THE

HANDY-VOLUME

SHAKSPEARE.

VOL. IX.

JULIUS CÆSAR.
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

BRADBURY, EVANS, AND Co.,
11, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.

1867.

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY
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JULIUS CÆSAR. PERSONS REPRESENTED.

JULIUS CÆSAR.
OCTAVIUS CÆSAR,

| Triumvirs, after the death of MARCUS ANTONIUS,

Julius Caesar.
M. Æmilius LEPIDUS, )
CICERO,
PUBLIUS,

4 Senators.
POPILIUS LENA,
MARCUS BRUTUS,
CASSIUS,
CASCA,
CINNA,

Conspirators against Julius TREBONIUS,

Cæsar. LIGARIUS, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER, Flavius and MARULLUS, Tribunes. ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric. CINNA, a Poet; another Poet; a Soothsayer. LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, Young Cato, and

VOLUMNIUS, friends to Brutus and Cassius. VARRO, Clitus, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, Lucius, and

DARDANIUS, servants to Brutus. PINDARUS, servant to Cassius.

Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &c. SCENE,-- Rome; Sardis; and near Philippi.

walk,

ACT I.
SCENE I.-Rome. A Street,
Enter Flavius, MARULLUS, and a rabble of Citizens.

Flavius.
E NCE; home, you idle creatures, get

you home;
Is this a holiday? What, know

you not,

Being mechanical, you ought not
Upon a labouring day, without the sign
Of your profession ?-Speak, what trade art thou?

i Cit. Why, sir, a carpenter.
Mar. Where is thy leather apron, and thy

rule ?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on ?-
You, sir ; what trade are you?

2 Cit. Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler. Mar. But what trade art thou? Answer me

directly. 2 Cit. A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.