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.

2.2.171004A lionness hath whelpèd in the streets,

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,

2.2.211008Which drizzeled blood upon the Capitol.

2.2.221009The noise of battle hurtled in the air:

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,

2.2.261013And I do fear them.

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,

2.2.361024Seeing that death, a necessary end,

2.2.371025Will come when it will come.

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

2.2.451035That Caesar is more dangerous than he.

2.2.461036We are two lions littered in one day,

2.2.471037And I the elder and more terrible;

2.2.481038And Caesar shall go forth.

And Caesar shall go forth. Alas, my Lord,

2.2.491040Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

2.2.501041Do not go forth today. Call it my fear

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.

2.2.541045Let me upon my knee prevail in this.

Mark Antony shall say I am not well,

2.2.561047And for thy humor, I will stay at home.

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

2.2.611053To bear my greeting to the senators,

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.

2.2.721065That is enough to satisfy the Senate.

2.2.731066But for your private satisfaction,

2.2.741067Because I love you, I will let you know.

2.2.751068Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.

2.2.761069She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,

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,

2.2.811074And evils imminent; and on her knee

2.2.821075Hath begged that I will stay at home today.

This dream is all amiss interpreted:

2.2.841077It was a vision fair and fortunate.

2.2.851078Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,

2.2.861079In which so many smiling Romans bathed,

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.

2.2.901083This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.

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

2.2.971090Apt to be rendered for someone to say,

2.2.981091"Break up the Senate till another time,

2.2.991092When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams."

2.2.1001093If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper

2.2.1011094"Lo, Caesar is afraid"?

2.2.1021095Pardon me, Caesar, for my dear dear love

2.2.1031096To your proceeding bids me tell you this,

2.2.1041097And reason to my love is liable.

How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia?

2.2.1061099I am ashamèd I did yield to them.

2.2.1071100Give me my robe, for I will go.

2.2.1081103And look where Publius is come to fetch me.

Good morrow, Caesar.

Good morrow, Caesar. Welcome, Publius.

2.2.1101106What, Brutus, are you stirred so early too?

2.2.1111107Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,

2.2.1121108Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy

2.2.1131109As that same ague which hath made you lean.

2.2.1141110What is't o'clock?

What is't o'clock? Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.

I thank you for your pains and courtesy.

2.2.1161114See, Antony, that revels long o' nights,

2.2.1171115Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.

So to most noble Caesar.

So to most noble Caesar. Bid them prepare within.

2.2.1191118I am to blame to be thus waited for.

2.2.1201119Now, Cinna. Now, Metellus. What, Trebonius,

2.2.1211120I have an hour's talk in store for you.

2.2.1221121Remember that you call on me today.

2.2.1231122Be near me, that I may remember you.

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,

2.2.1291128The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon.