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Caesar, Lines 71-82
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Act 2,
Scene 2
Lines 71-82

Caesar performs an excerpt from Act 2, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Caesar

The cause is in my will; I will not come.
That is enough to satisfy the Senate.
But for your private satisfaction,
Because I love you, I will let you know.
Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.
She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood; and many lusty Romans
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it.
And these does she apply for warnings and portents
And evils imminent, and on her knee
Hath begged that I will stay at home today.