I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony In Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue wound of Cæsar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. every All. We'll mutiny. First Cit. We'll burn the house of Brutus. Third Cit. Away, then! come, seek the conspirators. Ant. Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak. All. Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony! Ant. Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Cæsar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you, then : You have forgot the will I told you of. All. Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will. Ant. Here is the will, and under Cæsar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy five drachmas. Sec. Cit. Most noble Cæsar! We'll revenge his death. Third Cit. O royal Cæsar ! Ant. Hear me with patience. All. Peace, ho! Ant. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, And with the brands fire the traitors' houses. Fourth Cit. Pluck down forms, windows, any thing. [Exeunt Citizens with the body. Take thou what course thou wilt! Ant. Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot, fault-finding. Compare Hamlet, I. 3: "Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment." I rejoice at it. At what? there is tears. A plural subject is common after "there is." rude, barbarous. enrólled, entered on the rolls or records, registered. the Capitol. The great national temple dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Jupiter Best and Greatest) conjointly with Minerva and Juno. ex-tèn-ŭ-ăt-ed, drawn out thin or fine, depreciated. Lat. ex, "out," tenuis, "thin, fine.' en-forced', strengthened, unduly pressed or exaggerated. Lat. fortis, “strong.” do grace, do honour. the public chair. Called "the pulpit" above. bě-hold-en, obliged, indebted. ransom, buying-back, what was paid to redeem them. French, rançon, Lat. redemptionem, from re(d), "back," and emptum, "to buy." the general coffers, the public chests (or treasury). on the Lupercal. On the occasion of the Lupercalia,-a festival (Feb. 15) in honour of Lupercus, an ancient rural deity. abide it, suffer for it, pay the price or penalty for it. tèst-a-ment, will. the Nervi, "the stoutest warriors of all the Belgæ." The battle was fought in B.C. 57. Cæsar displayed extraordinary personal courage, and, after a most desperate struggle, gained a decisive victory. to be resolved, to be put out of doubt, to ascertain for fact. was Cæsar's angel, attended him as closely as his guardian angel. on this side Tiber. Cæsar's gardens were really on the further side of the Tiber. Shakespeare was misled by the authorities he followed. THE STRUCTURE OF THE BODY. IT is necessary that you should learn something about the build of your body, of what parts it is made, and how the parts are put together. Now, in order to see this distinctly, you cannot very well take your own body to pieces, but you easily can that of a dead rabbit. Suppose, then, you take one of the limbs, say a leg, to begin with. 1. THE TISSUES. First of all there is the skin with the hair on the cutside. If you carefully cut this through with a knife or pair of scissors and strip it off, you will find it smooth and shiny inside. Underneath the skin you see what you call flesh, rather paler, not so red as the flesh of beef or mutton, but still quite like it. Covering the flesh there may be a little fat. In a sheep's leg as you see it at the butcher's there is a good deal of fat, in the rabbit's there is very little. This reddish flesh you must henceforward learn to speak of as muscle. If you pull it about a little, you will find that you can separate it easily into parcels or slips running lengthways down the leg, each slip being fastened tight at either end, but loose between. Each slip is what is called a muscle. You will notice that many of these muscles are joined, sometimes at one end only, sometimes at both, to white or bluish-white evidently of different They are not soft and glistening cords or bands, made material from the muscle itself. fleshy like the muscle, but firm and stiff. These are tendons. Sometimes they are broad and short, sometimes thin and long. As you are separating these muscles from each other you will see (running down the leg between them) little white soft threads, very often branching out and getting too small to be seen. These are nerves. Between the muscles, too, are other little cords, red, or reddish black, and if you prick them, a drop or several drops of blood will ooze out. These are veins, and are not really cords or threads, but hollow tubes, filled with blood. Lying alongside the veins are similar small tubes, containing very little blood, or none at all. These are arteries. The veins and arteries together are called blood-vessels, and it will be easy for you to make out that the larger ones you see are really hollow tubes. Lastly, if you separate the muscles still more, you will come upon the hard bone in the middle of the leg, and if you look closely you will find that many of the muscles are fastened to this bone. Now try to put back everything in its place, and you will find that though you have neither cut nor torn nor broken either muscle or blood-vessel or bone, you cannot get things back into their place again. Everything looks "messy." This is partly because, though you have torn neither muscle nor blood-vessel, you have torn something which binds skin and muscle and fat |