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Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n

ACT I SCENE I<\/b> Setting: Rome. A street.<\/p>\n

Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
FLAVIUS<\/td>\nHence! home, you idle creatures get you home:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs this a holiday? What! know you not,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBeing mechanical, you ought not walk<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon a labouring day without the sign<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First Commoner<\/td>\nWhy, sir, a carpenter.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nWhere is thy leather apron and thy rule?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat dost thou with thy best apparel on?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou, sir, what trade are you?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nTruly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nas you would say, a cobbler.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nBut what trade art thou? answer me directly.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nA trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nconscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nWhat trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nNay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nif you be out, sir, I can mend you.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nWhat meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nWhy, sir, cobble you.<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLAVIUS<\/td>\nThou art a cobbler, art thou?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nTruly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nmeddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nmatters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nto old shoes; when they are in great danger, I<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nrecover them. As proper men as ever trod upon<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nneat's–leather have gone upon my handiwork.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLAVIUS<\/td>\nBut wherefore art not in thy shop today?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy dost thou lead these men about the streets?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Commoner<\/td>\nTruly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\ninto more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nto see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nWherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat tributaries follow him to Rome,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo grace in captive bonds his chariot–wheels?<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nKnew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave you climb'd up to walls and battlements,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo towers and windows, yea, to chimney–tops,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour infants in your arms, and there have sat<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe live–long day, with patient expectation,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd when you saw his chariot but appear,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave you not made an universal shout,<\/td>\n45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat Tiber trembled underneath her banks,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo hear the replication of your sounds<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMade in her concave shores?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd do you now put on your best attire?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd do you now cull out a holiday?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd do you now strew flowers in his way<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRun to your houses, fall upon your knees,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPray to the gods to intermit the plague<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat needs must light on this ingratitude.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLAVIUS<\/td>\nGo, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAssemble all the poor men of your sort;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDraw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nInto the channel, till the lowest stream<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDo kiss the most exalted shores of all.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\n[Exeunt all the Commoners.]<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee whether their basest metal be not moved;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey vanish tongue–tied in their guiltiness.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGo you down that way towards the Capitol;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis way will I disrobe the images,<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MARULLUS<\/td>\nMay we do so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou know it is the feast of Lupercal.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FLAVIUS<\/td>\nIt is no matter; let no images<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd drive away the vulgar from the streets:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo do you too, where you perceive them thick.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThese growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill make him fly an ordinary pitch,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho else would soar above the view of men<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd keep us all in servile fearfulness.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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