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Brutus, Lines 70-80a
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Act 4,
Scene 2
Lines 70-80a

Brutus performs a speech from Act 4, Scene 2 of myShakespeare's Julius Caesar. 

Brutus

Remember March, the Ides of March remember.
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
What villain touched his body, that did stab,
And not for justice? What, shall one of us,
That struck the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers, shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors
For so much trash as may be graspèd thus?
I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.

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[Poet, Lucilius, Titinius, and Lucius all enter.]

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[Exit Poet.]

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[Exit Lucilius and Titinius.]

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[Exit Lucius.]

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[Re-enter Lucius, with wine and taper.]

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[Drinks.]

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[Drinks, Lucius exits, and Titinius and Messala enter.]

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[Enter Lucius.]
[Exit Lucius.]

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Titinius and Messala

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[Exit all but Brutus. Re-enter Lucius, with the gown.]

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[Enter Varro and Claudius.]

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[Varro and Claudius lie down.]

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[Music, and a song.  Lucius falls asleep.]
[Enter the Ghost of Caesar.]

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[Exit Ghost.]

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[Exit.]