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Caesar and Calpurnia, Lines 25-37a
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Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 25-37a

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

Calpurnia

O Caesar, these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.

Caesar

                                  What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.

Calpurnia

When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

Caesar

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
[Re-enter Servant.]

Servant

Caesar

Calpurnia

Caesar

[Enter Decius Brutus.]

Decius Brutus

Caesar

Calpurnia

Caesar

Decius Brutus

Caesar

Decius Brutus

Caesar

Decius Brutus

Caesar

[Enter Publius, Brutus, Ligarius, Metellus, Casca, Trebonius, and Cinna.]

Publius

Caesar

Brutus

Caesar

[Enter Antony.]

Antony

Caesar

[Exit Calpurnia.]

Trebonius

Caesar

Brutus

[Exit.]