Brutus and Cassius, Lines 99b-119

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Act 3,

Scene 1

Lines 99b-119

Brutus and Cassius perform an excerpt from Act 3, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Fates, we will know your pleasures.

That we shall die we know; 'tis but the time,

And drawing days out, that men stand upon.

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life

Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

Grant that, and then is death a benefit;

So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged

His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop;

And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood

Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords.

Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,

And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,

Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'

Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence

Shall this our lofty scene be acted over

In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,

That now on Pompey's basis lies along,

No worthier than the dust!

So oft as that shall be,

So often shall the knot of us be called

The men that gave their country liberty.