![]() The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse. Which, hatch’d, would as his kind grow mischievous, Would run to these and these extremities Īnd therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, And since the quarrelįashion it thus: that what he is, augmented, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees Whereto the climber-upward turns his face īut when he once attains the upmost round, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, I have not known when his affections sway’d Remorse from power and to speak truth of Caesar, Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins It is the bright day that brings forth the adder,Īnd that craves wary walking. How that might change his nature, there’s the question. I know no personal cause to spurn at him,īut for the general. Caius Ligarius, with a handkerchief hiding his face, comes to assure Brutus that he will join the conspiracy. Brutus’s wife Portia, who has been worried by her husband’s concerned looks and insomnia, asks him what the matter is he promises to tell her later. The conspirators leave, waiting to meet again at the time of the assassination. Decius Brutus promises to make sure that Caesar goes to the Capitol that day. Cassius in the end agrees, but still thinks Antony should be killed as well. Brutus also insists that they kill only Caesar, so that they will not appear to be carrying out a bloodthirsty coup, but rather a necessary surgery. ![]() Many of them want to add Cicero to their number, but Brutus refuses, arguing that he will insist on leading. The other conspirators arrive and agree that they are all there for the same purpose. His servant Lucius brings him yet another anonymous letter found in an odd place, again inciting Brutus to rise up against Caesar. Sleepless, Brutus considers that he has no good reason to be rid of Caesar other than the likelihood that he will do something tyrannous, though he never has yet, and the only way to be rid of him is to kill him. (Brutus Lucius Cassius Casca Decius Cinna Metellus Trebonius Portia Caius Ligarius)
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