Bru. Do you know them? Luc. No, fir; their hats are pluckt about their ears, And half their faces buried in their cloaks, That by no means I may difcover them Bru. Let 'em enter. [ Exit Lucius. They are the faction. O confpiracy, Sham'ft thou to fhew thy dangerous brow by night, Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monftrous vifage? Seek none, confpiracy; ૧ For if thou 1 path, thy native semblance on, 9 P. alters path to march; followed by • So the three firft fo's; the reft, them H. But path is here a verb, agreeable to fot 'ema Shakespeare's custom of converting sub- SCENE SCENE II. * Enter Caffius, Cafca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus, and Trebonius. Caf. I think we are too bold upon your rest: [* Afide to Caf. Caf. Yes, every man of them; and no man here, But honours you: and every one doth wish, You had but that opinion of yourself, Which every, noble Roman bears of you. What watchful cares do interpofe themselves The fo's, Enter the Confpirators, Caf C. Gus, &c. This direction not in the fo's or and this, Metellus Cimber. G. reads, This, Cafca; Cinna this g Caf. Shall I intreat a word? [" Caf. and Bru. whisper. Dec. Here lies the caft; doth not the day break here? Cafc. No. Cin. O pardon, fir, it doth; and yon grey lines, That fret the clouds, are meffengers of day. Cafe. You fhall confefs that you are both deceiv'd: Some two months hence, up higher toward the north Bru. Give me your hands all over, one by one. Bru. No, not an oath: If not the face of men, The sufferance of our fouls, the time's abuse- "For Caf. and Bru. wkifjer, C. diæcts, converse apart ; the rest, They robifper. 1 w T. E. and W. read that for note * W. fate for face. That That this fhall be, or we will fall for it? Nor th' infuppreffive mettle of our fpirits, To think, that or our caufe, or our perforinance, If he do break the fmalleft particle Caf. But what of Cicero? fhall we found him? Cin. No, by no means. Met. O let us have him; for his filver hairs. And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: Bru. O name him not: let us not break with him; That other men begin. Caf. Then leave him out. YW, propofes frain for flain. * H. Deth for Did. a So the three first fo's and C; the reft, dorb for de. D 3 Cafe. b Cafe. Indeed, he is not fit. Dec. Shall no man elfe be touch'd, but only Cafar? Caf. Decius, well urg'd; I think it is not meet, Let Antony and Cæfar fall together. Bru. Our courfe will feem too bloody, Caius Caffius, To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs; Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards: Let us be facrificers, but not butchers, Caius. f And not difmember Cæfar! But, alas! |