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verally_] Theobald | Exeunt F1.] [Note 42-43: /Brutus hath a suit That Caesar will not grant./ These words Portia speaks aloud to the boy, Lucius, evidently to conceal the true cause of her uncontrollable flutter of spirits.] [Page 79] ACT III SCENE I. _Rome. Before the Capitol; the_ Senate _sitting_ _A crowd of people; among them_ ARTEMIDORUS _and the_ Soothsayer. _Flourish._ _Enter_ CAESAR, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS, METELLUS, TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS, PUBLIUS, _and others_ CAESAR. The Ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER. Ay, Caesar; but not gone. ARTEMIDORUS. Hail, Caesar! read this schedule. DECIUS. Trebonius doth desire you to o'er-read, At your best leisure, this his humble suit. 5 ARTEMIDORUS. O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar. CAESAR. What touches us ourself shall be last serv'd. [Note: _Rome. Before_ ... PUBLIUS, _and others_ Capell (substantially) | Flourish. Enter Caesar ... Artimedorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer Ff | Ff omit Popilius.] [Note 3: /schedule/ F3 F4 | Scedule F1 F2.] [Note 1-2: Cf. Plutarch, _Julius Caesar_: "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 fifteenth of the month; for on that day he should be in great danger. That day being come, Caesar, going unto 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.'" Note Shakespeare's development of his material.] [Note 8: /us ourself./ The plural of modern English royalty transferred to ancient Rome. Another of the famous anachronisms.] [Page 80] ARTEMIDORUS. Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly. CAESAR. What, is the fellow mad? PUBLIUS. Sirrah, give place. 10 CASSIUS. What, urge you your petitions in the street? Come to the Capitol. CAESAR _goes up to the Senate-house, the rest following_ POPILIUS. I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive. CASSIUS. What enterprise, Popilius? POPILIUS. Fare you well. [_Advances to_ CAESAR] BRUTUS. What said Popilius Lena? 15 CASSIUS. He w
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