Reading Help THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR
marry. `
` You'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed directly. `
` CINNA. Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral. `
` FIRST CITIZEN. As a friend or an enemy? `
` CINNA. As a friend. `
` SECOND CITIZEN. That matter is answered directly. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. For your dwelling, briefly. `
` CINNA. Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. `
` THIRD CITIZEN. Your name, sir, truly. `
` CINNA. Truly, my name is Cinna. `
` FIRST CITIZEN. Tear him to pieces, he's a conspirator. `
` CINNA. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his `
` bad `
` verses. `
` CINNA. I am not Cinna the conspirator. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. It is no matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck but `
` his `
` name out of his heart, and turn him going. `
` THIRD CITIZEN. 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. `
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` ACT IV. SCENE I. `
` A house in Rome. Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus, seated at a `
` table. `
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` ANTONY. These many then shall die, their names are prick'd. `
` OCTAVIUS. Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus? `
` LEPIDUS. I do consent- `
` OCTAVIUS. Prick him down, Antony. `
` LEPIDUS. Upon condition Publius shall not live, `
` Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony. `
` ANTONY. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. `
` But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house, `
` Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine `
` How to cut off some charge in legacies. `
` LEPIDUS. What, shall I find you here? `
` OCTAVIUS. Or here, or at the Capitol. Exit Lepidus. `
` ANTONY. This is a slight unmeritable man, `
` Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit, `
` The three-fold world divided, he should stand `
` One of the three to share it? `
` OCTAVIUS. So you thought him, `
` And took his voice who should be prick'd to die `
` In our black sentence and proscription. `
` ANTONY. Octavius, I have seen more days than you, `
` And though we lay these honors on this man `
` To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, `
` He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, `
` To groan and sweat under the business, `
` Either led or driven, as we point the way; `
` And having brought our treasure where we will, `
` Then take we down his load and turn him off, `
` Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears `
` And graze in commons. `
` OCTAVIUS. You may do your will, `
` But he's a tried and valiant soldier. `
` ANTONY. So is my horse, Octavius, and for that `
` I do appoint him store of provender. `
` It is a creature that I teach to fight, `
` To wind, to stop, to run directly on, `
` His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit. `
` And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so: `
` He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go forth; `
` A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds `
` On objects, arts, and imitations, `
` Which, out of use and staled by other men, `
` Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him `
` But as a property. And now, Octavius, `
` Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius `
` Are levying powers; we must straight make head; `
` Therefore let our alliance be combined, `
` Our best friends made, our means stretch'd; `
` And let us presently go sit in council, `
` How covert matters may be best disclosed, `
` And open perils surest answered. `
` OCTAVIUS. Let us do so, for we are at the stake, `
` And bay'd about with many enemies; `
` And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, `
` Millions of mischiefs. Exeunt. `
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` SCENE II. `
` Camp near Sardis. Before Brutus' tent. Drum. `
` `
` Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Lucius, and Soldiers; Titinius and `
` Pindarus meet them. `
` `
` BRUTUS. Stand, ho! `
` LUCILIUS. Give the word, ho, and stand. `
` BRUTUS. What now, Lucilius, is Cassius near? `
` LUCILIUS. He is at hand, and Pindarus is come `
` To do you salutation from his master. `
` BRUTUS. He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus, `
` In his own change, or by ill officers, `
` Hath given me some worthy cause to wish `
` Things done undone; but if he be at hand, `
` I shall be satisfied. `
` PINDARUS. I do not doubt `
` But that my noble master will appear `
` Such as he is, full of regard and honor. `
` BRUTUS. He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius, `
` How he received you. Let me be resolved. `
` LUCILIUS. With courtesy and with respect enough, `
` But not with such familiar instances, `
` Nor with such free and friendly conference, `
` As he hath used of old. `
` BRUTUS. Thou hast described `
` A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius, `
` When love begins to sicken and decay `
` It useth an enforced ceremony. `
` 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; `
` But when they should endure the bloody spur, `
` They fall their crests and like deceitful jades `
` Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? `
` LUCILIUS. They meant his night in Sard is to be quarter'd; `
` The greater part, the horse in general, `
` Are come with Cassius. Low march within. `
` BRUTUS. Hark, he is arrived. `
` March gently on to meet him. `
` `
` Enter Cassius and his Powers. `
` `
` CASSIUS. Stand, ho! `
` BRUTUS. Stand, ho! Speak the word along. `
` FIRST SOLDIER. Stand! `
` SECOND SOLDIER. Stand! `
` THIRD SOLDIER. Stand! `
` CASSIUS. Most noble brother, you have done me wrong. `
` BRUTUS. Judge me, you gods! Wrong I mine enemies? `
` And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother? `
` CASSIUS. Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs, `
` And when you do them- `
` BRUTUS. Cassius, be content, `
` Speak your griefs softly, I do know you well. `
` Before the eyes of both our armies here, `
` Which should perceive nothing but love from us, `
` Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away; `
` Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs, `
` And I will give you audience. `
` CASSIUS. Pindarus, `
` Bid our commanders lead their charges off `
` A little from this ground. `
` BRUTUS. Lucilius, do you the like, and let no man `
` Come to our tent till we have done our conference. `
` Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door. Exeunt. `
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` SCENE III. `
` Brutus' tent. `
` `
` Enter Brutus and Cassius. `
` `
` CASSIUS. That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this: `
` You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella `
` For taking bribes here of the Sardians, `
` Wherein my letters, praying on his side, `
` Because I knew the man, were slighted off. `
` BRUTUS. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. `
` CASSIUS. In such a time as this it is not meet `
` That every nice offense should bear his comment. `
` BRUTUS. Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself `
` Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm, `
` To sell and mart your offices for gold `
` To undeservers. `
` CASSIUS. I an itching palm? `
` You know that you are Brutus that speaks this, `
` Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last. `
` BRUTUS. The name of Cassius honors this corruption, `
` And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. `
` CASSIUS. Chastisement? `
` BRUTUS. Remember March, the ides of March remember. `
` Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? `
` What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, `
` And not for justice? What, shall one of us, `
` That struck the foremost man of all this world `
` But for supporting robbers, shall we now `
` Contaminate our fingers with base bribes `
`
` You'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed directly. `
` CINNA. Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral. `
` FIRST CITIZEN. As a friend or an enemy? `
` CINNA. As a friend. `
` SECOND CITIZEN. That matter is answered directly. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. For your dwelling, briefly. `
` CINNA. Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol. `
` THIRD CITIZEN. Your name, sir, truly. `
` CINNA. Truly, my name is Cinna. `
` FIRST CITIZEN. Tear him to pieces, he's a conspirator. `
` CINNA. I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his `
` bad `
` verses. `
` CINNA. I am not Cinna the conspirator. `
` FOURTH CITIZEN. It is no matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck but `
` his `
` name out of his heart, and turn him going. `
` THIRD CITIZEN. 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. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` <<THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM `
` SHAKESPEARE IS COPYRIGHT 1990-1993 BY WORLD LIBRARY, INC., AND IS `
` PROVIDED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG ETEXT OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY `
` WITH PERMISSION. ELECTRONIC AND MACHINE READABLE COPIES MAY BE `
` DISTRIBUTED SO LONG AS SUCH COPIES (1) ARE FOR YOUR OR OTHERS `
` PERSONAL USE ONLY, AND (2) ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED OR USED `
` COMMERCIALLY. PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES BY ANY `
` SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOAD TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.>> `
` `
` `
` `
` ACT IV. SCENE I. `
` A house in Rome. Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus, seated at a `
` table. `
` `
` ANTONY. These many then shall die, their names are prick'd. `
` OCTAVIUS. Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus? `
` LEPIDUS. I do consent- `
` OCTAVIUS. Prick him down, Antony. `
` LEPIDUS. Upon condition Publius shall not live, `
` Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony. `
` ANTONY. He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him. `
` But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house, `
` Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine `
` How to cut off some charge in legacies. `
` LEPIDUS. What, shall I find you here? `
` OCTAVIUS. Or here, or at the Capitol. Exit Lepidus. `
` ANTONY. This is a slight unmeritable man, `
` Meet to be sent on errands. Is it fit, `
` The three-fold world divided, he should stand `
` One of the three to share it? `
` OCTAVIUS. So you thought him, `
` And took his voice who should be prick'd to die `
` In our black sentence and proscription. `
` ANTONY. Octavius, I have seen more days than you, `
` And though we lay these honors on this man `
` To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, `
` He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold, `
` To groan and sweat under the business, `
` Either led or driven, as we point the way; `
` And having brought our treasure where we will, `
` Then take we down his load and turn him off, `
` Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears `
` And graze in commons. `
` OCTAVIUS. You may do your will, `
` But he's a tried and valiant soldier. `
` ANTONY. So is my horse, Octavius, and for that `
` I do appoint him store of provender. `
` It is a creature that I teach to fight, `
` To wind, to stop, to run directly on, `
` His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit. `
` And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so: `
` He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go forth; `
` A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds `
` On objects, arts, and imitations, `
` Which, out of use and staled by other men, `
` Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him `
` But as a property. And now, Octavius, `
` Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius `
` Are levying powers; we must straight make head; `
` Therefore let our alliance be combined, `
` Our best friends made, our means stretch'd; `
` And let us presently go sit in council, `
` How covert matters may be best disclosed, `
` And open perils surest answered. `
` OCTAVIUS. Let us do so, for we are at the stake, `
` And bay'd about with many enemies; `
` And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, `
` Millions of mischiefs. Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE II. `
` Camp near Sardis. Before Brutus' tent. Drum. `
` `
` Enter Brutus, Lucilius, Lucius, and Soldiers; Titinius and `
` Pindarus meet them. `
` `
` BRUTUS. Stand, ho! `
` LUCILIUS. Give the word, ho, and stand. `
` BRUTUS. What now, Lucilius, is Cassius near? `
` LUCILIUS. He is at hand, and Pindarus is come `
` To do you salutation from his master. `
` BRUTUS. He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus, `
` In his own change, or by ill officers, `
` Hath given me some worthy cause to wish `
` Things done undone; but if he be at hand, `
` I shall be satisfied. `
` PINDARUS. I do not doubt `
` But that my noble master will appear `
` Such as he is, full of regard and honor. `
` BRUTUS. He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius, `
` How he received you. Let me be resolved. `
` LUCILIUS. With courtesy and with respect enough, `
` But not with such familiar instances, `
` Nor with such free and friendly conference, `
` As he hath used of old. `
` BRUTUS. Thou hast described `
` A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius, `
` When love begins to sicken and decay `
` It useth an enforced ceremony. `
` 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; `
` But when they should endure the bloody spur, `
` They fall their crests and like deceitful jades `
` Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? `
` LUCILIUS. They meant his night in Sard is to be quarter'd; `
` The greater part, the horse in general, `
` Are come with Cassius. Low march within. `
` BRUTUS. Hark, he is arrived. `
` March gently on to meet him. `
` `
` Enter Cassius and his Powers. `
` `
` CASSIUS. Stand, ho! `
` BRUTUS. Stand, ho! Speak the word along. `
` FIRST SOLDIER. Stand! `
` SECOND SOLDIER. Stand! `
` THIRD SOLDIER. Stand! `
` CASSIUS. Most noble brother, you have done me wrong. `
` BRUTUS. Judge me, you gods! Wrong I mine enemies? `
` And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother? `
` CASSIUS. Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs, `
` And when you do them- `
` BRUTUS. Cassius, be content, `
` Speak your griefs softly, I do know you well. `
` Before the eyes of both our armies here, `
` Which should perceive nothing but love from us, `
` Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away; `
` Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs, `
` And I will give you audience. `
` CASSIUS. Pindarus, `
` Bid our commanders lead their charges off `
` A little from this ground. `
` BRUTUS. Lucilius, do you the like, and let no man `
` Come to our tent till we have done our conference. `
` Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door. Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE III. `
` Brutus' tent. `
` `
` Enter Brutus and Cassius. `
` `
` CASSIUS. That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this: `
` You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella `
` For taking bribes here of the Sardians, `
` Wherein my letters, praying on his side, `
` Because I knew the man, were slighted off. `
` BRUTUS. You wrong'd yourself to write in such a case. `
` CASSIUS. In such a time as this it is not meet `
` That every nice offense should bear his comment. `
` BRUTUS. Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself `
` Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm, `
` To sell and mart your offices for gold `
` To undeservers. `
` CASSIUS. I an itching palm? `
` You know that you are Brutus that speaks this, `
` Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last. `
` BRUTUS. The name of Cassius honors this corruption, `
` And chastisement doth therefore hide his head. `
` CASSIUS. Chastisement? `
` BRUTUS. Remember March, the ides of March remember. `
` Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? `
` What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, `
` And not for justice? What, shall one of us, `
` That struck the foremost man of all this world `
` But for supporting robbers, shall we now `
` Contaminate our fingers with base bribes `
`