Shakespear's Julius Caesar Author:William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1903 Original Publisher: Ginn Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare History / Ancient / Rome Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Ancient Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has ... more »no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ACT 111. Scene I. -- Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting. A crowd of People in the street leading to the Capitol; among them Artemidorus, and the Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter Cesar, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Metellus, Tre- Bonius, Cinna, Antony, Lepidus, Popilius, Publius, and Others. Cces. The Ides of March are come. Sooth. Ay, Caesar; but not gone.1 Artem. Hail, Caesar ! read this schedule. Dec. Trebonius doth desire you to o'er-read, At your best leisure, this his humble suit. Artem. O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit That touches Caesar nearer : read it, great Caesar. C/zs. What touches us ourself shall be last served. Artem. Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.2 1 There was a certain soothsayer, that had given Caesar warning long time afore, to take heed of the day of the Ides of March, which is the 151h of the month; for on that day he should be in great danger. That day being come, Caesar, going into the Senate-house, and speaking merrily unto the soothsayer, told him " the Ides of March be come." -- " So they be," softly answered the soothsayer, "but yet are they not past." -- PLUTARCH. 2 One Artemidorus also, born in the isle of Cnidos, a doctor of rhetoric in the Greek tongue, who by means of his profession was very familiar with certain of Brutus's confederates, and therefore knew the most part of all their practices against Caesar, came and brought him a little ...« less