Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . d about their ears,And half their faces buried in their cloaks,That by no means I may discover themBy any mark of Brutus. Let them enter. They are the faction. O Conspiracy !Shamst thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free ? O, then, by dayWhere wilt thou find a cavern dark enoughTo mask thy monstrous visage ? The conspirators, with their faces hidden, now enter cautiously. Cassiusnames t
Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text . d about their ears,And half their faces buried in their cloaks,That by no means I may discover themBy any mark of Brutus. Let them enter. They are the faction. O Conspiracy !Shamst thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free ? O, then, by dayWhere wilt thou find a cavern dark enoughTo mask thy monstrous visage ? The conspirators, with their faces hidden, now enter cautiously. Cassiusnames them as they draw near to Brutus : Trebonius, Decius Brutus, Casca,Cinna, and Metellus Cimber. Brutus greets them cordially, and, in token ofsympathy, takes them each by the hand. Cassius v proposes that they shall allbind themselves by a solemn oath; but to this Brutus refuses his consent. No, not an oath, he said ; if neither shame, nor suffering, nor the condi-tion of our country, is motive strong enough, let us break off betimes, and everyman hence to his idle bed. But if these, as I am sure they do, bear fire enough 1 Countenance. a The soul and the deadly BRUTUS AND THE CONSPIRATORS. JULIUS OFLSAR. 173 to kindle cowards and to steel with valor the melting spirits of women, then,countrymen, What need we any spur but our own causeTo prick us to redress ? What other bondThan secret Romans, that have spoke the word,And will not palter ? and what other oathThan honesty to honesty engagedThat this shall be, or we will fall for it ? Do not stain our courage or our cause with oaths, when every drop of blood inevery Romans heart is false, if he do break the smallest particle of any promisehe hath given. Decius. Shall no man else be touched, but only Caesar ? Cassius. Decius, well urged.— I think it is not meet,Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,Should outlive Caesar : we shall find of himA shrewd contriver ; and, you know, his means,If he improve them, may well str
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