Thunder and lightning. 984Enter Julius Caesar in his nightgown. Nor heaven nor earth
986have been at peace tonight.
2.2.2987Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
2.2.3988"Help, ho, they murder Caesar!" Who's within?
My Lord.
Go bid the priests do present sacrifice,
2.2.6992And bring me their opinions of success.
I will, my lord.
What mean you, Caesar? Think you to walk forth?
2.2.9996You shall not stir out of your house today.
Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me
2.2.11998Ne'er looked but on my back. When they shall see
2.2.12999The face of Caesar, they are vanishèd.
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
2.2.141001Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
2.2.151002Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
2.2.161003Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
2.2.181005And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead;
2.2.191006Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds
2.2.201007In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of war,
2.2.231010Horses do neigh, and dying men did groan,
2.2.241011And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
2.2.251012O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them. What can be avoided
2.2.271015Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
2.2.281016Yet Caesar shall go forth, for these predictions
2.2.291017Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
2.2.311019The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
2.2.331021The valiant never taste of death but once.
2.2.341022Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
2.2.351023It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Will come when it will come. What say the augurers?
They would not have you to stir forth today.
2.2.391029Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
2.2.401030They could not find a heart within the beast.
The gods do this in shame of cowardice.
2.2.421032Caesar should be a beast without a heart,
2.2.431033If he should stay at home today for fear.
2.2.441034No Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well
And Caesar shall go forth. Alas, my Lord,
2.2.511042That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
2.2.521043We'll send Mark Antony to the Senate House,
2.2.531044And he shall say you are not well today.
Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
2.2.571049Here's Decius Brutus. He shall tell them so.
Caesar, all hail! Good morrow, worthy Caesar,
2.2.591051I come to fetch you to the Senate House.
And you are come in very happy time
2.2.621054And tell them that I will not come today--
2.2.631055Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser:
2.2.641056I will not come today. Tell them so, Decius.
Say he is sick.
Say he is sick. Shall Caesar send a lie?
2.2.661059Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
2.2.671060To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth?
2.2.681061Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.
Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
2.2.701063Lest I be laughed at when I tell them so.
The cause is in my will; I will not come.
2.2.741067Because I love you, I will let you know.
2.2.751068Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.
2.2.771070Which like a fountain with an hundred spouts
2.2.781071Did run pure blood, and many lusty Romans
2.2.791072Came smiling and did bathe their hands in it.
2.2.801073And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,
2.2.821075Hath begged that I will stay at home today.
This dream is all amiss interpreted:
2.2.851078Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,
2.2.871080Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck
2.2.881081Reviving blood, and that great men shall press
2.2.891082For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.
And this way have you well expounded it.
I have, when you have heard what I can say,
2.2.931086And know it now: the Senate have concluded
2.2.941087To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
2.2.951088If you shall send them word you will not come,
2.2.961089Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock
2.2.991092When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams."
2.2.1001093If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia?
2.2.107.11101Enter Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, 1102Trebonius, Cinna, and Publius. Good morrow, Caesar.
Good morrow, Caesar. Welcome, Publius.
What is't o'clock? Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.
I thank you for your pains and courtesy.
So to most noble Caesar.
So to most noble Caesar. Bid them prepare within.
Caesar I will, [aside] and so near will I be,
2.2.1251124That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me.
2.2.1271126And we, like friends, will straight way go together.
[aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,