Casca. Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
[Music ceases.]
Cæs. Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, 16
Cry 'Cæsar.' Speak; Cæsar is turn'd to hear.
Sooth. Beware the ides of March.
Cæs. What man is that?
Bru. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Cæs. Set him before me; let me see his face.20
Cas. Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Cæsar.
Cæs. What sayst thou to me now? Speak once again.
Sooth. Beware the ides of March.
Cæs. He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.24
Sennet. Exeunt all but Brutus and Cassius.
Cas. Will you go see the order of the course?
Bru. Not I.
Cas. I pray you, do.
Bru. I am not gamesome: I do lack some part 28
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.
Cas. Brutus, I do observe you now of late: 32
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.
Bru. Cassius,36
18 ides of March: March fifteenth
24 S. d. Sennet: trumpet signal for procession to move
25 order of the course: progress of the running
28 gamesome: fond of sport
29 quick: lively
32 do observe: have had occasion to notice
33 that: the same
35, 36 handle your friend too stiffly and distantly
