{"id":918,"date":"2012-03-18T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:09:03","slug":"julius-caesar-act-i-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=918","title":{"rendered":"Julius Caesar Act I, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Julius Caesar<\/span>      Act 1, Scene 2       Cassius<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This text is featured in our interview with Celeste Ciulla<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. As well as I do know your outward favour.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Well, honour is the subject of my story.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. I cannot tell what you and other men<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Think of this life; but for my single self,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. I had as lief not be as live to be<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. In awe of such a thing as I myself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. I was born free as Caesar; so were you:<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. We both have fed as well, and we can both<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Endure the winter\u2019s cold as well as he:<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. For once upon a raw and gusty day,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Caesar said to me Darest thou Cassius, now<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Leap in with me in to this angry flood,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. And swim to yonder point? \u00a0Upon the word,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Accouterd as I was, I plunged in<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. And bade him follow; so indeed he did.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. The torrent roar\u2019d, and we did buffet it<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. With lusty sinews, throwing it aside<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. And stemming it with hearts of controversy;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. But ere we could arrive the point proposed,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Caesar cried Help me Cassius or I sink!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Did I the tired Caesar. \u00a0And this man<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. Is now become a god and Cassius is<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. A wretched creature and must bend his body,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. He had a fever when he was in Spain,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. And when the fit was on him, I did mark<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. How he did shake: \u00a0\u2018tis true, this god did shake;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. His coward lips did from their colour fly,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan;<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. Mark him and write his speeches in their books,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. Alas, it cried Give me some drink Titinius,<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. As a sick girl. \u00a0Ye Gods it doth Amaze me<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. A man of such a feeble temper should<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. So get the start of the majestic world<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. And bear the palm alone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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