Caesar and Calpurnia, Lines 37b-56

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Act 2,

Scene 2

Lines 37b-56

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

What say the augurers?

They would not have you to stir forth today.

Plucking the entrails of an offering forth

They could not find a heart within the beast.

The gods do this in shame of cowardice.

Caesar should be a beast without a heart

If he should stay at home today for fear.

No, Caesar shall not. Danger knows full well

That Caesar is more dangerous than he.

We are two lions littered in one day,

And I the elder and more terrible;

And Caesar shall go forth.

Alas, my lord,

Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

Do not go forth today. Call it my fear

That keeps you in the house, and not your own.

We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house,

And he shall say you are not well today.

Let me upon my knee prevail in this.

Mark Antony shall say I am not well,

And for thy humor I will stay at home.