The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: ACT IV
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV SCENE I. A house in Rome. SCENE II. Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent. SCENE III. Brutus's tent. ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE I. A house in Rome. ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table ANTONY       These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd. OCTAVIUS       Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus? LEPIDUS       I do consent-- OCTAVIUS       Prick him down, Antony. LEPIDUS 5     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 10    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, 15    The three-fold world divided, he should stand       One of the three to share it? OCTAVIUS       So you thought him;       And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,       In our black sentence and proscription. ANTONY 20    Octavius, I have seen more days than you:       And though we lay these honours on this man,       To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,       He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,       To groan and sweat under the business, 25    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 30    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, 35    To wind, to stop, to run directly on,       His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.       And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;       He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;       A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds 40    On abjects, orts 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 45    Are levying powers: we must straight make head:       Therefore let our alliance be combined,       Our best friends made, our means stretch'd       And let us presently go sit in council,       How covert matters may be best disclosed, 50    And open perils surest answered. OCTAVIUS       Let us do so: for we are at the stake,       And bay'd about with many enemies;       And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,       Millions of mischiefs. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene