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Brutus, Lines 36b-47
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Act 1,
Scene 2
Lines 36b-47

Brutus performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Brutus

                                                      Cassius,
Be not deceived.  If I have veiled my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,
Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors.
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved —
Among which number, Cassius, be you one —
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.