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6. Power to locate.

(a) To attribute a line or statement to a certain person

on a certain occasion.

(b) To cap a line.

(c) To fill in the right word or epithet.

THE TRAGEDY OF

JULIUS CÆSAR

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FLAVIUS,

MARULLUS,

Tribunes.

ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric.

CINNA, a Poet; another Poet; a Soothsayer.

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SCENE-ROME; SARDIS; and near PHILIPPI.

THE TRAGEDY OF

JULIUS CÆSAR

ACT I

SCENE I

Rome. A street

Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and a rabble of Citizens. Flav. Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.

Is this a holiday? What! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk,
Upon a laboring-day without the sign

Of your profession?-Speak, what trade art thou? 1 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, 10 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.

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