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Scene IVAnother part of the same street, before the house of BrutusEnter Portia and LuciusPortiaI prithee, boy, run to the senate-house; Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone: Why dost thou stay?LuciusTo know my errand, madam.PortiaI would have had thee there, and here again, Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there. O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue! I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might. How hard it is for women to keep counsel! Art thou here yet?LuciusMadam, what should I do? Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? And so return to you, and nothing else?PortiaYes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well, For he went sickly forth: and take good note What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him. Hark, boy! what noise is that?LuciusI hear none, madam.PortiaPrithee, listen well; I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray, And the wind brings it from the Capitol.LuciusSooth, madam, I hear nothing.Enter the SoothsayerPortiaCome hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?SoothsayerAt mine own house, good lady.PortiaWhat is’t o’clock?SoothsayerAbout the ninth hour, lady.PortiaIs Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?SoothsayerMadam, not yet: I go to take my stand, To see him pass on to the Capitol.PortiaThou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?SoothsayerThat I have, lady: if it will please Caesar To be so good to Caesar as to hear me, I shall beseech him to befriend himself.PortiaWhy, know’st thou any harm’s intended towards him?SoothsayerNone that I know will be, much that I fear may chance. Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow: The throng that follows Caesar at the heels, Of senators, of praetors, common suitors, Will crowd a feeble man almost to death: I’ll get me to a place more void, and there Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.ExitPortiaI must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is! O Brutus, The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise! Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint. Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord; Say I am merry: come to me again, And bring me word what he doth say to thee.Exeunt severally
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William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act II
- William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act II
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