} Senators. JULIUS CÆSAR: Conspirators againf Julius Cæfar, 2 Tribunes and Enemies to Cæsare riends to Brutus and Caffius, Servants to Brutus.. }Friend Calphurnia, Wife to Cæsar. Guards and Attendantsa SCENE, for the three firft Aas, at Rome: afterwards, at an Ille near Mutina ; at Sardis; and Philippi, To JULIUS CÆSAR. ACT T 1. SCEN E, a Street in Rome. Enter Flavius, (1) Marullus, and certain Commorters. FLAVIUS you home : ; Is this a holiday? what! know you not, H Being mechanical, you ought not walk art thou ? - What trade are you? Cob. Truly, Sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am bat, as you would say, a cobler. Mar. But what trade art thou ? answer me directly. Cob. A trade, Sir, that, I hope, I may use with a Safe conscience; which is, indeed, Sir, a mender of bad Soals. (1) Murellus.] I have, upon the Authority of Plutarch, &c. given to this Tribune, his right Name, Marullus, Flav. A 3 yet if Flav. What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade? Cob. Nay, I beseech you, Sir, be not out with me : you be out, Sir, I can mend you. (2) Flav. What mean'st thou by that? mend me, thou sawcy fellow? Cob. Why, Sir, cobble you. Cob. Truly, Sir, all, that I live by, is the awl: 1 meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor woman's matters; but with-all, I am, indeed, Sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neats-leather have gone upon my handy-work. Flav. But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day? Why doft thou lead these men about the streets ? Cob. Truly, Sir, to wear out their shoes, to get my self into more work. But, indeed, Sir, we make holiday to fee Cafar, and to rejoice in his triumph. Mar. Wherefore rejoice!-what conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels ? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts! you cruel men of Rome! Knew you not Pompey? many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms; and there have fate The live-long day with patient expectation, (2) Mar. What means thou by that?] As the Cobler, in the preceeding Speech, replies to Flavius, not to Marullus ; 'ris plain, I think, this Speech must be given to Flavius. And |