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To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.ĥ0 That Tiber trembled underneath her banksĥ5 And do you now strew flowers in his way The livelong day, with patient expectation, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,Ĥ5 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? Make holiday to see Caesar and to rejoice in his Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?ĬOBBLER Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to Neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork.ģ0 But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger, Women’s matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a Brutus commits suicide, praised by Antony as “the noblest Roman of them all.”ĬOBBLER Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me.Ģ0 What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucyĬOBBLER Truly, sir, all that I live by is with theĢ5 awl. In the battle which follows, Cassius, misled by erroneous reports of loss, persuades a slave to kill him Brutus’s army is defeated. Brutus and Cassius escape as Antony joins forces with Octavius Caesar.Įncamped with their armies, Brutus and Cassius quarrel, then agree to march on Antony and Octavius. Antony uses a funeral oration to turn the citizens of Rome against them. At the Senate, the conspirators stab Caesar to death. A conspirator, Decius Brutus, persuades him to go to the Senate with the other conspirators and his friend, Mark Antony. On the day of the assassination, Caesar plans to stay home at the urging of his wife, Calphurnia. Cassius and others convince Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Caesar. Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences. Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar.