Cas. To what effect? 280 Casca. Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you i' th' face again: but those that understood him smil'd at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs off Cæsar's images, are put to silence. Fare you well. There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it. Cas. Will you sup with mé to-night, Casca? Casca. No, I am promis'd forth. Cas. Will you dine with me to-morrow? 290 Casca. Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner worth the eating. Cas. Good: I will expect you. Casca. Do so. Farewell, both. Bru. What a blunt fellow is this grown to be! He was quick metal when he went to school. Cas. So is he now in execution Of any bold or noble enterprise, This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, [Exit. 300 Bru. And so it is. For this time I will leave you: To-morrow, if you please to speak with me, I will come home to you; or, if you will, Come home to me, and I will wait for you. Cas. I will do so: till then, think of the world. Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see, Thy honourable metal may be wrought [Exit Brutus. From that it is dispos'd: therefore it is meet 310 289. [forth, i. e. he was to sup abroad, as was once a common expression.] That noble minds keep ever with their likes; For we will shake him, or worse days endure. SCENE III. The same. A street. 320 [Exit. Thunder and lightning. Enter, from opposite sides, CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO. Cic. Good even, Casca: brought you Cæsar home? Why are you breathless? and why stare you so? Casca. Are not you mov'd, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero, I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 10 322. [It has been suggested that a rhymed couplet at the end of a scene denoted a special change of situation.] 1. brought you Cæsar home? Cæsar home? did you escort, accompany, 10. [The reference is not so much to lightning as to meteors, See Act II., Sc. 1, 1. 44.7 Cic. Why, saw you any thing more wonderful? sight you know him well by Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Who glar'd upon me, and went surly by, Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw Cic. Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time : 20 Casca. He doth; for he did bid Antonius Send word to you he would be there to-morrow? Cic. Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky 39 Is not to walk in. Casca. Your ear is good. Cassius, what'night is this! Cas. A very pleasing night to honest men. Casca. Who ever knew the heavens menace so? Cas. Those that have known the earth so full of faults. For my part, I have walk'd about the streets, Have bar'd my bosom to the thunder-stone; And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open 50 The breast of heaven, I did present myself Even in the aim and very flash of it. Casca. But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens? It is the part of men to fear and tremble, Cas. You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life 42. what' night what a night. See line 137. 48. [unbraced= ungirt, unbuttoned.] 50. [cross = 60 zigzagging, crossing back and forth.] 65. Why old men foola verbal use of "fool" not uncommon nowadays. To monstrous quality, - why, you shall find Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man Most like this dreadful night, That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars A man no mightier than thyself or me In personal action, yet prodigious grown And fearful, as these strange eruptions are. 70 Casca. 'Tis Cæsar that you mean; is it not, Cassius? Cas. Let it be who it is: for Romans now Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors; But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead, And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits; Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. Casca. Indeed, they say the senators to-morrow And he shall wear his crown by sea and land, Cas. I know where I will wear this dagger then ; If I know this, know all the world besides, I can shake off at pleasure. 80 90 [Thunder still. |