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 . Act II. Scenes 2-4. HROUGH all the long night the tempest had raged withunabated fury. Calphurnia, Caesars wife, had been dis-turbed with frightful dreams, and had cried out in her sleepthat they were murdering Caesar. When she wakedshe entreated her husband to remain at home, and not tovisit the Capitol that day. In vain Caesar tried to com-fort her and to calm her fears. He sent a servant to thepriests to bid the
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 . Act II. Scenes 2-4. HROUGH all the long night the tempest had raged withunabated fury. Calphurnia, Caesars wife, had been dis-turbed with frightful dreams, and had cried out in her sleepthat they were murdering Caesar. When she wakedshe entreated her husband to remain at home, and not tovisit the Capitol that day. In vain Caesar tried to com-fort her and to calm her fears. He sent a servant to thepriests to bid them offer sacrifice, and bring him word if the omens promisedhim good fortune. Caesar must go forth, he said ; dangers that threaten mebehind my back will vanish when they see my face. O Caesar, there have been horrid sights seen by the watch. A lioness*whelped in the street; graves yawned and yielded up their dead; there have beenbattles in the air, and dropping blood, and wailing ghosts, and comets blazing inthe sky. My very heart stands still with fear ! Caesar replied, — What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods ?Yet Caesar shall go forth ; for these p
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