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CAESAR's house.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his night-gown]
CAESAR
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Nor heaven,| nor earth,
Have been | at peace |
tonight:
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Thrice hath | Calpur/nia,| in her sleep |
cried^out,
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Help,^ho:| they murd|er Cae|sar. Who's | within?
[Enter a Servant]
SERVANT
My lord.
CAESAR
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Go bid | the priests | do pres|ent sa|crifice,
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And bring | me their | opin|ions of | success.
SERVANT
I will my lord.
[Exit SERVANT. Enter CALPURNIA]
CALPURNIA
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What mean | you Cae|sar? Think | you to / walk
forth?
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You shall | not stir | out of | your house |
today.
CAESAR
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Caesar | shall forth;| the things | that
threat|ened me,
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Nere looked | but on | my back:| when they |
shall see
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The face | of Cae|sar, they | are van|ished.
CALPURNIA
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Caesar,| I never | stood on | cere|monies,
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Yet now | they fright | me: there | is one |
within,
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Besides | the things | that we | have heard | and
seen,
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Recounts | most^hor|rid sights | seen by | the
watch.
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A li|oness | hath whel|ped in the | streets,
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And graves | have yawned,| and yield|ed up |
their dead;
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Fierce fiery war|riors fought | upon | the clouds
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In ranks | and squad|rons, and / right form | of
war
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Which driz|zled blood | upon | the cap|itol:
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The noise | of bat|tle hur|tled in | the air:
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Horses | did neigh,| and dy|ing men | did groan,
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And ghosts | did shriek | and squeal | about |
the streets.
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O Cae|sar, these | things are be|yond all use,
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And I | do fear | them.
CAESAR
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What | can be a|voided
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Whose^end | is pur|posed by | the migh|ty gods?
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Yet Cae|sar shall | go forth:| for these |
predic||tions
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Are | to the world | in gen|eral, as | to
Cae||sar.
CALPURNIA
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When beg|gars die,| there are | no co|mets seen,
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The heavens | themselves | blaze forth the death | of
prin||ces.
CAESAR
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Cow|ards die | many times | before | their
deaths,
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The val|iant nev|er taste | of death | but once:
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Of all | the wond|ers that | I yet | have heard,
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It seems | to me / most strange | that men |
should fear,
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Seeing | that death,| a ne|cessa|ry end
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Will come,| when it | will come.| What say the |
augurers?
[Enter Servant]
SERVANT
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They would | not have | you to / stir forth |
today.
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Plucking | the en|trails of | an of|fering forth,
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They could | not find | a heart | within | the
beast.
CAESAR
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The gods | do this | in shame | of cow|ardice:
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Caesar | should be | a beast | without | a heart
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If he | should stay | at home | today | for fear:
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No Cae|sar shall not;| danger | knows full well
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That Cae|sar is / more dang|erous | than he.
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We are / two li|ons lit|tered in / one day,
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And I | the eld|er and / more ter|rible,
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And Cae|sar shall / go forth.
CALPURNIA
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Alas | my lord,
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Your wis|dom is | consumed | in con|fidence:
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Do not | go forth | today:| call it | my fear,
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That keeps | you in | the house,| and not | your
own.
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We'll send | Mark An/tony | to the sen|ate house,
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And he | shall say | you are | not well | today:
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Let me | upon | my knee,| prevail | in this.
CAESAR
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Mark An|tony | shall say | I am | not well,
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And for | thy hum|or, I | will stay | at home.
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Here's De|cius Brut|us, he | shall tell | them
so.
[Enter DECIUS BRUTUS]
DECIUS BRUTUS
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Caesar, all | hail: good | morrow | worthy |
Caesar,
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I come | to fetch | you to | the sen|ate house.
CAESAR
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And you | are come | in ve|ry hap|py time,
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To bear | my gree|ting to | the sen|ators,
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And tell | them that | I will | not come | today:
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Cannot,| is false:| and that I | dare not,|
falser:
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I will | not come | today,| tell them so |
Decius.
CALPURNIA
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Say he | is sick.
CAESAR
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Shall Cae|sar send | a lie?
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Have I | in con|quest stretched | mine^arm | so
far,
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To be | afraid | to tell | graybeards the truth:
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Decius,| go tell | them, Cae|sar will / not come.
DECIUS BRUTUS
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Most^migh|ty Cae|sar let | me know* / some cause,
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Lest^I | be laughed | at when | I tell | them so.
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The cause | is in | my will,| I will | not come,
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That is | enough | to sat|isfy | the se||nate.
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But | for your | private | satis| faction,
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Because | I love | you, I | will let | you know.
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Calpur|nia here | my wife,| stays me | at home:
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She dreamt | tonight,| she saw | my sta|tue,
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Which like | a fount|ain with | a hund|red spouts
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Did run pure blood:| and ma|ny lus|ty Ro||mans
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Came | smiling,| and did bathe | their hands | in it:
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And these | does she ap|ply for | warnings | and
por||tents,
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And | evils | imminent;| and on | her knee
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Hath begged,| that I | will stay | at home |
today.
DECIUS BRUTUS
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This dream | is all | amiss | inter|preted,
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It was | a vis|ion, fair | and for|tunate:
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Your sta|tue spout|ing blood | in man|y pipes,
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In which | so ma|ny smi|ling Rom|ans bathed,
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Signi|fies, that | from you | great^Rome | shall
suck
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Revi|ving blood,| and that | great^men | shall
press
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For tinc|tures, stains,| relics,| and cog|nizance.
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This by | Calpur|nia's dream | is sig|nified.
CAESAR
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And this | way have | you well | expoun|ded it.
DECIUS BRUTUS
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I have,| when you | have heard | what I | can
say:
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And know it | now, the | senate | have con|cluded
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To give | this day,| a crown | to migh|ty Cae||sar.
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If | you shall send | them word | you will | not
come,
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Their minds | may change.| Besides,| it were | a
mock
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Apt to | be rend|ered, for / someone | to say,
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Break^up | the sen|ate, till | anoth|er time:
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When Cae|sar's wife | shall meet | with bet|ter dreams.
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If Cae|sar hide | himself,| shall they | not
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Lo | Caesar | is a|fraid?|
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Pardon me | Caesar,| for my | dear dear love
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To our | procee|ding, bids | me tell | you this:
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And reas|on to | my love | is li|able.
CAESAR
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How fool|ish do | your fears | seem now |
Calpur||nia?
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I | am a/shamed I | did yield | to them.
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Give me | my robe,| for I | will go.
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And look || where Pu|blius | is come | to fetch
| me.
[Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA, TREBONIUS, and CINNA]
PUBLIUS
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Good mor|row Cae|sar.
CAESAR
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Wel|come Pub|lius.
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What Brut|us, are | you stirred | so ear|ly too?
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Good mor|row Cas|ca: Cai|us Ligar|ius,
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Caesar | was nere | so much | your en|emy,
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As that / same ag|ue which | hath made | you lean.
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What is it | o'clock?
BRUTUS
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Caesar,| 'tis struck|en eight.
[Enter ANTONY]
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I thank | you for | your pains | and court|esy.
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See, An/tony | that rev|els long | at nights
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Is not|withstand|ing up.| Good mor|row Ant||ony.
ANTONY
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So | to most^nob|le Cae|sar.
CAESAR
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Bid | them prepare || within:
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I am to | blame to be | thus wai|ted for.
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Now Cin|na, now | Metel|lus: what | Trebo||nius,
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I | have an / hour's talk | in store | for
you:
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Remem|ber that | you call | on me | today:
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Be near | me, that | I may | remem|ber you.
TREBONIUS
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Caesar | I will:| and so | near will | I be,
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That your / best friends | shall wish | I had
been | further.
CAESAR
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Good friends | go in,| and taste | some wine
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And we (like friends)| will straight|way go |
togeth|er.
BRUTUS
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That eve|ry like | is not | the same,| O
Cae||sar,
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The heart | of Brut|us yearns | to think | upon.
[Exeunt]