Cai. I am not fick, if Brutus have in hand Cai. By all the Gods the Romans bow before, Bru. A piece of work, that will make fick men whole. To whom it must be done. Cai. Set on your foot, And with a heart new-fir'd I follow you, Bru. Follow me then. [Exeunt SCENE changes to Cæfar's Palace. · Thunder and Lightning. Enter Julius Cæfar. Caf.NOR heav'n, nor earth, have been at peace to-night; Thrice hath Calphurnia in her fleep cry'd out, "Help, ho! they murder Cafar." Who's within ? Serv. My Lord ? Enter a Servant. Caf. Go bid the priests do prefent facrifice, And bring me their opinions of fuccess. Serv. I will, my Lord. Enter Calphurnia. [Exit. Cal. What mean you, Cæfar? think you to walk forth? You shall not fir out of your house to-day. Caf. Caf Cafar fhall forth; the things, that threatned me, Cal. Cæfar, I never ftood on ceremonies, And Graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead; In ranks and fquadrons and right form of war, The noife of battle hurtled in the air; Caf. What can be avoided, Whofe end is purpos'd by the mighty Gods? Cal. When beggars die, there are no comets feen ; The heav'ns themfelves blaze forth the death of Princes. Caf. Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never tafte of death but once : Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It feems to me most strange, that men fhould fear: Will come, when it will come. Enter a Servant. What fay the Augurs? Serv. They would not have you to ftir forth to-day. Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, They could not find a heart within the beaft. [Exit Servant. Caf. The Gods do this in fhame of cowardife: Cafar fhould be a beaft without a heart, If he should stay at home to day for fear. No, Cæfar fhall not; danger knows full well, That Cæfar is more dangerous than he. Cal. Alas, my Lord, Your wifdom is confum'd in confidence; Caf. Mark Antony fhall fay, I am not well; Enter Decius. Here's Decius Brutus, he fhall tell them fo J Caf. And you are come in very happy time Cal. Say, he is fick.. Caf. Shall Cæfar fend a lye? Have I in conqueft ftrecht mine Decius. arm fo far, To be afraid to tell Grey-beards the truth? Dec. Moft mighty Cæfar, let me know fome caufe, Left I be laugh'd at, when I tell them fo Caf. The caufe is in my will, I will not come; (9) We heard two Lions] The firft Fólio ------ We beare The Copies have been all corrupt, and the Paffage, of course, unintelligible. But the flight Alteration, I have made, restores Sense to the whole; and the Sentiment will neither be unworthy of ShakeSpeare, nor the boaft too extravagant for Cæfar in a Vein of Vanity to utter: that he and Danger were two Twin-whelps of a Lion, and he the Elder, and more terrible of the Two. Becaufe Because I love you, I will let you know. Your ftatue, fpouting blood in many pipes, Caf. And this way have you well expounded it. Dec. I have, when you have heard what I can fay And know it now, the Senate have concluded To give this day a crown to mighty Cafar. If you fhall fend them word you will not come, Their minds may change. Befides, it were a mock Apt to be render'd, for fome one to fay, Break up the Senate 'till another time, "When Cefar's wife fhall meet with better dreams If Cafar hide himself, fhall they not whifper, "Lo, Cafar is afraid!" Pardon me, Cafar; for my dear, dear love, ལ Caf. How foolih do your fears feem now, Calphurnia? I am ashamed, I did yield to them. Give me my robe, for I will go : Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Cafca, Trebonius, Cinna and Publius. And, look, where Publius is come to fetch me. What, What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too? As that fame ague which hath made you lean. Bru. Cæfar, 'tis ftricken eight. Caf. I thank you for your pains and courtesy. See! Antony, that revels long o'nights, Caf. Bid them prepare within: I am to blame torbe thus waited for. Treb. Cafar, I will; and fo near will I be, [Afide. That your beft friends fhall wish I had been further. Caf. Good friends, go in, and tafte some wine with me. And we, like friends, will ftraightway go together. Bru. That every like is not the fame, O Cafar, [Afide. The heart of Brutus yerns to think upon! [Exeunt. SCENE changes to a Street near the Capitol. C (10) Enter Artemidorus, reading a paper. ESAR, beware of Brutus; take heed of Caffius; come not near Cafca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not (10) Enter Artemidorus,] In the Dramatis Perfone, through all the Editions, Artemidorus is called a Soothsayer. But, it is certain, the Poet defigned two diftinct Characters. Artemidorus was neither Augur, nor Soothfayer. It is true, there was an Artemidorus, whofe Critic on Dreams we still have: but he did not live until the Time of Antoninus. He likewife wrote, according to Suidas, of Augury and Palmistry. But this Artemidorus, who had been Cafar's Hoft at |