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.]

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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.]

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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