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own part, it [280] was Greek to me. I could tell you more news too: Marullus
and Flavius, for pulling scarfs off Caesar’s images, are put to silence. Fare you
well. There was more foolery yet, if I could remember it.

CASSIUS
Will you sup with me tonight, Casca? [285]

CASCA
No, I am promised forth.

CASSIUS
Will you dine with me tomorrow?

CASCA
Ay, if I be alive, and your mind hold, and your dinner worth the eating.

CASSIUS
Good, I will expect you. [290]

CASCA
Do so. Farewell both.
Exit.

BRUTUS
What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!

He was quick mettle when he went to school.

CASSIUS

So is he now in execution
Of any bold or noble enterprise, [295]
However he puts on this tardy form.
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,

Which gives men stomach to digest his words
With better appetite.

BRUTUS
And so it is. For this time I will leave you. [300]