Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius : If I know this, know all the world besides, I can shake off at pleasure. So Casca. every So can I : bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity. Cas. And why should Cæsar be a tyrant then? So vile a thing as Cæsar! But, O, grief! Casca. You speak to Casca; and to such a man, 2 And I will set this foot of mine as far, As who goes farthest. Cas. There's a bargain made. 9 My answer must be made:] I shall be called to account, and must answer as for seditious words. 1 Hold my hand:] Is the same as, Here's my hand. 2 Be factious for redress-] Factious seems here to mean active. Now know you, Casca, I have mov'd already Is favour'd, like the work we have in hand, Enter CINNA. Casca. Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. Cas. "Tis Cinna, I do know him by his gait; He is a friend.-Cinna, where haste you so? Cin.To find out you: Who's that? Metellus Cimber? Cas. No, it is Casca; one incorporate To our attempts. Am I not staid for, Cinna? Cin. I am glad on't. What a fearful night is this? There's two or three of us have seen strange sights. Cas. Am I not staid for, Cinna? Tell me. Cin. You are. O, Cassius, if you could but win The noble Brutus to our party Yes, Cas. Be you content: Good Cinna, take this paper, And look you lay it in the prætor's chair, Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us. Cin. All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie, And so bestow these papers as you bade me. 3 Is favour'd, —] To favour is to resemble. Cas. That done, repair to Pompey's theatre. Upon the next encounter, yields him ours. Will change to virtue, and to worthiness. Cas. Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, You have right well conceited. Let us go, We will awake him, and be sure of him. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. The same. Brutus's Orchard. Enter BRUTUS. Bru. What, Lucius! ho! I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Luc. Call'd you, my lord? Bru. Get me a taper in my study, Lucius: When it is lighted, come and call me here. Luc. I will, my lord. [Exit. Bru. It must be by his death: and, for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown'd :— How that might change his nature, there's the question. It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder; That ; Crown him ?— And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, I have not known when his affections sway'd And kill him in the shell. Re-enter LUCIUS. Luc. The taper burneth in your closet, sir. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure, 4 Remorse from power:] Remorse is pity, tenderness. 5 — common proof,] Common proof means a matter proved by common experience. 6 7 base degrees] Low steps. as his kind,] i. e. like the rest of his species. It did not lie there, when I went to bed. Bru. Look in the calendar, and bring me word.. [Exit. Bru. The exhalations, whizzing in the air, Give so much light, that I may read by them. [Opens the Letter, and reads. Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself. Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress! Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, Such instigations have been often dropp'd Where I have took them up. Shall Rome, &c. Thus must I piece it out; Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What! Rome? My ancestors did from the streets of Rome The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king. Re-enter LUCIUS. Luc. Sir, March is wasted fourteen days. [Knock within. Bru. "Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks. [Exit LUCIUS. Since Cassius first did whet me against Cæsar, Between the acting of a dreadful thing |