1000Calp. Caesar, I neuer stood on Ceremonies,

1001Yet now they fright me: There is one within,

1002Besides the things that we haue heard and seene,

1003Recounts most horrid sights seene by the Watch.

1004A Lionnesse hath whelped in the streets,

1005And Graues haue yawn'd, and yeelded vp their dead;

1006Fierce fiery Warriours fight vpon the Clouds

1007In Rankes and Squadrons, and right forme of Warre

1008Which drizel'd blood vpon the Capitoll:

1009The noise of Battell hurtled in the Ayre:

1010Horsses do neigh, and dying men did grone,

1011And Ghosts did shrieke and squeale about the streets.

1012O Caesar, these things are beyond all vse,

1013And I do feare them.

1014Caes. What can be auoyded

1015Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty Gods?

1016Yet Caesar shall go forth: for these Predictions

1017Are to the world in generall, as to Caesar.

1018Calp. When Beggers dye, there are no Comets seen,

1019The Heauens themselues blaze forth the death of Princes

1020Caes. Cowards dye many times before their deaths,

1021The valiant neuer taste of death but once:

1022Of all the Wonders that I yet haue heard,

1023It seemes to me most strange that men should feare,

1024Seeing that death, a necessary end

1025Will come, when it will come.

1027What say the Augurers?

1028Ser. They would not haue you to stirre forth to day.

1029Plucking the intrailes of an Offering forth,

1030They could not finde a heart within the beast.

1031Caes. The Gods do this in shame of Cowardice:

1032Caesar should be a Beast without a heart

1033If he should stay at home to day for feare:

1034No Caesar shall not; Danger knowes full well

1035That Caesar is more dangerous then he.

1036We heare two Lyons litter'd in one day,

1037And I the elder and more terrible,

1038And Caesar shall go foorth.

1039Calp. Alas my Lord,

1040Your wisedome is consum'd in confidence:

1041Do not go forth to day: Call it my feare,

1042That keepes you in the house, and not your owne.

1043Wee'l send Mark Antony to the Senate house,

1044And he shall say, you are not well to day:

1045Let me vpon my knee, preuaile in this.

1046Caes. Mark Antony shall say I am not well,

1047And for thy humor, I will stay at home.

1049Heere's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.

1050Deci. Caesar, all haile: Good morrow worthy Caesar,

1051I come to fetch you to the Senate house.

1052Caes. And you are come in very happy time,

1053To beare my greeting to the Senators,

1054And tell them that I will not come to day:

1055Cannot, is false: and that I dare not, falser:

1056I will not come to day, tell them so Decius.

1057Calp. Say he is sicke.

1058Caes. Shall Caesar send a Lye?

1059Haue I in Conquest stretcht mine Arme so farre,

1060To be afear'd to tell Gray-beards the truth:

1061Decius, go tell them, Caesar will not come.

1062Deci. Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,

1063Lest I be laught at when I tell them so.

1064Caes. The cause is in my Will, I will not come,

1065That is enough to satisfie the Senate.

1066But for your priuate satisfaction,

1067Because I loue you, I will let you know.

1068Calphurnia heere my wife, stayes me at home:

1069She dreampt to night, she saw my Statue,

1070Which like a Fountaine, with an hundred spouts

1071Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans

1072Came smiling, & did bathe their hands in it:

1073And these does she apply, for warnings and portents,

1074And euils imminent; and on her knee

1075Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to day.

1076Deci. This Dreame is all amisse interpreted,

1077It was a vision, faire and fortunate:

1078Your Statue spouting blood in many pipes,

1079In which so many smiling Romans bath'd,

1080Signifies, that from you great Rome shall sucke

1081Reuiuing blood, and that great men shall presse

1082For Tinctures, Staines, Reliques, and Cognisance.

1083This by Calphurnia's Dreame is signified.

1084Caes. And this way haue you well expounded it.

1085Deci. I haue, when you haue heard what I can say:

1086And know it now, the Senate haue concluded

1087To giue this day, a Crowne to mighty Caesar.

1088If you shall send them word you will not come,

1089Their mindes may change. Besides, it were a mocke

1090Apt to be render'd, for some one to say,

1091Breake vp the Senate, till another time:

1092When Caesars wife shall meete with better Dreames.

1093If Caesar hide himselfe, shall they not whisper

1094Loe Caesar is affraid?

1095Pardon me Caesar, for my deere deere loue

1096To your proceeding, bids me tell you this:

1097And reason to my loue is liable.

1098Caes. How foolish do your fears seeme now Calphurnia?

1099I am ashamed I did yeeld to them.

1100Giue me my Robe, for I will go.

1103And looke where Publius is come to fetch me.

1104Pub. Good morrow Caesar.

1105Caes. Welcome Publius.

1106What Brutus, are you stirr'd so earely too?

1107Good morrow Caska: Caius Ligarius,

1108Caesar was ne're so much your enemy,

1109As that same Ague which hath made you leane.

1110What is't a Clocke?

1111Bru. Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.

1112Caes. I thanke you for your paines and curtesie.

1114See, Antony that Reuels long a-nights

1115Is notwithstanding vp. Good morrow Antony.

1116Ant. So to most Noble Caesar.

1117Caes. Bid them prepare within:

1118I am too blame to be thus waited for.

1119Now Cynna, now Metellus: what Trebonius,

1120I haue an houres talke in store for you:

1121Remember that you call on me to day:

1122Be neere me, that I may remember you.

1123Treb. Caesar I will: and so neere will I be,

1124That your best Friends shall wish I had beene further.

1125Caes. Good Friends go in, and taste some wine with me.

1126And we (like Friends) will straight way go together.

1127Bru. That euery like is not the same, O Caesar,

1128The heart of Brutus earnes to thinke vpon. Exeunt