ACT 4 Scene 1

NEVERMIND I WAS A FOOL. ABANDON SHIP. MOVE TO

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Enter ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS.

ANTONY​ These many, then, shall die; their names are pricked.

OCTAVIUS​ Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?

LEPIDUS​ I do consent.

OCTAVIUS ​ Prick him down, Antony.

LEPIDUS​ Upon condition Publius shall not live,​

​ ​ Who is your sister’s son, Mark Antony.

ANTONY​ He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.

But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar’s house,

Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine

How to cut off some charge in legacies.

LEPIDUS ​ What, shall I find you here?

OCTAVIUS ​ Or here, or at the Capitol.

Exit Lepidus

ANTONY​ This is a slight, unmeritable man,

Meet to be sent on errands; Is it fit,

 The threefold world divided, he should stand

One of the three to share it?

OCTAVIUS​ ​ So you thought him

And took his voice who should be pricked to die

In our black sentence and proscription.

ANTONY​ Octavius, I have seen more days than you,

And, though we lay these honors on this man

To ease ourselves of diverse sland’rous loads,

He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,

To groan and sweat under the business,

Either led or driven, as we point the way;

And having brought our treasure where we will,

Then take we down his load and turn him off

(Like to the empty ass) to shake his ears

And graze in commons.

OCTAVIUS ​ ​ You may do your will,

But he’s a tried and valiant soldier.

ANTONY​ So is my horse, Octavius, and for that

I do appoint him store of provender.

It is a creature that I teach to fight,

To wind, to stop, to run directly on,

His corporal motion governed by my spirit;

 And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so.

He must be taught and trained and bid go forth,

A barren-spirited fellow, one that feeds

On objects, arts, and imitations,

Which, out of use and staled by other men,

Begin his fashion. Do not talk of him

But as a property. And now, Octavius,

Listen great things. Brutus and Cassius

Are levying powers; we must straight make head.

Therefore let our alliance be combined,

Our best friends made, our means stretched;

And let us presently go sit in council

How covert matters may be best disclosed

And open perils surest answerèd.

OCTAVIUS​ Let us do so, for we are at the stake

And bayed about with many enemies,

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischiefs.

Exeun
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ACT 4 Scene 2
Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, [Lucius,] and the army. Titinius and PINDARUS
meet them.
BRUTUS​ Stand ho!

LUCILIUS ​ Give the word, ho, and stand!

BRUTUS​ What now, Lucilius, is Cassius near?

LUCILIUS​ He is at hand, and Pindarus is come

To do you salutation from his master.

BRUTUS​ He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,

In his own change or by ill officers,

Hath given me some worthy cause to wish

Things done undone, but if he be at hand

I shall be satisfied.

PINDARUS​ ​ I do not doubt

But that my noble master will appear

Such as he is, full of regard and honor.

BRUTUS​ He is not doubted.

[Brutus and Lucilius draw apart]

A word, Lucilius,

How he received you. Let me be resolved.

LUCILIUS​ With courtesy and with respect enough,

But not with such familiar instances

Nor with such free and friendly conference

As he hath used of old.

BRUTUS ​ ​ Thou hast described

 A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius,

When love begins to sicken and decay

It useth an enforcèd ceremony.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;

But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,

Make gallant show and promise of their mettle,

Low march within.

But when they should endure the bloody spur,

They fall their crests and, like deceitful jades,

Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? 30

LUCILIUS​ They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.

The greater part, the horse in general,

Are come with Cassius.

Enter CASSIUS and his powers.

BRUTUS ​ Hark, he is arrived.

March gently on to meet him.

CASSIUS ​ Stand ho!

BRUTUS ​ Stand ho! Speak the word along.

FIRST SOLDIER ​ Stand!

SECOND SOLDIER ​ Stand!

THIRD SOLDIER​ Stand!

CASSIUS​ Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.

BRUTUS​ Judge me, you gods! Wrong I mine enemies?

And if not so, how should I wrong a brother?

CASSIUS​ Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs,

And when you do them

BRUTUS ​ ​ Cassius, be content.

Speak your griefs softly. I do know you well.

Before the eyes of both our armies here

Which should perceive nothing but love from us

Let us not wrangle. Bid them move away.

Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,

And I will give you audience.

CASSIUS ​ Pindarus,

Bid our commanders lead their charges off

A little from this ground.

BRUTUS​ Lucius, do you the like, and let no man

Come to our tent till we have done our conference.

Let Lucilius and Titinius guard our door.

All but Brutus and Cassius exit.

ACT 4 Scene 3

CASSIUS​ That you have wronged me doth appear in this:

 You have condemned and noted Lucius Pella

For taking bribes here of the Sardians,

Wherein my letters, praying on his side

Because I knew the man, was slighted off.

BRUTUS​ You wronged yourself to write in such a case.

CASSIUS​ In such a time as this it is not meet

That every nice offense should bear his comment.

BRUTUS​ Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself

Are much condemned to have an itching palm,

To sell and mart your offices for gold

To undeservers.

CASSIUS ​ ​ I an itching palm?

You know that you are Brutus that speaks this,

Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.

BRUTUS​ The name of Cassius honors this corruption,

And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.

CASSIUS ​ Chastisement?

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.

CASSIUS ​ ​ Brutus, bait not me.

I’ll not endure it. You forget yourself

To hedge me in. I am a soldier, I,

Older in practice, abler than yourself

To make conditions.

BRUTUS​ ​ Go to! You are not, Cassius.

CASSIUS​ I am.

BRUTUS​ I say you are not.

CASSIUS​ Urge me no more. I shall forget myself.

Have mind upon your health. tempt me no farther!

BRUTUS ​ Away, slight man!

CASSIUS​ Is ’t possible?

BRUTUS ​ ​ Hear me, for I will speak.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?

Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?

CASSIUS​ O you gods, you gods, must I endure all this?

BRUTUS​ All this? Ay, more. Fret till your proud heart break.

Go show your slaves how choleric you are

And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?

Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch

Under your testy humor? By the gods,

You shall digest the venom of your spleen

Though it do split you. For, from this day forth,

I’ll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,

When you are waspish.

CASSIUS ​ Is it come to this? 5BRUTUS

You say you are a better soldier.

Let it appear so, make your vaunting true,

And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

CASSIUS

You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus. 60 I said an elder soldier, not a better.

Did I say “better”?

BRUTUS If you did, I care not. CASSIUS

When Caesar lived he durst not thus have moved

me. 65

BRUTUS

Peace, peace! You durst not so have tempted him.

CASSIUS I durst not? BRUTUS No. CASSIUS

What? Durst not tempt him? BRUTUS

not. CASSIUS

For your life you durst 70

Do not presume too much upon my love.

I may do that I shall be sorry for. BRUTUS

You have done that you should be sorry for.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, 75 For I am armed so strong in honesty

That they pass by me as the idle wind,