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Caesar and Calpurnia, Lines 8-24
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Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 8-24

Caesar and Calpurnia perform an excerpt of Act 2, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Calpurnia

What mean you, Caesar?  Think you to walk forth?
You shall not stir out of your house today.

Caesar

Caesar shall forth.  The things that threatened me
Ne'er looked but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanishèd.

Calpurnia

Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelpèd in the streets,
And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.