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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)
 
1294
    With an angry wafture of your hand,
Gave sign for me to leave you.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1295
    You are my true and honourable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 1
That visit my sad heart.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1296
    Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father’d and so husbanded?
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1.
1297
    Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1298
    These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1299
    When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1300
    Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
          Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2.
1301
    Cæs. The ides of March are come.
Sooth. Ay, Cæsar; but not gone.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1302
    But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1303
    Et tu, Brute!
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1304
    How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
1305
    The choice and master spirits of this age.
          Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1.
 
Note 1.
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.—Thomas Gray: The Bard, i. 3, line 12. [back]