{"id":11749,"date":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","slug":"Shakespeare3Atext2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/Shakespeare3Atext2\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 1, page 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

ACT I SCENE III<\/b> Setting: The same. A street.<\/p>\n

Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO.<\/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\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
CICERO<\/td>\nGood even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy are you breathless? and why stare you so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nAre not you moved, when all the sway of earth<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have seen tempests, when the scolding winds<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo be exalted with the threatening clouds:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut never till to–night, never till now,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDid I go through a tempest dropping fire.<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEither there is a civil strife in heaven,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else the world, too saucy with the gods,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIncenses them to send destruction.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CICERO<\/td>\nWhy, saw you any thing more wonderful?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nA common slave––you know him well by sight––<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHeld up his left hand, which did flame and burn<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLike twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNot sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBesides––I ha' not since put up my sword––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAgainst the Capitol I met a lion,<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWho glared upon me, and went surly by,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWithout annoying me: and there were drawn<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon a heap a hundred ghastly women,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTransformed with their fear; who swore they saw<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMen all in fire walk up and down the streets.<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd yesterday the bird of night did sit<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEven at noon–day upon the market–place,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHooting and shrieking. When these prodigies<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDo so conjointly meet, let not men say<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThese are their reasons; they are natural;'<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor, I believe, they are portentous things<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUnto the climate that they point upon.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CICERO<\/td>\nIndeed, it is a strange–disposed time:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut men may construe things after their fashion,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nClean from the purpose of the things themselves.<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome Caesar to the Capitol to–morrow?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nHe doth; for he did bid Antonius<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSend word to you he would be there to–morrow.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CICERO<\/td>\nGood night then, Casca: this disturbed sky<\/td>\n39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs not to walk in.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nFarewell, Cicero.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit CICERO.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter CASSIUS.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nWho's there?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nA Roman.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nCasca, by your voice.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nYour ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nA very pleasing night to honest men.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nWho ever knew the heavens menace so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nThose that have known the earth so full of faults.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor my part, I have walk'd about the streets,<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSubmitting me unto the perilous night,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave bared my bosom to the thunder–stone;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe breast of heaven, I did present myself<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nEven in the aim and very flash of it.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nBut wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt is the part of men to fear and tremble,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen the most mighty gods by tokens send<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSuch dreadful heralds to astonish us.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nYou are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat should be in a Roman you do want,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOr else you use not. You look pale and gaze<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo see the strange impatience of the heavens:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut if you would consider the true cause<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy birds and beasts from quality and kind,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy old men fool and children calculate,<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhy all these things change from their ordinance<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir natures and preformed faculties<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo monstrous quality,––why, you shall find<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat heaven hath infused them with these spirits,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo make them instruments of fear and warning<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUnto some monstrous state.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow could I, Casca, name to thee a man<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMost like this dreadful night,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs doth the lion in the Capitol,<\/td>\n75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA man no mightier than thyself or me<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn personal action, yet prodigious grown<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd fearful, as these strange eruptions are.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nTis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nLet it be who it is: for Romans now<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave thews and limbs like to their ancestors;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOur yoke and sufferance show us womanish.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nIndeed, they say the senators tomorrow<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMean to establish Caesar as a king;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd he shall wear his crown by sea and land,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn every place, save here in Italy.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nI know where I will wear this dagger then;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTherein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTherein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCan be retentive to the strength of spirit;<\/td>\n95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut life, being weary of these worldly bars,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNever lacks power to dismiss itself.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf I know this, know all the world besides,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat part of tyranny that I do bear<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI can shake off at pleasure.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThunder still<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nSo can I:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo every bondman in his own hand bears<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe power to cancel his captivity.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nAnd why should Caesar be a tyrant then?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPoor man! I know he would not be a wolf,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut that he sees the Romans are but sheep:<\/td>\n105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe were no lion, were not Romans hinds.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThose that with haste will make a mighty fire<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBegin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat rubbish and what offal, when it serves<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor the base matter to illuminate<\/td>\n110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSo vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBefore a willing bondman; then I know<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMy answer must be made. But I am arm'd,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd dangers are to me indifferent.<\/td>\n115<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nYou speak to Casca, and to such a man<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat is no fleering tell–tale. Hold, my hand:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe factious for redress of all these griefs,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd I will set this foot of mine as far<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs who goes farthest.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nThere's a bargain made.<\/td>\n120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow know you, Casca, I have moved already<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSome certain of the noblest–minded Romans<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo undergo with me an enterprise<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf honourable–dangerous consequence;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd I do know, by this, they stay for me<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere is no stir or walking in the streets;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd the complexion of the element<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn favour's like the work we have in hand,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMost bloody, fiery, and most terrible.<\/td>\n130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nStand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nTis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHe is a friend.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter CINNA.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCinna, where haste you so?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CINNA<\/td>\nTo find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nNo, it is Casca; one incorporate<\/td>\n135<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CINNA<\/td>\nI am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThere's two or three of us have seen strange sights.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nAm I not stay'd for? tell me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CINNA<\/td>\nYes, you are.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO Cassius, if you could<\/td>\n140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut win the noble Brutus to our party––<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nBe you content: good Cinna, take this paper,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd look you lay it in the praetor's chair,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhere Brutus may but find it; and throw this<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn at his window; set this up with wax<\/td>\n145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon old Brutus' statue: all this done,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRepair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CINNA<\/td>\nAll but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,<\/td>\n150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd so bestow these papers as you bade me.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nThat done, repair to Pompey's theatre.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit CINNA.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCome, Casca, you and I will yet ere day<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee Brutus at his house: three parts of him<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs ours already, and the man entire<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nUpon the next encounter yields him ours.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASCA<\/td>\nO, he sits high in all the people's hearts:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd that which would appear offence in us,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHis countenance, like richest alchemy,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill change to virtue and to worthiness.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CASSIUS<\/td>\nHim and his worth and our great need of him<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou have right well conceited. Let us go,<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor it is after midnight; and ere day<\/td>\n163<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe will awake him and be sure of him.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt<\/i><\/td>\n<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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