.</i>] You shall not come to them. </p> -<p>POET.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +POET.<br/> [<i>Within.</i>] Nothing but death shall stay me. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -How now! What’s the matter? +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +How now! What’s the matter? </p> -<p>POET.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +POET.<br/> For shame, you generals! What do you mean?<br/> Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;<br/> -For I have seen more years, I’m sure, than ye. +For I have seen more years, I’m sure, than ye. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Ha, ha! How vilely doth this cynic rhyme! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Get you hence, sirrah. Saucy fellow, hence! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -Bear with him, Brutus; ’tis his fashion. +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +Bear with him, Brutus; ’tis his fashion. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -I’ll know his humour when he knows his time.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +I’ll know his humour when he knows his time.<br/> What should the wars do with these jigging fools?<br/> Companion, hence! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Away, away, be gone! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Poet</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Poet</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders<br/> Prepare to lodge their companies tonight. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> And come yourselves and bring Messala with you<br/> Immediately to us. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Lucilius</span> and -<span class="charname">Titinius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Lucilius</span> and <span +class="charname">Titinius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Lucius, a bowl of wine. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I did not think you could have been so angry. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Of your philosophy you make no use,<br/> If you give place to accidental evils. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Ha? Portia? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> She is dead. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> -How ’scap’d I killing, when I cross’d you so?<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> +How ’scap’d I killing, when I cross’d you so?<br/> O insupportable and touching loss!<br/> Upon what sickness? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Impatient of my absence,<br/> And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony<br/> Have made themselves so strong; for with her death<br/> That tidings came. With this she fell distract,<br/> -And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire. +And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> And died so? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Even so. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> O ye immortal gods! </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius,</span> with wine and a -taper.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius,</span> with wine and a taper. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.<br/> In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Drinks.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Drinks.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.<br/> -Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup.<br/> -I cannot drink too much of Brutus’ love. +Fill, Lucius, till the wine o’erswell the cup.<br/> +I cannot drink too much of Brutus’ love. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Drinks.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Drinks.</i>] +</p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Titinius</span> and -<span class="charname">Messala</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Titinius</span> and <span +class="charname">Messala</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Come in, Titinius!<br/> Welcome, good Messala.<br/> Now sit we close about this taper here,<br/> And call in question our necessities. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Portia, art thou gone? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No more, I pray you.<br/> Messala, I have here received letters,<br/> That young Octavius and Mark Antony<br/> @@ -113294,123 +114151,147 @@ Come down upon us with a mighty power,<br/> Bending their expedition toward Philippi. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> With what addition? </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> That by proscription and bills of outlawry<br/> Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus<br/> Have put to death an hundred Senators. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Therein our letters do not well agree.<br/> Mine speak of seventy Senators that died<br/> By their proscriptions, Cicero being one. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Cicero one! </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Cicero is dead,<br/> And by that order of proscription.<br/> Had you your letters from your wife, my lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No, Messala. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Nor nothing in your letters writ of her? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Nothing, Messala. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> That, methinks, is strange. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why ask you? Hear you aught of her in yours? </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> No, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Now as you are a Roman, tell me true. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell,<br/> For certain she is dead, and by strange manner. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala.<br/> With meditating that she must die once,<br/> I have the patience to endure it now. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Even so great men great losses should endure. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I have as much of this in art as you,<br/> But yet my nature could not bear it so. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Well, to our work alive. What do you think<br/> Of marching to Philippi presently? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I do not think it good. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Your reason? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> This it is:<br/> -’Tis better that the enemy seek us;<br/> +’Tis better that the enemy seek us;<br/> So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,<br/> Doing himself offence, whilst we, lying still,<br/> Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Good reasons must of force give place to better.<br/> -The people ’twixt Philippi and this ground<br/> +The people ’twixt Philippi and this ground<br/> Do stand but in a forced affection;<br/> -For they have grudg’d us contribution.<br/> +For they have grudg’d us contribution.<br/> The enemy, marching along by them,<br/> By them shall make a fuller number up,<br/> -Come on refresh’d, new-added, and encourag’d;<br/> +Come on refresh’d, new-added, and encourag’d;<br/> From which advantage shall we cut him off<br/> If at Philippi we do face him there,<br/> These people at our back. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Hear me, good brother. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Under your pardon. You must note besides,<br/> That we have tried the utmost of our friends,<br/> Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe.<br/> @@ -113425,293 +114306,366 @@ And we must take the current when it serves,<br/> Or lose our ventures. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Then, with your will, go on:<br/> -We’ll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi. +We’ll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> The deep of night is crept upon our talk,<br/> And nature must obey necessity,<br/> Which we will niggard with a little rest.<br/> There is no more to say? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> No more. Good night:<br/> Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Lucius! My gown.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Lucius! My gown. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Lucius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Farewell now, good Messala.<br/> Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,<br/> Good night, and good repose. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> O my dear brother!<br/> This was an ill beginning of the night.<br/> -Never come such division ’tween our souls!<br/> +Never come such division ’tween our souls!<br/> Let it not, Brutus. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span> with the gown.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Lucius</span> with the gown. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Everything is well. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Good night, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Good night, good brother. </p> -<p>TITINIUS and MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS and MESSALA.<br/> Good night, Lord Brutus. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Farewell, everyone. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Cassius, Titinius</span> and -<span class="charname">Messala</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Cassius, Titinius</span> and <span +class="charname">Messala</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?</p> +<p class="drama"> +Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument? +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Here in the tent. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -What, thou speak’st drowsily?<br/> -Poor knave, I blame thee not, thou art o’er-watch’d.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +What, thou speak’st drowsily?<br/> +Poor knave, I blame thee not, thou art o’er-watch’d.<br/> Call Claudius and some other of my men;<br/> -I’ll have them sleep on cushions in my tent. +I’ll have them sleep on cushions in my tent. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Varro and Claudius! </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Varro</span> and -<span class="charname">Claudius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Varro</span> and <span +class="charname">Claudius</span>. +</p> -<p>VARRO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO.<br/> Calls my lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;<br/> It may be I shall raise you by-and-by<br/> On business to my brother Cassius. </p> -<p>VARRO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO.<br/> So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I will not have it so; lie down, good sirs,<br/> It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.<br/> -Look, Lucius, here’s the book I sought for so;<br/> +Look, Lucius, here’s the book I sought for so;<br/> I put it in the pocket of my gown. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Servants</span> lie down.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Servants</span> lie down.</i>] +</p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I was sure your lordship did not give it me. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.<br/> Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,<br/> And touch thy instrument a strain or two? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> -Ay, my lord, an’t please you. +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> +Ay, my lord, an’t please you. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> It does, my boy.<br/> I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> It is my duty, sir. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> I should not urge thy duty past thy might;<br/> I know young bloods look for a time of rest. </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> I have slept, my lord, already. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again;<br/> I will not hold thee long. If I do live,<br/> I will be good to thee. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Lucius</span> plays and sings till he -falls asleep.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Lucius</span> plays and sings till he falls +asleep.</i>] +</p> -<p>This is a sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +This is a sleepy tune. O murd’rous slumber,<br/> Layest thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,<br/> That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;<br/> I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee.<br/> -If thou dost nod, thou break’st thy instrument;<br/> -I’ll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.<br/> -Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn’d down<br/> +If thou dost nod, thou break’st thy instrument;<br/> +I’ll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.<br/> +Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn’d down<br/> Where I left reading? Here it is, I think. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter the <span class="charname">Ghost of Caesar</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter the <span class="charname">Ghost of Caesar</span>. +</p> -<p>How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?<br/> +<p class="drama"> +How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?<br/> I think it is the weakness of mine eyes<br/> That shapes this monstrous apparition.<br/> It comes upon me. Art thou anything?<br/> Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,<br/> -That mak’st my blood cold and my hair to stare?<br/> +That mak’st my blood cold and my hair to stare?<br/> Speak to me what thou art. </p> -<p>GHOST.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +GHOST.<br/> Thy evil spirit, Brutus. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Why com’st thou? +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Why com’st thou? </p> -<p>GHOST.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +GHOST.<br/> To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Well; then I shall see thee again? </p> -<p>GHOST.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +GHOST.<br/> Ay, at Philippi. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why, I will see thee at Philippi then. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Ghost</span> vanishes.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Ghost</span> vanishes.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest.<br/> Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.<br/> -Boy! Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! -Claudius!<br/> +Boy! Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius! </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> The strings, my lord, are false. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> He thinks he still is at his instrument.<br/> Lucius, awake! </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> My lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> My lord, I do not know that I did cry. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Yes, that thou didst. Didst thou see anything? </p> -<p>LUCIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCIUS.<br/> Nothing, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!<br/> Fellow thou, awake! </p> -<p>VARRO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO.<br/> My lord? </p> -<p>CLAUDIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLAUDIUS.<br/> My lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep? </p> -<p>VARRO. CLAUDIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO. CLAUDIUS.<br/> Did we, my lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Ay. Saw you anything? </p> -<p>VARRO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO.<br/> No, my lord, I saw nothing. </p> -<p>CLAUDIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLAUDIUS.<br/> Nor I, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;<br/> Bid him set on his powers betimes before,<br/> And we will follow. </p> -<p>VARRO. CLAUDIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VARRO. CLAUDIUS.<br/> It shall be done, my lord. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h3><a name="sceneV_171" id="sceneV_171"></a><b>ACT V</b></h3> +<h2><a name="sceneV_17.1"></a><b>ACT V</b></h2> -<h4><b>SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.</b></h4> +<h3><b>SCENE I. The plains of Philippi.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Octavius, Antony</span> and -their Army.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Octavius, Antony</span> and their Army. +</p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Now, Antony, our hopes are answered.<br/> You said the enemy would not come down,<br/> But keep the hills and upper regions.<br/> @@ -113720,233 +114674,280 @@ They mean to warn us at Philippi here,<br/> Answering before we do demand of them. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know<br/> Wherefore they do it. They could be content<br/> To visit other places, and come down<br/> With fearful bravery, thinking by this face<br/> To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;<br/> -But ’tis not so. +But ’tis not so. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Messenger</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter a <span class="charname">Messenger</span>. +</p> -<p>MESSENGER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSENGER.<br/> Prepare you, generals.<br/> The enemy comes on in gallant show;<br/> Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,<br/> And something to be done immediately. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Octavius, lead your battle softly on<br/> Upon the left hand of the even field. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Upon the right hand I. Keep thou the left. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Why do you cross me in this exigent? </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> I do not cross you; but I will do so. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>March.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>March.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc">Drum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Cassius</span> -and their Army; <span class="charname">Lucilius, Titinius, Messala</span> and others.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Drum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Cassius</span> and their Army; <span +class="charname">Lucilius, Titinius, Messala</span> and others. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> They stand, and would have parley. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Stand fast, Titinius; we must out and talk. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle? </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.<br/> Make forth; the generals would have some words. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Stir not until the signal. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Words before blows: is it so, countrymen? </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Not that we love words better, as you do. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words;<br/> -Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart,<br/> -Crying, “Long live! Hail, Caesar!” +Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart,<br/> +Crying, “Long live! Hail, Caesar!” </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Antony,<br/> The posture of your blows are yet unknown;<br/> But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,<br/> And leave them honeyless. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Not stingless too. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O yes, and soundless too,<br/> -For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,<br/> +For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,<br/> And very wisely threat before you sting. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Villains, you did not so when your vile daggers<br/> -Hack’d one another in the sides of Caesar:<br/> -You show’d your teeth like apes, and fawn’d like hounds,<br/> -And bow’d like bondmen, kissing Caesar’s feet;<br/> +Hack’d one another in the sides of Caesar:<br/> +You show’d your teeth like apes, and fawn’d like hounds,<br/> +And bow’d like bondmen, kissing Caesar’s feet;<br/> Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind<br/> Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself.<br/> This tongue had not offended so today,<br/> -If Cassius might have rul’d. +If Cassius might have rul’d. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Come, come, the cause. If arguing makes us sweat,<br/> The proof of it will turn to redder drops.<br/> Look, I draw a sword against conspirators.<br/> When think you that the sword goes up again?<br/> -Never, till Caesar’s three and thirty wounds<br/> -Be well aveng’d; or till another Caesar<br/> +Never, till Caesar’s three and thirty wounds<br/> +Be well aveng’d; or till another Caesar<br/> Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors’ hands,<br/> -Unless thou bring’st them with thee. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors’ hands,<br/> +Unless thou bring’st them with thee. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> So I hope.<br/> -I was not born to die on Brutus’ sword. +I was not born to die on Brutus’ sword. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,<br/> Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> A peevish school-boy, worthless of such honour,<br/> -Join’d with a masker and a reveller. +Join’d with a masker and a reveller. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Old Cassius still! </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Come, Antony; away!<br/> Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth.<br/> If you dare fight today, come to the field;<br/> If not, when you have stomachs. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Octavius, Antony</span> and -their Army.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Octavius, Antony</span> and their Army.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark!<br/> The storm is up, and all is on the hazard. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Ho, Lucilius! Hark, a word with you. </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> My lord? </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Brutus</span> and -<span class="charname">Lucilius</span> talk apart.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Brutus</span> and <span +class="charname">Lucilius</span> talk apart.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Messala. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> What says my General? </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Messala,<br/> This is my birth-day; as this very day<br/> Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:<br/> Be thou my witness that against my will<br/> -As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set<br/> +As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set<br/> Upon one battle all our liberties.<br/> You know that I held Epicurus strong,<br/> And his opinion. Now I change my mind,<br/> And partly credit things that do presage.<br/> Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign<br/> -Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch’d,<br/> -Gorging and feeding from our soldiers’ hands,<br/> +Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch’d,<br/> +Gorging and feeding from our soldiers’ hands,<br/> Who to Philippi here consorted us.<br/> This morning are they fled away and gone,<br/> And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites<br/> -Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us,<br/> +Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us,<br/> As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem<br/> A canopy most fatal, under which<br/> Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Believe not so. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> I but believe it partly,<br/> -For I am fresh of spirit, and resolv’d<br/> +For I am fresh of spirit, and resolv’d<br/> To meet all perils very constantly. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Even so, Lucilius. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Now, most noble Brutus,<br/> The gods today stand friendly, that we may,<br/> Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!<br/> But, since the affairs of men rest still incertain,<br/> -Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.<br/> +Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.<br/> If we do lose this battle, then is this<br/> The very last time we shall speak together:<br/> What are you then determined to do? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Even by the rule of that philosophy<br/> By which I did blame Cato for the death<br/> Which he did give himself, I know not how,<br/> @@ -113957,13 +114958,15 @@ To stay the providence of some high powers<br/> That govern us below. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Then, if we lose this battle,<br/> You are contented to be led in triumph<br/> Thorough the streets of Rome? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,<br/> That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;<br/> He bears too great a mind. But this same day<br/> @@ -113975,217 +114978,273 @@ If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;<br/> If not, why then this parting was well made. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> For ever and for ever farewell, Brutus.<br/> -If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed;<br/> -If not, ’tis true this parting was well made. +If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed;<br/> +If not, ’tis true this parting was well made. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why then, lead on. O, that a man might know<br/> -The end of this day’s business ere it come!<br/> +The end of this day’s business ere it come!<br/> But it sufficeth that the day will end,<br/> And then the end is known. Come, ho! away! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneV_172" id="sceneV_172"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. The field of battle.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneV_17.2"></a><b>SCENE II. The same. The field of +battle.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and -<span class="charname">Messala</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus</span> and <span +class="charname">Messala</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills<br/> -Unto the legions on the other side.<br/> +Unto the legions on the other side. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Loud alarum.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Loud alarum.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Let them set on at once; for I perceive<br/> -But cold demeanor in Octavius’ wing,<br/> +But cold demeanor in Octavius’ wing,<br/> And sudden push gives them the overthrow.<br/> Ride, ride, Messala; let them all come down. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneV_173" id="sceneV_173"></a><b>SCENE III. Another part of the field.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneV_17.3"></a><b>SCENE III. Another part of the field.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span> and -<span class="charname">Titinius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Cassius</span> and <span +class="charname">Titinius</span>. +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!<br/> -Myself have to mine own turn’d enemy:<br/> +Myself have to mine own turn’d enemy:<br/> This ensign here of mine was turning back;<br/> I slew the coward, and did take it from him. </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early,<br/> Who, having some advantage on Octavius,<br/> Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,<br/> -Whilst we by Antony are all enclos’d. +Whilst we by Antony are all enclos’d. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Pindarus</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Pindarus</span>. +</p> -<p>PINDARUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PINDARUS.<br/> Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;<br/> Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord.<br/> Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;<br/> Are those my tents where I perceive the fire? </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> They are, my lord. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Titinius, if thou lovest me,<br/> Mount thou my horse and hide thy spurs in him,<br/> Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops<br/> -And here again, that I may rest assur’d<br/> +And here again, that I may rest assur’d<br/> Whether yond troops are friend or enemy. </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> I will be here again, even with a thought. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill,<br/> My sight was ever thick. Regard Titinius,<br/> And tell me what thou notest about the field. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> goes up.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> goes up.</i>] +</p> -<p>This day I breathed first. Time is come round,<br/> +<p class="drama"> +This day I breathed first. Time is come round,<br/> And where I did begin, there shall I end.<br/> My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news? </p> -<p>PINDARUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PINDARUS.<br/> [<i>Above.</i>] O my lord! </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> What news? </p> -<p>PINDARUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PINDARUS.<br/> [<i>Above.</i>] Titinius is enclosed round about<br/> With horsemen, that make to him on the spur,<br/> Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.<br/> Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.<br/> -He’s ta’en! +He’s ta’en! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Shout.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Shout.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> And, hark! they shout for joy. </p> -<p>CASSIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CASSIUS.<br/> Come down; behold no more.<br/> O, coward that I am, to live so long,<br/> -To see my best friend ta’en before my face! +To see my best friend ta’en before my face! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> descends.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i><span class="charname">Pindarus</span> descends.</i>] +</p> -<p>Come hither, sirrah.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +Come hither, sirrah.<br/> In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;<br/> And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,<br/> That whatsoever I did bid thee do,<br/> Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath.<br/> Now be a freeman; and with this good sword,<br/> -That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom.<br/> +That ran through Caesar’s bowels, search this bosom.<br/> Stand not to answer. Here, take thou the hilts;<br/> -And when my face is cover’d, as ’tis now,<br/> -Guide thou the sword.—Caesar, thou art reveng’d,<br/> -Even with the sword that kill’d thee. +And when my face is cover’d, as ’tis now,<br/> +Guide thou the sword.—Caesar, thou art reveng’d,<br/> +Even with the sword that kill’d thee. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Dies.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Dies.</i>] +</p> -<p>PINDARUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +PINDARUS.<br/> So, I am free, yet would not so have been,<br/> Durst I have done my will. O Cassius!<br/> Far from this country Pindarus shall run,<br/> Where never Roman shall take note of him. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Titinius</span> with <span -class="charname">Messala</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Titinius</span> with <span +class="charname">Messala</span>. +</p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius<br/> -Is overthrown by noble Brutus’ power,<br/> -As Cassius’ legions are by Antony. +Is overthrown by noble Brutus’ power,<br/> +As Cassius’ legions are by Antony. </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> These tidings would well comfort Cassius. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Where did you leave him? </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> All disconsolate,<br/> With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Is not that he that lies upon the ground? </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> He lies not like the living. O my heart! </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Is not that he? </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> No, this was he, Messala,<br/> But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,<br/> As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night,<br/> -So in his red blood Cassius’ day is set.<br/> +So in his red blood Cassius’ day is set.<br/> The sun of Rome is set. Our day is gone;<br/> Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done.<br/> Mistrust of my success hath done this deed. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.<br/> -O hateful Error, Melancholy’s child!<br/> +O hateful Error, Melancholy’s child!<br/> Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men<br/> -The things that are not? O Error, soon conceiv’d,<br/> -Thou never com’st unto a happy birth,<br/> -But kill’st the mother that engender’d thee! +The things that are not? O Error, soon conceiv’d,<br/> +Thou never com’st unto a happy birth,<br/> +But kill’st the mother that engender’d thee! </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus? </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet<br/> The noble Brutus, thrusting this report<br/> Into his ears. I may say thrusting it;<br/> @@ -114194,14 +115253,17 @@ Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus<br/> As tidings of this sight. </p> -<p>TITINIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +TITINIUS.<br/> Hie you, Messala,<br/> And I will seek for Pindarus the while. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit <span class="charname">Messala</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Messala</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p> +<p class="drama"> Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?<br/> Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they<br/> Put on my brows this wreath of victory,<br/> @@ -114211,45 +115273,58 @@ But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;<br/> Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I<br/> Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,<br/> And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.<br/> -By your leave, gods. This is a Roman’s part.<br/> -Come, Cassius’ sword, and find Titinius’ heart. +By your leave, gods. This is a Roman’s part.<br/> +Come, Cassius’ sword, and find Titinius’ heart. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Dies.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Dies.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Messala, -young Cato, Strato, Volumnius</span> and <span class="charname">Lucilius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Alarum. Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Strato, +Volumnius</span> and <span class="charname">Lucilius</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie? </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Titinius’ face is upward. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Titinius’ face is upward. </p> -<p>CATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CATO.<br/> He is slain. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!<br/> Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our swords<br/> In our own proper entrails. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Low alarums.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Low alarums.</i>] +</p> -<p>CATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CATO.<br/> Brave Titinius!<br/> -Look whether he have not crown’d dead Cassius! +Look whether he have not crown’d dead Cassius! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Are yet two Romans living such as these?<br/> The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!<br/> It is impossible that ever Rome<br/> @@ -114261,81 +115336,107 @@ His funerals shall not be in our camp,<br/> Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;<br/> And come, young Cato; let us to the field.<br/> Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on.<br/> -’Tis three o’clock; and Romans, yet ere night<br/> +’Tis three o’clock; and Romans, yet ere night<br/> We shall try fortune in a second fight. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneV_174" id="sceneV_174"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneV_17.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the field.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Alarum. Enter fighting soldiers of both armies; then -<span class="charname">Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucilius, Flavius</span> and others.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Alarum. Enter fighting soldiers of both armies; then <span +class="charname">Brutus, Messala, young Cato, Lucilius, Flavius</span> and +others. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads! </p> -<p>CATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CATO.<br/> What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?<br/> I will proclaim my name about the field.<br/> I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!<br/> -A foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.<br/> +A foe to tyrants, and my country’s friend.<br/> I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Charges the enemy.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Charges the enemy.</i>] +</p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;<br/> -Brutus, my country’s friend; know me for Brutus! +Brutus, my country’s friend; know me for Brutus! </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exit, charging the enemy. <span class="charname">Cato</span> -is overpowered, and falls.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exit, charging the enemy. <span class="charname">Cato</span> is +overpowered, and falls.</i>] +</p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> O young and noble Cato, art thou down?<br/> Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius,<br/> -And mayst be honour’d, being Cato’s son. +And mayst be honour’d, being Cato’s son. </p> -<p>FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> Yield, or thou diest. </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> Only I yield to die:<br/> -There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;<br/> +There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight; </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Offering money</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Offering money</i>] +</p> -<p> -Kill Brutus, and be honour’d in his death. +<p class="drama"> +Kill Brutus, and be honour’d in his death. </p> -<p>FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> We must not. A noble prisoner! </p> -<p>SECOND SOLDIER.<br/> -Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta’en. +<p class="drama"> +SECOND SOLDIER.<br/> +Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta’en. </p> -<p>FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> -I’ll tell the news. Here comes the General. +<p class="drama"> +FIRST SOLDIER.<br/> +I’ll tell the news. Here comes the General. </p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Antony</span>. +</p> -<p>Brutus is ta’en, Brutus is ta’en, my lord.</p> +<p class="drama"> +Brutus is ta’en, Brutus is ta’en, my lord. +</p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> Where is he? </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough.<br/> I dare assure thee that no enemy<br/> Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus.<br/> @@ -114344,243 +115445,305 @@ When you do find him, or alive or dead,<br/> He will be found like Brutus, like himself. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,<br/> A prize no less in worth. Keep this man safe,<br/> Give him all kindness. I had rather have<br/> Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,<br/> And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;<br/> -And bring us word unto Octavius’ tent<br/> -How everything is chanc’d. +And bring us word unto Octavius’ tent<br/> +How everything is chanc’d. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> -<h4><a name="sceneV_175" id="sceneV_175"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</b></h4> +<h3><a name="sceneV_17.5"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the field.</b></h3> -<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, -Strato</span> and <span class="charname">Volumnius</span>.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Enter <span class="charname">Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato</span> and <span +class="charname">Volumnius</span>. +</p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock. </p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> -Statilius show’d the torch-light; but, my lord,<br/> -He came not back: he is or ta’en or slain. +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> +Statilius show’d the torch-light; but, my lord,<br/> +He came not back: he is or ta’en or slain. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Sit thee down, Clitus. Slaying is the word;<br/> It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Whispering.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Whispering.</i>] +</p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Peace then, no words. </p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> -I’ll rather kill myself. +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> +I’ll rather kill myself. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Hark thee, Dardanius. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Whispers him.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Whispers him.</i>] +</p> -<p>DARDANIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DARDANIUS.<br/> Shall I do such a deed? </p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> O Dardanius! </p> -<p>DARDANIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DARDANIUS.<br/> O Clitus! </p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> What ill request did Brutus make to thee? </p> -<p>DARDANIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +DARDANIUS.<br/> To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates. </p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> Now is that noble vessel full of grief,<br/> That it runs over even at his eyes. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word. </p> -<p>VOLUMNIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VOLUMNIUS.<br/> What says my lord? </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Why, this, Volumnius:<br/> -The ghost of Caesar hath appear’d to me<br/> +The ghost of Caesar hath appear’d to me<br/> Two several times by night; at Sardis once,<br/> And this last night here in Philippi fields.<br/> I know my hour is come. </p> -<p>VOLUMNIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +VOLUMNIUS.<br/> Not so, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Nay I am sure it is, Volumnius.<br/> Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;<br/> Our enemies have beat us to the pit. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Low alarums.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Low alarums.</i>] +</p> -<p>It is more worthy to leap in ourselves<br/> +<p class="drama"> +It is more worthy to leap in ourselves<br/> Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,<br/> -Thou know’st that we two went to school together;<br/> -Even for that our love of old, I pr’ythee<br/> +Thou know’st that we two went to school together;<br/> +Even for that our love of old, I pr’ythee<br/> Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it. </p> -<p>VOLUMNIUS.<br/> -That’s not an office for a friend, my lord. +<p class="drama"> +VOLUMNIUS.<br/> +That’s not an office for a friend, my lord. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Alarums still.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Alarums still.</i>] +</p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> Fly, fly, my lord! there is no tarrying here. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.<br/> Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;<br/> -Farewell to thee too, Strato.—Countrymen,<br/> +Farewell to thee too, Strato.—Countrymen,<br/> My heart doth joy, that yet in all my life<br/> I found no man but he was true to me.<br/> I shall have glory by this losing day<br/> More than Octavius and Mark Antony<br/> By this vile conquest shall attain unto.<br/> -So fare you well at once; for Brutus’ tongue<br/> -Hath almost ended his life’s history.<br/> +So fare you well at once; for Brutus’ tongue<br/> +Hath almost ended his life’s history.<br/> Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,<br/> -That have but labour’d to attain this hour. +That have but labour’d to attain this hour. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Alarums. Cry within, “Fly, fly, fly!”.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Alarums. Cry within, “Fly, fly, fly!”.</i>] +</p> -<p>CLITUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +CLITUS.<br/> Fly, my lord, fly! </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> Hence! I will follow. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Clitus, Dardanius</span> and -<span class="charname">Volumnius</span>.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Clitus, Dardanius</span> and <span +class="charname">Volumnius</span>.</i>] +</p> -<p>I pr’ythee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +I pr’ythee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.<br/> Thou art a fellow of a good respect;<br/> Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it.<br/> Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,<br/> While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato? </p> -<p>STRATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +STRATO.<br/> Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord. </p> -<p>BRUTUS.<br/> -Farewell, good Strato.—Caesar, now be still:<br/> -I kill’d not thee with half so good a will. +<p class="drama"> +BRUTUS.<br/> +Farewell, good Strato.—Caesar, now be still:<br/> +I kill’d not thee with half so good a will. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>He runs on his sword, and dies.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>He runs on his sword, and dies.</i>] +</p> -<p class="scenedesc"> Alarum. Retreat. Enter <span class="charname">Antony, -Octavius, Messala, Lucilius</span> and the Army.</p> +<p class="scenedesc"> +Alarum. Retreat. Enter <span class="charname">Antony, Octavius, Messala, +Lucilius</span> and the Army. +</p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> What man is that? </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> -My master’s man. Strato, where is thy master? +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> +My master’s man. Strato, where is thy master? </p> -<p>STRATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +STRATO.<br/> Free from the bondage you are in, Messala.<br/> The conquerors can but make a fire of him;<br/> For Brutus only overcame himself,<br/> And no man else hath honour by his death. </p> -<p>LUCILIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +LUCILIUS.<br/> So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,<br/> -That thou hast prov’d Lucilius’ saying true. +That thou hast prov’d Lucilius’ saying true. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> -All that serv’d Brutus, I will entertain them.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> +All that serv’d Brutus, I will entertain them.<br/> Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me? </p> -<p>STRATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +STRATO.<br/> Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you. </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> Do so, good Messala. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> How died my master, Strato? </p> -<p>STRATO.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +STRATO.<br/> I held the sword, and he did run on it. </p> -<p>MESSALA.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +MESSALA.<br/> Octavius, then take him to follow thee,<br/> That did the latest service to my master. </p> -<p>ANTONY.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +ANTONY.<br/> This was the noblest Roman of them all.<br/> All the conspirators save only he,<br/> Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;<br/> He only, in a general honest thought<br/> And common good to all, made one of them.<br/> His life was gentle, and the elements<br/> -So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up<br/> -And say to all the world, “This was a man!” +So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up<br/> +And say to all the world, “This was a man!” </p> -<p>OCTAVIUS.<br/> +<p class="drama"> +OCTAVIUS.<br/> According to his virtue let us use him<br/> With all respect and rites of burial.<br/> Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie,<br/> -Most like a soldier, order’d honourably.<br/> -So call the field to rest, and let’s away,<br/> +Most like a soldier, order’d honourably.<br/> +So call the field to rest, and let’s away,<br/> To part the glories of this happy day. </p> -<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> +<p class="right"> +[<i>Exeunt.</i>] +</p> </div><!--end chapter--> |