CASCA. You speak to Casca; and to such a man As who goes farthest. CAS. There's a bargain made. Of honourable-dangerous consequence; In Pompey's porch: For now, this fearful night, In favour 's like the work we have in hand, Enter CINNA. CASCA. Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste. CAS. "T is 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! CIN. To our party CAS. Be you content: Good Cinna, take this paper, Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done, Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us. CIN All, but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone CAS. That done, repair to Pompey's theatre. Exit CINNA. 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. CASCA. O, he sits high in all the people's hearts: And that which would appear offence in us, 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, For it is after midnight; and ere day 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, Give guess how near to day.-Lucius, I say!- Enter LUCIUS. 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. BRU. It must be by his death: and, for my part, (Exit I know no personal cause to spurn at him, And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel Which, hatch'd, would as his kind grow mischievous; 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, It did not lie there when I went to bed. BRU. Get you to bed again, it is not day. BRU. Look in the calendar, and bring me word. BRU. The exhalations, whizzing in the air, Give so much light that I may read by them. [Exit. [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. To speak, and strike? O Rome! I make thee promise, Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus! Re-enter LUCIUS. Luc. Sir, March is wasted fourteen days. [Knock within. BRU. "T is good. Go to the gate: somebody knocks. Since Cassius first did whet me against Cæsar Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is The nature of an insurrection. [Exit LUCIUS. Re-enter LUCIUS. Luc. Sir, 't is your brother Cassius at the door, Who doth desire to see you. Do you know them? Luc. No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their cars, And half their faces buried in their cloaks, That by no means I may discover them By any mark of favour. BRU. Let them enter. They are the faction. O Conspiracy! [Exit LUCIUS. Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage? Scek none, Conspiracy; For if thou path, thy native semblance on, To hide thee from prevention. Enter CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS. CAS. I think we are too bold upon your rest: Good morrow, Brutus. Do we trouble you? BRU. I have been up this hour; awake all night. CAS. Yes, every man of them; and no man here Which every noble Roman bears of you. BRU. He is welcome hither. He is welcome too. CAS. This, Decius Brutus. BRU. CAS. This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber. BRU. They are all welcome. What watchful cares do interpose themselves Betwixt your eyes and night? CAS. Shall I entreat a word? [They whisper. DEC. Here lies the east: Doth not the day break here? CASCA. NO. CIN. O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. CASCA. You shall confess that you are both deceiv'd. Which is a great way growing on the south, Some two months hence, up higher towards the north BRU. Give me your hands all over, one by one. BRU. No, not an oath: If not the face of men, |