BRUTUS. Well then, hear it all. PORTIA. Hold, dearest BRUTUS! I dare not hear it yet; I'll try this first. [She ftabs her felf inthe Arm. BRUTUS. Hold, what d'ye mean? PORTIA. To try my Fortitude. For tho' I durft have trufted my firm Mind Oh, Wonder of thy Sex! Gods! make me worthy of this matchlefs Woman! Hafte, hafte, and let thy Wound be quickly drefs'd. Within I'll tell thee all, And in thy Bofom pour my very Soul. Enter LUCIUS. LUCIUS. [Exit PORTIA. A Meffenger, my Lord, from mighty CÆSAR Is fent to fummon you, and CAIUS CASSIUS, BRUTUS. [Exit LUCIUS. From CÆSAR? and my Brother CASSIUS too? [Exeunt. Between the fecond and third Act, thefe Verfes are to be fung by a Perfon representing the Genius of Rome. L Second CHORUS. O, to prevent this mighty Empire's Doom, The Awful Genius of Majeftick Rome. Great is her Danger: but I will engage 'Tis hard, a Man fo great, fhould fall fo low; More hard, to let fo brave a People bow To one themselves have rais'd, who scorns them now. Yet oh, I grieve, that BRUTUS fhould be ftain'd; But only he can make the rest combine; Unthinking Men no fort of Scruples make ; Thus fome, for Envy, or Revenge, intend ACT ACT III. SCENE I. The Scene is CÆSAR's Apartment, where he appears A Undrefs'd. CÆSAR. MBITION, Oh thou Tyrant of my Soul! Than thou to me! I am the only Slave. Joy dwells in filent Shades, and private Pleasures; Enter JUNIUS. JUNIUS. BRUTUS and CASSIUS attend your Pleasure. CÆSAR. I tell thee, JUNIUS, my trusty Freed-man, That melancholic CASSIUS needs obferving, If e'er I could be capable of Fear, M I think it would be of that penfive CASSIUS. approve, SCENE II. [Exit JUNIUS. Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS. CESAR. You feem amaz'd at fuch an early Summons; CASSIUS. On what account? CÆSAR. 'Tis only what I fuffer from my Cares. CAS |