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bring me word what he doth say to thee.

      Exeunt severally

      Act III

      Scene I

      Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.

      A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER, TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS, PUBLIUS, and others

      CAESAR

      [To the Soothsayer] The ides of March are come.

      SOOTHSAYER

      Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

      ARTEMIDORUS

      Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.

      DECIUS BRUTUS

      Trebonius doth desire you to o’erread,

      At your best leisure, this his humble suit.

      ARTEMIDORUS

      O Caesar, read mine first; for mine’s a suit

      That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.

      CAESAR

      What touches us ourself shall be last served.

      ARTEMIDORUS

      Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.

      CAESAR

      What, is the fellow mad?

      PUBLIUS

      Sirrah, give place.

      CASSIUS

      What, urge you your petitions in the street?

      Come to the Capitol.

      CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest following

      POPILIUS

      I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.

      CASSIUS

      What enterprise, Popilius?

      POPILIUS

      Fare you well.

      Advances to CAESAR

      BRUTUS

      What said Popilius Lena?

      CASSIUS

      He wish’d to-day our enterprise might thrive.

      I fear our purpose is discovered.

      BRUTUS

      Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him.

      CASSIUS

      Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.

      Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,

      Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,

      For I will slay myself.

      BRUTUS

      Cassius, be constant:

      Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;

      For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.

      CASSIUS

      Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus.

      He draws Mark Antony out of the way.

      Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS

      DECIUS BRUTUS

      Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,

      And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.

      BRUTUS

      He is address’d: press near and second him.

      CINNA

      Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.

      CAESAR

      Are we all ready? What is now amiss

      That Caesar and his senate must redress?

      METELLUS CIMBER

      Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,

      Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat

      An humble heart, —

      Kneeling

      CAESAR

      I must prevent thee, Cimber.

      These couchings and these lowly courtesies

      Might fire the blood of ordinary men,

      And turn pre-ordinance and first decree

      Into the law of children. Be not fond,

      To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood

      That will be thaw’d from the true quality

      With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,

      Low-crooked court’sies and base spaniel-fawning.

      Thy brother by decree is banished:

      If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,

      I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.

      Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause

      Will he be satisfied.

      METELLUS CIMBER

      Is there no voice more worthy than my own

      To sound more sweetly in great Caesar’s ear

      For the repealing of my banish’d brother?

      BRUTUS

      I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;

      Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may

      Have an immediate freedom of repeal.

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