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Cassius, Lines 57-78
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Act 1,
Scene 3
Lines 57-78

Cassius performs a speech from Act 1, Scene 3 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Cassius

You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life
That should be in a Roman you do want,
Or else you use not. You look pale, and gaze,
And put on fear, and cast yourself in wonder,
To see the strange impatience of the heavens.
But if you would consider the true cause
Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,
Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,
Why old men fools, and children calculate,
Why all these things change from their ordinance,
Their natures and performèd faculties,
To monstrous quality — why, you shall find
That heaven hath infused them with these spirits
To make them instruments of fear and warning
Unto some monstrous state.
Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man
Most like this dreadful night,
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol — 
A man no mightier than thyself or me
In personal action, yet prodigious grown
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.