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Cassius, Lines 78-93
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Act 5,
Scene 1
Lines 78-93

Cassius performs a speech from Act 5, Scene 1 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Cassius

You know that I held Epicurus strong,
And his opinion; now I change my mind,
And partly credit things that do presage.
Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign
Two mighty eagles fell — and there they perched,
Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands —
Who to Philippi here consorted us.
This morning are they fled away and gone,
And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites
Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us
As we were sickly prey. Their shadows seem
A canopy most fatal, under which
Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.

Messala

[Finishing his conversation] Believe not so.

Cassius

                         I but believe it partly,
For I am fresh of spirit and resolved
To meet all perils very constantly.