Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention.' Enter CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS, CINNA, METellus CIMBER, and TREBONIUS. Cas. I think we are too bold upon your rest: Good morrow, Brutus ; Do we trouble you? Bru. I have been up this hour; awake, all night. Know I these men, that come along with you? Cas. Yes, every man of them; and no man here, Which every noble Roman bears of you. Bru. Cas. This Decius Brutus. Cas. This, Casca; this, Cinna; Bru. He is welcome hither. He is welcome too. They are all welcome. [They whisper. [here? What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night? Cas. Shall I entreat a word? Dec. Here lies the east: Doth not the day break Casca. No. Cin. O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon grey lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Casca. You shall confess, that you are both deHere, as I point my sword, the sun arises; [ceiv'd. Which is a great way growing on the south, Weighing the youthful season of the year. Some two months hence, up higher toward the north Bru. Give me your hands all over, one by one. • Detection. [J. CAES. 21] Bru. No, not an oath: If not the face of men,* But if these, As I am sure they do, bear fire enough That this shall be, or we will fall for it? Swear priests, and cowards, and men cautelous,3 Nor th' insuppressive mettle of our spirits, If he do break the smallest particle Of any promise that hath pass'd from him. Cas. But what of Cicero? Shall we sound him? I think, he will stand very strong with us. Casca. Let us not leave him out. Cin. No, by no means. And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: The dejected look of the people. As the caprice of the tyrant may decide. 3 Wary souls. [J. Cæs. 22] Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit appear, Bru. O, name him not; let us not break with him; For he will never follow any thing That other men begin. Cas. Then leave him out. Casca. Indeed, he is not fit. Dec. Shall no man else be touch'd but only Cæsar? Cas. Decius, well urg'd:-I think it is not meet, Mark Antony, so well belov'd of Cæsar, Should outlive Cæsar: We shall find of him A shrew'd contriver; and, you know, his means, If he improves them, may well stretch so far, As to annoy us all which to prevent, Let Antony, and Cæsar, fall together. [sius, Bru. Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cas To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs: Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers, Caius. Cas. Yet I do fear him: For in the ingrafted love he bears to Cæsar, Bru. Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him: Is to himself; take thought,' and die for Cæsar: Treb. There is no fear in him; let him not die; Bru. Peace, count the clock. [Clock strikes. The clock hath stricken three. Treb. 'Tis time to part. Cas. Dec. Never fear that: If he be so resolv'd, For I can give his humour the true bent; Cas. Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him. 1 turn melancholy. 4 pitfalls. [J. CES. 24] • Fixed opinion. 3 signs, omens. 5 hates Cæsar. Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey; Bru. Now, good Metellus, go along by him: Cas. The morning comes upon us: We'll leave And, friends, disperse yourselves: but all remember With untir'd spirits, and formal constancy : [Exeunt all but BRUTUS. Boy! Lucius!-Fast asleep? It is no matter; Por. Enter PORTIA. Brutus, my lord! [now? Bru. Portia, what mean you? Wherefore rise you It is not for your health, thus to commit Your weak condition to the raw-cold morning. Stole from my bed: And yesternight, at supper, I urg'd you further; then you scratch'd your head, A double negative-in frequent use with Shakspeare, and other old authors. [J. CAS. 25] |