{"id":11774,"date":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myedme.com\/login\/?p=11774"},"modified":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T22:11:16","slug":"Shakespeare3Btext1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/Shakespeare3Btext1\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 2, page 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

ACT II SCENE II<\/b> Setting: CAESAR's house.<\/p>\n

Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his night–gown.<\/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
CAESAR<\/td>\nNor heaven nor earth have been at peace to–night:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHelp, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter a Servant.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
Servant<\/td>\nMy lord?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nGo bid the priests do present sacrifice<\/p>\n5<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd bring me their opinions of success.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
Servant<\/td>\nI will, my lord.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExit<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter CALPURNIA.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CALPURNIA<\/td>\nWhat mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYou shall not stir out of your house to–day.<\/p>\n9<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nCaesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNe'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe face of Caesar, they are vanished.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CALPURNIA<\/td>\nCaesar, I never stood on ceremonies,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet now they fright me. There is one within,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBesides the things that we have heard and seen,<\/p>\n15<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRecounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nA lioness hath whelped in the streets;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn ranks and squadrons and right form of war,<\/p>\n20<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich drizzled blood upon the Capitol;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe noise of battle hurtled in the air,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHorses did neigh, and dying men did groan,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nO Caesar! these things are beyond all use,<\/p>\n25<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd I do fear them.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nWhat can be avoided<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhose end is purposed by the mighty gods?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAre to the world in general as to Caesar.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CALPURNIA<\/td>\nWhen beggars die, there are no comets seen;<\/p>\n30<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nCowards die many times before their deaths;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe valiant never taste of death but once.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nOf all the wonders that I yet have heard.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt seems to me most strange that men should fear;<\/p>\n35<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSeeing that death, a necessary end,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWill come when it will come.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRe–enter Servant.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat say the augurers?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
Servant<\/td>\nThey would not have you to stir forth to–day.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPlucking the entrails of an offering forth,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThey could not find a heart within the beast.<\/p>\n40<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nThe gods do this in shame of cowardice:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCaesar should be a beast without a heart,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf he should stay at home to–day for fear.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNo, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat Caesar is more dangerous than he:<\/p>\n45<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe are two lions litter'd in one day,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd I the elder and more terrible:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd Caesar shall go forth.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CALPURNIA<\/td>\nAlas, my lord,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour wisdom is consumed in confidence.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDo not go forth to–day: call it my fear<\/p>\n50<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat keeps you in the house, and not your own.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWe'll send Mark Antony to the senate–house:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd he shall say you are not well to–day:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLet me, upon my knee, prevail in this.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nMark Antony shall say I am not well,<\/p>\n55<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd, for thy humour, I will stay at home.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter DECIUS BRUTUS.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHere's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
DECIUS BRUTUS<\/td>\nCaesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI come to fetch you to the senate–house.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nAnd you are come in very happy time,<\/p>\n60<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo bear my greeting to the senators<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd tell them that I will not come to–day:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI will not come to–day: tell them so, Decius.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CALPURNIA<\/td>\nSay he is sick.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nShall Caesar send a lie?<\/p>\n65<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHave I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDecius, go tell them Caesar will not come.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
DECIUS BRUTUS<\/td>\nMost mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.<\/p>\n70<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nThe cause is in my will: I will not come;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat is enough to satisfy the senate.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBut for your private satisfaction,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBecause I love you, I will let you know:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCalpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:<\/p>\n75<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nShe dreamt to–night she saw my statua,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhich, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDid run pure blood: and many lusty Romans<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCame smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd these does she apply for warnings, and portents,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd evils imminent; and on her knee<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nHath begg'd that I will stay at home to–day.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
DECIUS BRUTUS<\/td>\nThis dream is all amiss interpreted;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIt was a vision fair and fortunate:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nYour statue spouting blood in many pipes,<\/p>\n85<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIn which so many smiling Romans bathed,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSignifies that from you great Rome shall suck<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nReviving blood, and that great men shall press<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFor tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThis by Calpurnia's dream is signified.<\/p>\n90<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nAnd this way have you well expounded it.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
DECIUS BRUTUS<\/td>\nI have, when you have heard what I can say:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd know it now: the senate have concluded<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf you shall send them word you will not come,<\/p>\n95<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTheir minds may change. Besides, it were a mock<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nApt to be render'd, for some one to say<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBreak up the senate till another time,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhen Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIf Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper<\/p>\n100<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nLo, Caesar is afraid'?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTo our proceeding bids me tell you this;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd reason to my love is liable.<\/p>\n104<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nHow foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am ashamed I did yield to them.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGive me my robe, for I will go.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA, TREBONIUS, and CINNA.<\/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
<\/td>\nAnd look where Publius is come to fetch me.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
PUBLIUS<\/td>\nGood morrow, Caesar.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nWelcome, Publius.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?<\/p>\n110<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nGood morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCaesar was ne'er so much your enemy<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAs that same ague which hath made you lean.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nWhat is 't o'clock?<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
BRUTUS<\/td>\nCaesar, 'tis strucken eight.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nI thank you for your pains and courtesy.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nEnter ANTONY.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSee! Antony, that revels long o' nights,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIs notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
ANTONY<\/td>\nSo to most noble Caesar.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nBid them prepare within:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI am to blame to be thus waited for.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNow, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!<\/p>\n120<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nI have an hour's talk in store for you;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nRemember that you call on me to–day:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBe near me, that I may remember you.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
TREBONIUS<\/td>\nCaesar, I will:<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nAside.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nand so near will I be,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThat your best friends shall wish I had been further.<\/p>\n125<\/tr>\n
CAESAR<\/td>\nGood friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAnd we, like friends, will straightway go together.<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
BRUTUS<\/td>\nAside. That every like is not the same, O Caesar,<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/i><\/td>\nExeunt<\/p>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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