Have flood against the world; now lies he there, Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, Το Let but the Commons hear this Teftament, And dying, mention it within their Wills, Unto their iffue. 4 Pleb. We'll hear the Will, read it, Mark Antony. All. The Will, the Will; we will hear Cafar's Will. Ant. Have patience, gentle friends, I muft not read it ; mad. It is not meet you know how Cafar lov'd you. I do fear it. -honourable men! Ant. Will you be patient? will you stay a while? you of it.) (I have o'er-fhot myfelf, to tell fear, I wrong the honourable men, Whofe daggers have ftabb'd Cæfar 4 Pleb. They were traitors— All. The Will! the Teftament! 2 Pleb. They were villains, murtherers; the Will! read the Will! Ant. You will compel me then to read the Will? Then Then make a ring about the corps of Cafar, All. Come down. 2 Pleb. Defcend. [He comes down from the pulpit. 3 Pleb. You fhall have leave. 4 Pleb. A ring; ftand round. 1 Pleb. Stand from the hearse, stand from the body. 2 Pleb. Room for Antony-most noble Antony. Ant. Nay, prefs not fo upon me, ftand far off. All. Stand back- room D -bear backAnt. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle; I remember, The first time ever Cefar put it on, 'Twas on a fummer's evening in his tent, Look! in this place, ran Caffius' dagger through; For when the noble Cafar faw him stab, Even at the Bafe of Pompey's ftatue, (Which all the while ran blood,) great Cæfar fell. Ca 1 Pleb. 1 Pleb. O piteous fpectacle! 2 Pleb. O noble Cafar! 3 Pleb. O woful day! 4 Pleb. O traitors, villains! i Pleb. O moft bloody fight! 2 Pleb. We will be reveng'd: revenge: about 1 Pleb. Peace there, hear the noble Antony. 2 Pleb. We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him Ant. Good friends, fweet friends, let me not ftir you up To fuch a fudden flood of mutiny : They, that have done this deed, are honourable. I come not, friends, to fteal away your hearts; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, And bid them speak for me. But were I Brutus, All We'll mutiny 1 Pleb. We'll burn the house of Brutus. 3 Pleb. Away then, come, feek the confpirators. Ant Ant. Why, friends, you go to do you know not what. Wherein hath Cæfar thus deferv'd your loves? Alas, you know not; I must tell you then: You have forgot the Will, I told you of. let's stay and hear the Ant. Here is the Will, and under Cæfar's feal. To ev'ry Roman citizen he gives, To ev'ry fev'ral man, fev'nty five drachma's. 2 Pleb. Moft noble Cafar! we'll revenge his death. 3 Pleb. O royal Cæfar! Ant. Hear me with patience. All. Peace, ho! Ant. Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, 1 Pleb. Never, never; come, away, away; We'll burn his body in the holy place, And with the brands fire all the traitors' houses. 2 Pleb. Go, fetch fire. 3 Pleb. Pluck down benches. 4 Pleb. Pluck down forms, windows, any thing. [Exeunt Plebeians with the body. (13) On this fide Tiber:] The Scene is here in the Forum near the Capitol, and in the most frequented Part of the City; but Cafar's Gardens were very remote from that Quarter. Trans Tiberim longè cubat is, prope Cæfaris hortos. fays Horace: And both the Naumachia and Gardens of Cafar were separated from the main City by the River; and lay out wide, on a Line with Mount Janiculum. Our Author therefore certainly wrote; On that fide Tiber; And Plutarch, whom Shakespeare very diligently ftudied, in, the Life of Marcus Brutus, fpeaking of Cafar's Will, exprefly fays, That he left to the Publick his Gardens, and Walks, beyond the Tiber, C 4 Ant. Now let it work; Mischief, thou art afoot, fellow ? Enter a Servant. Ser. Octavius is already come to Rome. How now, Ser. He and Lepidus are at Cæfar's house. Ser.. I heard him fay, Brutus and Caffius [Exeunt Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians. Cin. I dreamt to night, that I did feaft with Cafar, And things unluckily charge my fantafie ; I have no will to wander forth of doors: Yet fomething leads me forth. 1 Pleb. What is your name? 2 Pleb. Whither are you going? 3 Pleb. Where do you dwell? 4 Pleb. Are you a married man, or a batchelor? 2 Pleb. Anfwer every man, directly. 1 Pleb. Ay, and briefly. 4 Pleb. Ay, and wifely. 3 Pleb. Ay, and truly, you were best. Cin. What is my name? whither am I going? where do I dwell? am I a married man, or a batchelor? then to answer every man directly and_briefly, wifely and truly; wifely, I fay batchelor. I am a 2 Pleb. That's as much as to fay, they are fools that marry; you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear; proceed directly. Gin. Directly, I am going to Cæfar's funeral. |