ar, they are vanished.

CALPURNIA. Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen, 15
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelped in the streets;
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;
Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war, 20
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan;
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar, these things are beyond all use, 25
And I do fear them!

[Note 22: /hurtled/ F1 | hurried F2 F3 F4.]

[Note 23: /did neigh/ F2 F3 F4 | do neigh F1.]

[Note 6: /success:/ the result. The root notion of the word.
See note, p. 65, l. 324. But in V, iii, 65, the word is used
in its modern sense.]

[Note 13: 'Ceremonies' is here put for the ceremonial or
sacerdotal interpretation of prodigies and omens, as in II, i,
197.]

[Note 16-24: Cf. _Hamlet_, I, i, 113-125; Vergil, _Georgics_,
I, 465-488.]

[Note 22: /hurtled:/ clashed. The onomatopoetic 'hurtling' is
used in _As You Like It_, IV, iii, 132, to describe the
clashing encounter between Orlando and the lioness. Chaucer,
in _The Knightes Tale_ l. 1758, uses the verb transitively,
suggesting a diminutive of 'hurt':

And he him hurtleth with his horse adown.]

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CAESAR. What can be avoided
Whose end is purpos'd by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.

CALPURNIA. When beggars die, there are no comets seen; 30
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

CAESAR. Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; 35
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.

[Note 33: /taste of death./ This expression occurs thrice in
the New Testament (King James version). Plutarch relates that,
a short time before Caesar fell, some of his friends urged him
to have a guard about him, and he replied that it was better
to die at once than live in the continual fear of death. He is
also said to have given as his reason