Assignment+3,+Director's+Notes,+2.1

Director's Notes // (to be completed by Monday, 11/14) // Below is an excerpt from Act 2, Scene 1 of //Julius Caesar//. I started this excerpt from about where we left off in class and continued through the end of the scene. (This comes from an on-line version of the play--cited at the bottom of the page--so there may be a slight few differences between your version in the book and this one.) For your assignment on this scene, follow these directions:

1. Finish reading Act 2, Scene 1 on your own. Use the Act 2 study guide (on [|our Moodle page]) to help you figure out what's going on. 2. As you read, also consider the play dramatically and theatrically: what does this look like on the stage? Consider the following decisions as director must make: lighting, costumes, props, stage directions, blocking, movement, acting, gestures, sound, etc. How do the actors deliver the lines? Does a character move a certain way while he speaks? Should the lighting change at a certain point? 3. In the Act 2, Scene 1 excerpt below, __**ADD ONE DIRECTOR'S NOTE**__. This can be anything you think would help actors or stage managers transfer the lines from the play onto a real performance on the stage. (Don't forget that, to add to this page, you must first select EDIT and then, when you're done, SAVE.) 4. When you add your director's note, change the color of the font to RED and follow your direction with your name in parentheses. Just like this (rogers) 5. Obviously, do not double-up on a director's note. If someone beat you to an idea, find a different place in the scene to add a note. Be ready to defend your choice in Monday's class.

Here's the scene. I've started off with my own director's note to get your started.

**[|Cassius]. **And let us swear our resolution. **[|Brutus]. **No, not an oath: if not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,— If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed; ** 735 ** So let high-sighted tyranny range on, Till each man drop by lottery. But if these, //gestures toward the other conspirators// (rogers) As I am sure they do, bear fire enough To kindle cowards and to steel with valour The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen, ** 740 ** What need we any spur but our own cause, To prick us to redress? what other bond Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And will not palter? and what other oath <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Than honesty to honesty engaged, ** 745 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That this shall be, or we will fall for it? glares at the other members of the group (Taylor) <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain ** 750 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">The even virtue of our enterprise, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To think that or our cause or our performance //points to himself and the group (Kanakiya)// <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Did need an oath; when every drop of blood <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">That every Roman bears, and nobly bears, ** 755 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Is guilty of a several bastardy, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">If he do break the smallest particle <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Of any promise that hath pass'd from him. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">But what of Cicero? shall we sound him? //pause, while everyone looks at each other (Khoury)//

<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I think he will stand very strong with us. ** 760 **
<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Casca**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Let us not leave him out. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cinna]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">No, by no means. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Metellus Cimber]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">O, let us have him, for his silver hairs <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Will purchase us a good opinion <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And buy men's voices to commend our deeds: ** 765 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">But all be buried in his gravity. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">O, name him not: let us not break with him; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">For he will never follow any thing ** 770 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That other men begin. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Then leave him out. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Casca]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Indeed he is not fit. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Decius Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar? Opens hands in a questioning manor (McDaniel) **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet, ** 775 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">If he improve them, may well stretch so far <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">As to annoy us all: which to prevent, ** 780 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let Antony and Caesar fall together. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, shakes his head in disagreement (Rivera) <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Like wrath in death and envy afterwards; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">For Antony is but a limb of Caesar: ** 785 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And in the spirit of men there is no blood: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And not dismember Caesar! But, alas, ** 790 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds: <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, ** 795 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Stir up their servants to an act of rage, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Our purpose necessary and not envious: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Which so appearing to the common eyes, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers. ** 800 **  <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And for Mark Antony, think not of him; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">For he can do no more than Caesar's arm <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">When Caesar's head is off. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Yet I fear him; // pointing at Caesar's palace (Piovesan) // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar— **  805   ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">If he love Caesar, all that he can do <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And that were much he should; for he is given <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">To sports, to wildness and much company. **  810   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Trebonius**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">There is no fear in him; let him not die; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter. // Clock strikes // **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Peace! count the clock. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">The clock hath stricken three. **  815   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Trebonius**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">'Tis time to part. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">But it is doubtful yet, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">For he is superstitious grown of late, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Quite from the main opinion he held once ** 820 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">It may be, these apparent prodigies, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">The unaccustom'd terror of this night, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And the persuasion of his augurers, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">May hold him from the Capitol to-day. **  825   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Decius Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Never fear that: if he be so resolved, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That unicorns may be betray'd with trees, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Lions with toils and men with flatterers; ** 830 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">But when I tell him he hates flatterers, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">He says he does, being then most flattered. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let me work; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">For I can give his humour the true bent, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And I will bring him to the Capitol. **  835   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Cassius**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cinna]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Be that the uttermost, and fail not then. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Metellus Cimber]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey: ** 840 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I wonder none of you have thought of him. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Now, good Metellus, go along by him: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">He loves me well, and I have given him reasons; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Cassius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus. ** 845 **  <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Let not our looks put on our purposes, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">But bear it as our Roman actors do, ** 850 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">With untired spirits and formal constancy: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And so good morrow to you every one. //<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">[Exeunt all but BRUTUS] // Lucius is sleeping in the room (Ioachimescu) <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: ** 855 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Which busy care draws in the brains of men; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. // Enter PORTIA // **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Brutus, my lord! ** 860  **  Portia rushes in (Baloi) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now? <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">It is not for your health thus to commit <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Your weak condition to the raw cold morning. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper, ** 865 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">You suddenly arose, and walk'd about, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Musing and sighing, with your arms across, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And when I ask'd you what the matter was, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">You stared upon me with ungentle looks; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head, ** 870 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">But, with an angry wafture of your hand, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Fearing to strengthen that impatience ** 875 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Hoping it was but an effect of humour, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Which sometime hath his hour with every man. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And could it work so much upon your shape ** 880 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">As it hath much prevail'd on your condition, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Make me acquainted with your cause of grief. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I am not well in health, and that is all. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health, ** 885 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">He would embrace the means to come by it. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Is Brutus sick? and is it physical <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To walk unbraced and suck up the humours <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, ** 890 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And will he steal out of his wholesome bed, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To dare the vile contagion of the night <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">You have some sick offence within your mind, ** 895 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Which, by the right and virtue of my place, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I ought to know of: and, upon my knee, kneels to the ground, looking up at Brutus (Kacharava) <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I charm you, by my once-commended beauty, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">By all your vows of love and that great vow <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Which did incorporate and make us one, ** 900 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That you unfold to me, yourself, your half, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Why you are heavy, and what men to-night <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Have had to resort to you: for here have been <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Some six or seven, who did hide their faces <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Even from darkness. **  905   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Kneel not, gentle Portia. lifts her up **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Is it excepted I should know no secrets <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">That appertain to you? Am I yourself ** 910 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">But, as it were, in sort or limitation, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. **  915   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">You are my true and honourable wife, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">As dear to me as are the ruddy drops <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That visit my sad heart ** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Portia]. ** <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">If this were true, then should I know this secret. pushes Brutus away (Correa) <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I grant I am a woman; but withal ** 920 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I grant I am a woman; but withal <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Think you I am no stronger than my sex, <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Being so father'd and so husbanded? ** 925 **  <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I have made strong proof of my constancy, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Giving myself a voluntary wound // stabs self with kitchen knife // <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And not my husband's secrets? **  930   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">O ye gods, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Render me worthy of this noble wife! <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">//[Knocking within]// <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile; <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">And by and by thy bosom shall partake ** 935 ** <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">The secrets of my heart. <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">All my engagements I will construe to thee, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">All the charactery of my sad brows: <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Leave me with haste. //gestures with his hand for Portia to leave quickly (Archer)// // <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[Exit PORTIA, limping ] ** 940 **   // <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Lucius, who's that knocks? // Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS // **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Lucius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">He is a sick man that would speak with you. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how? **  945   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Ligarius**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick! **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Ligarius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Any exploit worthy the name of honour. **  950   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Brutus**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Ligarius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">By all the gods that Romans bow before, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome! <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Brave son, derived from honourable loins! ** 955 **  <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">My mortified spirit. Now bid me run, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And I will strive with things impossible; <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">Yea, get the better of them. What's to do? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">A piece of work that will make sick men whole. **  960   **  <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|**Ligarius**]**.** <span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">But are not some whole that we must make sick? **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">That must we also. What it is, my Caius, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">I shall unfold to thee, as we are going <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To whom it must be done. == **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Ligarius]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Set on your foot, ** 965 stomps on the ground with his foot (Carouge) **   == <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">And with a heart new-fired I follow you, <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">To do I know not what: but it sufficeth <span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.25in;">That Brutus leads me on. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">[|Brutus]. **<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 125%;">Follow me, then. // gestures for Ligarius to follow him (Mohr) // // Exeunt //

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