Julius Caesar

Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain CommonersFLAVIUSHence! home, you idle creatures get you home: Is this a holiday? what! know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walkUpon a labouring day without the signOf your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?First CommonerWhy, sir, a carpenter.MARULLUSWhere is thy leather apron and thy rule?What dost thou with thy best apparel on?You, sir, what trade are you?Second CommonerTruly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.MARULLUSBut what trade art thou? answer me directly.Second CommonerA trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safeconscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.MARULLUSWhat trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?Second CommonerNay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.MARULLUSWhat meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!Second CommonerWhy, sir, cobble you.FLAVIUSThou art a cobbler, art thou?Second CommonerTruly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: Imeddle with no tradesman's matters, nor wom