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Flourish.
Beware the ides of March.
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear: And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourself That of yourself which you yet know not of.
I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king. CASSIUS Ay, do you fear it? Then must I think you would not have it so. BRUTUS I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
What you have said I will consider; what you have to say I will with patience hear,
As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve; And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.
Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
it was Greek to me.
Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner worth the eating.
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.
Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day See Brutus at his house: three parts of him Is ours already, and the man entire Upon the next encounter yields him ours.
Get you to bed again; it is not day. Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?
and the mortal instruments
O conspiracy, Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, When evils are most free? O, then by day Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage?
And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed, To dare the vile contagion of the night And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto his sickness?
O ye gods, Render me worthy of this noble wife!
CAESAR's house. Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his night-gown
Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
Apt to be render'd, for some one to say 'Break up the senate till another time, When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'
Be near me, that I may remember you. TREBONIUS Caesar, I will: Aside and so near will I be, That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
If thou beest not immortal, look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.
If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live; If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.
The ides of March are come. Soothsayer Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?
Et tu, Brute!
Grant that, and then is death a benefit: So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged His time of fearing death.
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.
Who else must be let blood, who else is rank: If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar's death hour,

